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Posted
7 minutes ago, JakovichScissorKick said:

And mental illness will sky rocket due to isolation and lack of stimulation.  Terrible idea.

Know what would be easier?   Shut of all travel from China, forever.  And for the WHO to actually do something meaningful for once and shut down Chinese wet markets and  force a total clutlure change in that god awful country.

The Chinese govt has shut wet markets (stated as permanently, but we shall see).  What about the wet markets in much of the rest of Asia?   Or is your hatred only confined to things Chinese? 

Even the link to wet markets is not clearly established yet, but off you go casting China into eternal darkness.

There are plenty of things to keep us amused these days when socially isolated - as far as I can see the average table in a restaurant is already socially isolated with everyone's nose in their mobile phones watching youtube, netflix, social media and even reading books (whatever they are).   Seems to me it's never been a better time to be socially isolated (though doubtless any change will affect some people badly). 

In your carefully considered view, how potentially bad does a pandemic have to be to outrank the mental illness caused by isolation to slow its spread?    Wuhan? Italy?

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Posted
9 minutes ago, TGR said:

17 round season at best.
Round 1 will surely be called off.

Why do you say that?

I understand that it still might be cancelled or postponed if a player has the virus before Round 1 commences, but the Government (Federal, States and Territories) will want the community to be entertained while we're in semi-lockdown.

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58 minutes ago, JakovichScissorKick said:

Shut of all travel from China, forever.  And for the WHO to actually do something meaningful for once and shut down Chinese wet markets

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

Russia to be banned from Tokyo Olympics ???

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-09-24/russia-facing-olympics-ban-after-wada-review/11541818

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/nov/25/wada-recommend-four-year-ban-russia-athletics

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/dec/09/russia-banned-from-tokyo-olympics-and-football-world-cup

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I want some reassurance that Demonland wont shut down if it catches the virus!  Mods!?

Posted
2 hours ago, brendan said:

Looking likely schools will be closed from tomorrow they are making a decision today 

Nope

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1 hour ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

Why do you say that?

I understand that it still might be cancelled or postponed if a player has the virus before Round 1 commences, but the Government (Federal, States and Territories) will want the community to be entertained while we're in semi-lockdown.

1. Because Peter Fitzsimmons is the smartest guy on the planet, according to him, and he thinks the ball won't be bounced this Thursday.

2. Laws of mathematics and probability.

3. The trend is your friend.

 

In essence, it will take one player being suspected in the lead-up to first bounce.

 

Finally, the community is entertained.  For decades the middle class white man has ignored the plight of refugees in detention, or Islanders in the Pacific with oceans at shin level.  Suddenly when the way of life of the middle class white man is threatened with 'anxiety', who acts most like a neanderthal? 

As Keating would say, "this is the crisis that Australia (+/- US) had to have".  The right in this country (and the US) have been absolutely focused on issues that don't really matter.  Safe schools...freedom of bigotry....budget surpluses.....woke-a-phobia: all while enshrining the boganisation and nationalisation of Australia.

Trump and America deserve what's coming.  Guns and 'freedom' over a health-care system for goodness sake.  Sugar and fat over a nanny-state.  Trump will look like the clown that he always was, is and will be.  That's entertainment.

 

This might be ground zero when it comes to a realisation of what really matters.  

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To think/ponder more broadly.  Its possible, this situation is man made.  As I've stated before.

Imagination is the beginning of thoughts. Ideas. Learnings and results.

 

Scoff all you like,  but wondering is not against the law.  

And nodding heads in hindsight, once someone else has found the reason, and or proof, is just being a sheep.

 

Let your mind wander,  instead of being too inhibited to imagine things.  Imaginings are the binging of creation.  And most imagineering is not fanciful.

Otherwise you will be fully at the mercy of others reporting news after it happens, for you to absorb.

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Posted
11 minutes ago, TGR said:

1. Because Peter Fitzsimmons is the smartest guy on the planet, according to him, and he thinks the ball won't be bounced this Thursday.

2. Laws of mathematics and probability.

3. The trend is your friend.

 

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Posted
20 minutes ago, MyFavouriteMartian said:

To think/ponder more broadly.  Its possible, this situation is man made.  As I've stated before.

Imagination is the beginning of thoughts. Ideas. Learnings and results.

 

Scoff all you like,  but wondering is not against the law.  

And nodding heads in hindsight, once someone else has found the reason, and or proof, is just being a sheep.

 

Let your mind wander,  instead of being too inhibited to imagine things.  Imaginings are the binging of creation.  And most imagineering is not fanciful.

Otherwise you will be fully at the mercy of others reporting news after it happens, for you to absorb.

It is quite possible this virus was planted by humans for humans. 

Are other living Creatures being affected?

It is also quite possible that it began in the Wet Markets of China where live diseased animals are sold as food. 
 

 

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29 minutes ago, MyFavouriteMartian said:

To think/ponder more broadly.  Its possible, this situation is man made.  As I've stated before.

Imagination is the beginning of thoughts. Ideas. Learnings and results.

 

Scoff all you like,  but wondering is not against the law.  

And nodding heads in hindsight, once someone else has found the reason, and or proof, is just being a sheep.

 

Let your mind wander,  instead of being too inhibited to imagine things.  Imaginings are the binging of creation.  And most imagineering is not fanciful.

Otherwise you will be fully at the mercy of others reporting news after it happens, for you to absorb.

You operate a different plane MFM.

On a related note did you take much acid in your younger days?

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Posted
36 minutes ago, MyFavouriteMartian said:

To think/ponder more broadly.  Its possible, this situation is man made.  As I've stated before.

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Anything is possible.   Its a sick world.

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Posted
2 hours ago, Diamond_Jim said:

PM just announced a NZ type travel ban.

All arrivals from overseas required to self isolate.

What it means in practice.... who knows

Taking a leaf out of NZ's playbook, this is what a NZ type travel ban looks like according to Stuff

Please note that I have no idea whether Stuff knows stuff, or stuff-all.

Posted
10 hours ago, Lucifer's Hero said:

I'm predicting a massive sociological change and workplace change. 

Around the world millions will be working from home.  Teaching is on line eg my niece and her husband are expat teachers in Hong Kong.  They have been teaching their primary and secondary students on-line since mid January and will do so until at least mid April.  A real challenge as they have 3yo and 6yo boys at home to 'Home School' and playgrounds have been shut since mid-January. 

When this is over, many organisations will ask themselves:  'well this worked ok how can it work better' and continue employees working from home on a full time basis.  Sociologists will study the impact of working at home, teaching on line and home schooling.  Technology in all its forms will change and improve at an exponential rate to accommodate workplace and sociological changes.

It may take a decade but the impact will be far reaching.

You need a fair dinkum Rudd/Gillard NBN fibre to each premises though.

 

That is where your prediction will fall short.

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Posted
47 minutes ago, drysdale demon said:

Highly possible 

Which human manufactured the Black Death in the 14th century.  Or the plague in the 17th?  Or the so-called Spanish flu in the 20th. Stop making fools of yourselves.

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1 hour ago, TGR said:

1. Because Peter Fitzsimmons is the smartest guy on the planet, according to him, and he thinks the ball won't be bounced this Thursday.

2. Laws of mathematics and probability.

3. The trend is your friend.

 

In essence, it will take one player being suspected in the lead-up to first bounce.

 

Finally, the community is entertained.  For decades the middle class white man has ignored the plight of refugees in detention, or Islanders in the Pacific with oceans at shin level.  Suddenly when the way of life of the middle class white man is threatened with 'anxiety', who acts most like a neanderthal? 

As Keating would say, "this is the crisis that Australia (+/- US) had to have".  The right in this country (and the US) have been absolutely focused on issues that don't really matter.  Safe schools...freedom of bigotry....budget surpluses.....woke-a-phobia: all while enshrining the boganisation and nationalisation of Australia.

Trump and America deserve what's coming.  Guns and 'freedom' over a health-care system for goodness sake.  Sugar and fat over a nanny-state.  Trump will look like the clown that he always was, is and will be.  That's entertainment.

 

This might be ground zero when it comes to a realisation of what really matters.  

See if you can focus your thoughts on solidarity with those worst affected, biologically and economically, rather than reaching out so ludicrously for ways to insert a virus into your personal political narrative.

The level of ignorance and hate it must take to declare that 'America deserves what's coming' when the impact of both the virus and the measures to control it will hit in massive disproportion those most marginalised and least culpable for the deep injustices of that society.

Also, at this stage to the best of my knowledge we don't have a racial breakdown of persons 'acting most like a neanderthal' but I'd love to hear your evidence to support your obnoxious racial profiling. It would be very disappointing to discover that you are just sticky-taping it on in an effort to use racial hatred as a cheap populist mobilisation tool, setting yourself in the same gutter as the creeps you claim to be so different superior to.

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1 hour ago, TGR said:

1. Because Peter Fitzsimmons is the smartest guy on the planet, according to him, and he thinks the ball won't be bounced this Thursday.

2. Laws of mathematics and probability.

3. The trend is your friend.

In essence, it will take one player being suspected in the lead-up to first bounce.

Finally, the community is entertained.  For decades the middle class white man has ignored the plight of refugees in detention, or Islanders in the Pacific with oceans at shin level.  Suddenly when the way of life of the middle class white man is threatened with 'anxiety', who acts most like a neanderthal? 

As Keating would say, "this is the crisis that Australia (+/- US) had to have".  The right in this country (and the US) have been absolutely focused on issues that don't really matter.  Safe schools...freedom of bigotry....budget surpluses.....woke-a-phobia: all while enshrining the boganisation and nationalisation of Australia.

Trump and America deserve what's coming.  Guns and 'freedom' over a health-care system for goodness sake.  Sugar and fat over a nanny-state.  Trump will look like the clown that he always was, is and will be.  That's entertainment.

This might be ground zero when it comes to a realisation of what really matters.  

Some salient and accurate points here TGR (i'm not being facetious by the way).

Perhaps you should focus your posts on social commentary rather than footy (i'm being a bit facetious here) . 

Posted
1 hour ago, binman said:

You operate a different plane MFM.

On a related note did you take much acid in your younger days?

Nothing more than cannabis, once in a blue moon.  Mostly just plain old beer, alcohol.

Posted
1 hour ago, binman said:

You operate a different plane MFM.

On a related note did you take much acid in your younger days?

On all available evidence, he's still on it.  ?

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Posted (edited)
1 hour ago, JakovichScissorKick said:

Anything is possible.   Its a sick world.

And most westerners in the main stream,  have a fairly narrow imaginary sphere IMV,  mainly because of the narrow doctrines most were taught, and thereby largely accept as truth,  from childhood.

I,  on the other hand,  had a very tortuous childhood, of fear and intimidation, so always practised a defence mindset; lookout for trouble in close proximity to others and crowds,  such was the fear of attack I grew up with.

This has had the effect of causing me to be a very good driver in traffic,  and out in the country,  having really developed a strong peripheral vision,  and always looking out for other dangers checking side mirrors and rear-view, often.

I've dodged many a sideswipe or physical attack, and also the boys in blue... until bloody lasers.

Also,  I have a healthy cynicism to things put before me, suggested or portrayed via news, media, etc.  I automatically look fore logic that works for me, motives, reasons, causes? etc.

 

And in modern days,  I truly have almost a contempt to the news these days,  and the words of politicians,  especially ones who represent the money and profit side of worldly events.

Bush and the Iraq invasion, looking for weapons of Mass Destruction. Craap looking to change the Oil from going to Russia.  And to put a western force between Iran And Israel.

 

I find I look for more lateral concepts to the obvious,  before I accept things from the media.  Having considered and processed things for a while.  Sometimes natural things that do not make sense, just happen_  and sometimes people engineer things to appear natural.

See >> Rainbow Warrior.

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44 minutes ago, sue said:

Which human manufactured the Black Death in the 14th century.  Or the plague in the 17th?  Or the so-called Spanish flu in the 20th. Stop making fools of yourselves.

People were far more innocent and uneducated to engineer things back in those days Sue.  Don't you remember.?

And yes, even back in the 1920's.

 

Try,  just try,  to escape the box you think within Sue.

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48 minutes ago, sue said:

Which human manufactured the Black Death in the 14th century.  Or the plague in the 17th?  Or the so-called Spanish flu in the 20th. Stop making fools of yourselves.

Science has come a long way from the 14th Century

If this turns out to be a man made virus ? (not saying it is) But it wouldn’t suprise  me at all. 
As i said to you last week, look closely at World Stock Markets

They are going crazy...

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