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I’ve ordered it for my son Liam, so it should arrive either tomorrow or Monday. Will let him know of your suggestion.

Well Ding, let’s remember we’re talking about Collingwood supporters here. As most people are working from home now, break-ins are virtually impossible, so if Eddie had answered “yes”, they’d have been queuing up around the block 5 minutes later, for their refunds.

The question was a totally unnecessary set up. If Eddie had answered with a clear "yes", what do you think would have been the outcome which, by the way, would have had a ripple on effect to all other clubs in the competition. If he had answered"no", the press would have turned it into a story about a club that doesn't care about its supporters and other clubs would then be under pressure to not be the same. By suggesting that the club is there to help financially stressed members as much as they can, he is saying precisely the right thing.

"AFL CEO Gillon McLachlan is committed to the league retaining all of its 18 clubs in their current composition when the competition shutdown ends." https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/afl-will-emerge-from-hiatus-with-18-clubs-mclachlan-20200331-p54fjc.html

Don’t tell me they’re postponing the Winter Olympics as well!! ?

I worked with this guy at the Dept of Veterans’ Affairs in the 70’s. A really lovely guy and an excellent payer when he bothered to turn up. Colin Graham (1975-78, 35 matches, 32 goals) Graham played 20 of his 35 matches with Melbourne in 1977 and was rewarded with 13 Brownlow Medal votes (one of the two seasons when both field umpires awarded votes on a 3-2-1 basis). He also kicked 20 goals in 1977. A left-footer with a long kick.

This is what is really annoying me about the way people insist on comparing this event to the flu. Apart from the fact that there is no cure and no vaccine, coupled with the fact that this is far more contagious, people insist on misrepresenting the deaths statistic!! In Australia, we have a total of 261 cases that have an outcome, 17 of which are deaths (maybe 6 to 7%?). No one should be stating deaths as a percentage of the total number of cases as the bulk do not yet have an outcome. Of course over time the percentage of deaths will drop, but while there are cases yet to have an outcome, no one can be sure what the number of deaths will actually be. This is nothing like the flu and it is folly to think that it is.

Funny... https://digg.com/2020/trump-impression-coronavirus?fbclid=IwAR0H0RU87l0WDHf45GWRaHWGtRRv_BUDA61tC-HK6aX2ZjA_jdytqcDtqTQ

Oh no!! It's mutated into the dreaded Crooner Virus...

They’ll probably figure that people will be so desperate for the return of live football, that when it eventually resumes, they’ll up the admission price (and clubs will do the same with membership fees), by a considerable amount.

The alpha male of the herd?

We are lucky so far. Look at Italy where there is a death rate greater than 10% of approx 80,000 cases. Once a hospital system is overwhelmed, the mortality rate increases massively. The only way for us to stop things getting to that point is to go into complete lockdown ASAP! This is nothing like the flu!

I don't know how reliable this information is, but a dentist I know posted the following and he is not one to post BS: "OMG! Government mandate as of 8pm last night stopped 20 000 dentists working for a minimum of 3 months. We can’t return to work until govt allows it, as the aerosols from dental drills cause Covid to remain in the air for 2-3 hours. Another industry closed down. Bring on the lockdown now" And his reply to another respondent re lockdown, was as follows: "This was from a client. They get direct emails. Sunday night will be lockdown night for at least 3 weeks for all of Australia" Interesting times ahead, or so it would seem.

I don’t disagree that there is a problem. I’m just pointing to the fact that the transmission was most likely not directly from a bat and most likely not from eating something. I think the reference there to their eating habits, is probably directed at the wet markets and the contact between different species that aren’t usually together in the wild... viruses move between species, mutate and eventually make the jump to humans. Something definitely needs to be done about the wet markets.

Apparently this is one of the great misconceptions relating to the virus. Studies are leaning towards the possibility that a bat passed a virus on to another animal (turtle or pangolin) and from there it mutated and was passed on to humans. There is no evidence that the virus can be passed on in food. The short story is that it’s all guess work at this stage.

As a spin-off from the DVD/Movies topic, I thought it might be an idea to set up a post where we could make film and television recommendations to see us all through the lockdown. For me (and I’ll keep editing and adding to this as I think of more titles): Films on Blu-ray/DVD: Parasite, Joker, anything by Jim Jarmusch, anything by David Lynch, collections of the original Looney Tunes cartoons, NetFlix: The Studio Ghibli collection, Ugly Delicious, Somebody Feed Phil, Midnight Diner (Tokyo Stories), Miles Davis (Rebirth of the Cool), The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Dark Tourist...

Comedy gold!

Lead on MacDuff!

Why would he change his “modus operandi” now?

Was he called Tangles during his time with the Dees, or did that come later during his test career (a reference to his bowling style)? EDIT: just saw Tiers’ post above

I’m amazed he’s not already listed here, but The Wizard (Jeff Farmer)

If he regretted posting it, I think Werridee would probably have removed it by now (or if unable to do so, should have requested the mods delete it). Werridee has been posting elsewhere on these forums since that post was made, so it's not as if he's not had ample opportunity to delete, apologise, or even to explain that it wasn't a serious comment.

I was reading up on that before I flew out to Taiwan. Apparently most modern jet liners get 50% of their air from outside the cabin and the other 50% is cycled through the same filters that are used by operating theatres. The only real danger is if you are seated in too close proximity to an infected person; so hopefully the airline counter staff are seating passengers taking into account the "social distancing" guidelines. Safe travels!

There’s always a sympathetic ear here Skuit. When times are tough it’s good to get things off your chest, even if the listener can’t necessarily provide useful solutions. Please take care.

Possibly the states have decided to attempt to take control because central Government is not acting decisively enough?