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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?

Well, that’s pretty much how we’re playing.

OMac has actually been one of our better players! Take off the blinkers.

Don’t worry, you’ll still be allowed to name your teams for each round.

Yeah, those pesky surgeons ?

Thanks LH, nice of you to say so.

As someone whose only real source of income and pleasure, is performing in a band, we’ve had all bookings cancelled (3 just this week alone) as venues are now shutting up shop. I know numerous others in the same boat and I can’t help but think that as we’re not registered businesses, there will be little to no support from government agencies; it’s a shame they don’t look back just a couple of months at who it was that were giving up their time and income to support those who lost everything in the fires. I’m going to be looking into live streaming options, and possibly taking performances to apartment blocks where we could possibly set up in courtyards and play to people on their balconies who in turn could live stream, but that in itself is not a simple process. Anyway, that’s my whinge done for the day ? In the meantime I’ll console myself with some live footy. Edit: Oh, and I’m not saying we’re a great band by any stretch of the imagination (we’re not), but the point I’m making is that we lead a very tenuous existence ?

No, I send it to you, because you’re the one with the agenda. The Italian Govt was “lazy” (to use Palu’s own description) and were slow to act. The virus may have originated in China, but it’s the world’s problem now. The blame game solves nothing and if you’ve been following the real news (as opposed to right wing publications), you might have noticed that Chinese medico’s from the Wuhan epicenter are there advising and assisting in Italy... but of course it doesn’t suit your agenda to make mention of that.