It doesnât need to confirmed - auctions and open houses are banned.
Morrison was again lacking tonight. He should have announced something about immediate compensation for the Australian people. Instead he insisted the cumbersome Centrelink system was a necessary process. He showed very little sympathy and his arrogance and sniping was there particularly when Tony Abbottâs name was mentioned. I could see the bitterness in his eyes and face. It was a very childish response.
So itâs just online auctions from Thursday.
CMO hasnât done much to help matters. Honestly would trust my doctor/ other doctors and scientist and then any nonsense thatâs being mixed delivery for this.
Look I dont think itâs necessary and if I was you I wouldnât be going. Especially if you have been outside and in contact with other people. Unfortunately we are just all going to have to make sacrifices at the moment.
This can be looked at in 2 ways, & I know the way most are going to look at this, but Australia is not somewhere in the rest of the world, we have different situations with both our populations, our space & being an island, separated from everyone else.
Thereâs so much hysterics going on out there itâs truely ridiculous, & you all can slam me I donât care, I think ScoMo is doing a good job, some of the state premiers have dropped the ball a few times & some Australians canât be trusted to do the right thing (though most of that Bondi Beach thing were apparently backpackers from OS).
Have things in Australia been taken too far, at the moment I think yes, perform basic general hygiene & stay 1.5 meters away from someone else & most people will be right.
Going on stmookeyj027âs guestimated figures, the national figure of 23357 cases is around 0.09% of the Australian population who will get Coronavirus.
The way things are trending in Australia is currently that 1% of the current cases are considered serious or critical needing hospitalisation with I think is around 11 cases?, the rest of the cases are only considered mild, & if people isolate they will recover in a few weeks & continue on with life as normal & weâve only had 8 deaths.
If this trend continues as figures above, worst case suggest they will (even though they arenât official figures & probably done without any medical knowledge?), about 1% of 0.09% of the Australian population will have serious effects from this virus, but yet we are locking people away, making millions of people unemployed, closing businesses that may never reopen or never recover, & creating so much stress about money & being able to pay for food, & accomodation with probably many people also becoming homeless.
ScoMo & the state leaders are fighting 2 wars here, the virus & the economic, & ScoMo tried to be subtle & not come out & alarm everyone in his media conference last night, but heâs 100% right, more people in Australia at the end of this will be dead from suicide over the economic side, than will die from the virus, & the suicide figure will probably be in multiples not just a few, times over the virus death figures.
With the now millions of Australians out of work, every single one of you in here is more likely to know someone who dies from suicide over this, than dies from the virus itself.
People have to start thinking sensibly & rationally not blindly following whatâs happening in other countries & what theyâre doing or not doing or let you political leanings get in the way of saying the governments doing a bad job & should be doing this or that, donât forget the National Cabinet is made up of 5 Labor & 4 Liberal leaders, so itâs pretty even politically, itâs not leaning Left Wing or Right Wing ideals & thoughts, & theyâre doing the best they can under the circumstances only guessing what might happen next.
Iâm lucky being in the media, even if everyone is locked down at home, Iâm able to travel wherever & when ever Iâm needed to keep the radio & TV on air, so Iâll continue my job, but other in my family have lost theirs & are unable to get any help from Centrelink as they are casual & havenât been put off, they just arenât getting any shifts while their workplace is closed.
Yes, none of us have had to live through anything like this & it might be another 100 years before anyone goes through similar, but it will happen again & it has happened in the past with 2 world wars & the Great Depression of the 1930âs, the earth kept spinning & most survived & things will be different but will return to what we call normal in 6 - 18 months time, so everyone ease up on the panic a bit.
Yeah he is doing a great job. Telling all Australians that he was still going to the rugby and two weeks later saying only 5 people can attend a wedding. The news was out there months ago and he reacted too slowly! Now he is blaming the public for not following medical advise - something he did two weeks ago!!! He is the worst PM ever in Australia and he could not have done a worse job.
Thatâs fine you have that opinion, but with that you seem to be one of the hysterical ones, considering the first case of corona virus in Australia was at the end of January 2020 pretty much 2 months ago today, so youâre saying you would have shut down Australia 2 months ago with less than 10 cases in this country because of what may or may not have been happening in China, to which we still donât know how much of the truth about this has come out of China?
Trust me I am not one of the hysterical ones. I too wasnât taking this seriously - probably because our PM wasnât. He laughed and said he was still going to the rugby 2 weeks ago. Now he is scolding people for having parties. He just canât expect people to take this seriously when he didnât take it seriously. That is the issue. Donât sit here and say he is doing a good job when he failed to listen to the medical advise.
No I didnât say they should have shutdown 2 months ago. But not letting people off of cruises could have been a start. Banning all travel a month ago when they knew the numbers in China. They talk about having more time and saying Italy would have wished to have more time but they are working just as slowly as they did.
Virgin Australia has announced that 8,000 staff would be stood down and will cut 90% of domestic flights. TigerAir will temporarily cease operations too
Jetstar has followed suit.
Dan Andrews sounds like he will crack down on a Stage 3 shortly. I imagine by Sunday. Stupid behaviour in the next day and it will be within 48hrs.
I assume Stage 3 is like NZ. Shopping Centres/Public Transport.
I think Dan Andrews has been super clear - unlike our national leader.
He wonât know any stupid behaviour by the public if it is not reported by the media or goes viral on the internet.
I hope Victoria doesnât go into stage 3 because not everyone has a car and some people still need public transport to go to and from work.
Public Transport could be capped at a cap per bus or carriage.
Shopping centres days are numbered I think.
The issue I have is places like Kmart and Bigw, more so on impending school holidays, have a larger visit rate of families and typically a higher percentage of the illiterate and uneducated who donât follow rules. Every time I go to Kmart itâs full of dirty scraggy people. These places are dirty shops.
Bunnings could be an exception, if they want to keep the trade industry going, but I guess risk is from competitors claiming picking favourites.
Johnson just casually calling for reporting of dangerous activities to be suspendedâŚ
A national state of emergency will be declared in New Zealand.
I didnât mean that. No one got infected with coronavirus after going to a house inspection or a beauty salon (so far).
Nevertheless, I hope people will have some self-discipline so we wonât have to go into stage 3.
School IT guy here. Still pissed that schools arenât closing down. Weâve literally set up a solution to allow for online school, I wish they would just transition to flexible online learning!
Firstly, I think you mean âno one was infected at a beauty salon or house inspection 14 days ago.â
The virus takes time to incubate.
Secondly, how do you know that for sure? Thereâs over 2000 cases now - have you asked health authorities to rule those locations out?
Iâm sorry Johnson, but youâre not a medical expert on virus transmission. Youâre a commentator on a forum. Youâre not qualified to make judgements on what should stay open and what should close - leave that to the experts.