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09-05-2020, 12:48 AM | #1 | |||
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Just been looking at Sweden and theirs is about average, 29220, 27962, 28822, 29864, 26604 and this year to date 28461 got that off twitter might not be accurate, note jan 1 to end April 15 numbers |
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08-05-2020, 11:06 PM | #2 | ||
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Whats everyone's thoughts on how long this will run before we're back to society as normal pre COVID-19?
I'm calling June 2021 before we're back to no restrictions and society as normal. |
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09-05-2020, 12:02 AM | #3 | ||
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I'm more than happy for social distancing practice to stay. It's nice having 1.5m of personal space at the shops etc
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09-05-2020, 12:47 AM | #4 | |||
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Mate. it'll never go back to being NORMALThe World as We Know It has changed Forever. As My eldest Daughter said to Me the other day "Daddy We're Living History at the Moment" I think a Lot of Work & Business Practices as well as Shopping & Dining out Habits have forever changed. Just My 2 cents worth. |
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09-05-2020, 12:56 AM | #5 | |||
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I do welcome the initiatives from businesses who have shifted to online with gusto, I just wish people would stop using Australia Post for freight, took 3 weeks for Australia Post to get something from Sydney to Melbourne via road |
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09-05-2020, 01:02 AM | #6 | ||
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According to this analysis just over 50% of US deaths are nursing home victims.
New York +Jersey lost up to 10% of their nursing home populations https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...gid=1664960286 |
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09-05-2020, 05:16 PM | #7 | |||
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I think Aus Post have been just as inundated within an unexpected inlfux of customerage as supermarkets were for toilet paper. It takes time to ramp up your processes to be able to compensate. And then there's all of the social distancing and goods handling practices they'd need to put in place to ensure the health and safety of their workforce during the pandemic. I think we should be showing them a little bit of empathy. And probably even a bit of sympathy.
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09-05-2020, 06:18 PM | #8 | ||
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re. Austpost.
Maybe parcels but their mail service is crap ever since that Iranian guy left as CEO and took 5 million dollar salary with a huge payout to boot. We have been paying for him ever since. Some places don't have a daily mail service anymore. I send USB's all over Aus and NZ via the regular post. After the CEO left it went from 55 cent post standard to $1 to now $1.10 and of course a USB is ever so slightly thicker that their slot, so they make me put 2 stamps on each envelope. 15 working days to post an envelope to WA from country Victoria. 5 working days for the same from country Vic to Melb or Sydney and this was before Covid.
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09-05-2020, 01:08 AM | #9 | |||
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Now we have paramilitary police forces that act on a whim if a gun is mentioned, and around the clock police surveillance of anything to boot......... .... |
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09-05-2020, 12:19 PM | #10 | |||
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The big question is the second wave. If that pans out as it did in 1918 it is going to be horrific and government action will go on for years. If we largely avoid a second wave and have relatively few deaths and hospitalizations people will forget all about it by the end of the year. |
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09-05-2020, 12:58 AM | #11 | |||
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Airlines say 2 years at least before they are back to pre-covid levels. C ruise lines may be the same. Some countries may not let you get a visa unless you have a vaccination certificate. It used to be like that in a lot of places years ago. So a return to normal there depends on when we get an effective vaccine and get a few billion people vaccinated. Same for big crowds at stadiums, just produce your vaccination certificate to get in. I don't believe Aussies will stop buying Chinese crap. Locally made goods can't compete on price so that will be back to normal as soon as we go back to shopping. |
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09-05-2020, 01:14 AM | #12 | |||
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Cuts to excessive regulations. Was watching a conspiracy theory on how germany hid all this gold and used it to save their economy after ww2. No they didn't, simply they opened their market right up to competition, let the market go nuts. Oddly, those crazy Germans called it the social free market. This led to Mercedes entering F1 by 1954 at the French GP where they ran 1-2 first race back. Fangio though. If the gov predicts 9% well automatically that's optimistic, be 12% or higher |
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09-05-2020, 01:29 AM | #13 | |||
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09-05-2020, 03:01 AM | #14 | |||
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I know I sound like another Trump hater (I am) but people think he's a miracle worker with the economy. I'm just trying to point out increasing govt spending and running up debt is not rocket science. Both Rudd and Obama did the same thing when the GFC hit. The secret is to know that you have to stop spending and start paying back eventually, something Turnbull and Trump (and my wife) couldn't work out. Just my opinion, worth every cent you paid for it. |
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09-05-2020, 01:09 AM | #15 | |||
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Though I had to laugh they have an exemption built in for overseas students, basically Chinese students to keep the unis flowing with $$$. House always gets a cut I'm actually surprised that we are doubting US intel which is quite a big deal to rebuke them publicly. Seems it was substantially gathered from public sources. That sort of scrutiny would have been great before we got involved in the invasion of Iraq. But seems we have learned that lesson to take it at face value |
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09-05-2020, 10:12 AM | #16 | |||
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I think unemployment will go even higher. This crisis has given many businesses the option to re-evaluate who is essential and who isn't. I expect more redundancies hitting an already bad job market. Wages will go down too. From a company financial aspect, this crisis has provided businesses the opportunity to bring to the surface losses that they have had buried deep within their balance sheets. If you're going to make a loss then make it a big loss and blame China/C19. Also, there is the risk of a second outbreak. It will never go back to "normal", but will gradually improve in 12-24 months. In the meantime ScoMo better get more money printing presses. |
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09-05-2020, 11:14 AM | #17 | |||
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Sit at home doing **** all for the same cash as doing what I do? That's not a hard decision to make. The same thing happened with a friend of mine in WA, got stood down and then reoffered a few shifts at work but he was only going to be getting $45 more for going to work. I'd do that and while sitting at home look at starting another business again I reckon but I'd do it differently this time. Last edited by Franco Cozzo; 09-05-2020 at 11:20 AM. |
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how does that work? jobkeeper is paid to employers and basically reimburses them for wages paid. If the employee refuses jobkeeper, then surely they are at risk of being stood down if the employer can't pay their wages.
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08-05-2020, 11:18 PM | #20 | ||
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Yeah, it's a guess as good as any. China (as much as I love their cheap tech, and as much as I loathe most else) is taking steps to rectify the problem with a vaccine, save face?, who cares. Get it done already.
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08-05-2020, 11:46 PM | #21 | ||
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Still think it will be a long time before the MCG is full.
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09-05-2020, 12:44 AM | #24 | ||
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We are getting a little bit of normality back.. La Mona Grita (my “local”) opened yesterday after 8-9 weeks... Although with 1/2 capacity, strict disinfecting rules, and social distancing.
Hopefully beaches open soon for our doggies sakes! Seems we’re doing ok overall, going by below... https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/...irus-covid-19/
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09-05-2020, 01:32 AM | #25 | ||
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Jebus 30m+ have claimed unemployment. That's nearer 10% of the total population of the US
Unemployment figures are made up of the labour force so they will be way higher. One of two things will happen. Trump is counting on a huge surge in the economy to overcome the death rate or it will result in many more deaths. Bigly as he says. Who knows what will happen. |
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09-05-2020, 03:12 AM | #26 | ||
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We have a huge trade surplus with China. And then we have a deficit with the US. By Trumps own rules the US should pick up more Aussie goods to balance it out for a fair deal, right?
Happy to let us risk our own necks not to mention all the wars we have got involved in for a long time buying up a lot of American metal that is then used to back them up. Both ends of the deal. It's not lost on me. |
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09-05-2020, 07:26 AM | #28 | ||
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Our local bowling alley informed us poor league bowlers 9 weeks till they open. Can't wait!!!
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I was posting a summary of the current State responses until I hit the wrong button.
I'll do it in Word this time and then post it!
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