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by Sterlk
August 15, 2021, 3:26 pm
Forum: Current Affairs
Topic: Coronavirus
Replies: 6055
Views: 370078

Re: Coronavirus

I think somebody mentioned it earlier, but it's absolutely mind boggling that masks STILL aren't required outdoors in Sydney. Perhaps that’s because, to my knowledge, no one has actually caught it outdoors Doubt it, regardless of what the numbers say. If they were able to link all the emerging case...
by Sterlk
August 15, 2021, 12:16 pm
Forum: Current Affairs
Topic: Coronavirus
Replies: 6055
Views: 370078

Re: Coronavirus

I think somebody mentioned it earlier, but it's absolutely mind boggling that masks STILL aren't required outdoors in Sydney. Perhaps that’s because, to my knowledge, no one has actually caught it outdoors Doubt it, regardless of what the numbers say. If they were able to link all the emerging case...
by Sterlk
August 15, 2021, 8:47 am
Forum: Current Affairs
Topic: Coronavirus
Replies: 6055
Views: 370078

Re: Coronavirus

I think somebody mentioned it earlier, but it's absolutely mind boggling that masks STILL aren't required outdoors in Sydney.
by Sterlk
August 12, 2021, 6:12 pm
Forum: Current Affairs
Topic: Coronavirus
Replies: 6055
Views: 370078

Re: Coronavirus

Three more ACT cases. Buckle up!

Patient zero was quite active in the community, so there'll be quite a few before too long.
by Sterlk
August 7, 2021, 9:18 am
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: Canberra Raiders sack Curtis Scott
Replies: 1022
Views: 96844

Re: Curtis Scott charged with assault over Kokomo's incident

How long will this take to go through the courts?

The sooner it's complete, the sooner he'll be gone.
by Sterlk
August 4, 2021, 9:56 pm
Forum: Current Affairs
Topic: Coronavirus
Replies: 6055
Views: 370078

Re: Coronavirus

There's some smart cookies floating around, but generally speaking the average NRL player is not renowned for his intelligence.

Unfortunately, a good many of them are overtly and publicly dumb, like good old Paul Vaughan.
by Sterlk
August 4, 2021, 6:31 pm
Forum: Current Affairs
Topic: Coronavirus
Replies: 6055
Views: 370078

Re: Coronavirus

Josh Papalii is in the media again, commentating that he won't be getting a COVID vaccine.
by Sterlk
August 4, 2021, 7:14 am
Forum: Current Affairs
Topic: Coronavirus
Replies: 6055
Views: 370078

Re: Coronavirus

I don't get how it's supposed to be a bit of a punt? If they allowed you to book, you're booked, not going to yank it away from the thousands of people who now have vaccination appointments. Yeah there was a pre-warning that my age group wasn’t eligible yet, and by booking I could be turned away. I...
by Sterlk
August 3, 2021, 9:54 pm
Forum: Current Affairs
Topic: Coronavirus
Replies: 6055
Views: 370078

Re: Coronavirus

I don't get how it's supposed to be a bit of a punt? If they allowed you to book, you're booked, not going to yank it away from the thousands of people who now have vaccination appointments.
by Sterlk
August 1, 2021, 7:49 am
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: 2021 Rd 20 V Knights: Game Day
Replies: 847
Views: 36879

Re: 2021 Rd 20 V Knights: Game Day

Clubs have been advised that players or officials who make a substantive breach to protocols face being immediately removed from the competition, including being removed from the State for non-Queensland based Clubs. Good! I wonder how long it will be before the first turkey gets bounced out of QLD...
by Sterlk
July 31, 2021, 11:27 am
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: 2021 Rd 20 V Knights: Game Day
Replies: 847
Views: 36879

Re: 2021 Rd 20 V Knights: Game Day

It's been well publicised that there are a bunch of muppet players that keep breaking the bubble - I don't think that gives us a good chance of exemptions being granted and the game going ahead.
by Sterlk
July 29, 2021, 6:31 pm
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: Wests Tigers go cold on Canberra Raiders' Curtis Scott
Replies: 81
Views: 9282

Re: Wests Tigers go cold on Canberra Raiders' Curtis Scott

I had my hopes up we'd get rid of this dropkick, for a second.

Sit him down and tell him he'll never play first grade for us again, and we'll release him in a heartbeat if someone else tables an offer. Hopefully he'll rack off before too long.
by Sterlk
July 22, 2021, 5:53 pm
Forum: Current Affairs
Topic: Coronavirus
Replies: 6055
Views: 370078

Re: Coronavirus

Registration for people aged 30-39 opened up for people in the ACT today and 5000 signed up in the first 24 hours. Now I get to play the waiting game. I got a rather unhelpful technical error message from the site when trying to sign up. It's either a tad broken at the moment, or they just hate me ...
by Sterlk
July 21, 2021, 10:01 pm
Forum: Current Affairs
Topic: Coronavirus
Replies: 6055
Views: 370078

Re: Coronavirus

Registration for people aged 30-39 opened up for people in the ACT today and 5000 signed up in the first 24 hours. Now I get to play the waiting game. I got a rather unhelpful technical error message from the site when trying to sign up. It's either a tad broken at the moment, or they just hate me ...
by Sterlk
July 20, 2021, 8:09 pm
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: Xavier Savage out for the season
Replies: 45
Views: 3755

Re: Xavier Savage out for the season

I am entirely unsurprised.

You just had to look how slight he is, and how hard he runs at the defence, to feel he had a major injury coming his way at some point in the near future.
by Sterlk
July 17, 2021, 10:17 pm
Forum: Current Affairs
Topic: Coronavirus
Replies: 6055
Views: 370078

Re: Coronavirus

Whatever happened to Novavax?
by Sterlk
July 13, 2021, 6:23 pm
Forum: Current Affairs
Topic: Coronavirus
Replies: 6055
Views: 370078

Re: Coronavirus

Not that I claim to fully understand how viruses function, though to my knowledge each variant strain is based on a single mutation (and sub-variants from there, and so on). I think Delta's mutation was to increase transmissibility - something to do with spike receptors, perhaps. Helps it stick to y...
by Sterlk
July 12, 2021, 7:30 am
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: ACT Government miss the bus
Replies: 44
Views: 2689

Re: ACT Government miss the bus

Nice of the OP to be telling people to go get a jab when the majority of people under 40 can't currently get anything that's recommended for our age group...
by Sterlk
July 9, 2021, 10:10 pm
Forum: Current Affairs
Topic: Coronavirus
Replies: 6055
Views: 370078

Re: Coronavirus

And so the pretend lockdown becomes a real lockdown, as just about everybody expected it would.
by Sterlk
July 6, 2021, 7:35 pm
Forum: Current Affairs
Topic: Coronavirus
Replies: 6055
Views: 370078

Re: Coronavirus

I will be very unsurprised if NSW gets extended, with restrictions possibly increasing. They didn't want to lock down initially, and when they did, restrictions seemed minimal compared to other states... and a lot of people seemed not to be following even these minimal restrictions anyway. As far a...
by Sterlk
July 6, 2021, 7:33 am
Forum: Current Affairs
Topic: Coronavirus
Replies: 6055
Views: 370078

Re: Coronavirus

I will be very unsurprised if NSW gets extended, with restrictions possibly increasing. They didn't want to lock down initially, and when they did, restrictions seemed minimal compared to other states... and a lot of people seemed not to be following even these minimal restrictions anyway. As far as...
by Sterlk
June 21, 2021, 6:53 pm
Forum: Current Affairs
Topic: The Politics Thread 2021
Replies: 989
Views: 55727

Re: The Politics Thread 2021

I'm interested to see how this affects the Government's popularity - he's a controversial figure.
by Sterlk
June 12, 2021, 9:33 pm
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: 2021 Rd 14 V Broncos: Game Day
Replies: 564
Views: 26626

Re: 2021 Rd 14 V Broncos: Game Day

What's the deal with Simonsson? Been doing nothing on the wing, gets a chance at fullback and pretty much cements his spot there for the rest of the year. Good win, but looks like we need a proper goalkicker. We could get away without Croker while we had George Williams, but with Sam Williams missin...
by Sterlk
June 8, 2021, 5:52 pm
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: 2021 Rd 14 V Broncos: Teams and Previews *Teams p1*
Replies: 275
Views: 23338

Re: 2021 Rd 14 V Broncos: Teams and Previews *Teams p1*

"I've spoken to him the last few days just check in with him see how he is, he's not great at the moment," Hodgson said. " You feel for those kids when these kind of times happen. I don't really know what's going to happen with it, I can't comment or comment on what happened because ...
by Sterlk
May 30, 2021, 11:22 am
Forum: Current Affairs
Topic: Coronavirus
Replies: 6055
Views: 370078

Re: Coronavirus

Just to highlight how far behind we are with vaccine rollout, the Indy 500 is on this weekend. They have implemented a no jab, no seat policy - however, they have also facilitated a vaccine base ON SITE so if you haven’t received your vaccine, you can have a free jab on the way to your seat. Weird....
by Sterlk
May 26, 2021, 9:17 am
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: Canberra Raiders and George Williams agree on release
Replies: 1242
Views: 120451

Re: Canberra Raiders release George Williams immediately

Hmmm, certainly does have a feel of trying to have your cake and eat it too. He wants out, he wasn't going to show up to training or play, his form hasn't been great, his unhappiness has probably already been destabalising across the group anyway... you can see why it's best for the club that he be ...
by Sterlk
May 10, 2021, 8:21 pm
Forum: Current Affairs
Topic: The Politics Thread 2021
Replies: 989
Views: 55727

Re: The Politics Thread 2021

we just happen to be small enough that China can flex their muscles and suspend all trade with us without it doing much to their economy yet it’s brutal for ours. Is it? Certainly troubling for individual businesses, but from what I recall at the time a lot of our exports were being picked up elsew...
by Sterlk
May 9, 2021, 8:28 am
Forum: Current Affairs
Topic: The Politics Thread 2021
Replies: 989
Views: 55727

Re: The Politics Thread 2021

Oh, China, China, China... “ China loves peace and will not take the initiative to pick a fight with faraway Australia, but Australian hawks must be clear-minded. “If they are bold enough to co-ordinate with the US to militarily interfere in the Taiwan question and send troops to the Taiwan Straits ...
by Sterlk
May 9, 2021, 8:24 am
Forum: Current Affairs
Topic: Coronavirus
Replies: 6055
Views: 370078

Re: Coronavirus

Dr Zaius wrote: May 8, 2021, 6:32 pm We should be planning our own mRNA manufacturing facilities,but we are not.
Aren't we? I thought within the last month or so the Victorian government announced they were going to invest a whole bunch of cash doing exactly this, and the Feds later went in on it too.
by Sterlk
May 7, 2021, 5:39 pm
Forum: Current Affairs
Topic: Coronavirus
Replies: 6055
Views: 370078

Re: Coronavirus

Are there any actual restrictions of movement associated with the Sydney COVID thing at the moment?

As far as I saw earlier, anybody can go anywhere, but there's just a whole lot of ancillary rules to do with masks, maximum gathering sizes, and the like.
by Sterlk
May 2, 2021, 12:01 pm
Forum: Current Affairs
Topic: Coronavirus
Replies: 6055
Views: 370078

Re: Coronavirus

I wouldn't be worried about a massive AZ stockpile. If the government can't get Australians to take it, there's plenty of other counties that will jump at the chance to buy it from us or receive it as a humanitarian gift. It's a risk decision at the end of the day. COVID effectively doesn't exist in...
by Sterlk
April 29, 2021, 10:34 pm
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: 2021 Rd 8 V Rabbitohs: Game Day
Replies: 1022
Views: 44151

Re: 2021 Rd 8 V Rabbitohs: Game Day

Maybe live I missed who was really at fault, though I swear I saw the Rabbits score down Simonsson's wing twice in the second half, then he got moved to the second side and they scored over there, too (with a limping Kris, admittedly).
by Sterlk
April 29, 2021, 10:24 pm
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: 2021 Rd 8 V Rabbitohs: Game Day
Replies: 1022
Views: 44151

Re: 2021 Rd 8 V Rabbitohs: Game Day

We need to go out and buy a really top-notch winger, Simonsson doesn't cut it.
by Sterlk
April 22, 2021, 8:42 pm
Forum: Current Affairs
Topic: The Politics Thread 2021
Replies: 989
Views: 55727

Re: The Politics Thread 2021

Within the month, Biden will be thrown out of office and Trump will be rightfully reinstated. You'll see. YOU'LL ALL SEE! :lol:

Wonder how Qanon is going these days...
by Sterlk
April 10, 2021, 7:31 am
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: 2021 Rd 5 V Panthers: Game Day
Replies: 948
Views: 40056

Re: 2021 Rd 5 V Panthers: Game Day

Bit annoyed by the viking clap taunt. You expect low-class out of that area, though it wouldn't be nearly so aggravating if they didn't put themselves so firmly in the driver's seat through foul play. CNK gets HIA'd by an illegal high shot, completely disrupting us, and the bogans think the situatio...