Coronavirus

[Dr Zaius]

He also flipped on it being a hoax ages ago, but most of his numpties still believe that it is

[The Nickman]

If there’s one positive to come of COVID is that it’ll be the end of Trump’s political career at the end of the year (maybe even sooner). Before Covid I was pretty certain he was going to get re-elected but he’s absolutely no chance now

Sure, it took a worldwide pandemic to bring about his downfall, but gotta take the wins where you can

[Sterlk]

Doesn't VIC have a reputation for being quite progressive, compared to the other states?

No, they're probably the most conservative State in the country.

Are you sure about that? I think that title might belong to QLD or WA. I always think of this quote when the political leanings of VIC are mentioned:

Mr Howard also said the Liberal Party could not be too disheartened from its loss in Victoria, a centre-left state which some called "the Massachusetts of Australia".

The reliably Democratic-voting state of Massachusetts, in the US north-east, was the only state not to vote for Republican president Richard Nixon in the landslide 1972 election.

Vote Compass seems to back it up, too:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-06-12/ ... Queensland.

[Northern Raider]

Doesn't VIC have a reputation for being quite progressive, compared to the other states?

No, they're probably the most conservative State in the country.

Are you sure about that? I think that title might belong to QLD or WA. I always think of this quote when the political leanings of VIC are mentioned:

Mr Howard also said the Liberal Party could not be too disheartened from its loss in Victoria, a centre-left state which some called "the Massachusetts of Australia".

The reliably Democratic-voting state of Massachusetts, in the US north-east, was the only state not to vote for Republican president Richard Nixon in the landslide 1972 election.

Vote Compass seems to back it up, too:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-06-12/ ... Queensland.

Melbourne is heartland of the Greens too.

[Manbush]

Wow America, the day hospitals started reporting covid cases to Trumps team instead of the CDC it miraculously flatlines, states Trump won cases were increasing rapidly but started declining that exact day, states Clinton won cases were slowly increasing and continued to do so, fudging the numbers or massive coincidence?

[Dr Zaius]

I'd wait until the end of the week Bushy. The weekend and Monday numbers are always all over the place

[Manbush]

The data being examined for that began 13 days ago.




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[greeneyed]

Queensland closing border to Greater Sydney as NSW clusters continue to grow

Queensland is closing its border to Greater Sydney as clusters in NSW continue to grow. On Wednesday morning 19 cases of COVID-19 were confirmed and several were linked to clusters including the western Sydney funerals cluster, the Thai Rock Wetherill Park cluster, and the Potts Point outbreak.

It comes as Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk confirmed Greater Sydney will become a COVID-19 hotspot from 1am on Saturday.

Read more: https://www.smh.com.au/national/border- ... 55ghw.html

Hopefully, the NRL now knows what it is going to do next...

[The Nickman]

About **** time!

I've been advocating for this for YEARS!

[Northern Raider]

The story in QLD today is a pair of 19yo girls came back to Brisbane from Melbourne and have since tested positive. Appears they falsified their entry documents so they didn't have to go into hotel quarantine. Have been going about the community for 8 days so who knows how many they could have infected in that time.

[-PJ-]

The story in QLD today is a pair of 19yo girls came back to Brisbane from Melbourne and have since tested positive. Appears they falsified their entry documents so they didn't have to go into hotel quarantine. Have been going about the community for 8 days so who knows how many they could have infected in that time.

Jail.

[Northern Raider]

The story in QLD today is a pair of 19yo girls came back to Brisbane from Melbourne and have since tested positive. Appears they falsified their entry documents so they didn't have to go into hotel quarantine. Have been going about the community for 8 days so who knows how many they could have infected in that time.

Jail.

Even better. 28 days hotel quarantine at their expense. That's what they were trying to evade so give it to them now and double down.

...preferably not with Victorian security guards

[-PJ-]

With this news today from Premier Palletstack I fear my family's 2nd attempt to enter QLD in October will not happen..I have a bad bad feeling that crap is going to spiral out of control and QLD will be off limits to ALL NSW residents sooner rather than later.

We had planned a 2 week holiday to the GC in April. Covid-19 squashed it. We lost $$$ but took a deep breathe and decided to try again in late Oct..my 50th. Again we've made prelim arrangements for accomodation, MrsPJ has an itinerary all sorted.

But..now..I don't know if this is going to happen...

I hate you 2020.

[-PJ-]

The story in QLD today is a pair of 19yo girls came back to Brisbane from Melbourne and have since tested positive. Appears they falsified their entry documents so they didn't have to go into hotel quarantine. Have been going about the community for 8 days so who knows how many they could have infected in that time.

Jail.

Even better. 28 days hotel quarantine at their expense. That's what they were trying to evade so give it to them now and double down.

...preferably not with Victorian security guards

Ok..let's do that.
Then jail.

[The Nickman]

With this news today from Premier Palletstack I fear my family's 2nd attempt to enter QLD in October will not happen..I have a bad bad feeling that crap is going to spiral out of control and QLD will be off limits to ALL NSW residents sooner rather than later.

We had planned a 2 week holiday to the GC in April. Covid-19 squashed it. We lost $$$ but took a deep breathe and decided to try again in late Oct..my 50th. Again we've made prelim arrangements for accomodation, MrsPJ has an itinerary all sorted.

But..now..I don't know if this is going to happen...

I hate you 2020.

Don't panic too much just yet. Even if Qld closes the borders I suspect they could be open again by October.

NSW appears to have things under control and even Victoria is finally starting to plateau/slow down.

[Northern Raider]

The story in QLD today is a pair of 19yo girls came back to Brisbane from Melbourne and have since tested positive. Appears they falsified their entry documents so they didn't have to go into hotel quarantine. Have been going about the community for 8 days so who knows how many they could have infected in that time.

Jail.

Even better. 28 days hotel quarantine at their expense. That's what they were trying to evade so give it to them now and double down.

...preferably not with Victorian security guards

Ok..let's do that.
Then jail.

Done.

Get it sorted

[-PJ-]

With this news today from Premier Palletstack I fear my family's 2nd attempt to enter QLD in October will not happen..I have a bad bad feeling that crap is going to spiral out of control and QLD will be off limits to ALL NSW residents sooner rather than later.

We had planned a 2 week holiday to the GC in April. Covid-19 squashed it. We lost $$$ but took a deep breathe and decided to try again in late Oct..my 50th. Again we've made prelim arrangements for accomodation, MrsPJ has an itinerary all sorted.

But..now..I don't know if this is going to happen...

I hate you 2020.

Don't panic too much just yet. Even if Qld closes the borders I suspect they could be open again by October.

NSW appears to have things under control and even Victoria is finally starting to plateau/slow down.

Let's hope so Nickman. MrsPJ was very upset about our April holiday cancelation. If our Oct trip was canned she'll go right off.

[Northern Raider]

With this news today from Premier Palletstack I fear my family's 2nd attempt to enter QLD in October will not happen..I have a bad bad feeling that crap is going to spiral out of control and QLD will be off limits to ALL NSW residents sooner rather than later.

We had planned a 2 week holiday to the GC in April. Covid-19 squashed it. We lost $$$ but took a deep breathe and decided to try again in late Oct..my 50th. Again we've made prelim arrangements for accomodation, MrsPJ has an itinerary all sorted.

But..now..I don't know if this is going to happen...

I hate you 2020.

Don't panic too much just yet. Even if Qld closes the borders I suspect they could be open again by October.

NSW appears to have things under control and even Victoria is finally starting to plateau/slow down.

Let's hope so Nickman. MrsPJ was very upset about our April holiday cancelation. If our Oct trip was canned she'll go right off.

Government might let you in. Nickman on the other hand....

[-PJ-]

With this news today from Premier Palletstack I fear my family's 2nd attempt to enter QLD in October will not happen..I have a bad bad feeling that crap is going to spiral out of control and QLD will be off limits to ALL NSW residents sooner rather than later.

We had planned a 2 week holiday to the GC in April. Covid-19 squashed it. We lost $$$ but took a deep breathe and decided to try again in late Oct..my 50th. Again we've made prelim arrangements for accomodation, MrsPJ has an itinerary all sorted.

But..now..I don't know if this is going to happen...

I hate you 2020.

Don't panic too much just yet. Even if Qld closes the borders I suspect they could be open again by October.

NSW appears to have things under control and even Victoria is finally starting to plateau/slow down.

Let's hope so Nickman. MrsPJ was very upset about our April holiday cancelation. If our Oct trip was canned she'll go right off.

Government might let you in. Nickman on the other hand....

I'm not going within 500km of Rocky..

And Nickman won't be any wiser.

[Dr Zaius]

With this news today from Premier Palletstack I fear my family's 2nd attempt to enter QLD in October will not happen..I have a bad bad feeling that crap is going to spiral out of control and QLD will be off limits to ALL NSW residents sooner rather than later.

We had planned a 2 week holiday to the GC in April. Covid-19 squashed it. We lost $$$ but took a deep breathe and decided to try again in late Oct..my 50th. Again we've made prelim arrangements for accomodation, MrsPJ has an itinerary all sorted.

But..now..I don't know if this is going to happen...

I hate you 2020.

Don't panic too much just yet. Even if Qld closes the borders I suspect they could be open again by October.

NSW appears to have things under control and even Victoria is finally starting to plateau/slow down.

Let's hope so Nickman. MrsPJ was very upset about our April holiday cancelation. If our Oct trip was canned she'll go right off.

Government might let you in. Nickman on the other hand....

I'm with Nick on this. NSW have got this, they'll bring it back in.

This was a knee jerk reaction in anticipation of the outcry over the two new cases IMHO.

[Dr Zaius]

Vicpol arrested Eve Black. They smashed in her car window as she refused to say where she was going or why, give her details or get out of the car.

https://www.news.com.au/national/victor ... cialBakers

[Northern Raider]

Vicpol arrested Eve Black. They smashed in her car window as she refused to say where she was going or why, give her details or get out of the car.

https://www.news.com.au/national/victor ... cialBakers

Shame we going to have these oxygen thieves clogging up our legal system for the next few years.

[-TW-]

Little Italy had 723 cases today, masks are now mandatory in the whole state

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[The Nickman]

Don't be too panicked about the "700" today, as the last two days in Victoria were anomalously low at 370 and 275. The last three days combined are consistent with their 400 cases a day that they've been achieving the last ten days. Today just picked up the slack.

I'm still fairly confident Victoria are now on top of this.

[-TW-]

I'm VERY concerned

Is it time to crack each other's heads open and feast on the goo inside?

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[Sterlk]

That reference works better in emergency situations that aren't associated with an infectious virus.

[yeh raiders]

Don't be too panicked about the "700" today, as the last two days in Victoria were anomalously low at 370 and 275. The last three days combined are consistent with their 400 cases a day that they've been achieving the last ten days. Today just picked up the slack.

I'm still fairly confident Victoria are now on top of this.

I hope so, otherwise it might be time to build a wall around that state.

[papabear]

3 day average 458 so even averaging it out doesn’t look good.

[The Nickman]

3 day average 458 so even averaging it out doesn’t look good.

Oh yeah, but if you look at the 3 day average it’s been relatively consistent for the last week or so.



I’m not saying the numbers are good, I’m just saying they’re not increasing anymore and the 700 was a bit of a furphy given the two days before it.

Saying all that, they’ll probably have 800 today and blow my theory right out of the water!

[greeneyed]

The Herald Sun reporting Victoria is about to announce more than 600 new cases today and seven deaths. They’ve suffered 55 deaths in a week, which is more than NSW over the pandemic.

[The Nickman]

The Herald Sun reporting Victoria is about to announce more than 600 new cases today and seven deaths. They’ve suffered 55 deaths in a week, which is more than NSW over the pandemic.

Yeah, it's awful what's happening down there because a few people failed to do the right thing, an absolute tragedy... BUT, I still don't think they're increasing out of control anymore. They're clearly on the flattening part of the curve and should start to decrease again in the next week or so.

[Northern Raider]

Yeah, focussing too much on fluctuations of daily figures is misleading. Those numbers are more reflective of test results being received, which can come in batches. The rolling average gives a clearer picture. It's relatively steady for now. The impact of strict lockdown procedures will not be reflected for a couple of weeks.

[papabear]

The Herald Sun reporting Victoria is about to announce more than 600 new cases today and seven deaths. They’ve suffered 55 deaths in a week, which is more than NSW over the pandemic.

Yeah, it's awful what's happening down there because a few people failed to do the right thing, an absolute tragedy... BUT, I still don't think they're increasing out of control anymore. They're clearly on the flattening part of the curve and should start to decrease again in the next week or so.

out of control is a subjective term..

Same as good, bad, too much, too little..

The numbers do appear to still be trending up though, despite everyone thinking the lockdown would slow them down much more then it did.

[The Nickman]

The Herald Sun reporting Victoria is about to announce more than 600 new cases today and seven deaths. They’ve suffered 55 deaths in a week, which is more than NSW over the pandemic.

Yeah, it's awful what's happening down there because a few people failed to do the right thing, an absolute tragedy... BUT, I still don't think they're increasing out of control anymore. They're clearly on the flattening part of the curve and should start to decrease again in the next week or so.

out of control is a subjective term..

Same as good, bad, too much, too little..

The numbers do appear to still be trending up though, despite everyone thinking the lockdown would slow them down much more then it did.

The numbers ARE slowing down though. The rate of change is absolutely decreasing by any measurable indicator, and that's not a subjective term.

[-TW-]

627 more today

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