Corona Virus

skully wrote:

Bradman wrote:From the pics of them posted so far it looks like they were more than likely on sponsored and paid employment in a specialised segment of the entertainment industry.  Thus their refusal to name names.

They look like typical millennial chicks to me, all false eyelashes, pumped up lips and massive make up for slutty selfies.

LOL. One of the news feeds managed to contact the brother of one of the trollops, and surprise surprise, he immediately played the race card.

Deary, deary me.

There's also a rumour floating that these two were in Melbourne to steal high end handbags.

Yeah we got they were using the party in Melbourne to case empty joints in qld. I think my story is better.

Cupid stunts.

Another 627 cases overnight plus 6 deaths as the Victorian peak still hasn't appeared.

NSW cases worryingly sneaking upwards.

Over 1,000 health and aged care workers have been infected. Around 800 resi care clients ditto.

Watched an interview this morning with a bloke who mum died in the last day or so. She went in for respite care and never got out. Cancelled my aged parent's planned respite in April. Just as well.

Awful stuff, h.

I'm grateful for the precautions my Ma-in-law's home has implemented. Very strict, and has worked very well.

stay safe h and mother h

Indeed.

embee wrote:stay safe h and mother h

Ta - truth be known I am more at risk of mother h taking a pair of scissors to me and putting me in her scrapbook.

It really is an odd time. Re frail extreme aged folks we have to do better, be they in resi care or getting community care at home.

skully wrote:Awful stuff, h.

I'm grateful for the precautions my Ma-in-law's home has implemented. Very strict, and has worked very well.

That is good.

A friend of my mother's is in a bells and whistles pte sector run facility. For months she has been effectively locked in her room and allowed just one visitor a day for a limited time. afaik there has been no outbreak there.

A point you touched on earlier was interesting and I meant to but did not respond at the time. This is about the composition of the care workforce. Yep the workforce relies on underpaid and undertrained staff who are mainly women with heaps born overseas.

Clients want staff who are culturally attuned. My mother wants good old Aussie visiting care workers. "It is not that I am racist Horrie, it is just my deafness means I cannot understand other people."

A few months ago she had an appointment with a specialist dental surgeon. She had a brief chat with him on the blower prior to the first Appointment. She was happy enough and no complaints about hearing. I took her to the appointment.

I sat in the waiting room. Eventually I was called in. My mother was refusing to be examined and claiming she could not understand what was being said. The Dental Specialist was Indian background and spoke with a crystal clear OxBridge accent.

The guy aside from being erudite was a really nice person. I was allowed to make another appt. In the car and then back at the house she repeated, "I'm not racist but I just couldn't understand him. Do you think his qualifications are real?"

meh meh meh

Just got back from a quick trip to the pub, quick because the covid three effectively put pubs back onto stricter rules. A bitcj about that considering some of the above would seem crass at the very best.

I'll drink my beer at home and think of those with real problems. And hope.

Went for a beer last night with a workmate, signed in and got our 'customer numbers' etc, bought two beers, then looked for somewhere to sit (customer numbers would be matched by seats available, you'd think?)

No seats.

"If you haven't got a seat, you'll have to leave".

We swilled and left. Ah well.

First world problems.

650+ new cases today. stricter lockdown begins on Wednesday.

supermarket is very busy with everyone panic buying.

Sounds like a shocker in Melbourne. All for the want to save a few hundred thousand dollars on security.

Would they have been charged for the ADF? Sounds like they spent money creating a problem.

Have noticed this morning panic buying in the supermarkets which resemble Christmas Eve and Chemist Warehouse too. My understanding is that the supermarche and pharmacies will remain open as essential services yet it doesn't stop this mindset.

and Telstra internet down due to Cyber attack (doing the workaround atm)

Might be time for the feds to muscle up, tell the state govts to stfd and stfu and follow our lead or else. Having central coord without teeth is useless. If it all it did was put out one and only one message itd be worth the accusations of "junta" that will ensue by the collwction of headless chooks and headlight caught bunnies that is state leadership.

Shit and rhis is mischief making, Billy Hughes once told the ALP caucus he didnt need them and could intro conscription by regulation. Federalise state coppers and biosecurity officers, health workers perhaps?

got my Daniel Andrews decision making device and back-up dartboard/spinning wheel in case.

Bradman wrote:Would they have been charged for the ADF?  Sounds like they spent money creating a problem.

More about using the coppers like they do in NSW.

Takes effort to put cane toads as number two on the list of Queensland Pests we dont want in Woztralia

I thought like Palmer they were there already?

6 week Stage 4 lockdown begins in < 3 hours...

That'll take you to the middle of September, then perhaps a staged loosening. Good luck nath and the Gabba trust thanks you all for the GF.

Bradman wrote:Would they have been charged for the ADF?  Sounds like they spent money creating a problem.

Victorians not called Warne. It was ever thus.