So, what the heck is next?

DarkArts · #1 04-03-2020, 10:38 PM

Widespread drought, extreme heat, choking smoke, destructive and deadly fires, pummelling hail, downpours and floods, a deadly pandemic ...

What comes next? Giant meteorite, dinosaur style (uh oh)? Or Kyle Sandilands getting another TV show (ewww)?

It's times like these when we need a cool quote from Jack Burton (Big Trouble in Little China):

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Originally Posted by Jack Burton

You just listen to the old Pork Chop Express here now and take his advice on a dark and stormy night when the lightning's crashin' and the thunder's rollin' and the rain's coming down in sheets thick as lead. Just remember what old Jack Burton does when the earth quakes, and the poison arrows fall from the sky, and the pillars of Heaven shake. Yeah, Jack Burton just looks that big old storm right square in the eye and he says, "Give me your best shot, pal. I can take it."

StuTodd · #2 05-03-2020, 01:47 AM

1 to 4 are a probable hot country scenario, fires tend to be deadly if you get in the way...hail, downpours and floods sound like Milford on a Wednesday and "deadly pandemic"??

Only in the modern media is the flu like "Coronavirus" a deadly hell disease from hell from real hell.

The deaths from Corvid-19 are next to nowt compared with % of sufferers. Not too bigger deal than flu. Stop believing the hype.

Ukastronomer (Jeremy) · #3 05-03-2020, 01:56 AM

Well watch this and remember you have been warned about it for long enough

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xudm8n

BBC TV and not a dumb youtube sketch
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Domino (Maurice) · #4 05-03-2020, 07:47 AM

I tend to agree. The media these days tend to focus on one thing and then thrash it to death until they find something else to talk about. In the meantime they are giving us all a sense of insecurity.

N1 (Mirko) · #5 05-03-2020, 07:55 AM

Keep calm, and observe.

glend (Glen) · #6 05-03-2020, 08:08 AM

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Originally Posted by StuTodd

1 to 4 are a probable hot country scenario, fires tend to be deadly if you get in the way...hail, downpours and floods sound like Milford on a Wednesday and "deadly pandemic"??

Only in the modern media is the flu like "Coronavirus" a deadly hell disease from hell from real hell.

The deaths from Corvid-19 are next to nowt compared with % of sufferers. Not too bigger deal than flu. Stop believing the hype.

There is a danger in expressing unsubstantiated opinion as fact.

Fact: the Corona Virus mortality rate is, as announced by the WHO, 3.4% of cases contracted. This number is derived by looking at the death rate over all people contacting the virus, however the older you are the higher the death rate, and elderly males are more likely to die. So above 70 the rate is significantly worse.

The mortality rate for common influenza, averaged over all contracting, is typically described as around 0.1% as recently confirmed by the WHO.

The author of this opinion piece should check his supposed fact with WHO data.

Imme (Jon) · #7 05-03-2020, 08:19 AM

I agree this is more than a flu but when it comes to what the media says take it with a grain of salt. Do your own research based on fact.

I think we all need to sit back and be pretty clear on what the mainstream media actually are......they are salespeople selling a product - advertising airtime. It is the only reason they exist.....to make money

The more 'attractive' they can make stories the $'s they get to rake in.

Think about it. What story would you listen to.....one that said there is a new strain of flu that is a bit worse than the normal strain, or, the is a flu causing a pandemic that you need to prepare for because you are in danger.

multiweb (Marc) · #8 05-03-2020, 09:19 AM

Enjoying the up coming SPSP and clear nights this winter. That's what's next.

Who cares about the media... less TV. more stars.

JeniSkunk (Jenifur) · #9 05-03-2020, 10:32 AM

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Originally Posted by DarkArts

Widespread drought, extreme heat, choking smoke, destructive and deadly fires, pummelling hail, downpours and floods, a deadly pandemic

You missed one. Major erosion and dust storms.
That was being seen, as a result of the drought, in early November, last year, before the fires got going.

AstralTraveller (David) · #10 05-03-2020, 11:15 AM

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Originally Posted by multiweb

Enjoying the up coming SPSP and clear nights this winter. That's what's next.

Who cares about the media... less TV. more stars.

Didn't you hear? The SPSP has been cancelled due to the coronavirus outbreak .....

multiweb (Marc) · #11 05-03-2020, 01:14 PM

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Originally Posted by AstralTraveller

Didn't you hear? The SPSP has been cancelled due to the coronavirus outbreak .....

I'm self quarantined at the house. Keep out.

strongmanmike (Michael) · #12 05-03-2020, 01:20 PM

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Originally Posted by AstralTraveller

Didn't you hear? The SPSP has been cancelled due to the coronavirus outbreak .....

...hmmm? Well, don't laugh.....just saying

Mike

multiweb (Marc) · #13 05-03-2020, 01:22 PM

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Originally Posted by strongmanmike

...hmmm? Well, don't laugh.....just saying

Mike

So no singing and no hugging this year right?

doug mc · #14 05-03-2020, 09:04 PM

All of you are wrong. It all fake news. The toilet paper manufacturers put it out there to boost sales.

Ukastronomer (Jeremy) · #15 06-03-2020, 05:29 AM

Reality

The flu remains a higher threat to U.S. public health than the new coronavirus.

This flu season alone has sickened at least 19 million across the U.S. and led to 10,000 deaths and 180,000 hospitalizations.

Roughly a dozen cases of the deadly coronavirus have been identified in the U.S., though the number has mushroomed across its outbreak zone in China.

I am not saying it will not get worse but so far more anguish and upset has been caused by news agencies causing panic and over exaggeration, even the BBC. Now we have panic buying of food (storing) and any and all sanitizers even though most are 100% useless because they do not have at least 65-70% alcohol. Ordinary hand sanitizers, cloths, wipes are ineffective against a VIRUS, truth... a bottle of alcohol from an off licence with 60%+ proof is better and 100% more effective than a any cloth that says 99.999% effective against bacteria. Covis 19 is NOT a bacteria

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DarkArts · #16 06-03-2020, 06:54 AM

Well, at least some people twigged to this thread being tongue-in-cheek. I thought the Kyle Sandilands reference and "Jack Burton" quote would have been dead giveaways.

strongmanmike (Michael) · #17 06-03-2020, 07:05 AM

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Originally Posted by multiweb

So no singing and no hugging this year right?

Yes that would be sad

If the pandemic continues on course, by May ASNSW will likely have no choice but to cancel SPSP.

Mike

multiweb (Marc) · #18 06-03-2020, 07:37 AM

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Originally Posted by strongmanmike

If the pandemic continues on course, by May ASNSW will likely have no choice but to cancel SPSP.

You sound like the Grinch who wants to cancel Christmas.

AstralTraveller (David) · #19 06-03-2020, 09:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Ukastronomer

.....l sanitizers even though most are 100% useless because they do not have at least 65-70% alcohol. Ordinary hand sanitizers, cloths, wipes are ineffective against a VIRUS, truth... a bottle of alcohol from an off licence with 60%+ proof is better and 100% more effective than a any cloth that says 99.999% effective against bacteria. Covis 19 is NOT a bacteria

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Wouldn't a bottle of metho be cheaper than buying booze? Well, buy the booze too but use it as recommended.

Peter Ward · #20 06-03-2020, 09:57 AM

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Originally Posted by AstralTraveller

Wouldn't a bottle of metho be cheaper than buying booze? Well, buy the booze too but use it as recommended.

Irish Priest holds up a earthworm during his sermon and dips it in a glass of whiskey. It promptly dies, with the priest saying to Murphy is the front row, what lesson can we learn from the daemon drink Murphy?

If we drink whiskey, we won't get worms!? (it's an old Dave Allen joke).