So, what the heck is next?

[DarkArts]

Originally Posted by gary

Decisive action today could avert Australia from going down the path of the current Italian experience. Forget about people that are hoarding toilet paper. It is obvious to me who needs to be given the wake-up call. Australia could avert this and the first thing you would do is close the borders, as many other countries have already done and concurrently you would try to extinguish the limited number of clusters Australia has here at the moment, as they are trying to do but with a moving target of new arrivals from overseas.

Yeah, I agree. I had this discussion (a minor rant, I suppose) today. People thought I was overreacting, but I told them I can do the maths - it's not hard - and the maths is very sobering.

[I wrote a long-winded piece here but, in the end, it didn't say anything new.]

[PeterM]

Originally Posted by DarkArts

Yeah, I agree. I had this discussion (a minor rant, I suppose) today. People thought I was overreacting, but I told them I can do the maths - it's not hard - and the maths is very sobering.

[I wrote a long-winded piece here but, in the end, it didn't say anything new.]

No overreaction and sobering indeed when you have a 32 year old son with CP complications who would likely not beat the challenges this virus may bring. Worries the sheet out of me.
Morrison needs to close our borders now. Close all public events and show he can lead the nation and make the really big tough decisions.

[xelasnave]

Originally Posted by PeterM

No overreaction and sobering indeed when you have a 32 year old son with CP complications who would likely not beat the challenges this virus may bring. Worries the sheet out of me.
Morrison needs to close our borders now. Close all public events and show he can lead the nation and make the really big tough decisions.

Peter I feel so much I can't express. How I wish I could help. All I can suggest is to imagine the future as you want it to be and not let a negative thought cross your mind.
I don't know how it works but it works for me.
I sometimes think the universe follows what I imagine such are the results I get from eliminating all negative thoughts.
See the future you want and never for even a moment let the future you don't want enter.
I have had an unbelievable life and I put it down to seeing a future I want. Not for a moment do I see a bad result.
I don't know why it works but it does.
Even the simplest of thing..a game of pool..please just try thinking of what future you want and not for one moment think about what may go wrong.
I know the crazy guy is ranting again but just do it.
Alex

[JeniSkunk (Jenifur)]

Originally Posted by PeterM

Morrison needs to close our borders now. Close all public events and show he can lead the nation and make the really big tough decisions.

That lot, as well as the legally enforcable right for shops and check out operators to No Sale panic buyers, and a definite start date for a 3 week quarantine lockdown of the entire country.
100 years ago, it was that strict a lockdown that helped tame the impact of the influenza pandemic.
The nation needs that comprehensive a lockdown now.

[gary]

Melbourne F1 to be spectator-less. Decision to hold race in hands of FIA

Originally Posted by The Age

Fans about to be told to leave Grand Prix

The Age reporter Paul Sakkal is at the Grand Prix, where he says hundreds of fans queuing at a gate at the Albert Park track for the expected opening time of 8.45am are about to be told to leave the venue.

Police have been telling early arrivers that the 8.45am time would be delayed. A police officer, who didn't want to be named, said the delay was being enforced in expectation of Premier Daniel Andrews' announcement of a spectator ban.

Mr Andrews said the new position came about in light of fresh advice that the Victorian Chief Health Officer had provided to event organisers.

“He has indicated they have a choice to make between running no event or running an event without spectators,” he said.

“From a public health point of view, if it is to be run and I’lll leave it to grand prix officials, the Australian Formula One grand prix organising body to make an official announcement and that will happen quite soon.

“But on public health grounds there will be no spectators at the grand prix this weekend if a race happens at all. That’s a matter for them.”

Uniformed police as well as senior officers are on site preparing to announce the news to fans. Attendees with higher levels of accreditation, like staff and media, are still walking into the race track. Fans have not yet been told of the ban, but this will occur imminently.

Mr Andrews said there was discussions between the national chief medical officer and Victoria ahead of the changed position on the Grand Prix. He said there would be an announcement from organisers later on Friday morning.

[gary]

The whole three days of activity for the F1 have been cancelled.

Drivers already flying home.

It begs the question why the Berejiklian government drags its heals over the call to cancel the Royal Easter Show.
Every day, businesses and individuals who are part of that event will be investing more of their money in preparation.

For example, consider the amount of food that would have been prepared last night for sale at Albert Park today.
Better to know earlier.

[chances]

War is next, them Famine.
Things about to get biblical

https://money.cnn.com/data/fear-and-greed/

[alan meehan (Alan)]

Originally Posted by chances

War is next, them Famine.
Things about to get biblical

https://money.cnn.com/data/fear-and-greed/

no Biblical is cancelled too ,my wifes church was to have a convention next Saturday but that's been cancelled too

[Buck]

It's the Andromeda Strain I tells ya, ..... the Andromeda Strain ...

Buck

[Nikolas (Nik)]

Peter Dutton now has it

[Rainmaker (Matt)]

Originally Posted by gary

The whole three days of activity for the F1 have been cancelled.

Drivers already flying home.
.....
For example, consider the amount of food that would have been prepared last night for sale at Albert Park today.
Better to know earlier.

This is the first year for a while that my son and I decided not to book our regular seats......... feel sorry for all those who got there only to be sent home... a hundred thousand hamburgers are going uneaten

Unusually we also had no overseas trips planned this year.......

Must be psychiatric.....

[Bobbyoutback]

Have a good read of this article as it may save you financially in the near future
It needs to be fully read .

https://www.goldmoney.com/research/g...gmrefcode=gata

Cheers & Beers
Bobby .

[xelasnave]

I think the problem may be very different to what folk expect economy wise.
Assuming some sort of rational thought starts to filter through... the world will have to work with the problem...that may mean everyone wearing closed face helmets when outside their home, or running F1 with only camera men (with helmets) in the stands, schools teaching to kids in their home...but finally life will go on when we accept the problem and work with it...and when folk buckle down and tourists fly around the world again in their virus free suit and helmet a strange thing may happen...things start moving again and then all the backed up demand will errupt...that car that was to be purchased months ago, that boat or trip or the clothes you stopped buying...all that banked up demand will break out sending inflation thru the roof.

How do you guard against inflation..well stock up on simple items like toilet paper, rice, baked beans and borrow big time and buy shares in mining companies and banks, use the stored food to survive the climbing interest rate on your mortgage which will hit 8% or more.
But when the comet hits we will all die except those with a shipping container 30 feet under ground.
Alex

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by Nikolas

Peter Dutton now has it

Good!!