General Coronavirus chit chat thread - non-travel specific

Pushka said:
Agree on that - its all about timing though. Closure for us happened over night prior to Government restrictions to travel. Cash injection to all business might give space. But in reality, for many, it will be the end of their business. Very very sad for young people just launched on their career (my kids in that mix but I suspect one is safe due to essential services) but for us, unless we can morph our business, and which we are trying to do right now but that costs money to develop, then by July I suspect its all done and dusted.
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If your BAS is quarterly and you do employee tax withholding it is a minimum credit on $10000.

You still need to submit your BAS by 28th April but it is possible the $10K credit would more than cover it. In which case you pay nothing and the difference will end as a credit in you account. Same for the minumum $5K in late July and the minumum $5k in late October.

More here: Boosting cash flow for employers | business.gov.au
 
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serfty said:
My role is technical, and I need regular access to any of 30 separate servers at any particular time. VPN is essential. I can use SaaS facilities outside of that but as @Flashback indicate it still needs SSO and hence some level of portal access.
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I wasn't quick enough before you edited your post - I don't think I'm that essential ;)
 
Several pages back someone asked a queston that Ive also been wondering about.

Is anyone working on a blood test to test for Covi-19 antibodoes i.e. so you can see if you perhaps had it and been asymptomatic and then recovered ?

I know a couple of years ago, my Dr ordered blood test for me to see which antibodoies I still had and whether or not I needed to get a booster of some vaccinations because some formulas had changed.

The nasal / throat swab only ssems t show if you have active virus at the time of testing - it would be good to be able to test for recovery (therefore natural immnity) going forward.

Also is there any guidance on whether it is more beneficial to wash hand with hot or cold water? Same with doing laundry - is a warm/hote wash better at killing any lingering virus?
 
tgh said:
Time to go solo FM….🧜‍♀️
Cruising in style is a very elegant way to get about …
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I didn’t hate them as much as he did and I could easily do one to Galapagos or the Arctic, but I didn’t take to them that much either. It was fun because we had Ms FM and husband with us and it was terrific family time, but otherwise didn’t do much for me.
 
Pushka said:
Well yes, there is the $ too. On the other hand, life is short, maybe we dont need to worry about living to 90 anymore.
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We were very extravagant over the last 18 months with a mega expensive trip to Africa and then Antarctica, paying for Ms FM and SIL and the of course the New York extravaganza. At the time I thought maybe we should have spaced them a bit more, but now I am really glad we did them! At our age you have to “Carpe diem” - who knows when we will be able to afford that again or even if we will live to!
 
Lynda2475 said:
Several pages back someone asked a queston that Ive also been wondering about.

Is anyone working on a blood test to test for Covi-19 antibodoes i.e. so you can see if you perhaps had it and been asymptomatic and then recovered ?

I know a couple of years ago, my Dr ordered blood test for me to see which antibodoies I still had and whether or not I needed to get a booster of some vaccinations because some formulas had changed.

The nasal / throat swab only ssems t show if you have active virus at the time of testing - it would be good to be able to test for recovery (therefore natural immnity) going forward.

Also is there any guidance on whether it is more beneficial to wash hand with hot or cold water? Same with doing laundry - is a warm/hote wash better at killing any lingering virus?
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I am pretty sure I read they were developing an antibodies test, they are also starting some research into plaquenil - they were going to get 3 million from the federal govt and going to use around 2000 health workers with half given a placebo, so there’s a lot going on. Just takes time.

don’t know about laundry but as far as I know there is no difference in water temp for hand washing - it’s the soap and scrub that’s important.
 
Lynda2475 said:
Several pages back someone asked a queston that Ive also been wondering about.

Is anyone working on a blood test to test for Covi-19 antibodoes i.e. so you can see if you perhaps had it and been asymptomatic and then recovered ?

I know a couple of years ago, my Dr ordered blood test for me to see which antibodoies I still had and whether or not I needed to get a booster of some vaccinations because some formulas had changed.

The nasal / throat swab only ssems t show if you have active virus at the time of testing - it would be good to be able to test for recovery (therefore natural immnity) going forward.

Also is there any guidance on whether it is more beneficial to wash hand with hot or cold water? Same with doing laundry - is a warm/hote wash better at killing any lingering virus?
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I saw an article earlier about a test that will detect if you'd had it, rather than if you currently have it.
 
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Why children should not be at the skate park :

"Two more children test positive

NSW Health have just announced that a further two children under 10 have tested positive to COVID-19, bringing the total in that age group to four.
A 1-year-old girl whose parent is a confirmed case and a 2-year-old girl who acquired the infection overseas have both already been isolation with family, and have mild symptoms".
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serfty said:
If your BAS is quarterly and you do employee tax withholding it is a minimum credit on $10000.

You still need to submit your BAS by 28th April but it is possible the $10K credit would more than cover it. In which case you pay nothing and the difference will end as a credit in you account. Same for the minumum $5K in late July and the minumum $5k in last October.

More here: Boosting cash flow for employers | business.gov.au
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So it takes any GST payable into account then? That's great if so.
 
Lynda2475 said:
Several pages back someone asked a queston that Ive also been wondering about.

Is anyone working on a blood test to test for Covi-19 antibodoes i.e. so you can see if you perhaps had it and been asymptomatic and then recovered ?

I know a couple of years ago, my Dr ordered blood test for me to see which antibodoies I still had and whether or not I needed to get a booster of some vaccinations because some formulas had changed.

The nasal / throat swab only ssems t show if you have active virus at the time of testing - it would be good to be able to test for recovery (therefore natural immnity) going forward.

Also is there any guidance on whether it is more beneficial to wash hand with hot or cold water? Same with doing laundry - is a warm/hote wash better at killing any lingering virus?
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An anti body test is also done to determine auto immune issues. In this situation the test determines antibodies to organs/glands in your own body. Mine tests show a very high level of antibodies to my Thyroid, and ANA which I think is antibodies to everything? Drron will confirm as the expert here.

@CaptJCool My accountant made a similar comment that he thought the intention was to pay out the money as cash but then the ATO got their hands on the issue and turned it inside out.
 
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amaroo said:
No
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Not in strict accounting terms but the dollar amount "credited" creates a deduction from the amount I'd have to pay for the next BAS. I know, my accountant isn't a fan of my logic here. But MYOB knows what I'm doing. I just look at the $amount payable.
 
Eek - cleaner hasn’t just emailed to say they won’t be coming for 2 weeks. General email to all clients. I hope he and his family are OK! They are mainland Chinese so maybe been in contact with someone and have to isolate or maybe a house they clean.
 
SOPOOR said:
so has the infection rate in aus slowed down from its exponential trajectory>?
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No. Cases in Australia continue to double every 3-3.5 days. This has been the rate of growth for weeks. It’s growing at a similar rate throughout the world, with some low-growth rate outliers (e.g. Iran) likely to be due to testing deficiencies, a couple of others (China, S Korea) where the curve has peaked, and others where testing may be playing catch-up. New Zealand case numbers doubled every 2 days this week.

Australia does not appear to be reporting recoveries very well, which would be valuable data. Active cases are the ones that spread, but not reporting recoveries means that, over time, active cases will be overstate.

cheers skip
 
Pushka said:
Not in strict accounting terms but the dollar amount "credited" creates a deduction from the amount I'd have to pay for the next BAS. I know, my accountant isn't a fan of my logic here. But MYOB knows what I'm doing. I just look at the $amount payable.
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The payment is calculated on your withholding $, it's then applied to your whole of BAS position.

Eligibility - registered for withholding prior to the 12th March, and have turnover less than $50M
 
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