General Coronavirus chit chat thread - non-travel specific

[CaptJCool]

Whenever "National cabinet" has been mentioned, I've thought it was well... the cabinet. aka, government minsters.
Poking around, it appears to be the PM, state Premiers and mainland territory Chief Ministers.
In that case, how it is different from COAG?

COAG On steroi_s ....

Primary difference is it’s a brought together in an emergency and is meeting 3-4 a week

 

[amaroo]

Whenever "National cabinet" has been mentioned, I've thought it was well... the cabinet. aka, government minsters.
Poking around, it appears to be the PM, state Premiers and mainland territory Chief Ministers.
In that case, how it is different from COAG?

The obviously two - It meets multiply times a week, and is supported / advised by a similar abnormal group comprising of the CMO, and state & territory CHO. Some reading before posting is helpful.

 

[amaroo]

COAG On steroi_s ....

Primary difference is it’s a brought together in an emergency and is meeting 3-4 a week

Much more than that.

 

[Myrna]

Gripe!!! Telstra Bigpond internet not working for over a week! Our niece living in our home in Sydney is a school teacher. SM refuses to close schools Her school principal finally decided (like some private schools in Sydney) to close the school and move classes online. However, we have been with TB for our cable internet for over 20 years (and for 6 months from July last year we hardly use the internet as our niece had to be in the US with her parents when her mother was severely ill and passed away). Our niece said we have had no internet from Telstra for over a week. She called and called and no one answered. She put in a complaint via their website, no answer. She has had to go to school every day to use the internet to do the online lessons (failed working from home). Very frustrated for her. Hubby decided we have had enough so he signed up with a new provider. Will keep our fingers crossed that the connection will be successful this week so our niece can work from home.

 

[mrsterryn]

Flipping heck I had plans to actually get to an AFF event this year

 

[amaroo]

I'd suggest reading the excellent opinion piece attached to post #803

Your government is acting on your behalf, based on the best collective medical advice this country can muster. Anyone that thinks it's just Scotty from marketing - is an ill-informed fool.

 

[cove]

I hope you are going ok in the London lock up. Sorry we missed you @Myrna.

 

[Myrna]

@cove - Thanks. Glad to hear that you and Mrs cove got back home just in time before the latest hotel lockdown Your self isolation time must be over soon. We are coping OK here with lockdown in London. Hubby takes little doggy out for her daily walks once a day while I coop up in the flat - only walking to supermarket one day a week for fresh food like fruit and vegs.

 

[codash1099]

Interesting pics.

COVID-19: Grounded Airplanes Photography - SamChui.com

Take a look the extensive airplane fleet grounded and parked from airlines in the world include Emirates, American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Swiss, TAP, LATAM, Cathay Pacific, Singapore Airlines.

samchui.com

 

[Flying mermaid]

I'll just leave this here.

My fellow doctors should zip it and let the experts fight this virus

Do you have questions about COVID-19? Please, don’t ask your doctor.

www.smh.com.au

While we are talking about doctors I found it totally incomprehensible that a group of doctors (33) chose to ignore a directive from police to quarantine in a hotel, left international and took domestic flights. I can understand that they viewed themselves as low/no risk and knew better than a bureaucrat, but surely no-one is above the law?

 

[cove]

@Myrna Chloe is quite photogenic. Our 3 nights in Canary Wharf was a fizzog holiday trip. Lucky we didn’t fly over to Los Angeles as the guns and ammo store near us in Marina del Rey is doing a roaring trade.
Is that the Shard down the river?

 

[CaptJCool]

Interesting pics.

COVID-19: Grounded Airplanes Photography - SamChui.com

Take a look the extensive airplane fleet grounded and parked from airlines in the world include Emirates, American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Swiss, TAP, LATAM, Cathay Pacific, Singapore Airlines.

samchui.com

Adelaide

 

[amaroo]

While we are talking about doctors I found it totally incomprehensible that a group of doctors (33) chose to ignore a directive from police to quarantine in a hotel, left international and took domestic flights. I can understand that they viewed themselves as low/no risk and knew better than a bureaucrat, but surely no-one is above the law?

I quite agree FM, have been in battle with a few posters who are arguing the other way

 

[Myrna]

@Myrna Lucky we didn’t fly over to Los Angeles as the guns and ammo store near us in Marina del Rey is doing a roaring trade.
Is that the Shard down the river?

Yes, that's the Shard on LHS and the cluster of city buildings on RHS. At night the top of the Shard is lit up in emerald blue colour - thanking the NHS workers during this lockdown.
PS - the food (which you bought for your intended stay) you gave us before you flew back home has been consumed. Thanks!

 

[juddles]

While we are talking about doctors I found it totally incomprehensible that a group of doctors (33) chose to ignore a directive from police to quarantine in a hotel, left international and took domestic flights. I can understand that they viewed themselves as low/no risk and knew better than a bureaucrat, but surely no-one is above the law?

This is the challenge that we have. As a society we are extremely top-heavy on the know-it-alls - people that think they know more than the government or anyone. Doctors are just people - no better or worse than anyone.

 

[amaroo]

I quite agree FM, have been in battle with a few posters who are arguing the other way

Take a look at the COVIN-19 cruise thread.

 

[amaroo]

I think that most medical authorities are slowly demolishing that theory - in that it can potentially linger, but 99% of transmission is airborne.

I'm not reading that - in fact the complete opposite. Ask yourself, why do you need to wash your hands?

 

[juddles]

I'm not reading that - in fact the complete opposite. Ask yourself, why do you need to wash your hands?

Not sure how to answer you. Do you mean that the "wash hands" campaign is guiding your understanding? The wash your hands is a simple thing to advise. But that is becoming old-school - predominant transmission is through the air.

 

[p--and--t]

I'm not reading that - in fact the complete opposite. Ask yourself, why do you need to wash your hands?

Thinking the same way.

Why would the guvment be reprogramming the traffic light cross walk signs so you don't have to press the button as a result of Covid?

There are multiple sources of distinct warnings to avoid touching "hard surfaces" such as lift panels, crosswalk buttons, escalator rails, door knobs etc with respect to Covid (and corona-viruses as a genre).

Also the CMO previously saying the most important thing you can do to protect yourself is to regularly wash your hands for 20 seconds. Although I do note the latest emphasis is on social distancing to reduce infection rates.

As per most diseases there are most probably multiple vectors, so multiple actions need to be taken to reduce the incidence of transmission including bodily fluids etc.

 

[amaroo]

Not sure how to answer you. Do you mean that the "wash hands" campaign is guiding your understanding? The wash your hands is a simple thing to advise. But that is becoming old-school - predominant transmission is through the air.

Wash your hands is at the same level as social distance ..... in fact washing your hands exceeds, due to door knobs, touch screens, steering wheels, you name it.

If the person stacking the tin tomatoes is infected and uses hit hands to wipe his/her nose just prior to you placing that tin in your trolley ... what do you think will happen?