General Coronavirus chit chat thread - non-travel specific

[Pushka]

Or full speed into the future, using the information superhighway instead of the old fashioned methods? Now that my industry has realised that it is a lot more convenient for everyone to conduct meetings by phone or video link I'm hoping we don't have to go back to the old schlepping round the city and country routine. YMMV.

I think it depends. Our business has been zooming. A lot. So much so that clients are "begging" for face to face meetings because all they are doing is sitting at a computer screen, on their own, all day, going from one meeting to another. And currently these are essential meetings. They are getting stressed out with the home office isolation, day in, day out. While that works for a day or so a week it isn't the best way to operation for many.

There is a meeting to decide severe cutbacks to one particular - very significant - client in Melbourne in late May. They desperately want MrP to attend. We have weighed up the fact that he would drive over, try find somewhere to stay, drive back then isolate for 14 days. Not feasible. Puts that entire contract at risk even though they understand the reason why.

SA became a basket case for many businesses a few years ago when central decision making moved interstate and which is why the flights first thing in the morning to Sydney and Melbourne are packed full of suits.

Our goal was never to eliminate this virus but the message has morphed into an impossibility if we are to resume any kind of normal life and functional economy. I actually don't like the current message with ZERO anymore because that was never the main game. It was to manage the virus so that health systems weren't overwhelmed.

 

[Flying mermaid]

There are so many ads on that site I can't actually work out what your friend is making?

She is coordinating making hats for nurses - I think up to 12,000 now to 25 hospitals in Australia and now apparently sending to London.

 

[Flying mermaid]

My favourite one so far - for phantom of the opera fans

 

[DC3]

....They are getting stressed out with the home office isolation, day in, day out ...

Wait until they hit retirement.

Also, some are more adaptable to change than others.

 

[drron]

Wait until they hit retirement.

Also, some are more adaptable to change than others.

The beauty of retirement is that you can do what you like when you like.
not possible at present.

 

[DC3]

.... we're now allowed to sit outdoors at a cafe (max 10 customers at a time, no alcohol allowed) ...

No alcohol? What’s that all about?

Tom Playford and the Adelaide wowsers would be smiling from their graves.

Edit: Yes, I’m aware that Tom liked a little tipple in private, but no with a meal sounds so sixties (and 1940s, 1950s)

 

[lovetravellingoz]

No alcohol? What’s that all about?

One interview I heard was that drunk people are feared to not maintain social distancing that well

 

[RooFlyer]

My favourite one so far - for phantom of the opera fans

Thanks for posting that - I found another one of his (Matthew Ciuffitelli from New York).

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=686840162062488

 

[oz_mark]

No alcohol? What’s that all about?

Tendency to mingle while drinking, tendency for distancing to go out the window, etc.

 

[flyingfan]

What, you don't mean the meetings held for the sake of holding a meeting?!. Blasphemer - that would wipe out half of some people's diaries.

I too, hope that the way people communicate and interact will get better i.e. focussed and productive.

I'm not hopeful about increased productivity. My pet peeve is a pre-meeting meeting. Had one of these recently, got called 'I notice we're meeting next week, can we have 30 minutes to talk about what we're going to cover'...

 

[Flashback]

My favourite one so far - for phantom of the opera fans

Sigh, that's just reminded me that on top of the travel cancellations I've been receiving I'm about to start receiving a wave of theatre ones now

 

[DC3]

.... we're now allowed to sit outdoors at a cafe (max 10 customers at a time, no alcohol allowed) ....

No alcohol? What’s that all about?

One interview I heard was that drunk people are feared to not maintain social distancing that well

Tendency to mingle while drinking, tendency for distancing to go out the window, etc.

So, in SA you are not currently trusted with alcohol in a restaurant. .

We are talking about up to 10 seated diners in a restaurant/cafe aren’t we?

Yes, I know that things are different in SA. I spent my youth in ADL.

Well, anyway, I’m pleased to say that the restaurant table in Brisbane is booked for tonight, and with alcohol.

Edit: I will propose a toast to all of those in SA who are not able to do likewise.

 

[DC3]

.... My pet peeve is a pre-meeting meeting .... got called 'I notice we're meeting next week, can we have 30 minutes to talk about what we're going to cover'...

What about the meeting in order to discuss the pre-meeting?

 

[oz_mark]

Well, anyway, I’m pleased to say that the restaurant table in Brisbane is booked for tonight, and with alcohol.

Have to wait until Monday in WA - and you have to be eating to have a drink (seems to remind me of some old licensing laws around these parts )

 

[mrsterryn]

Re face to face versus tele meeting with doctor.
Husband's neurosurgeon happy to have tele on alternative appts .
GP sometimes I want to have a chat with him and bring up issues . Sometimes just need scripts refilled and general "how are you going " .

 

[DC3]

Have to wait until Monday in WA - and you have to be eating to have a drink (seems to remind me of some old licensing laws around these parts )

.... and ADL had the “six o’clock swill”, until well into 1967. Possibly the last State to do away with it.

Fortunately, SA became a bit of of a trend-setter in Oz, with the service of alcohol, at that time. Now we can’t be trusted with having a drink while dining in a restaurant/cafe with seating for up to 10, as part of COVID restrictions.

 

[Denali]

I went out in public today, first time since March 17 (other than 3 Chiro appointments in a closed complex/no other patients) and I didnt like it

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=149193503314137

 

[Pushka]

Wait until they hit retirement.

Also, some are more adaptable to change than others.

This is completely different. And trying to cut something like 30% from your budget is more than about adaptation to change.

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So, in SA you are not currently trusted with alcohol in a restaurant. .

We are talking about up to 10 seated diners in a restaurant/cafe aren’t we?

Yes, I know that things are different in SA. I spent my youth in ADL.

Well, anyway, I’m pleased to say that the restaurant table in Brisbane is booked for tonight, and with alcohol.

Edit: I will propose a toast to all of those in SA who are not able to do likewise.

We aren't allowed to eat inside. Yet. Has to be outside and the same separation deal. I heard that SA Health was actually ok with alcohol but the Police ruled against it. Seriously. Like prohibition currently.

 

[DC3]

.... We aren't allowed to eat inside. Yet. Has to be outside and the same separation deal. I heard that SA Health was actually ok with alcohol but the Police ruled against it. Seriously. Like prohibition currently.

Well, sly grog it is then, and on the pavement. Adelaide used to be so civilised.

 

[Julesmac]

Quarantine haircut update, just tried to fix hubbys last weeks #2 clipper blade cut with a #1 clipper cut.

Its winter, he can wear beanies until August.

Gave MrMac a 'reverse' mohawk....before I started I did say - I'll give you a trim, how hard can it be......Then I read the instructions and discovered it was my son's beard trimmer, no wonder it did a coughpy job. Good news is the barber's now open and it's been fixed.