Coronavirus Outbreak

[Cairnstigers]

I still remember seeing a woman in 2011 during the floods when everyone was limited to a maximum of 3 litres of milk per person

She grabbed her 2nd 3 litre she was wanting to buy and smashed it on the ground saying "if I can't have it , no one can "

Was she crying over spilt milk

 

[WswWt]

Woolies are sending pallets of products to China lol.. they are buying our goods and Woolies is cashing in!

Pallets with labels to be delivered to Mascot. Hey

 

[jadtiger]

Woolies are sending pallets of products to China lol.. they are buying our goods and Woolies is cashing in!

Pallets with labels to be delivered to Mascot. Hey

Do you have a credible source for that or is it 2GBberer or news ltd

 

[jirskyr]

I still remember seeing a woman in 2011 during the floods when everyone was limited to a maximum of 3 litres of milk per person

She grabbed her 2nd 3 litre she was wanting to buy and smashed it on the ground saying "if I can't have it , no one can "

Was she crying over spilt milk

I want to know if it bounced... she smashed it on the ground, but they don't make 3L glass bottles, so did it just get dented? You can still buy dented milk. Or did she have sufficient strength to pop the lid off?

 

[pawsandclaws1]

I don't think people understand that Australia exports it's best seafood beef pork lamb and vegetables to Asian and its the second biggest exporters of wheat in the world if we can not export these then the local price will drop

Toilet paper we produce in Australia

I was at the IGA in taren point and one guy was bragging that it was his third van full of dooms day goods that he had pick up he was so happy like he had beaten other people to the punch and his mates pick up a van full of toilet paper from from the coles at Caringbah so strange

I am a bit worried I will need to stock up on the condiments to go with all the meat and vegetables we will have to eat to support the local farmers who mite have trouble exporting all the goods they have to sell don't want to run out of chili sauce and mustard from all the panic buyers

Regan

I look forward to those mind numbing comments from the Qld Government about supporting Queenslanders, having no regard for businesses in other States of Australia.

 

[hammertime]

It's amazing. I escaped HK back here about 6 weeks ago when all this exact same thing was going on. They actually had armed gangs stealing toilet paper. Over there, the rumour was there would be a shortage because it was all produced in affected regions in china. Really not sure the rationale is in Australia!

We've got to improve a few things over here. There are some simple things that HK does, like plastic film over lift buttons, so that it's easy to sanitise. We can easily do that. They should be learning from HK because it's amazing how it has done so well after sharing a border with China.

 

[WswWt]

Woolies are sending pallets of products to China lol.. they are buying our goods and Woolies is cashing in!

Pallets with labels to be delivered to Mascot. Hey

Do you have a credible source for that or is it 2GBberer or news ltd

Sure do. The person dropping them off is a relative.

 

[trentrunciman]


 

[Geo]

I still remember seeing a woman in 2011 during the floods when everyone was limited to a maximum of 3 litres of milk per person

She grabbed her 2nd 3 litre she was wanting to buy and smashed it on the ground saying "if I can't have it , no one can "

Was she crying over spilt milk

I want to know if it bounced... she smashed it on the ground, but they don't make 3L glass bottles, so did it just get dented? You can still buy dented milk. Or did she have sufficient strength to pop the lid off?

Happy imploded it with his mind..

 

[jadtiger]

Woolies are sending pallets of products to China lol.. they are buying our goods and Woolies is cashing in!

Pallets with labels to be delivered to Mascot. Hey

Do you have a credible source for that or is it 2GBberer or news ltd

Sure do. The person dropping them off is a relative.

Thanks

 

[hammertime]

Woolies are sending pallets of products to China lol.. they are buying our goods and Woolies is cashing in!

Pallets with labels to be delivered to Mascot. Hey

Woolies already send pallets of products to China. Their home brand range is actually displayed as a high-end range in HK. Usually on the end of isles or something.

You sure it's not just the regular shipments? Would be a big risk for Woolies to take if they were caught putting chinese $$$ over the australian public.

 

[Nelson]

Woolies are sending pallets of products to China lol.. they are buying our goods and Woolies is cashing in!

Pallets with labels to be delivered to Mascot. Hey

Woolies already send pallets of products to China. Their home brand range is actually displayed as a high-end range in HK. Usually on the end of isles or something.

You sure it's not just the regular shipments? Would be a big risk for Woolies to take if they were caught putting chinese $$$ over the australian public.

Why? What products is the Australian public actually in dire need of? It would be a bad look if a company were shipping vital medicines for more profit or something along those lines but I don't see why companies should give up increased profits to feed a strange and unnecessary hysteria that seems to have gripped some people.

 

[Tigerlily]


 

[twentyforty]

Been saying it since day one. Incredibly overhyped by media and others - if I didn’t know better I would think their are ulterior motives at play here. Statistical likelihood of dying from CV vs Influenza is ridiculously low. But hey let’s not let facts get in the way of hysteriCal hand wringing and nonsense

Cruise ship study suggests R0 of 2.28
In other research news, a study in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases uses data from the Diamond Princess cruise ship to calculate COVID-19's reproductive number (R0, or R-naught), or the number of people a single infected person is likely to infect.

Among the 355 passengers who contracted the virus, the researchers calculated an R0 of 2.28, similar to other R0 modeling published in the past several weeks.

Also today, two groups announced major developments in COVID-19 vaccine developments. China's Clover Biopharmaceuticals will partner with GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) on Clover's protein-based coronavirus vaccine candidate, COVID-19 S-Trimer, according to a GSK news release. And the University of Queensland in Australia announced a vaccine candidate is ready for a proof-of-concept study after just 3 weeks in development.

Reuters said that globally researchers are developing at least 12 COVID-19 vaccines.

 

[dazza65]

Been saying it since day one. Incredibly overhyped by media and others - if I didn’t know better I would think their are ulterior motives at play here. Statistical likelihood of dying from CV vs Influenza is ridiculously low. But hey let’s not let facts get in the way of hysteriCal hand wringing and nonsense

Dazza the chance of dying from your typical flu is about .01% ....coronavirus is around 6%

Um yeah nah. Not getting into an argument on something almost as emotive as the NRL ad :grinning: however Influenza is 0.1% (NOT 0.01) and latest research has COVID around 3 to 3.4% not 6% (the probable reason for the COVID being currently at 3% vs Flu is it being "novel" and the whole science around adaptive immunity ).

Influenza in Australia only last year killed 255 people of all ages and all levels of "wellness" currently COVID seems to be deadly to elderly and/or people with respiratory or cardiac insufficiencies and excluding the outlier of the the young baby in SA, children seem almost immune to CCOVID's (for some reason)

All my point was that in comparison and asking any genuinely knowledgeable medical/scientific person, COVID is not "worse" than influenza - As I mentioned above, the initial and still some concern was around it being "novel" therefore there some some uncertainty about how or whether the virus would mutate quickly once it has "escaped" from China into something more deadly like SARS or MERS.

 

[jirskyr]

There are some simple things that HK does, like plastic film over lift buttons, so that it’s easy to sanitise.

I didn't realise lift buttons were difficult to sanitise? Why can't you just wipe them with disinfectant?

Things start to go overboard in this regard, I mean lift buttons? What about every other public surface in existence, are folks going to walk around opening things with a foot press or elbow or wave at a scanner, just to avoid germs?

Sure as hell don't touch money if germs are a problem, also don't talk to anyone, or shake hands - no no, that's instant transferal. We can all then add to the immuno-weaknesses that already might exist because some mums excessively disinfect their house and kids don't get a proper dose of bugs in their childhood.

 

[trentrunciman]

Been saying it since day one. Incredibly overhyped by media and others - if I didn’t know better I would think their are ulterior motives at play here. Statistical likelihood of dying from CV vs Influenza is ridiculously low. But hey let’s not let facts get in the way of hysteriCal hand wringing and nonsense

Dazza the chance of dying from your typical flu is about .01% ....coronavirus is around 6%


Um yeah nah. Not getting into an argument on something almost as emotive as the NRL ad :grinning: however Influenza is 0.1% (NOT 0.01) and latest research has COVID around 3 to 3.4% not 6% (the probable reason for the COVID being currently at 3% vs Flu is it being "novel" and the whole science around adaptive immunity ).

Influenza in Australia only last year killed 255 people of all ages and all levels of "wellness" currently COVID seems to be deadly to elderly and/or people with respiratory or cardiac insufficiencies and excluding the outlier of the the young baby in SA, children seem almost immune to CCOVID's (for some reason)

All my point was that in comparison and asking any genuinely knowledgeable medical/scientific person, COVID is not "worse" than influenza - As I mentioned above, the initial and still some concern was around it being "novel" therefore there some some uncertainty about how or whether the virus would mutate quickly once it has "escaped" from China into something more deadly like SARS or MERS.

just feel bad for Doctors and Nurses treating people with other diseases and illnesses and they have no dammn masks/equipment because of all these sheep...

 

[hobbo1]


And people wonder why there’s racism and resentment towards certain nationalities !

Kick em out !

 

[twentyforty]

Just got an email from Woolworths stating all toilet paper manufacturers have ramped up production and now working 24/7 to cope with the unusual demand.

 

[trentrunciman]


And people wonder why there’s racism and resentment towards certain nationalities !

Kick em out !

Do those gaps in the bed sheets come with the get up? Or do you need to cut it out Hobbo? Just curious...