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Re: Melbourne. UnFvcked. Almost
Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2020 7:31 am
by mabunch78
Ah, OK. Slapped wrist for the Financial Review...
Re: Melbourne. UnFvcked. Almost
Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2020 9:26 am
by Ellafan
mabunch78 wrote: ↑Mon Nov 16, 2020 7:31 am
Ah, OK. Slapped wrist for the Financial Review...
Your ABC led the news with the announcement that SA was on the brink of a second wave.
They really have turned into a joke-shop. They then criticised (done with modulated tone of voice and ambience of delivery, so it reads clean on the transcript) the treasurer for bringing in a deficit budget. I can think of a few ways to save a few billion, starting with shutting down the biased ABC
Other points:
A fellow student from Adelaide reported that her class mate "was crook all week, but only went for a test on Saturday." This kid's parents should be given a public flogging (metaphorically speaking).
SA has also eased back in some restrictions on private gatherings and activities without going all chicken little.
Re: Melbourne. UnFvcked. Almost
Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2020 10:05 am
by Ali's Choice
Oh look, Ella Fan is trolling the ABC yet again. How boring
Conservatives like him have demanded for years that the ABC become more like the News Ltd media, and now they're complaining because it's being run by Ita and is acting like a tabloid. Make your mind up please conservatives!
Re: Melbourne. UnFvcked. Almost
Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2020 10:18 am
by grievous
Ellafan wrote: ↑Mon Nov 16, 2020 9:26 am
mabunch78 wrote: ↑Mon Nov 16, 2020 7:31 am
Ah, OK. Slapped wrist for the Financial Review...
Your ABC led the news with the announcement that SA was on the brink of a second wave.
They really have turned into a joke-shop. They then criticised (done with modulated tone of voice and ambience of delivery, so it reads clean on the transcript) the treasurer for bringing in a deficit budget. I can think of a few ways to save a few billion, starting with shutting down the biased ABC
Other points:
A fellow student from Adelaide reported that her class mate "was crook all week, but only went for a test on Saturday." This kid's parents should be given a public flogging (metaphorically speaking).
SA has also eased back in some restrictions on private gatherings and activities without going all chicken little.
Youre a fvcking parody of the right, they have programs in this country now for "the perennial outraged" and there is almost daily attacks on the ABC. Do us all favour and get a subscription, fark off there and when you get there fark off again.
Oh and you forgot to mention 3 states closed their borders to SA immediately.
Re: Melbourne. UnFvcked. Almost
Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2020 10:39 am
by Ellafan
grievous wrote: ↑Mon Nov 16, 2020 10:18 am
Ellafan wrote: ↑Mon Nov 16, 2020 9:26 am
mabunch78 wrote: ↑Mon Nov 16, 2020 7:31 am
Ah, OK. Slapped wrist for the Financial Review...
Your ABC led the news with the announcement that SA was on the brink of a second wave.
They really have turned into a joke-shop. They then criticised (done with modulated tone of voice and ambience of delivery, so it reads clean on the transcript) the treasurer for bringing in a deficit budget. I can think of a few ways to save a few billion, starting with shutting down the biased ABC
Other points:
A fellow student from Adelaide reported that her class mate "was crook all week, but only went for a test on Saturday." This kid's parents should be given a public flogging (metaphorically speaking).
SA has also eased back in some restrictions on private gatherings and activities without going all chicken little.
Youre a fvcking parody of the right, they have programs in this country now for "the perennial outraged" and there is almost daily attacks on the ABC. Do us all favour and get a subscription, fark off there and when you get there fark off again.
Oh and you forgot to mention 3 states closed their borders to SA immediately.
Another good way for the government sector generally to save billions, would be to get rid of local governments as a third, costly, and unnecessary tier of government. Imagine that, all those public employees with guaranteed incomes having to get a job in the private sector. I wonder if they'd be so quick to demand lock downs that wreck the economy, then.
Re: Melbourne. UnFvcked. Almost
Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2020 10:49 pm
by grievous
Ellafan wrote: ↑Mon Nov 16, 2020 10:39 am
grievous wrote: ↑Mon Nov 16, 2020 10:18 am
Ellafan wrote: ↑Mon Nov 16, 2020 9:26 am
mabunch78 wrote: ↑Mon Nov 16, 2020 7:31 am
Ah, OK. Slapped wrist for the Financial Review...
Your ABC led the news with the announcement that SA was on the brink of a second wave.
They really have turned into a joke-shop. They then criticised (done with modulated tone of voice and ambience of delivery, so it reads clean on the transcript) the treasurer for bringing in a deficit budget. I can think of a few ways to save a few billion, starting with shutting down the biased ABC
Other points:
A fellow student from Adelaide reported that her class mate "was crook all week, but only went for a test on Saturday." This kid's parents should be given a public flogging (metaphorically speaking).
SA has also eased back in some restrictions on private gatherings and activities without going all chicken little.
Youre a fvcking parody of the right, they have programs in this country now for "the perennial outraged" and there is almost daily attacks on the ABC. Do us all favour and get a subscription, fark off there and when you get there fark off again.
Oh and you forgot to mention 3 states closed their borders to SA immediately.
Another good way for the government sector generally to save billions, would be to get rid of local governments as a third, costly, and unnecessary tier of government. Imagine that, all those public employees with guaranteed incomes having to get a job in the private sector. I wonder if they'd be so quick to demand lock downs that wreck the economy, then.
You might want to pick up that once respected broadsheet The
Right Australian.
Front page headlines with Covid SA story downplaying one new case with
growing cluster....
Re: Melbourne. UnFvcked. Almost
Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2020 4:09 am
by Farva
Re: Melbourne. UnFvcked. Almost
Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2020 4:21 am
by Ali's Choice
I look forward to Clogs attacking Premier Marshal fir this lockdown as loudly and passionately as he attacked Dan Andrews. Failure to do so would make him a hypocrite.
Re: Melbourne. UnFvcked. Almost
Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2020 4:25 am
by UncleFB
Ali's Choice wrote: ↑Wed Nov 18, 2020 4:21 am
I look forward to Clogs attacking Premier Marshal fir this lockdown as loudly and passionately as he attacked Dan Andrews. Failure to do so would make him a hypocrite.
News Limited will be so confused, how much do they put the boot in to their Liberal Premier?
Re: Melbourne. UnFvcked. Almost
Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2020 4:26 am
by Farva
This is what NZ did, and did it really well. Lock down for a week or so while they confirmed they knew what was going on, and then lifted when it was sorted out.
Re: Melbourne. UnFvcked. Almost
Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2020 5:01 am
by Pat the Ex Mat
Definitely the right idea
Re: Melbourne. UnFvcked. Almost
Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2020 5:06 am
by Sensible Stephen
They did the sensible thing.
Unlike some on here were pushing, they didn't jump the gun, they did massive amounts of contact tracing. After 48 hours they found that the possible no. of contacts was beyond what could be managed, so called for this circuit breaker lockdown. 6 days + 8 days.
The SA Government has been pretty good in general. We didn't go into lockdown in March/April, this is the first time, so must be a serious concern it could run away from us.
Re: Melbourne. UnFvcked. Almost
Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2020 5:52 am
by Clogs
A 1 week lockdown is clearly the sensible thing to do. Hopefully they have acted early enough and therefore only have to go through a very short lockdown. The key is obviously act early. Are they wearing face masks yet?
Re: Melbourne. UnFvcked. Almost
Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2020 6:24 am
by Farva
Sensible Stephen wrote: ↑Wed Nov 18, 2020 5:06 am
They did the sensible thing.
Unlike some on here were pushing, they didn't jump the gun, they did massive amounts of contact tracing. After 48 hours they found that the possible no. of contacts was beyond what could be managed, so called for this circuit breaker lockdown. 6 days + 8 days.
The SA Government has been pretty good in general. We didn't go into lockdown in March/April, this is the first time, so must be a serious concern it could run away from us.
Hmm, I said on Monday they should go in to lockdown for a week like they have. The cluster was first found on Friday, so thats 72 hrs there. I dont think Monday is jumping the gun when it had then been 3 days. NZ reacted this way and found it worked. By Monday is was clearly much bigger than just one or two people (17 at that point, with hundreds of close contacts isolating).
Re: Melbourne. UnFvcked. Almost
Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2020 6:37 am
by Sensible Stephen
Farva wrote: ↑Wed Nov 18, 2020 6:24 am
Sensible Stephen wrote: ↑Wed Nov 18, 2020 5:06 am
They did the sensible thing.
Unlike some on here were pushing, they didn't jump the gun, they did massive amounts of contact tracing. After 48 hours they found that the possible no. of contacts was beyond what could be managed, so called for this circuit breaker lockdown. 6 days + 8 days.
The SA Government has been pretty good in general. We didn't go into lockdown in March/April, this is the first time, so must be a serious concern it could run away from us.
Hmm, I said on Monday they should go in to lockdown for a week like they have. The cluster was first found on Friday, so thats 72 hrs there. I dont think Monday is jumping the gun when it had then been 3 days. NZ reacted this way and found it worked. By Monday is was clearly much bigger than just one or two people (17 at that point, with hundreds of close contacts isolating).
Nah, you jumped the gun. Up until yesterday they thought lockdown could be avoided, but after contract tracing picked up the pizza place and then the mall, they had no choice.
They took a systematic approach rather than, fudge, lockdown now.
Re: Melbourne. UnFvcked. Almost
Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2020 8:05 am
by Farva
Farva wrote: ↑Mon Nov 16, 2020 5:28 am
Its now multiple households isnt it? And potentially hundreds of exposures.
The way NZ dealt with an outbreak like this was a short, sharp lockdown to make sure that no further exposures happened.
This isnt a little outbreak, its not one or two people. Its 17 at last count. And SA is open with no masks.
A week now might save 3 months later.
Hmm, On Monday after 3 days of the outbreak and the outbreak getting beyond what everything I have read says the contact tracing can typically cope with. Ill stand by my position there. Hardly knee jerk, the contact tracing had gone for 3 days and was shown to be a very large outbreak.
Re: Melbourne. UnFvcked. Almost
Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2020 8:26 am
by Sensible Stephen
Farva wrote: ↑Wed Nov 18, 2020 8:05 am
Farva wrote: ↑Mon Nov 16, 2020 5:28 am
Its now multiple households isnt it? And potentially hundreds of exposures.
The way NZ dealt with an outbreak like this was a short, sharp lockdown to make sure that no further exposures happened.
This isnt a little outbreak, its not one or two people. Its 17 at last count. And SA is open with no masks.
A week now might save 3 months later.
Hmm, On Monday after 3 days of the outbreak and the outbreak getting beyond what everything I have read says the contact tracing can typically cope with. Ill stand by my position there. Hardly knee jerk, the contact tracing had gone for 3 days and was shown to be a very large outbreak.
Yeah, well I will back the medical experts. Pretty sure they know what contract tracing can or can't do.
They have had to go into lockdown as this strain has a very short incubation period compared to the what we have previously seen. They were confident they could track and trace, but once the virus sequencing was done and the short incubation period was discovered they decided it was too risky.
Contract tracing has been done up to the 4th generation, but they have said its probably up to the 5th now. If it was the virus from a few months ago, they would have been ahead of it now.
Re: Melbourne. UnFvcked. Almost
Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2020 9:30 am
by Farva
Sure. Trust the experts. But they aren’t infallible on this. We in Vic ended up in lockdown because we were not conservative enough. You haven’t had to deal with that, you don’t know how bad it is. Disclaimer: it’s shite. I would do anything not to do that again. Vics experts got it wrong (granted SA has the benefit of seeing what happened here)
However, the experts in NZ suggested that an immediate lockdown in only 1/4 of the community transmission SA had when I made that post on Monday. We’re they wrong and SA right? NZ seemed to get it right given they squashed the virus with their actions.
And I am not sold on SAs contact tracing being there yet. Your testing facilities can’t handle the volume. I am talking to a mate over there right now. He was in a line for 6.5 hrs from 830am today only to be told the testing facility is closing. He is now an hour into another one. If the testing is not there how can the tracing be?
Anyway, the city has now locked down. It’s the right move.
Re: Melbourne. UnFvcked. Almost
Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2020 11:52 am
by Sensible Stephen
Farva wrote: ↑Wed Nov 18, 2020 9:30 am
Sure. Trust the experts. But they aren’t infallible on this. We in Vic ended up in lockdown because we were not conservative enough. You haven’t had to deal with that, you don’t know how bad it is. Disclaimer: it’s shite. I would do anything not to do that again. Vics experts got it wrong (granted SA has the benefit of seeing what happened here)
However, the experts in NZ suggested that an immediate lockdown in only 1/4 of the community transmission SA had when I made that post on Monday. We’re they wrong and SA right? NZ seemed to get it right given they squashed the virus with their actions.
And I am not sold on SAs contact tracing being there yet. Your testing facilities can’t handle the volume. I am talking to a mate over there right now. He was in a line for 6.5 hrs from 830am today only to be told the testing facility is closing. He is now an hour into another one. If the testing is not there how can the tracing be?
Anyway, the city has now locked down. It’s the right move.
Perhaps NZ didn't have the infrastructure and people in place that SA does. Contract tracing has worked, all the way up to the 4th generation from Saturday. People panicking and getting tested when they weren't in the red zones or don't have symptoms and clogging up the testing stations has no effect on the people going around tracing all the infected peoples contacts.
You seem to think there is only one way to deal with outbreaks, lockdown. If thats the case, may as well just sack the track and trace people as they won't be required if future outbreaks happen. Well just lockdown for everything.
Again, we wouldn't have had to lockdown if it wasn't for this strain of the virus being different. Track and trace did its job.
Re: Melbourne. UnFvcked. Almost
Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2020 1:06 pm
by Ellafan
I agree.
They have shut down all social activities - pubs, restaurants, sports, AND even individual exercise.
They have also restricted schools and hospitals (but not completely).
They have not shut down work, industry etc - FIFO has been frozen not shut down, the work goes on.
In other words, this is not a shut down that will crash the economy, its just a ban on... well, fun.
Very "nuanced" as clogs would say.
Re: Melbourne. UnFvcked. Almost
Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2020 1:09 pm
by Ellafan
Ali's Choice wrote: ↑Wed Nov 18, 2020 4:21 am
I look forward to Clogs attacking Premier Marshal fir this lockdown as loudly and passionately as he attacked Dan Andrews. Failure to do so would make him a hypocrite.
I am sure Clogs will support - because it's a fine tuned shutdown that leaves most of the economy intact. Supermarkets are not shut. The whole food chain is not shut. Most work (hospitality aside) continues.
Basically, its a ban on fun.
Re: Melbourne. UnFvcked. Almost
Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2020 1:25 pm
by Ellafan
Farva wrote: ↑Wed Nov 18, 2020 8:05 am
Farva wrote: ↑Mon Nov 16, 2020 5:28 am
Its now multiple households isnt it? And potentially hundreds of exposures.
The way NZ dealt with an outbreak like this was a short, sharp lockdown to make sure that no further exposures happened.
This isnt a little outbreak, its not one or two people. Its 17 at last count. And SA is open with no masks.
A week now might save 3 months later.
Hmm, On Monday after 3 days of the outbreak and the outbreak getting beyond what everything I have read says the contact tracing can typically cope with. Ill stand by my position there. Hardly knee jerk, the contact tracing had gone for 3 days and
was shown to be a very large outbreak.
What? 22, maybe 27, cases in the population of Adelaide? It's a statistical irrelevance.
I'm guessing you neither own a business in, nor earn a living in, the hospitality sector. People are losing their life's work in small businesses, their jobs, homes and dreams due to the economic disaster knee jerk shutdowns have caused in this country.
Have some empathy for chissakes, and stop the panic talk.
Re: Melbourne. UnFvcked. Almost
Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2020 12:04 am
by Clogs
OK, we are now balls deep into this covid virus and as a result have a lot better understanding of the risks etc associated with contracting the disease.
There is clearly a higher risk of contracting this disease in an indoor environment. There is a lower risk of contracting this disease outdoors (provided there is adequate spacing between people of course).The risk of contracting Covid increases with more people in the immediate environment. True for both indoors and outdoors.
Masks may be effective in limiting the spread.
Wearing a mask in a higher risk environment makes sense. It may help lower the risk.
I will leave this 14 second clip here for you to view and then comment on.
https://youtu.be/1HdDWqbhBYE
Re: Melbourne. UnFvcked. Almost
Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2020 12:03 pm
by grievous
Ellafan wrote: ↑Wed Nov 18, 2020 1:25 pm
Farva wrote: ↑Wed Nov 18, 2020 8:05 am
Farva wrote: ↑Mon Nov 16, 2020 5:28 am
Its now multiple households isnt it? And potentially hundreds of exposures.
The way NZ dealt with an outbreak like this was a short, sharp lockdown to make sure that no further exposures happened.
This isnt a little outbreak, its not one or two people. Its 17 at last count. And SA is open with no masks.
A week now might save 3 months later.
Hmm, On Monday after 3 days of the outbreak and the outbreak getting beyond what everything I have read says the contact tracing can typically cope with. Ill stand by my position there. Hardly knee jerk, the contact tracing had gone for 3 days and
was shown to be a very large outbreak.
What? 22, maybe 27, cases in the population of Adelaide? It's a statistical irrelevance.
I'm guessing you neither own a business in, nor earn a living in, the hospitality sector. People are losing their life's work in small businesses, their jobs, homes and dreams due to the economic disaster knee jerk shutdowns have caused in this country.
Have some empathy for chissakes, and stop the panic talk.
What's your take on hydroxychloroquine?
Re: Melbourne. UnFvcked. Almost
Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2020 2:47 am
by mabunch78
Latest SA COVID news conference:
The extreme lock down that we entered this week was imposed on the basis of what has now been determined a lie from a contact of the Parafield cluster that led authorities to believe they were dealing with an uber-infectious strain of COVID. Now the truth is known about this person's actual movements, activities and contacts, authorities now regard the cluster as 'normal' so our current level of restrictions is set to be relaxed almost immediately.
The Premier identified this person as male and working at the Stamford Hotel in the news conference. I'd say they should lay low for a veeerrrry long time....obviously they'll have to come out for perpetual Job Seeker meetings once they've finished serving their time in the clink....would be better off moving interstate, possibly emigrating.....
Re: Melbourne. UnFvcked. Almost
Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2020 3:45 am
by mabunch78
Bumping as you obviously think I'm f#cking with you....I'm not!
Re: Melbourne. UnFvcked. Almost
Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2020 3:54 am
by Sensible Stephen
Yeah, so we didn't need to go into lockdown. Only went in as they thought someone caught it collecting a pizza.
Dude is a total muppet.
But glad our contract tracing works, and lockdown was only triggered because of BS.
Re: Melbourne. UnFvcked. Almost
Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2020 4:03 am
by mabunch78
Got to say both this and the MEL 2nd wave incident have revealed a structural shortcoming too. The services and security roles around these quarantine hotels are risky and extremely important. Pay those in these roles at a rate that matches their importance and you'll only get the best and most professional doing jobs that won't need to be supplemented on the gig economy circuit. So actually my finger is pointing ultimately at the culture of outsourcing for the best value/cheapest service provider - the prevalent economic and political paradigm that has been badly shown up by various incidents throughout this pandemic. PPE procurement anyone?
Re: Melbourne. UnFvcked. Almost
Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2020 4:48 am
by Pat the Ex Mat
It also highlights the gig-economy for what it is, a side-hustle, not a replacement for full-time work.
Re: Melbourne. UnFvcked. Almost
Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2020 5:36 am
by mabunch78
Pat the Ex Mat wrote: ↑Fri Nov 20, 2020 4:48 am
It also highlights the gig-economy for what it is, a side-hustle, not a replacement for full-time work.
Re: Melbourne. UnFvcked. Almost
Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2020 8:30 am
by Ellafan
They need to fix this:
SA Police will launch an investigation into the lie by a Woodville pizza bar worker that sparked SA's lockdown, which will now lift at midnight on Saturday. There are three new cases today, all in quarantine.
...
However, the man will escape penalty because there is no available penalty for lying to contact tracers.
The above is a reference to criminal penalty, so that does not exclude other legal action, but query he has assets sufficient to make it worthwhile.
Re: Melbourne. UnFvcked. Almost
Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2020 12:48 am
by Slim 293
The thread title needs a-changin’, because Covid in Melbourne is goooooooooooooooooooone...
Re: Melbourne. World's greatest city. FACT!
Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2020 1:41 am
by Clogs
The hard work and sacrifices that millions of Victorians have made has finally paid off. We are technically covid free. We have eliminated the virus. But we must still wear our masks. Even though we are Covid free.
Re: Melbourne. World's greatest city. FACT!
Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2020 3:30 am
by Sensible Stephen
Clogs wrote: ↑Fri Nov 27, 2020 1:41 am
The hard work and sacrifices that millions of Victorians have made has finally paid off. We are technically covid free. We have eliminated the virus. But we must still wear our masks. Even though we are Covid free.
We don't have to wear masks in virus riddled Adelaide.
Re: Melbourne. World's greatest city. FACT!
Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2020 3:39 am
by Jeff the Bear
Genuine question, but is Melbourne any good to visit (post Covid)? The missus has a friend living there who can put us up, and we're thinking it will be the first place we ravel once everyone has been dosed up with a cure.
Is there enough to do for an entire week...two weeks?
Re: Melbourne. World's greatest city. FACT!
Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2020 3:53 am
by Clogs
Sensible Stephen wrote: ↑Fri Nov 27, 2020 3:30 am
Clogs wrote: ↑Fri Nov 27, 2020 1:41 am
The hard work and sacrifices that millions of Victorians have made has finally paid off. We are technically covid free. We have eliminated the virus. But we must still wear our masks. Even though we are Covid free.
We don't have to wear masks in virus riddled Adelaide.
In fairness you are all a lot better looking than we are...
Re: Melbourne. World's greatest city. FACT!
Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2020 3:55 am
by Clogs
Jeff the Bear wrote: ↑Fri Nov 27, 2020 3:39 am
Genuine question, but is Melbourne any good to visit (post Covid)? The missus has a friend living there who can put us up, and we're thinking it will be the first place we ravel once everyone has been dosed up with a cure.
Is there enough to do for an entire week...two weeks?
There is a fair bit to do. A week would do it. A few days shopping, dining etc and a few days down the great ocean road or wilsons prom. Then spend the other week travelling up the coast via Sydney to visit the reef.
Fvck Adelaide. Don't go there. Disease ridden hell hole.
Re: Melbourne. World's greatest city. FACT!
Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2020 4:01 am
by Sensible Stephen
Clogs wrote: ↑Fri Nov 27, 2020 3:55 am
Jeff the Bear wrote: ↑Fri Nov 27, 2020 3:39 am
Genuine question, but is Melbourne any good to visit (post Covid)? The missus has a friend living there who can put us up, and we're thinking it will be the first place we ravel once everyone has been dosed up with a cure.
Is there enough to do for an entire week...two weeks?
There is a fair bit to do. A week would do it. A few days shopping, dining etc and a few days down the great ocean road or wilsons prom. Then spend the other week travelling up the coast via Sydney to visit the reef.
Fvck Adelaide. Don't go there. Disease ridden hell hole.
We may be a hell hole, and disease ridden, and have dead bodies in our rivers, but we have the wine.
Re: Melbourne. UnFvcked. Almost
Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2020 4:05 am
by Kiwias
Re: Melbourne. UnFvcked. Almost
Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2020 4:43 am
by Anonymous 1
Slim 293 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 27, 2020 12:48 am
The thread title needs a-changin’, because Covid in Melbourne is goooooooooooooooooooone...
You know it hasn't