Opinion The Politics of Coronavirus

[javaguice]

Wuhan lab posted job advert for experts on 'coronavirus & bats' before outbreak

A WUHAN lab posted a job advert calling for experts on coronavirus and bats just a week before Chinese officials revealed they were facing an outbreak. Recruitment notices still listed on the offic…

www.thesun.co.uk

 

[Chris_6678]

Wuhan lab posted job advert for experts on 'coronavirus & bats' before outbreak

A WUHAN lab posted a job advert calling for experts on coronavirus and bats just a week before Chinese officials revealed they were facing an outbreak. Recruitment notices still listed on the offic…

www.thesun.co.uk

If there is a lab in Wuhan then why is it in the middle of a high density area? LOL wouldn't you have it way out in the middle of nowhere...

 

[javaguice]

If there is a lab in Wuhan then why is it in the middle of a high density area? LOL wouldn't you have it way out in the middle of nowhere...

If?

It's definitely there.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuhan_Institute_of_Virology

 

[Max zero]

If there is a lab in Wuhan then why is it in the middle of a high density area? LOL wouldn't you have it way out in the middle of nowhere...

Your are asking too many questions citizen time for your re-education.

 

[javaguice]

If there is a lab in Wuhan then why is it in the middle of a high density area? LOL wouldn't you have it way out in the middle of nowhere...

Great point though....maybe we wouldn't be dealing with this if it was somewhere rural....

All just food for thought of course.....Cant see China looking at ways to control the population.....or can you?

Apparently the day after the outbreak was announced, they announced a review into their processes....

All very interesting.

 

[Seadog]

Anthony Albanese on the fact that the people who are holding us together during the pandemic are mostly the ones we pay the least:

We should reflect on the fact that so many of those frontline workers – and think about it, cleaners, childcare worker, teachers, healthcare workers, nurses – are in so many cases defined not just by being primarily female occupations, although certainly not exclusively, but they are our poorest paid.
They are the people we are relying upon. That’s market failure. That’s market failure because price does not represent value. Because if their value has been shown to be absolutely essential to literally keeping us alive during this period.

 

[ziad]

Anthony Albanese on the fact that the people who are holding us together during the pandemic are mostly the ones we pay the least:

We should reflect on the fact that so many of those frontline workers – and think about it, cleaners, childcare worker, teachers, healthcare workers, nurses – are in so many cases defined not just by being primarily female occupations, although certainly not exclusively, but they are our poorest paid.
They are the people we are relying upon. That’s market failure. That’s market failure because price does not represent value. Because if their value has been shown to be absolutely essential to literally keeping us alive during this period.

We all contribute - some more directly.
Surgeons working one day a week with no surgury (ban on elective surgury) are effectively on a 90% pay cut as income comes from surgury completed - they are employees of State Governments - such as Vic. Pollie talk is cheap. He should ask his mate the Vic Premier to sort out the horrible contracts their health workers are engaged on. OT denied etc etc, etc

 

[Kwality]

they are our poorest paid.

You need to get out some time.
Sure cleaners, the money is not the problem for front line nurses, more like the shifts in a genuine 24/7 workplace.

 

[RookiePick]

You need to get out some time.
Sure cleaners, the money is not the problem for front line nurses, more like the shifts in a genuine 24/7 workplace.

Nursing seems to pay OK but the casualisation of the workforce is a real issue. Career opportunity seems to be stymied by a consistent process of telling Nurses they aren't qualified for more permanency and upon gaining higher certification/accreditation levels they actually lose work as they don't fit in the wage budgets anymore. Needless to say it's not surprising so many nurses report they are looking to be out of the industry in the near future.

Bureaucracy at it's finest.

 

[Kwality]

Nursing seems to pay OK but the casualisation of the workforce is a real issue. Career opportunity seems to be stymied by a consistent process of telling Nurses they aren't qualified for more permanency and upon gaining higher certification/accreditation levels they actually lose work as they don't fit in the wage budgets anymore. Needless to say it's not surprising so many nurses report they are looking to be out of the industry in the near future.

Bureaucracy at it's finest.

Working your way up in nursing requires dedication, a graduate is no value. Plenty of nurses I know want to work part time & having done the hard yards to upskill can call the tune.
Nursing is a bit like teaching, harder than it looks from the outside.

 

[RookiePick]

It looks like a prick of a job from the outside. I don't have the temperament for it at all.

 

[Kwality]

It looks like a prick of a job from the outside. I don't have the temperament for it at all.

I'm with you.

My daughter is in a Covid Clinic as we speak, her last shift included putting tubes in confirmed cases. Not expecting to share a beer any time soon.

 

[HurleyHepsHird]

MrWoollie



Seems you jumped the gun ol mate. Border force ordered the ship to dock? I wonder why that was.

As I told you then, it was about a couple of very important passengers.

 

[Max zero]

MrWoollie



Seems you jumped the gun ol mate. Border force ordered the ship to dock? I wonder why that was.

As I told you then, it was about a couple of very important passengers.

Hot potato, hot potato!

I wonder when this game of musical chairs is finished who is going to be left standing?

 

[kranky al]

Hot potato, hot potato!

I wonder when this game of musical chairs is finished who is going to be left standing?

Hot potatohead?

Reichsfuhrer Kartoffelkopf?

 

[Seadog]

We all contribute - some more directly.
Surgeons working one day a week with no surgury (ban on elective surgury) are effectively on a 90% pay cut as income comes from surgury completed - they are employees of State Governments - such as Vic. Pollie talk is cheap. He should ask his mate the Vic Premier to sort out the horrible contracts their health workers are engaged on. OT denied etc etc, etc

Whoa, just agreeing with the sentiment that supermarket workers, cleaners etc are doing a good job and aren't overly compensated for it. Not really interested in the in and outs of your political grudges.

 

[MrWoollie]

MrWoollie



Seems you jumped the gun ol mate. Border force ordered the ship to dock? I wonder why that was.

As I told you then, it was about a couple of very important passengers.

Big difference between the yet to be confirmed fault (mistakenly allowed under bad advice or lies) and a deliberate act to get family off the boat. That's still a leap of epic proportions.

You're still creating/spreading a conspiracy where the likely explanation lies elsewhere. If Dutton did do such a thing then jail his sorry a***. But so far this smacks of Trump level beat up.

 

[Astro7]

Nursing seems to pay OK but the casualisation of the workforce is a real issue. Career opportunity seems to be stymied by a consistent process of telling Nurses they aren't qualified for more permanency and upon gaining higher certification/accreditation levels they actually lose work as they don't fit in the wage budgets anymore. Needless to say it's not surprising so many nurses report they are looking to be out of the industry in the near future.

Bureaucracy at it's finest.

Queensland hospital workers denied promised payrise because of Covid-19 preparations

Exclusive: in principle agreement was shelved after Annastacia Palaszczuk announced public sector payrises would be put ‘on hold’

www.theguardian.com

 

[Astro7]

That can't be good...we go from a stalled economy during coronavirus waiting for the 'snapback' or slow recovery to a new normality, but instead we spiral into another world depression.....? Who would've thought in November 2019, not even 6 months ago, that we'd be up to our ears in all this....?

Coronavirus putting world on track for new Great Depression, says WTO

International trade body predicts commerce could shrink up to 32% and warns against 30s-style protectionism

www.theguardian.com

And here they're hoping 'hope' will get us through...(not pushing The Guardian, just looking for interesting articles with an eye to the future)

Coronavirus is a human crisis beyond most of our scariest dreams – we will need to restart our society | Sam Mostyn and Travers McLeod

It would be a huge mistake for Australia to go back to how it was

www.theguardian.com

 

[new breed]

Christine Matthews of the WACA reckons that Optus won't be available to the the AFL from mid October ...drop in wicket going down with the World Cup commencing around that time . There goes the chance of hosting the GF at Optus although the WACA could be used for the World Cup I would have thought , crowds won't be that big anyway .

 

[Chris_6678]

Christine Matthews of the WACA reckons that Optus won't be available to the the AFL from mid October ...drop in wicket going down with the World Cup commencing around that time . There goes the chance of hosting the GF at Optus although the WACA could be used for the World Cup I would have thought , crowds won't be that big anyway .

The world cup will depend on what happens with country's like India though? Big chance their virus ramps up massively and they wont be travelling anywhere.

Would it be cheaper for the AFL to run games at Mineral resouces park and the WACCA? hell they could play the Arena or Peel at a pinch like NAB cup games.

 

[new breed]

The world cup will depend on what happens with country's like India though? Big chance their virus ramps up massively and they wont be travelling anywhere.

Would it be cheaper for the AFL to run games at Mineral resouces park and the WACCA? hell they could play the Arena or Peel at a pinch like NAB cup games.

Yes Mineral Resources Park and the WACA are in consideration for our Hub which is good ...if so we can stand outside the fence and watch at Mineral Resources Park but the Police will lock it down I'm sure and so they should .

 

[Quinz]

Yes Mineral Resources Park and the WACA are in consideration for our Hub which is good ...if so we can stand outside the fence and watch at Mineral Resources Park but the Police will lock it down I'm sure and so they should .

Ask Keys he knows how to covertly look through a chain link fence.

 

[Rowan18]

Christine Matthews of the WACA reckons that Optus won't be available to the the AFL from mid October ...drop in wicket going down with the World Cup commencing around that time . There goes the chance of hosting the GF at Optus although the WACA could be used for the World Cup I would have thought , crowds won't be that big anyway .

There was a quote from the manager at Optus Stadium saying they were looking how to accommodate it. I'd back him over the WACA guy, who is probably playing games so that Sheffield shield isnt impacted.

Pretty doubtful the T20 world cup will go ahead. I don't see us wanting to open up our international borders too much until we have a vaccine.

 

[Max zero]

That can't be good...we go from a stalled economy during coronavirus waiting for the 'snapback' or slow recovery to a new normality, but instead we spiral into another world depression.....? Who would've thought in November 2019, not even 6 months ago, that we'd be up to our ears in all this....?

Coronavirus putting world on track for new Great Depression, says WTO

International trade body predicts commerce could shrink up to 32% and warns against 30s-style protectionism

www.theguardian.com

And here they're hoping 'hope' will get us through...(not pushing The Guardian, just looking for interesting articles with an eye to the future)

Coronavirus is a human crisis beyond most of our scariest dreams – we will need to restart our society | Sam Mostyn and Travers McLeod

It would be a huge mistake for Australia to go back to how it was

www.theguardian.com

The first article was good since it was reporting fact.

The second not so much since it was an opinion piece.

Australia already has one of the most efficient and fairest wealth distribution systems there is.