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the Official Sources, Do You Have The Symptoms?, Tips and Statistics are below



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Spoiler

Environmental Cleaning & Disinfection Principles
https://www.health.gov.au/sites/def...-and-disinfection-principles-for-covid-19.pdf

SA Health:

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) :: SA Health

Australian Federal Govt:

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Information on COVID-19, the infectious disease caused by the most recently discovered coronavirus.

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Smart Traveller: (thanks Mutineer )

COVID-19

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Do you have the symptoms?
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Tips​

Home Isolation Advice:

Home isolation advice for people with suspected or confirmed case of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) :: SA Health

What to do if you’re feeling unwell

If you are severely unwell, such as having difficulty breathing, call 000 (Triple Zero).

If you have travelled anywhere overseas in the past 14 days and have COVID-19 symptoms, seek testing at a COVID-19 clinic or contact your GP (advise your GP of your travel history) and isolate yourself.

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Mental health in the age of coronavirus

COVID-19: Mental health in the age of coronavirus

Since January when the World Health Organization (WHO) determined the outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease, COVID-19, to be a “public health emergency of international concern”, stress levels everywhere have continued to mount.

news.un.org

Woolworths to introduce a dedicated shopping hour for the elderly and people with disability.

https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/...ate?icmpid=sm-hp-hero3:eek:ther:eek:ther:wk37

Keeping Yourself And Your Things Germ Free

California Governor Orders All Residents to Stay Home (Published 2020)

The Trump administration asked states to hold off on releasing grim data on unemployment claims, and Italy’s death toll surpassed China’s.

www.nytimes.com

Cleaning Your Phone

How to Clean Your Phone to Help Protect Against Coronavirus (Published 2020)

It’s one thing to stop touching your face. It’s another to stop touching the things that touch your face.

www.nytimes.com

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We'll have more details about these extra data offers available soon at optus.com.au/COVID19-support.

Statistics​

Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University (JHU)

ArcGIS Dashboards

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11,844,681 Coronavirus cases in Australia - COVID Live

Live tracking of coronavirus cases, active, tests, deaths, ICU, hospitalisations and vaccinations in Australia

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Stay safe and look after each other (from a safe distance)
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Dear posters: unsubstantiated advice will be deleted. We understand you want to help, but #fakenews blah blah blah we're not allowing any disinformation. Got some great advice about washing your hands whilst dancing like David Byrne in Once In A Lifetime helps kill the virus? That's fantastic, provide a link to a reputable source.

 

[mistylake]

I agree

But I also see ''essential travel'' continuing in any future modelling ie business, political, military etc - no tourism

Thats also dependent on what other countries do

Good thing I’m about to start importing palm oil from Borneo. Definitely I’ll need to go eyeball the production plant.
Might drop in and see my fiancé and her family while I’m there.

 

[FR0GGY]

Very unlikely.

However there is no coincidence that most of our fruit in this state is grown in a bit of a line from Kersbrook, Gumeracha and Lenswood.

Plenty of rain rather than irrigation.

Surely the riverland?

 

[GreyCrow]

Why didn't they get an economist on Q&A? The debt is irrelevant and shouldn't be fear that the government will raise tax to pay this back

It's not the need to pay down debt it's the political corner the current government find themselves in

For years there has been this messaging that the LNP are great economic managers and that no debt is good

That's the driver of the need to pay debt. Political capital

 

[jenny61_99]

I'll see you and raise you an Annastacia Palaszczuk

I know it doesn't suit the agendas of some on here but his efforts are being appreciated by some.

https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/po...emier-heaps-praise-on-pm-20200414-p54jle.html

'He is doing an outstanding job': Queensland Premier heaps praise on PM

Probably because he is now making decisions that are more left leaning than his usual right leaning philosophies would dictate. Easy to get along with someone when he’s on the same page as you.

 

[hey shorty]

Surely the riverland?

Citrus yes, the rest is the Hills

 

[StonesThrow]

If the need to flood the fields to grow rice, thats a s**t load of water. Way more than just watering a crop.
Just think about it. That farmer cant possibly be right.

Pretty sure cotton farmers use way less water than they used to. Not sure about rice.

 

[StonesThrow]

Why didn't they get an economist on Q&A? The debt is irrelevant and shouldn't be fear that the government will raise tax to pay this back because the RBA bought the big percentage of Australian bond to pay for all these stimulus by printing money to purchase them so effectively we have lent the money to us and if we/us end up defaulting on this debt which is very likely to happen, it won't matter. Now if the government started to print the money themself to pay for this stimulus, they will introduce inflation and make the currency virtually worthless which has happen in 3rd world countries but 1st world countries all have the federal and reserve bank to bail them out.....excellently explained on SBS The Feed.

There are lots of economists who disagree with this line of thinking. MMT is still seen as radical in mainstream economics.

 

[1970crow]

Oh, he had a self-preservation instinct, it just was based on the assistance of the invisible sky wizard* instead of science.

*hey, i'm religious. I just believe God is kind of a hands-off deity. She's definitely sitting back and picking sides in basketball games when she gets called upon though.

(check out the Kevin Smith movie Dogma for probably the best cinematic interpretation of Catholicism)

Dogma is one of my absolute favourites. great cast, lots of fun, not a boring minute.

 

[GROTTO]

Message to Grotto and other runners out there. Never thought my beach runs would kill me. Mind you I am acutely aware of this and have deliberately ran at wide angles when approaching anyone.

Coronavirus: Claim runners can infect you with COVID-19

Truth behind virus runner warning

It's the video that's caused many people to think twice about exercising outdoors – but one of the study's authors has been quick to stress that cycling and running are “not big risks” for coronavirus.

www.news.com.au

I need to run like this....

 

[GROTTO]

John Who

ER doctor loses custody of daughter after treating coronavirus patients

A heroic Florida doctor fighting on the front lines of the coronavirus epidemic has lost custody of her four-year-old daughter until the pandemic is over.

www.news.com.au

 

[GROTTO]

Supermarket Manager goes bang from outside 50m. Launches one.

Bogans need to learn a hard tough lesson, which is ironic because following the pandemic is going to be very very hard on some.

Supermarket boss’s blunt reply to toilet paper hoarder wanting refund

“I had my first customer yesterday who said he wanted to get a refund on 150 packets of 32-pack toilet paper and 150 units of one-litre sanitiser.” In 150 packs of 32-roll toilet paper there would be 4800 individual rolls.

‘He’s the problem’: Supermarket boss gives finger to customer who wanted refund on 5000 rolls of toilet paper

A supermarket boss has given one of his customers the bird after it’s claimed the man tried to return almost 5000 rolls of toilet paper and 150 bottles of hand sanitiser which he couldn’t sell online.

www.news.com.au

 

[GROTTO]

Former golf star Paige Spiranac keeping busy by practicing golf indoors during isolation in the US.

 

[SaltPeter]

No surprise here. Trump stopping funding to WHO.

I believe the US funds the WHO to tune of approx $450M per year. By far their biggest donor.

Morrison rules out Federal Government, public service pay cuts

Prime Minster Scott Morrison says pay cuts for himself or federal ministers are not being considered, saying those in public service are "working as they've never worked before".

www.abc.net.au

 

[1970crow]

Darwinism is a hell of a thing. I have little to no sympathy for those too stupid to have a self preservation instinct.

Why self preserve if you genuinely believe you’re doing god’s work and heaven awaits you. Some people really believe that stuff, that guy a prime candidate.

 

[SaltPeter]

MDMA and magic mushrooms to treat the mental health pandemic post the CoVid pandemic

Use MDMA to combat coronavirus mental health issues, says former Coalition minister

A former Coalition minister is driving a fresh campaign to introduce MDMA and psilocybin — found in magic mushrooms — as treatment options ahead of what he says will be a "mental health pandemic" triggered by COVID-19.

www.abc.net.au

 

[AmericanCrow]

This is where I cut them some slack as it’s not ever been done before. Especially with the way commerce in conducted now days. There was a reluctance to shut it down because it’s a scary thing and unknown what would happen. Now we know how it feels we will likely do it quicker if and when the next pandemic starts as it surely will. Guaranteed now the pangolins , bats and other endangered species are back on the menu at the Chinese wet markets

Maybe we excuse them a bit more had it not now been known the administration was getting intelligence reports in late 2019.

At a minimum, a halfway capable President has serious big time meetings with national security and medical health infectious disease experts the first week in January

That is the absolute minimum expectation.

 

[GROTTO]

No surprise here. Trump stopping funding to WHO.

I believe the US funds the WHO to tune of approx $450M per year. By far their biggest donor.

Morrison rules out Federal Government, public service pay cuts

Prime Minster Scott Morrison says pay cuts for himself or federal ministers are not being considered, saying those in public service are "working as they've never worked before".

www.abc.net.au

The bigger surprise is that it took this long.

 

[1970crow]

MDMA and magic mushrooms to treat the mental health pandemic post the CoVid pandemic

Use MDMA to combat coronavirus mental health issues, says former Coalition minister

A former Coalition minister is driving a fresh campaign to introduce MDMA and psilocybin — found in magic mushrooms — as treatment options ahead of what he says will be a "mental health pandemic" triggered by COVID-19.

www.abc.net.au

Recall reading an article outlining the great results MDMA was getting with soldiers suffering from PTSD.

 

[Mr_Moogle]

Why self preserve if you genuinely believe you’re doing god’s work and heaven awaits you. Some people really believe that stuff, that guy a prime candidate.

I've made this argument to my crazy Catholic step mother and she would always just tell me suicide is a sin. Kind of a grey area though. I'd argue not taking precautions against the virus as an older person is in effect, suicidal behaviour, but I'm not sure the church would see it that way.

 

[Jinglebells32]

Apparently there is still time to get rice and grain crops in .. I think 60 minutes ran a story on it on Sunday

They’re supposed to be all meeting this week to discuss it

I'd prefer that we imported cotton and rice from Asia, as we don't have the water required for either of them.

 

[1970crow]

Former golf star Paige Spiranac keeping busy by practicing golf indoors during isolation in the US.

ever had such a bad case of the yips that you’re terrified to begin the stroke? It’s horrible. I’ve played near full rounds doing the walk past tap in ‘setup’ because I couldn’t get my putting stroke started. Another method I’ve used to break the mind lock is to set up and as a normal player would start their takeaway, I release my hands altogether, re-grip and go. The yips are a bad, bad thing and they paralyse me. Thankfully it’s only gotten that bad a handful of times.

 

[SaltPeter]

The bigger surprise is that it took this long.

Interesting that this was an issue raised in a piece 14 months ago by the Kissinger Foundation .. point 3 on the key issues specifically mentions the WHO shortfalls in regard to future health emergencies

The U.S. Government and the World Health Organization

This fact sheet shares information about the World Health Organization (WHO) and U.S. government funding and engagement with WHO.

www.kff.org

 

[SaltPeter]

I'd prefer that we imported cotton and rice from Asia, as we don't have the water required for either of them.

Our major recent source of rice is Vietnam, who have stopped exporting since the outbreak of the pandemic in order to ensure their own food security.

The idea is to sow a rice crop in now to shore up domestic supply. Agree that long term rice may not be a viable crop

 

[Murray2503]

Supermarket Manager goes bang from outside 50m. Launches one.

Bogans need to learn a hard tough lesson, which is ironic because following the pandemic is going to be very very hard on some.

Supermarket boss’s blunt reply to toilet paper hoarder wanting refund

“I had my first customer yesterday who said he wanted to get a refund on 150 packets of 32-pack toilet paper and 150 units of one-litre sanitiser.” In 150 packs of 32-roll toilet paper there would be 4800 individual rolls.

‘He’s the problem’: Supermarket boss gives finger to customer who wanted refund on 5000 rolls of toilet paper

A supermarket boss has given one of his customers the bird after it’s claimed the man tried to return almost 5000 rolls of toilet paper and 150 bottles of hand sanitiser which he couldn’t sell online.

www.news.com.au

Thats my local Drakes at which i haven't seen toilet rolls for 5 or 6 weeks. Hope that scumbag goes broke.

 

[rocket18]

No surprise here. Trump stopping funding to WHO.

I believe the US funds the WHO to tune of approx $450M per year. By far their biggest donor.

Morrison rules out Federal Government, public service pay cuts

Prime Minster Scott Morrison says pay cuts for himself or federal ministers are not being considered, saying those in public service are "working as they've never worked before".

www.abc.net.au

Good on him, let China fund their "World" Health Organisation, hope we follow suit (if we fund them at all)

Maybe the G20 (-China) can set up and fund a real WHO