News Coronavirus Thread

[Del191229]

Jesus, three weeks ago it was media hype whipped up to distract from the failing global warming hoax, now we're hunting the fiercest game of all - MAN!

Utterly cooked.

 

[Event Horizon]

Typical Russians bring a gun to a drone fight..

Well, as they say, don't buy toilet paper or tissues. Buy bullets, because whoever has the bullets, will have the toilet paper and the tissues.

 

[DesertRoo]

Well, as they say, don't buy toilet paper or tissues. Buy bullets, because whoever has the bullets, will have the toilet paper and the tissues.

And what to do with all the tp!

 

[Nate7]

And what to do with all the tp!

Or roll a massive scoob, ferball

 

[arden station]

Going by what I’ve read they need to time it just right. We need people to get infected but need to try and control the rate of infection, if they go too early they’ll only delay it and it’ll be bad in a month or two, go too late and the hospitals will be overwhelmed like they are in Italy

Yes, that's what we've been reading but the immunologist Dan Suan and others called for social isolation or lockdown measures days ago despite being aware of our comparatively low levels of infection or early position on the curve. They either believe that the rate of infection will still grow and be manageable over time even with extreme measures now or they believe in minimisation early. Either way these experts' opinions are at odds with what the governments at both levels are actually doing.

 

[ferball]

SG's,ferby (00 shot).

*contains game hunting footage*

Spoiler

Nice little clean bullseyes are for sporting shooters.

I also have compound bows & hunting arrows and I'm confident of dropping game bigger than a rabbit from 30-40 metres.

My neighbour had to shoot a steer a few years ago and ****ed up from point blank range. It took three days to find the campaigner and it was just dead. He just missed (shot it between the eyes instead of between the eye and ear diagonally thru the weak point so it was his own fault) and the poor thing took off, jumped multiple fences and disappeared into the scrub.

Funnily enough the meat was gamey but actually quite tasty.

I've been meaning to get into bow hunting for a few years, ever since I had some deer from a national park. I don't mind gamey meat.

 

[Del191229]

Near zero: US Fed announces second emergency rate cut

The US Fed announces its second emergency rate cut in as many weeks as the coronavirus brings the US economy to a near standstill.

www.theage.com.au

mouncey2franklin

 

[ferball]

Or roll a massive scoob, ferball

No smoking with this virus around mate. Edibles or vapes are the way to go and even vapes are potentially damaging.

 

[Nate7]

No smoking with this virus around mate. Edibles or vapes are the way to go and even vapes are potentially damaging.

Cake then!

 

[ferball]

I can but no longer have a gun and it would do me f*** all good in suburbia


Then the only issue will be owners of that livestock shooting at you.

Know how to garden, how to propegate seed from plants and what not. Have a decent idea on how to forage. The second again being nearly useless in suburbia.

For these things to be a requirement of daily life though you're talking almost full societal breakdown.

It's more the mentality .. If you are confident you can do that stuff you'll be less likely to panic buy useless crap.

Its fear of full societal breakdown, and peoples acknowledgement of their helplessness that drives this behaviour. And that behaviour would contribute to full societal breakdown if things got serious.

However you'd be surprised what grows around suburban Melbourne and what you can do with everyday plants and weeds.

I'm not a prepper but I live well out of town and have always known how to feed myself and my family if need be.

But we live in a community, remember them, and we know we'll need each other if the shit ever really hit the fan.

 

[ferball]

Cake then!

Chocolate rum balls and brownies are ice.

 

[ferball]

Nice not ice!!!

 

[Del191229]

Nice not ice!!!

That will be the most interesting metric imo - if supplies of meth and heroin are interrupted, we'll know it is a really huge issue.

 

[ferball]

And what to do with all the tp!

We've had enough infernos for a little while thanks.

 

[ferball]

That will be the most interesting metric imo - if supplies of meth and heroin are interrupted, we'll know it is a really huge issue.

Yes very true.

 

[Snake_Baker]

My neighbour had to shoot a steer a few years ago and f’ed up from point blank range. It took three days to find the campaigner and it was just dead. He just missed (shot it between the eyes instead of between the eye and ear diagonally thru the weak point so it was his own fault) and the poor thing took off, jumped multiple fences and disappeared into the scrub.

Funnily enough the meat was gamey but actually quite tasty.

I've been meaning to get into bow hunting for a few years, ever since I had some deer from a national park. I don't mind gamey meat.

What did he shoot it with? Some piddly caliber like a .22? That's just plain cruel.

You want bigger stuff to humanely kill an animal that size.

 

[Nate7]

Chocolate rum balls and brownies are ice.

I was thinking a different version of cake/muffin.

 

[Val Keating]

Yes, that's what we've been reading but the immunologist Dan Suan and others called for social isolation or lockdown measures days ago despite being aware of our comparatively low levels of infection or early position on the curve. They either believe that the rate of infection will still grow and be manageable over time even with extreme measures now or they believe in minimisation early. Either way these experts' opinions are at odds with what the governments at both levels are actually doing.

Interesting. The government must be getting advice from these people though right?

 

[ferball]

I haven't really got into this stuff for a while. Nearly a decade actually.

But here are some interesting resources. Dunno what good they do but these groups didn't exist when I last looked into it:

Resilient Communities | Resilient Melbourne

Six Foundations for Community Resilience

Efforts to build community resilience often focus on growing the capacity to “bounce back” from disruptions, like those caused by climate change. But climate change is not the only crisis we face, nor is preparing for disruption the only way to build resilience. Truly robust community resilience...

www.resilience.org

A lot of this is aimed at global warming induced disruptions but as this is showing us there is plenty more scope than just dealing with that.

I first got into the specific idea via John Robb and his Global Guerrillas site.

Global Guerrillas

Networked tribes, system disruption and the emerging bazaar of violence. A blog about the future of conflict.

globalguerrillas.typepad.com

Dunno how responsible he is for ISIS but his evidence to the us senate on Iraq before the surge probably convinced them to go with the idea of paying competing groups in Iraq to fight each other and that helped drive ISIS growth.

Like any good Libertarian he has a pay wall now but you can still access some of his archives.

 

[Grogg]

I've already gone into locked down mode. Didn't send my kids to school and I'm working from home.

Same here.

My bro in law has been exposed during his job (MFB) and my sister/his wife dropped around to see me and my old 'Ma a few hours before we & she found out.

We were isolating anyway, but not a development we were hoping for all the same.

Shopping is a bit of a pain in the arse, given I was planning on just going totally online and getting it delivered, but we've already had one order cancelled completely due to THE COMPLETE ****ING MORONS who aren't high risk and panic buying all the same.

I hate this country some times.

 

[Del191229]

I first got into the specific idea via John Robb and his Global Guerrillas site.

Global Guerrillas

Networked tribes, system disruption and the emerging bazaar of violence. A blog about the future of conflict.

globalguerrillas.typepad.com

Dunno how responsible he is for ISIS but his evidence to the us senate on Iraq before the surge probably convinced them to go with the idea of paying competing groups in Iraq to fight each other and that helped drive ISIS growth.

Like any good Libertarian he has a pay wall now but you can still access some of his archives.

ISIS operated like a traditional military in Iraq and Syria and hence got blown apart by US airpower.

Their overseas operations were based on the works of Al-Suri -

Mustafa Setmariam Nasar - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

The Global Islamic Resistance Call

(Da'wat al-muqawamah al-islamiyyah al-'alamiyyah) which appeared on the Internet in December 2004 or January 2005

The US was waaaaaaaaaaaay behind the curve on this.

 

[Groucho]

Jesus, three weeks ago it was media hype whipped up to distract from the failing global warming hoax, now we're hunting the fiercest game of all - MAN!

Utterly cooked.

Only last week the 3AW breakfast guys had a poll about whether the virus was real or over rated nonsense. 83% went for the latter and, given AW's demographic as being old and conservative, I immediately thought that half those that voted will probably die from it! Might be true

 

[ferball]

What did he shoot it with? Some piddly caliber like a .22? That's just plain cruel.

You want bigger stuff to humanely kill an animal that size.

It wasn't a .22 but it wasn't that big. It might have been a .22x centre fire round that the gun was chambered for. Can't remember. It wasn't his.


You can kill cattle with a .22 but I've only seen it done to injured animals who couldn't really move. Specifically cattle that have been hit by vehicles.

 

[SMaturin]

It wasn't a .22 but it wasn't that big. It might have been a .22x centre fire round that the gun was chambered for. Can't remember. It wasn't his.


You can kill cattle with a .22 but I've only seen it done to injured animals who couldn't really move. Specifically cattle that have been hit by vehicles.

.22s were for rabbits when I was a kid...

 

[Snake_Baker]

You can kill cattle with a .22 but I've only seen it done to injured animals who couldn't really move. Specifically cattle that have been hit by vehicles.

Yes, but you're taking chances. Better to knock it over with a .303 or something like that.

He would have been better off taking a sharp heavy machete to the poor things neck and cutting it from reality in one swipe.