GF 2012 thread was ok
Yes, I know, I've seen it too... but the AFL isn't going bankrupt, and there are plenty of people who don't understand that going bankrupt IS a commercial reality and is in fact, a tool that is there to help them. I was referring to the supposed conversation between the AFL and Rupert... that is not going to happen.
Just curious... how old are you?
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So we all aren’t expecting to see Sydney play this weekend, no preview thread
I thought about Horse on Saturday evening in Paris. My wife and I were dining in a Michelin starred Japanese-French restaurant and the horse in question was incredibly tender, served rare and delicioius. That night the French government closed all restaurants and cafés so my wife and I drove back to the UK a day earlier than planned. We'd originally planned to take Eurostar but decided to avoid contact with the hoi polloi by taking the Eurotunnel (car train) and using my eScooter to get around two-up on the quiet streets. We felt quite safe using reasonable hygiene precautions. Paris had relatively few cases of Covid-19 with most French cases concentrated in a few border regions. Those cases in Paris were mostly brought in to specialist hospitals. It was incredibly quiet, no queues for sights (even for the Louvre which had briefly reopened) and few diners in restaurants that would normally be booked months in advance. There were very few tourists at all. Ask anyone who's been to Paris, it's always packed with tourists. For us it's only 4.5hrs drive + 35 mins channel crossing so we didn't need to get out of the car or stop for fuel. Our main worry was the UK closing the border while we were out.
Are you in Strahan?
Well i inferred from you saying you HAD to travel on the east coast that was not your home coast... and was a trip of some inconvenience...
My family are also in Tassie. I'm hoping they can keep my mum and dad isolated. Going into winter will exacerbate things. I'd love to get my folks over here are we're heading into summer and have lots of space living out in the countryside, but it's too late for my folks to travel safely and European borders have closed.
Greatest town of all!
We have a similar population in East Sussex to that of Tasmania but we only 2 confirmed cases. The difference is ours will likely grow because of proximity to London but Tasmania's 7 cases could be managed by closing the border to people or enforcing a quarantine period of 14 days.
I'm watching Italy closely as I'm an Italian citizen and I'm living not so far away in Germany. Italy has been the canary in the coal mine for the rest of Europe, and it doesn't look good. Right now in Italy 50% of the corona patients that are deemed serious enough for ICU are dying, and there is already some triaging happening which means people deemed unable to be helped aren't even getting in to the ICU. 7% of corona cases in Italy are ending in death, which is a lot more than in neighbouring countries (Germany is only 0.3% so far, France is 2%, Spain is 3%...). Something is going on, the older population is definitely a big issue in Italy, but that and any triaging probably aren't enough by themselves to explain why it has been so much more deadly there than in other countries by itself.
