Mega Thread >>COVID-19 DISCUSSION THREAD<<

[Kapanis]

Today was beyond full on work wise. The trade off of keeping people employed but safe health wise is complicated. I hope Slomo calls for shutdown asap.

 

[BloodySwan]

Hopefully once we’re back to normal you get thst promotion mate

Thanks Punts, that's my hope too!

 

[Heeney2Franklin]

Tell you what the players are looking very ordinary atm with their demands, behaving like self entitled twats.

 

[Ticky009]

Just got my Footy tips reminder...

 

[caesar88]

Credit to the water corp here in WA who began training staff in working from home within a fortnight of the first case here in Australia. Now enacting it full time with certain staff (as per my uncle.)

Pretty good crisis management: assess the situation, listen to the experts, act accordingly.

 

[Swansujelly]

looks like coles etc will run 24 hours, a good idea imo.

 

[GotTheGoodes]

I’m full time on big footy as an expert

Paid very well too I hear... There has been chatter about your large salary package.

 

[wilsonmatic]

Paid very well too I hear... There has been chatter about your large salary package.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

looks like coles etc will run 24 hours, a good idea imo.

So long as they can re stock...

 

[ScottBo]

Could the unthinkable happen?

Hey Ralpyboy, interested to know how many of the Swans players have gone home (interstate and overseas) and if the players are still training offsite in small groups or have been given programs for home? Thanks

 

[caesar88]

Without trying to downplay the seriousness of this outbreak, is Australia doing better than we were expected to be? I remember the Friday arvo before Scomo's Hillsong conference (March 13th) that some experts (and Twitter users) were concerned that we were a fortnight behind Italy and at risk of following their trajectory. Well it's now almost exactly a fortnight later and two deaths overnight have brought the total deaths to 11. Not saying we won't reach that point (bloody hope not), but it doesn't seem to be as bad as some thought (yet).

Anyone know why this could be? Or have I just totally got it wrong, in which case someone feel free to correct me. Losing track of days and weeks in isolation lol

 

[Ticky009]

Without trying to downplay the seriousness of this outbreak, is Australia doing better than we were expected to be? I remember the Friday arvo before Scomo's Hillsong conference (March 13th) that some experts (and Twitter users) were concerned that we were a fortnight behind Italy and at risk of following their trajectory. Well it's now almost exactly a fortnight later and two deaths overnight have brought the total deaths to 11. Not saying we won't reach that point (bloody hope not), but it doesn't seem to be as bad as some thought (yet).

Anyone know why this could be? Or have I just totally got it wrong, in which case someone feel free to correct me. Losing track of days and weeks in isolation lol

Still too early to call imo.
Still don't think enough people are isolating where they should.
But I know all financial institutions are wfh unless you absolutely have to
Theyve split staff over different floors & even buildings to try and minimise impact

 

[The King!]

We aren’t Italy , they did start behind us

we aren’t cramped up on top of each other

just throwing it out there, like you say who knows

 

[The King!]

 

[BruceFromBalnarring]

Without trying to downplay the seriousness of this outbreak, is Australia doing better than we were expected to be? I remember the Friday arvo before Scomo's Hillsong conference (March 13th) that some experts (and Twitter users) were concerned that we were a fortnight behind Italy and at risk of following their trajectory. Well it's now almost exactly a fortnight later and two deaths overnight have brought the total deaths to 11. Not saying we won't reach that point (bloody hope not), but it doesn't seem to be as bad as some thought (yet).

Anyone know why this could be? Or have I just totally got it wrong, in which case someone feel free to correct me. Losing track of days and weeks in isolation lol

The Italy comparison chart was always false. We were testing 10 times the numbers that Italy was with less than half their population. So our infection rate, whilst equal in numbers, was actually only about 10% of theirs.

 

[wills2g]

i believe I read somewhere that the Italian Government were going to enforce lockdown in a certain area where it was widely spread. That news got leaked early and about 10000 people fled to various parts of Italy, causing the mass infection.

Will that happen to Australia given that the people off that cruise ship were allowed to walk? It might, but to a lesser extent. The amount of space in Australia compared to Italy definitely helps. Although the hardest part is we’re entering our flu season whilst the other side of the world is getting summer.

No matter what anyone tells me about how good Europe or X country is, Australia is probably the cleanest place on Earth with the best hygiene

 

[RW]

Paid very well too I hear... There has been chatter about your large salary package.

Will he have to take a pay cut like the players, since there's no footy to talk about?

 

[Swansujelly]

So long as they can re stock...

people may be less inclined to fear not getting things time wise

 

[scaryness]

Read somewhere that one study currently estimates with a 95% confidence interval that the true fatality rate, when accounting for the high infection rate and the entire population of asymptomatic and truly mild cases, is around 0.2%. Making it only twice as deadly as seasonal flu. I believe they are using Germany's data as a foundation.

Lack of general population testing worlwide and only testung people who are already admitting to hospital skews the numbers a bit.

We'll see.

 

[sataris]

He's in a different state so would be quiet the commute-a-poop!

Even better, what kind of psychopath would travel during a global pandemic just to take a shit on someones desk?

 

[caesar88]

Still too early to call imo.
Still don't think enough people are isolating where they should.
But I know all financial institutions are wfh unless you absolutely have to
Theyve split staff over different floors & even buildings to try and minimise impact

Oh for sure, not writing off that it could still get as bad as Italy, particularly if self-isolation isn't taken as seriously as it should be. We just seem to have done an OK job at keeping the deaths to a lower rate than expected with 11, though that is still 11 too many.

 

[sataris]

Death rate seems to be hovering around 4-5%

 

[Ticky009]

Death rate seems to be hovering around 4-5%

Shit. That's no good

 

[The King!]

Yeah all the people with existing conditions dying from it I guess

not good still

 

[Kirkswan]

How’s everyone travelling?

I'm still working and going into the office each day... there's about 10 of us in a space for 200 or more

I will continue to do so until I'm told otherwise.

The panic is still on the rise, but no-one can sustain panic forever, so it'll have to start dropping at some point...

On the plus side, never have a problem with parking!

How about you?