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[Deaneus!]

Official Government Information about COVID-19
Contact the National Coronavirus Information Hotline on 1800 020 080 for information about COVID-19.

Stay informed. Download the official government “Coronavirus Australia” app in the Apple App Store or Google Play,
or join our WhatsApp channel on iOS or Android.

If you live in the Adelaide metropolitan area and would like to get checked out, this is how get drive-thru testing at the Repat:




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



Official Sources, Do you have Symptoms?, Tips, Statistics
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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:

Coronavirus (COVID-19) health alert

Find out how we are monitoring and responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, how you can help stop the spread of the virus in Australia and what to do if you have symptoms. We also report the latest case numbers, official medical advice and information on treatment.

www.health.gov.au

World Health Organisation:

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) – World Health Organization

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

www.who.int

Smart Traveller: (thanks Mutineer )

COVID-19

Read our advice on COVID-19, including leaving Australia, trying to get home, arriving in Australia and staying overseas.

www.smartraveller.gov.au

Do you have the symptoms?
(thanks again to Mutineer )



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.

If you have NOT travelled overseas recently, but are feeling unwell, visit your usual health care provider. Avoid contact with others if you are unwell.

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

Optus Mobile giving away data due to Covid-19

To play our part in supporting your access needs, we are giving all eligible mobile subscribers a one off 20GB of free extra data which can be activated within My Optus app anytime during the month of April and valid for 30 days from activation. For our eligible prepaid customers, we will also be offering 10GB of free extra data when you top up for more than $40 during the month of April.

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

ArcGIS Dashboards

www.arcgis.com

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

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

www.covidlive.com.au

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.

 

[Thetrader15]

Times like this you do really see the best and worst of people. Don’t know the name but an NBA player is paying the salary of those who work at the stadium who are now without pay.

We have a bloody load of extremely rich people in the world and we saw the world rallied for our bushfires, well this is on another level.

It’s time for the extremely well off it give and give a lot. You just can’t rely on the government because ultimately the less fortunate will end up paying anyway with budget repair measures once it all recovers.

Show them the money! NINE AFL stars earned at least $1 million in 2019

The AFL’s million-dollar men revealed, as young gun sneaks onto footy’s top earners list

www.foxsports.com.au

Let's see if the AFLPA realise they aren't the most important stakeholder in the game. The fans are.

 

[Betts are off]

Kudos again to Ohio’s governor. He put many new things in place mid afternoon and one by one other States are following our lead.

He might as well be the President right now.

Only if he threatened to build a wall and get Kentucky to pay for it!

Sorry, I couldn't resist

 

[Thetrader15]

What the UK are doing is very, very risky. Going to be interesting to see how it pans out.

I agree. It's a fascinating social experiment.

 

[dogs105]

I agree. It's a fascinating social experiment.

Horrific social experiment

 

[Thetrader15]

Only if he threatened to build a wall and get Kentucky to pay for it!

Sorry, I couldn't resist

Mexico looking to close their border with the US...Perhaps they will ask Trump to pay for them to build a wall

Mexico frets about U.S. coronavirus spread, could restrict border

HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS/MEXICO (UPDATE 1):UPDATE 1-Mexico frets about U.S. coronavirus spread, could restrict border

news.trust.org

 

[Elite Crow]

If everyone is living alone, yes.

But if you live with your +1 and a couple of kids, you'd need to lock down for up to 8 weeks in the example one person showed symptoms on D11, the 2nd person on D11, and so on.

Then what happens to the surfaces, etc etc.

The UK are looking at locking up >70yo people, then trying to get herd immunity...wow, what an interesting social dilemma. They'd need about 70% of the population to contract it and then build up immunity to help stop it in it's tracks...as long as it doesn't mutate before then.

That makes sense, so it’s not as straight forward as my question assumed.

 

[Deaneus!]

Famous people with Covid-19:

Entertainers
Tom Hanks
Rita Wilson

Politicians
Sophie Gregoire Trudeau, wife of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
Nadibne Dorries, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Care in the UK
Fabio Wajngarten, public official in Brazil
Francis Suarez, Miami Mayor

Sports Stars
Mikel Arteta, Arsenal manager
Callum Hudson-Odoi, Chelsea player
Daniele Rugani, Juventus player
Manolo Gabbiadini, Sampdoria player
Timo Hubers, Hannover 96 player
Rudy Gobert, Utah Jazz NBA
Donovan Mitchell, Utah Jazz NBA
Christian Wood, Detroit Pistons NBA

 

[Thetrader15]

That makes sense, so it’s not as straight forward as my question assumed.

I thought the same thing - but I guess if it was that simple, even Trump would have come up with it.
Waiting for Pauline Hanson to provide us her policy about it

 

[Jarman3]

I’ve started seeing a nurse, I don’t want to limit contact

Stay safe...

 

[dogs105]

Pair on Dutton's flight have virus

Frank Chung
Eddie Mabo’s granddaughter and a prisoner advocate have contracted coronavirus after sharing a flight with Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton.

Sisters Inside advocate Deb Kilroy and indigenous activist Boneta-Marie Mabo were on the same plane from Sydney to Los Angeles as the federal minister, before he found out he was infected.

Ms Kilroy said Mr Dutton was sitting just two seats in front of her and while she can’t be sure she caught the virus from him, he was the only confirmed case she’d had contact with.

March 5th flight, before he had symptoms. According to CMO he shouldn't have been contagious then. *if* he was, bad news for people in the cabinet meeting for 6 hours with him on the 10th.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

They plan to save America by shooting the virus

 

[FR0GGY]

As much as I’d hate it I think we need to shut things for a couple of weeks.
This half shutting things down (in my case fully shutting down my income) for months is a terrible option.

 

[NikkiNoo]

Yes, but you would think they would fo everything possible to speed this one up given the spread rate.

It takes up to a year to two years to do the full testing required and approval through the relevant TGA/FDA once all the ethical testing has been done. If you are looking in to a drug that has been developed already for something else and it might work to alleviate some of the symptons then the testing time reduces as some of the required testing for side effects etc have been done. If developing from scratch then first testing is through animal models and then through human testing - that's why there is greater time limit. If universities are shut down, then that means research is also likely shut down.

My background is in higher education and the health sector, which includes working for ethics committees, so I have a little bit of knowledge in this area.

 

[GROTTO]

They plan to save America by shooting the virus

TRUMP.




EFA

 

[Rotayjay]

Those of us who have accounting and balance sheet experience, to what extent is the AFC in trouble financially if the AFL season gets cancelled outright? I'm 80% certain this season will not be played to conclusion (i.e. there will be no 2020 men's premiers).

 

[radiojake]

shut everything down for two weeks

give every bank mortgage a month's amnesty

* the banks they have enough money

So many people in retail/hospo/casual jobs are gonna lose their income and will struggle rent

home owners/ business owners are gonna struggle paying back loans

two week shut down - 1 months amnesty - no rent/no mortgage repayments


I have no economic experience, it's just the vibe

 

[Rotayjay]

That said, I will be keeping my membership. I've been very disappointed in this club lately but I want to remain a member forever. I think it's very important we keep paying for our memberships to support the club and the league, even if the season never goes ahead.

 

[Deaneus!]

Those of us who have accounting and balance sheet experience, to what extent is the AFC in trouble financially if the AFL season gets cancelled outright? I'm 80% certain this season will not be played to conclusion (i.e. there will be no 2020 men's premiers).

I've asked the club a couple of times for the financial statements from the AGM earlier this month but heard nothing yet

 

[AmericanCrow]

Crap, I am not very cute...guess that is it for me

 

[Deaneus!]

shut everything down for two weeks

give every bank mortgage a month's amnesty

fu** the banks they have enough money

So many people in retail/hospo/casual jobs are gonna lose their income and will struggle rent

home owners/ business owners are gonna struggle paying back loans

two week shut down - 1 months amnesty - no rent/no mortgage repayments


I have no economic experience, it's just the vibe

You'd don't need economic experience to come up with common sense ideas

 

[AmericanCrow]

That said, I will be keeping my membership. I've been very disappointed in this club lately but I want to remain a member forever. I think it's very important we keep paying for our memberships to support the club and the league, even if the season never goes ahead.

Yep, am staying in as well.

 

[The Karma Bus]

I won't quote everyone but:

The time to "get on top of it" for the world in terms of having a chance to stop a pandemic type situation (and avoid a prolonged/deadly situation therefore in our own countries) was many weeks/months ago. Was interesting following this and some experts/knowledgeable people on it from the start of the year and they warned what was going on and the inaction from the world and where it would lead to. It has all happened.

Now all we can do is spread out the infection rate over a longer period of time so we don't swamp the health system and it totally collapses, leading to many, many deaths. Not just from Covid-19 but all the other usual illnesses/accidents that can't get the attention required.
Due to the need to spread it out, this could go on for a long time.
If we go into a "lockdown" now, we hopefully can spread that out and spare us disaster.

However we will not be able to just lock down for a couple of weeks and get things over with and the virus then goes away. It will still be out there and just resume it's bounce back in infection. It will be a slow burn and will continue to require this for quite a while until a lot of people have contracted it. Then you can release the valve slowly on restrictions but this works on the idea that you can only get the virus once and you then have an immunity to it. If not....

To get to a point of having "herd immunity" where there and not many hosts left for the virus to spread to, generally you may need about 70% infected. That's why they throw around the figures of 60% etc of the population may contract it. Because after that, there is a small pool of hosts for the virus to spread to and it's transmission lines have nowhere to go - the virus starts to disappear and dies out.

 

[DJ75]

The big 4 banks have been gouging Australian's for years. They make billions of dollars every year. Would it be too much for them to show some leadership and bring in a policy like suggested? Yes their bottom dollar will take a hit and shareholders will 'lose' money. But, they will recoup it over time. It's about supporting people now and being part of society, not being 'above' society.

 

[AmericanCrow]

I won't quote everyone but:

The time to "get on top of it" for the world in terms of having a chance to stop a pandemic type situation (and avoid a prolonged/deadly situation therefore in our own countries) was many weeks/months ago. Was interesting following this and some experts/knowledgeable people on it from the start of the year and they warned what was going on and the inaction from the world and where it would lead to. It has all happened.

Now all we can do is spread out the infection rate over a longer period of time so we don't swamp the health system and it totally collapses, leading to many, many deaths. Not just from Covid-19 but all the other usual illnesses/accidents that can't get the attention required.
Due to the need to spread it out, this could go on for a long time.
If we go into a "lockdown" now, we hopefully can spread that out and spare us disaster.

However we will not be able to just lock down for a couple of weeks and get things over with and the virus then goes away. It will still be out there and just resume it's bounce back in infection. It will be a slow burn and will continue to require this for quite a while until a lot of people have contracted it. Then you can release the valve slowly on restrictions but this works on the idea that you can only get the virus once and you then have an immunity to it. If not....

To get to a point of having "herd immunity" where there and not many hosts left for the virus to spread to, generally you may need about 70% infected. That's why they throw around the figures of 60% etc of the population may contract it. Because after that, there is a small pool of hosts for the virus to spread to and it's transmission lines have nowhere to go - the virus starts to disappear and dies out.

I have kinda followed this for awhile and my question would be this

How do we know how long “immunity” sticks with you? It is an unanswerable question at the moment.

I am not sure we know if that strategy the UK is employing is even feasible.

 

[Big Gazoongas]

Times like this you do really see the best and worst of people. Don’t know the name but an NBA player is paying the salary of those who work at the stadium who are now without pay.

We have a bloody load of extremely rich people in the world and we saw the world rallied for our bushfires, well this is on another level.

It’s time for the extremely well off it give and give a lot. You just can’t rely on the government because ultimately the less fortunate will end up paying anyway with budget repair measures once it all recovers.

That player is Giannis Antetokounmpo from the Milwaukee Bucks.

Link here:

‘Bigger than basketball’: Giannis and Zion’s incredible act of kindness

‘Bigger than basketball’: Giannis and Zion’s act of kindness amid coronavirus chaos

www.foxsports.com.au