Science/Environment Wuhan Coronavirus (COVID-19) - Pandemic Declared

[Roby]

Slapping huge fines on people for cruising around in a car is a huge police state overreach and the coppers reported comments that they are "having a field day" is a disgrace. We don't live in ******* China. Nothing wrong with going for a walk down the beach either.

Hope you get fined.

 

[SaintsSeptember]

Slapping huge fines on people for cruising around in a car is a huge police state overreach and the coppers reported comments that they are "having a field day" is a disgrace. We don't live in ******* China. Nothing wrong with going for a walk down the beach either.

Chinese cops would be strict as s**t, but i doubt if they'd make stupid field day comments.
Kid should go to court and represent herself.
Her defence , Mum told me to do it.
Probably has no money.
Then refuse to pay any fines and see what happens.

 

[Les Malone]

Coronavirus wedding: Melbourne family allowed to celebrate

Police allegedly allowed a Melbourne wedding with at least 30 guests to continue celebrating, provided they kept a distance and in small groups.

www.dailymail.co.uk

i don't see a $1632 fine here or in fact any fine, maybe just maybe its easier to pick on a Mum and her daughter!!

BTW were did they pluck that number from, how did a shiny arsed public servant who will never lose his job stumble on that number.

 

[Geelong_Sicko]

Surely the next phase the government will need to restrict bed use.

couples can sleep in shifts

Mandatory spooning can work!!

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

Surely the next phase the government will need to restrict bed use.

couples can sleep in shifts

I know someone who does that with housemates (not partners), two on day shift, two on night shift. All work in the same place.

 

[Over The Post]

NZ will be watching the Ruby Princess situation too, the ship was in Port Chalmers (Dunedin), Wellington and Napier before coming back to Australia. I actually thought it left Sydney, got most of the way to NZ and was turned back:

Anatomy of a coronavirus disaster: how 2,700 people were let off the Ruby Princess cruise ship by mistake

Here is the timeline which led to dozens of people with Covid-19 being allowed to disembark in Sydney

www.theguardian.com

 

[Over The Post]

Coronavirus wedding: Melbourne family allowed to celebrate

Police allegedly allowed a Melbourne wedding with at least 30 guests to continue celebrating, provided they kept a distance and in small groups.

www.dailymail.co.uk

i don't see a $1632 fine here or in fact any fine, maybe just maybe its easier to pick on a Mum and her daughter!!

because racism

 

[Korn]

To learn how to drive. Girl might need to find a job when this is over (or now) and being able to drive will help that.

What is the R0 of learner driving while having coronavirus? 0.0000000000001? Patently absurd restriction.

It's not essential so how about she bloody learn it after this thing is over??? She can't get a license now so what's the point?

Her mum kept on bitching about her daughter being only 17 and I bet it's the mum's idea.

You know she drove 30km away from home so something is fishy.

 

[boncer34]

Slapping huge fines on people for cruising around in a car is a huge police state overreach and the coppers reported comments that they are "having a field day" is a disgrace. We don't live in ******* China. Nothing wrong with going for a walk down the beach either.

Yeah I'm gonna trust her word the cop said that.

 

[Over The Post]

I know someone who does that with housemates (not partners), two on day shift, two on night shift. All work in the same place.

In the navy it's called hot bunking, assume the army has a similar practice. Not the air force, they have 5-star accommodation and get all pouty if they have to slum it to 4-star.

 

[Les Malone]

because racism

sexism ?.

 

[Les Malone]

In the navy it's called hot bunking, assume the army has a similar practice. Not the air force, they have 5-star accommodation and get all pouty if they have to slum it to 4-star.

only place i have ever seen it in the Navy is on a sub, two blokes share a bunk but obviously not at the same time.

I was in the Navy for quite a period and every ship i served on you had your own rack.

 

[Mofra]

This is what the US are up against in the conservative south.

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Sehlke wrote in part:
Wake up!!! This is what the beginning of socialism looks like! …

They are leading with fear causing you to panic like sheep.
… You don’t need hand sanitizer, toilet paper, and Lysol. You need common sense, a sense of direction, faith, a will to fight, and of course guns!

 

[Pessimistic]

Thought it would be a reasonable defence to say it was for educational purposes. I tought my three, you need to travel out of your suburb to get anything like 120 hours.

uncovers a parallel effect of thesame thing . Mild distancing comes in, people ignore it. Instead of addressing everything constantly, they up the restrictions and fine a few people $1600.

crazy. The fine in UK is about fifty bucks.

driving experience used to be 80 hours but people rorted it. The response? Up the hours to 120 for the honest people. We are farted in this country when it comes to law and order
It’s a totally over the top amount of hours and counter any climate change initiatives, just mindlessly driving for the sake of it

I was honestly asking the question about driving experience time today. It’s not clear(I suppose it is now - but one person has a $1600 fine to let the rest of us know.

suppose you want to go and collect goods you can buy legally. You are then at the mercy of a cops discretion if you are one of the ones selected to fill a quota.

if you got the stuff delivered by a worker - OK
If you get a taxi or Uber to collect it - OK
If you register as Uber and your family employs you to collect something -OK
If you collect it yourself - who knows it’s the thing you are getting and what here it’s ‘essential’

which of the above scenarios involve more people at risk of contacting others?

 

[Ned_Flanders]

Chinese cops would be strict as s**t, but i doubt if they'd make stupid field day comments.
Kid should go to court and represent herself.
Her defence , Mum told me to do it.
Probably has no money.
Then refuse to pay any fines and see what happens.

Off memory the person with the full licence cops the fine, not the kid

 

[Crankyhawk]

Is that not travelling for education purposes?

That would be the angle I’d argue and not pay.

Victoria has increased population for testing- have now included age >65 without other factors as high risk enough to swab if fever or respiratory symptoms, even if well enough to not be in hospital. Also any admission to hospital with fever and cause unclear OR respiratory symptoms should get tested.

 

[Pessimistic]

Noted that with less cars on the road, highway cops are amusing themselves in other ways

 

[Ned_Flanders]

This is what the US are up against in the conservative south.

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Some of those post death tweets by people are pretty gross

 

[Mofra]

Some of those post death tweets by people are pretty gross

Yep. If we think tribalism is bad here, it's positively toxic in the US.

 

[Geelong_Sicko]

Yep. If we think tribalism is bad here, it's positively toxic in the US.

Theirs is a society that will actually eat itself alive if too many more chips go down. And quite a few of them are packing heat.

 

[Mofra]

Theirs is a society that will actually eat itself alive if too many more chips go down. And quite a few of them are packing heat.

There are a lot of Waco Texas like compounds. The South is nuts. The first guy I met in Louisiana told me his lifelong dream is to shoot a kangaroo. He was wearing a "Hillary Eats Babies" sign around his neck.

 

[Ok Boomer]

This is what the US are up against in the conservative south.

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I probably shouldn't joke about this, but how long before they start shooting each other more than they already do over there?

 

[Ok Boomer]

I agree - that is way too far. $1,600 fine for a learner is full police state bullshit.

The thing is, they wouldn't have had contact with anyone if they weren't pulled over by police.

Good one

 

[Geelong_Sicko]

There are a lot of Waco Texas like compounds. The South is nuts. The first guy I met in Louisiana told me his lifelong dream is to shoot a kangaroo. He was wearing a "Hillary Eats Babies" sign around his neck.

Sweet zombie Jesus...

 

[Simon_Nesbit]

I probably shouldn't joke about this, but how long before they start shooting each other more than they already do over there?

I guess there will be lots of people claiming "it's just the 'flu" for the first month...