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Here's the latest data about how our employment is actually being affected. Interesting industry breakdowns.
What Australia can already see of the economic damage of coronavirus is scary indeed
What Australia can already see of the economic damage of coronavirus is scary indeed | Greg Jericho | Business | The Guardian
Yep, it is bloody worrying, but remember those numbers will rebound quite a bit once the lockdown is over - pubs and clubs, etc will all put some of their staff back on, but it won’t bounce back to where it was, that’s for sure. Very glad I work where I do, even on the 4 day week we are now on, there’s a lot of people worse off. ☹️
Well, I hope you had an enjoyable Birthday sunning your self on Byron. [smilebigeye] I won't say Many Happy Returns 'cos when you get to 55 who the **** wants that?Quote:
Originally Posted by rick130
I know the place is full of empty casinos but this seems a little loopy to me. Mayor is clearly not a Doctor[bighmmm] Open up Las Vegas to people from all over the cesspit of Covid19 which the US still is[bighmmm]
"Coronavirus update: Las Vegas Mayor offers to open city up as coronavirus experiment," High odds he looses.
Coronavirus update: Las Vegas Mayor offers to open city up as coronavirus experiment, Ruby Princess set to leave Australia - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Just got a call from my older son. His wife has just been laid off. He already is.
A comment made at work today.
“Bloody glad I don’t live in a townhouse or apartment.”
And I’d have to agree. The ability to work in the workshop, the yard etc is a sanity saver.
Those living in Med-High density housing would have challenges for sure.
Yes the wife and I have commented this to each other a few times over the last few weeks. We have 1 acre in a semi bush setting, so plenty of room to "isolate" from the world.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tombie
Having lived most of my life"on farms or acreage, living in a unit in town sucks the proverbials atm.
But I still have a job and earning reasonable money and I live in a lovely part of the world so I have nothing to whinge about.
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Originally Posted by NavyDiver
Ok Mr Smarty Pants Mayor tell us how to get there you nincompoop. Haven't you heard, no planes are flying & how the hell do we get into your country. Always assuming that one would wish to of course. [bighmmm]
The coronavirus hit the USA weeks before any one knew it.
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The virus hit the U.S. weeks before anyone knew it
A startling discovery has rewritten the timeline of the pandemic in the United States: A woman who died at home in Santa Clara County, Calif., on Feb. 6 was infected with the coronavirus, and probably caught it sometime in January.
Since the woman had no known exposure from travel, her contraction of the virus suggested that it must already have been spreading in the San Francisco Bay Area long before the federal government began restricting travel from China.
Testing in the U.S. was so limited in February — because of tight restrictions and botched test-kit manufacturing — that officials didn’t identify a case of community transmission until Feb. 26 or a virus-linked death until Feb. 29.
Experts said that if officials had known that the virus already had a foothold in the United States, there would have been more urgency in February to expand testing, prepare hospitals and get more protective gear. Instead, the government’s focus was on quarantining travelers from Asia.
Dr. Sara Cody, the county’s chief medical officer, said that the woman’s death as well as another individual on Feb. 17 were newly linked to the virus and were “probably the tip of an iceberg of unknown size.”
Genes trace the path: Researchers studying the virus’s genome believe that it had begun to circulate in the New York area by mid-February, coming mainly from Europe, and that it spread undetected in the Seattle area for weeks after arriving there from Wuhan, China.
Mike Baker and Sheri Fink of The Times report about how the genetically unique version of the virus that landed near Seattle has jumped to 14 other states and now accounts for one-quarter of all U.S. cases whose genetic data has been made public.