Corona Virus

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Originally Posted by NavyDiver

I love our defense forces and yet can add we at times do things well outside our job description[biggrin]. Not at all certain that Navy, Army or Airforce staff would have seen a entirely different outcome with out other items such as compulsory testing of everyone in the Hotels.

During the bicentenary I was wandering around the rock in Sydney for example with Sword often held to tourist throats for photos[bigwhistle] A 12 other sailors with muskets dressed in 200 year old Navy uniforms were not expert actors [biggrin]. Bush fire support at two sites I helped at saw the odd order or two from Navy Officers trying but out of there field of expertise. It seemed odd to a farm boy like me[biggrin] over a beer late that Office agreed and happily no one died. He agreed we should have put CFA VIC or RFS NSW directly in charge of the navy Volunteer fire fighters[thumbsupbig]

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Two Hundred Year olde Daks? Blimey they'd be a bit worn in the seat. All the Rowing of the Admiral's Barge you know, wears them thin.

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Originally Posted by 101RRS

The problem is that the Hotel that the Hotel employee was in and the Hotel that the security guard was in that is believed to have caused the outbreak are different hotels - there is no evidence to dispute the stories about the security guard it is just that it is now clear a little earlier the employee in the other hotel had also become infected - so there would seem to be two unrelated sources, starting with the hotel employee and a little later the other hotel security staff and their rudy doos.

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There seems to be some confusion as to the hotel infections. Depends on which media you read I guess.

Victoria’s ‘patient zero’ was Rydges staffer

A night staffer at Melbourne’s Rydges on Swanston has been revealed as ‘patient zero’ in a media report.
Leaked emails obtained by the Melbourne Age show a night duty manager – not a security guard – was believed to be the link between the hotel quarantine and the community spread.
After becoming infected, the night manager passed the virus onto security staff who spread the disease to families in the northern and western suburbs of Melbourne, the report claims.
It’s not known how the hotel staffer was infected but it’s believed a returned traveller in hotel quarantine may have been the source.
The emails show a considerable effort was made to contain the spread after the manager came down with the illness on May 25.
Seven security guards contracted to patrol the hotel were stood down immediately and told to get tested and go home to isolate and a small number of hotel staff and health workers were told to do the same, The Age reports.
Five of those security guards tested positive but by then had already brought the virus to the community.
The Age says the email chain shows officials initially mistakenly reported that a security guard was the first positive test.
There is no suggestion the night manager became infection due to improper behaviour.

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Originally Posted by 4bee

Two Hundred Year olde Daks? Blimey they'd be a bit worn in the seat. All the Rowing of the Admiral's Barge you know, wears them thin.

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The bosuns Call I wore was the only legitimate item[biggrin] Its up stairs. A poker game with a very salty Chief Petty O allowed it to come home much to the owners disgust. Its WW1 vintage.

Not sure who mate the calico cloth pants. I guess that the rope needed to hold then up on my waist suggest it was not a seamstress.

They were airy mind you. Bright lights from a TV crew and a 80s fitness craze ladies who used us for a prop on live TV showed that very clearly I am told. [bigwhistle] Excuse the imagery that might put in anyone mind [biggrin]

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Walking and more is good

Obesity alone, apart from accompanying health problems, adds to Covid-19 risks for men.

Various factors are known to increase the risk of severe Covid-19, including older age and chronic health conditions like high blood pressure and heart disease. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also lists extreme obesity as a high risk.But is the excess weight to blame? Or is it the health problems that accompany obesity, like metabolic disorders and breathing problems?A new study points to obesity itself as a culprit.

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Originally Posted by Grumbles

I live in a small rural village and the effect of Stage 3 Restrictions on locals is not really noticeable. Apart from a couple of small businesses being affected normal small town rural life is very similar to Stage 3......for locals. A traffic jam is 2 cars at an intersection simultaneously and no trouble in finding a car park.

Then why is it difficult now to get a car park in the shopping centre. The super market is very busy and the footpath is busy. Yet, as I look around I do not recognize the people. Small town life means you mostly know or at least recognize most other locals.

Just for laughs and giggles I did a walk up and down the main street but on the road. I was looking at the car stickers on the back windows advertising which car dealer sold the car to its current owner. Well...the humour soon left me. The majority of cars were from Melbourne car dealers with a smattering of Victorian rural city car dealers.

Why are they here? Why are they traveling away from home? Are they Covid vectors?

Like many other small rural communities tourists are tolerated but that is all. If we, along with the rest of rural Victoria and through no fault of our own have Stage 4 inflicted on us as Dan has threatened to do then I predict a backlash against all visitors post Covid.

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I'd be fascinated to know where you are - is it an area with a lot of holiday homes? As far as I'm aware the blocks on leaving Melbourne are supposed to be thorough, so I'd've thought that it was unlikely that these are day trippers. There'd be no issues for me to work from anywhere there's a good internet connection and I'd suspect that a lot of other people came to the same conclusion and decided to take off. Could these people have C19? Yes, but given the socio-economic profile of the current outbreak it's unlikely that they'd have holiday homes.

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Originally Posted by NavyDiver

The bosuns Call I wore was the only legitimate item[biggrin] Its up stairs. A poker game with a very salty Chief Petty O allowed it to come home much to the owners disgust. Its WW1 vintage.

Not sure who mate the calico cloth pants. I guess that the rope needed to hold then up on my waist suggest it was not a seamstress.

They were airy mind you. Bright lights from a TV crew and a 80s fitness craze ladies who used us for a prop on live TV showed that very clearly I am told. [bigwhistle] Excuse the imagery that might put in anyone mind [biggrin]

Edit- On topic

Walking and more is good

Obesity alone, apart from accompanying health problems, adds to Covid-19 risks for men.

Various factors are known to increase the risk of severe Covid-19, including older age and chronic health conditions like high blood pressure and heart disease. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also lists extreme obesity as a high risk.But is the excess weight to blame? Or is it the health problems that accompany obesity, like metabolic disorders and breathing problems?A new study points to obesity itself as a culprit.

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Re Bosun's Call. I have an ex-Navy one James I used in the Sea Scouts. It must have been War Surplus. We should get together & have a Jam Session.. I realise it'd be bloody boring but hey. Might attract some birds.[bigrolf]

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Originally Posted by bob10

I've noticed that. More English than Alf Garnett. Every ones eccentric uncle, meant in a good way. Don't ever change.

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More English than Alf Garnett. Every ones eccentric uncle, meant in a good way. Don't ever change.

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'Ere, wos your game sunshine?

No Bob not a Brit, Australian born & bred but I have English & Scots Ancestors but hasn't everybody, but I have always been very Pro-British & have visited a few times. In Scotland, the Family seat in Ayrshire, (a Castle, naturally) was used as Target Practice by the Royal Navy or Army in WW2. Today, it is a pile of Stones with just a tiny Residential/shop area. Must have been good shots those Gun Crews, to miss the shop.[biggrin]

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Originally Posted by 4bee

'Ere, wos your game sunshine?

No Bob not a Brit, Australian born & bred but I have English & Scots Ancestors but hasn't everybody, but I have always been very Pro-British & have visited a few times. In Scotland, the Family seat in Ayrshire, (a Castle, naturally) was used as Target Practice by the Royal Navy or Army in WW2. Today, it is a pile of Stones with just a tiny Residential/shop area. Must have been good shots those Gun Crews, to miss the shop.[biggrin]

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Well, I'm speechless. Probably a first. I would have picked you for a dead set East Ender. That's where my Grand mother on my mothers side came from, she had the same sense of humour. That Castle, if it were Navy, they were probably aiming for the shop. [smilebigeye]

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Originally Posted by Eevo

altho i agree, its not rocket science. if the govt is paying me $550 a week to sit on my bum vs 200$ a week to pick fruit, i know which one im going to do.

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If you don't mind actually working, you can make well over $1500 per week picking fruit and/Or veggies.

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Originally Posted by donh54

If you don't mind actually working, you can make well over $1500 per week picking fruit and/Or veggies.

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Yes but you do $3000 worth of work.

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Originally Posted by 101RRS

Yes but you do $3000 worth of work.

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Sounds like a salaried job!