Corona Virus

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Originally Posted by Arapiles

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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Yes - there is a decent handful of holiday homes here. We are too far for Melbourne daytrippers because it's a four hour drive but having said that I did chat to one couple when we were at Stage 2 and they had driven here from Melbourne just to have a picnic lunch before returning home that afternoon.

I understand what you are saying re virus vectors and socio economic profiles but it only takes one carrier to wreck the place and that carrier could well be one of their kids. I just don't trust people and this is why. The local community is heavily skewed to being senior citizen dominant so the contagion risk factor and its terminal result is increased exponentially.

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Originally Posted by 4bee

Maybe because Pol. & Prison G. are normally on shift work but the ADF seem to have heaps of blokes & don't normally do shifts. The govt. learnt that lesson the hard way & next time I trust the country is in better hands. There will be a next time maybe not for C-19 but for some other bloody awful disease. I read where there is a new Virus in China already.

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The ADF is a 24/7 organisation. It's not called shift work, but they don't park ships up for the night, and start again in the morning. And I'm sure the Army just don't fight during the day. The Air Force? You may be on to something there. [bigsmile1] As for the next time, how about an Avian influenza outbreak in Victoria, now. Not dangerous to us right now, but can any one tell us how COVID 19 started , for sure?

Avian influenza | Business Queensland

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Originally Posted by bob10

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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I guess it comes from a wasted lifetime of watching Eastenders but no more, it's imho, rubbish these days I'm now more your Emmerdale type. Mind you, my English forebears were married within sight & sound of Bow Bells just prior to travelling to here in from memory Circa 1856. Usually you had to be "Born within the Sound of Bow Bells to be a real East Ender, but street by street they could have made the grade. It isn't a huge area.

Garn a bit uupmarket, kna wot I mean guv?

RE sense of humour. I see humour where other people don't appear to if I may be so bold, even at Funerals etc. It is not disrespect, just observing people & listening to their speech & watching their actions.

The Playwright Irwin Shaw made a practice of that especially in Post War Paris for a wonderful book called "PARIS, PARIS".


Re Shop. Thank goodness the Gunlayer was on the ball. Or was he off the ball, or ****ed?[bighmmm]


Bow Bells. True Cockneys dying out after Bow Bells muted - Telegraph

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Originally Posted by bob10

The ADF is a 24/7 organisation. It's not called shift work, but they don't park ships up for the night, and start again in the morning. And I'm sure the Army just don't fight during the day. The Air Force? You may be on to something there. [bigsmile1] As for the next time, how about an Avian influenza outbreak in Victoria, now. Not dangerous to us right now, but can any one tell us how COVID 19 started , for sure?

Avian influenza | Business Queensland

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I thought that was what I said Bob. I haven't yet caught up with the name of the current Chinese one but it could well be Avian


Bang goes the Flied Chicken legs in restaurants.

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Originally Posted by 4bee

I guess it comes from a wasted lifetime of watching Eastenders but no more, it's imho, rubbish these days I'm now more your Emmerdale type. Mind you, my English forebears were married within sight & sound of Bow Bells just prior to travelling to here in from memory Circa 1856. Usually you had to be "Born within the Sound of Bow Bells to be a real East Ender, but street by street they could have made the grade. It isn't a huge area.

Garn a bit uupmarket, kna wot I mean guv?

RE sense of humour. I see humour where other people don't appear to if I may be so bold, even at Funerals etc. It is not disrespect, just observing people & listening to their speech & watching their actions.

The Playwright Irwin Shaw made a practice of that especially in Post War Paris for wonderful book called "PARIS, PARIS".


Re Shop. Thank goodness the Gunlayer was on the ball. Or was he off the ball, or ****ed?[bighmmm]

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You know what they say, RUM, BUM, and the LASH.[thumbsupbig]

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Originally Posted by 4bee

I thought that was what I said Bob.

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I need a translator. The older I get, the more confused it seems.

Refer to Post #6221.

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Originally Posted by 4bee

RE sense of humour. I see humour where other people don't appear to if I may be so bold, even at Funerals etc. It is not disrespect, just observing people & listening to their speech & watching their actions.

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Monty Python made a fortune out of doing just that. And the wonderful Goons, from the goon show. May as well totally hijack the thread....

the goon show you tube - Bing video

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Originally Posted by bob10

Monty Python made a fortune out of doing just that. And the wonderful Goons, from the goon show. May as well totally hijack the thread....

the goon show you tube - Bing video

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I suspect it was Well & Truly buggered waaaaay back. Don't feel badly.

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Originally Posted by 4bee

Refer to Post #6221.

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Oh, good. Code. Just like Bletchley park. Now where is my Inigma? [wink11]