Thread: Corona Virus

Lazy planning driven by fiscal constraints ?


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Originally Posted by DiscoMick

For Trout, in Qld fishing in a tinnie is regarded as getting essential supplies and is okay. I dont know about WA. So another readon to move to Qld.
Interesting story this:

All you need to know about the rules on home confinement in Queensland
Here's what you need to know about Queensland's latest coronavirus home confinement rules - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

I got an email from RecfishWest asking me Not to go fishing during this time of worry So it will give me plenty of time to service the 30 odd fishing reels that I have sadly neglected for some time now.
Its Not all bad at least the fishing stocks will have a getter chance of improving

Originally Posted by rick130

Brad, my ex and my old psych convinced me there are a lot of selfish, self centred people in the world. (The ex not through example! She's a great person)
I used to give far too many the benefit of the doubt.
Its times like these you see a person's true nature come to the fore

So far I've been lucky and really only seen good behaviour, having said that I'm avoiding going to places like Bunnings.
One of the typists at work was trying to buy dunny roll a couple of weeks back, there was none but another shopper gave her their number and said they had a couple of rolls at home they could have. I gave a distressed woman a lift home the other day, she was clearly upset with the panic buying and lack of produce on the shelves. Had a great chat with her and it made a difference to her that not everyone was selfish.
Working in health we are constantly reminded to check on our fellow workers. Everyone is acting like everything is OK but there is a lot of stress and anxiety not far under the surface.

Originally Posted by windsock

Vectors for the flu -> People. More specifically, the respiratory tract and all that gets expelled from it and all this lands on directly or indirectly to enable transfer to others.

Social distancing, masks, self-isolation are all touted for covid control. This same control will effectively render the usual seasonal flu spike a little flatter than usual I guess if the Danish data is anything to go by. Time will tell.

Edit: R0 is the infection rate of a disease. R0 of covid is stated in the media to be somewhere like R2-R3. That is one infected person usually infected up to three others. If we are all inside, this breaks that ability to infect and reduces the R0 rate. Not sure what the usual R0 of the flu is but I think I recall something along the lines of R2.

How'd I do?

ah yes. vector used in a difference sense.

all communicable diseases should be less with these lockdown.

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

For Trout, in Qld fishing in a tinnie is regarded as getting essential supplies and is okay. I dont know about WA. So another readon to move to Qld.
Interesting story this:

All you need to know about the rules on home confinement in Queensland
Here's what you need to know about Queensland's latest coronavirus home confinement rules - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Fishing is also ok in NSW.

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From Germany, science unscripted. Do home made masks actually work?


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