Corona virus

You don't have to go all the way to AUS to see fools. Look at the beaches in FL, Galveston this week for Spring Break. :(

Current rate is two times the negative gdp rate of the first world war which is obviously not sustainable.

There i mocked up a visual representation for you, enjoy?


Unless of course you miss the old days of that good old world war I and its massive shortages and high suicide rates due to its economic shrink.
Doesn't america have an opioid crisis due to unemployment already which coincides with the rise of suicide rates?

And to be clear, i am all for the curent methods being employed of containment and issolation but this cant go on for long, realistically speaking.
People well off and with savings might be fine under this kind of economic pressure but thats not a majority of most economies.

If you think people will follow the goverment rules when they run out of cash your living in fantasy land.

Unless of course you don't care about future generations and don't mind giving your children and grandchildren a couple of billions of debt to pay off, just like the previous generations did to rebuild society after the great wars.

Peace,

-Boem-

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essemoni wrote:

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Foreverhappychan wrote:

But you know what? Maybe we fuckin' deserve this, we Australians.

This weekend, at our biggest beach:



i...i can't even.

Oh come on mate.. That's Bondi, you know there are no Australians there. It's all full of British backpackers!!

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Stay safe,
Matt.

Ps. Forgot to mention. The local Vincentia supermarket has "pensioner" opening hours so all the old farts can "shop safely". There was an all in brawl between 4 or 5 of them, and 300 people waiting to get in earlier. Needless to say the shop was emptied of pretty much all stock before the normal opening hours. I'm seriously thing of going down early tomorrow and start coughing as I wait in line with the multitudes of the old. It is however nice to hear my high school student complaining about the behaviour of these oldies. Normally it's the other way around.

I can't believe you're fucking winning our bet, my friend.

I qualified for 'at risk delivery hours' with Woolies, so even if the deliveries get swamped (which they seem to be not doing for now), I am ensured a decent grocery delivery once a week or so. That's a huge load off my mind. I'm sort of surprised I qualified, given I assumed people are arseholes and would try to get on the list with more proof than I that I'm on hard lockdown at a mortal fear level.

Any deliveries we do get either go straight into the fridge/freezer or sit in the garage for several days because the virus can live on hard surfaces for days. The downside of this is little indulgences like menulog/deliveroo are out, since they tend to deliver in plastic or cardboard...:(

Anyway, I'm feeling personally safe in terms of resources. As long as I don't catch it, I'm fine. But oh there are so many people out there who aren't, who have been let down by our system. Small businesses dying left and right. Food/entertainment industry employers and employees? Fucked. I read that the UK is managing to pay out of work bar staff 80% of their wages. I wonder how they pulled that off.

Meanwhile in Australia, we're putting billions towards bailing out airlines, because apparently they were struggling until now or something.

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Foreverhappychan wrote:

I read that the UK is managing to pay out of work bar staff 80% of their wages. I wonder how they pulled that off.

I genuinely hope thats sarcasm and that you know better.

Peace,

-Boem-

If only it looked like this a few weeks ago. If only. Naturally, it took a full heavy-handed closure to make people do the right thing. O for a leader that doesn't wait until it's too late to...lead.

Young people don't give a fuck. Not that I am old but its sad to see how they simply don't care.

I won't generalise. I know plenty of young people (by young let's mean the age group we saw crowding Bondi Beach or Florida beaches this past week) who are aware of the situation. I think it's less age and more age+privilege. I mean, their age itself is a privilege right now, but you won't see underprivileged kids ignoring the warnings right now. They know what's at stake.

In short, I expect most of the idiot brats saying 'we're young, it won't affect us, we're just here to party!' suffer from at least a mild case of affluenza. Let's hope that's all they suffer from in the days to come.

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Foreverhappychan wrote:

In short, I expect most of the idiot brats saying 'we're young, it won't affect us, we're just here to party!' suffer from at least a mild case of affluenza. Let's hope that's all they suffer from in the days to come.

I think not as many people are thinking that as you think. This virus isn't being communicated to people very well, most of the people I know are just going about their lives normally, never having given it a thought.

Well, there's one more person who has pretty much zero chance of contributing meaningfully to this discussion.

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Christ I love Australian understatement. Today's headline as we pass 1,000 confirmed infected cases (surely an iceberg figure if any did exist): 'Not good'.

Yeah, it's a bit like that, eh.

What, they don't have TVs or internet? How can they not know what is going on?