Yes! Start that rumour. Twitter would be a good place to begin.
More for me then.
Don’t you go stockpiling the stuff. I want some too.
I think I have already over dosed/bought enough, depends how long it lasts.
My friend from Malaysia will not be visiting in April. The Malaysian Government has just announced that citizens will be prevented from overseas travel and all arrivals will have to self isolate for 14 days.
I wonder what they will do about the hundreds of thousands of workers who travel to Singapore to work everyday and return at night? That is a very special problem, at the moment Singapore has exempted workers who travel across the causeway between Malaysia and Singapore from the travel restrictions and isolation requirements.
If the various governments do nothing about the lack of food in the stores, I fear that there will soon be rioting and looting.
Nothing worse than a totally panicked AND hungry population.
I used to laugh at those “end-of-the-world survivalists” who have stockpiled food. I’m not laughing any more
It has to stop eventually. 96% of groceries in Australia are produced in this country, we make all our own flour and rice and export 65% of our agricultural products. Eventually people will run out of places to store food.
It would do most people good to eat less anyway.
Ya gotta laugh at this panic buying though:
Not sure whether anyone has posted a link to this Imperial College covid response report about the suppression strategy :
This is the new reality for at least a year and a half apparently. The only thing they can do is to reduce transmission while they smooth out Intensive Care bed availability. This should greatly reduce the number of deaths, but at a high societal cost.
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Our NHS and Public Health Systems have been savagely cut.
We have fewer Hospital Beds per head of Population then Italy, France and Germany.
Get over it and accept the reality of the situation.
The number of collateral deaths from non Coronavirus will be at least as high due to lack of capacity.
We do not train enougth doctors, we stsrted charging our own to become nurses, relying in immigrants to fill the poats.
They are not coming now and are understandably leaving in droves to go home and look after their own.
All this to save a few pence in Tax.
Australia
Cases 440
Deaths 5
Recovered 27
Critical 1
Cases per Million 17.3
U.K.
Cases 1543
Deaths 55
Recovered 52
Critical 20
Cases per Million 22.7
USA
Cases 4718
Deaths 93
Recovered 74
Critical 12
Cases per Million 14.3
Global Cases 182700
Global Deaths 7173
Mortality Rate 3.9%
(Flu Mortality Rate 0.1%)
Very interesting and informative explanations from Dr Norman Swan, well worth watching.
“What happened today we will see in 10 to 14 days”
About 6.55 minutes is a piece about age and risk which is quite surprising. “Plenty of people dying in their 30s and 40s with no obvious risk factors.”
Qantas and Jetstar will cut international capacity by about 90 per cent, and domestic capacity by around 60 per cent, until at least the end of May.
Australian doctors have issued an urgent plea to governments to immediately change course in their response to COVID-19.
The doctors are demanding state and federal governments implement strict lockdown and social distancing, and ramp up health resources to cope with a surge in critically ill patients.
According to the letter, Australia’s health system and spread of age demographics are similar to Italy’s, rather than China’s.
“On current growth rates, the 300 cases in Australia today will be … 10,000 by the 4th of April” the letter reads.
Looking more and more serious
They say this is the biggest upheaval since WWII.
We have been warned for many decades that a deadly virus was sure to arrive which would be nearly impossible to stop. This is due primarily to the ease and speed of international travel. It has arrived !
Yesterday, Canada announced that only Canadian citizens will be allowed to enter Canada. The U.S. may do the same soon.
The only remaining questions are how long it will last and do we have the capacity to feed our citizens?
The answer to the latter question is, yes… provided we have the ability to stop the hoarding of food. It may be necessary to issue food rationing coupons similar to what we did during WW2. That, most certainly would bring hoarding to a screeching halt.
As to how long it will last ? No one knows.
A national disaster! Bunnings has suspended its sausage sizzle. This is the end of the world as we know it.
Woe, woe, and thrice woe. Woe is me.
I can’t remember the name of the comedy, but it starred Frankie Howerd.
I think it was Up Pompeii. It was a very funny film.
My parents lived through WW2.
I intend to live through Covid.
Be positive!