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Re: How to cope with the corona virus ..facts- not fiction.
« Reply #1250 on: August 13, 2020, 06:32:26 PM »
Oh god!!! The maintenance!! The running costs!! You'd never be able to go anywhere cause there'd always something to do. Nup. Not for this little black duck!

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« Reply #1251 on: August 13, 2020, 06:53:38 PM »
Oh god!!! The maintenance!! The running costs!! You'd never be able to go anywhere cause there'd always something to do. Nup. Not for this little black duck!

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« Reply #1252 on: August 13, 2020, 08:05:44 PM »
Maybe time for a rural escape, that's not a shed, this is a shed...
https://www.realestate.com.au/property-acreage+semi-rural-nsw-wilberforce-134136526

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« Reply #1253 on: August 13, 2020, 09:27:56 PM »
Problem with Wilberforce NSW is one road to cross the Hawkesbury river unless you head back to Nth Richmond and face the same problem, that being an up to an hour to cross bridge. Traffic was the killer for us out in that area and sold. In saying that a great area out of Sydney

Problem is it's still near Sydney.
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« Reply #1254 on: August 14, 2020, 09:38:32 AM »
Why china is so good at manufacturing.. in Aussie, the unions rules would have them making 500 a day with mandatory 4 hour breaks and picnic days weekly


MASKS, factory produce 200 thousand dairy
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« Reply #1255 on: August 14, 2020, 09:50:53 AM »
Todays score
372 cases, 14 deaths in Victoria but expert 'convinced we are well past peak'
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« Reply #1256 on: August 14, 2020, 11:33:59 AM »
its never going to go away

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Whittlesea man fined for 10th time amid latest COVID-19 fines
By Rachael Dexter

The daily data on fines given out to Victorians caught breaching the Chief Health Officer’s directions has just landed and there are some, ahem, interesting examples in the list - including someone who has copped their 10th fine in a row.

A police spokesman said the repeat offender is a Whittlesea man who told officers he was in the suburb of Richmond to visit work colleagues, but had no evidence to prove it.

Included in the list was a man who said he had a birth condition that “makes him resistant to coronavirus”, according to police.

He was nicked with another man, both not wearing masks, while buying cigarettes in South Melbourne after curfew. Other examples include:

- A man in the Brimbank area who was out after 8pm. When he was asked why he was out, he claimed he was researching where to buy cheaper groceries in the area.

- Eight people who don’t live together who were found in a one-bedroom apartment on Flinders Street in Melbourne CBD.
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« Reply #1257 on: August 14, 2020, 02:28:15 PM »
its never going to go away

Not in Victoria at that rate.

Every state has its dummies.... but you guys seem to have above the daily average.
I DON'T CARE HOW NICE THE HAND SOAP SMELLS.....

You should never walk out of the public toilets sniffing your fingers.

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« Reply #1258 on: August 14, 2020, 03:06:34 PM »
Not in Victoria at that rate.

Every state has its dummies.... but you guys seem to have above the daily average.
10 x 1600 fines... He isnt going to learn that way... 
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« Reply #1259 on: August 14, 2020, 03:09:02 PM »
The other one that will bring us down is coffee shops. People always queuing for a coffee and then loitering around drinking and chatting with people they "bumped into"
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« Reply #1260 on: August 14, 2020, 04:08:22 PM »
Not in Victoria at that rate.

Every state has its dummies.... but you guys seem to have above the daily average.

I think "entitled" is probably the bigger issue.

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« Reply #1262 on: August 15, 2020, 09:24:01 AM »
I tell ya what.... if I was in Vic and thought I could get myself out to Qld, I'd of done it too.

Not saying its right, wrong or otherwise, but i'd be out if I could find a loophole.
I DON'T CARE HOW NICE THE HAND SOAP SMELLS.....

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« Reply #1264 on: August 16, 2020, 10:32:40 AM »
More like those that deliberately break the rules, he seems to have abided by them.
Amazing how a bit of cash will go a long way.
Meanwhile, all his employees are still stuck down here living under restrictions. Great leadership style.....not!
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« Reply #1265 on: August 16, 2020, 10:40:51 AM »
todays score.
Victoria records 16 deaths and 279 new cases of COVID-19


not really getting much better but stabilizing
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« Reply #1266 on: August 16, 2020, 01:31:45 PM »
todays score.
Victoria records 16 deaths and 279 new cases of COVID-19

not really getting much better but stabilizing

Apparently you die after about 2 weeks of being infected, so there will be a bit of a lag.

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« Reply #1267 on: August 16, 2020, 01:51:58 PM »
Amazing how a bit of cash will go a long way.
Meanwhile, all his employees are still stuck down here living under restrictions. Great leadership style.....not!

He may well be a privaledged douchebag, but his actions appear to have been above board and therefore should have minimal risk to others, people who deliberately flout the law like Protesters, Civil libertarians etc in comparison are a risk to others.
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« Reply #1268 on: August 16, 2020, 02:16:07 PM »
He may well be a privaledged douchebag, but his actions appear to have been above board and therefore should have minimal risk to others, people who deliberately flout the law like Protesters, Civil librarians etc in comparison are a risk to others.
Yeah, his timing was impeccable!! Still, he won't be too popular amongst the masses.
And as for those civil librarians.......
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« Reply #1269 on: August 16, 2020, 02:23:01 PM »
I find it amazing that all those that get special treatment are the well off... **** everyone else.. no preferential treatment..

as for Fox, I dont really many people in his position that would have driven a truck from melb- cairns-bne...


local tradie got the 20k fine and one for his side kick this week returning from a job..
has a permit and his business is clearing out closed down business' - not essential. 4th time he'd been pulled over and asked for his permit, 3 times cops saw permit 'thanks have a nice day', 4th one did.
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« Reply #1270 on: August 16, 2020, 02:35:45 PM »
For all the fellow Victorian's I hope you are well. I have had a few calls from members as well as msg's.  Thanks to those that have reached out. Its times like this we need that little extra tap on the shoulder.

For me it has only hit this last week with reduced hours at work due to the limited staff allowed on site. I am lucky I still have a job and hopefully the stage 4 is only 6 weeks long.

Keep safe to all members and especially those in the Greater Melbourne. Reach out if needed, a good chat is always worthwhile

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« Reply #1271 on: August 16, 2020, 04:21:26 PM »


For me it has only hit this last week with reduced hours at work due to the limited staff allowed on site. I am lucky I still have a job and hopefully the stage 4 is only 6 weeks long.



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We had been reduced to 30hrs a week, and on jobkeeper. Now that busy, still on jobkeeper, but back to 38hrs a week.

I feel sorry for those in hospitality and tourism, especially Victoria, because they're not going to recover for a long time, some if at all.

We have rellos from Gisborne we go away with a couple of times a year....overseas and locally ( Gold Coast, Hamilton Island, Port Douglas ), but that won't be happening for another year I'm thinking ? Certainly not overseas !!
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« Reply #1272 on: August 16, 2020, 08:12:51 PM »
We just heard that the state of emergency has been extended untill Sept 13   :'( We are absolutely dreading letting our 11 y/o grandson (who is on the spectrum and living with us) know about this, he's having enough problems handling the current restrictions and another 2 or 3 weeks is mentally not going to be good for him   :'( :'(
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« Reply #1273 on: August 16, 2020, 08:29:03 PM »
Stage 4 ends on 13th Sept.
State of Emergency gives the police extra powers to enforce movements etc.
Nothing has changed.

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« Reply #1274 on: August 16, 2020, 09:00:08 PM »
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he's having enough problems handling the current restrictions and another 2 or 3 weeks is mentally not going to be good for him   :'( :'(
its not good for anyone :(

with all the Shit going on in my world + this = the real time I just need to **** off somewhere nad snort campfire smoke.
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