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Another chat with my pal in Melbourne Aus.
The virus is now pretty much done. Down to about 10-20 a day, transmission limited to hospitals and Indian ethnics.
Lockdown remains in force. 9PM curfew, all but essential businesses closed, permits needed to travel etc etc. There may be a partial lifting in a week or two depending if numbers stay low. Full lifting of lockdown and return to 'Covid normal' will have to wait for complete elimination, no cases for 28 days, which means never as there's also talk of re-starting international arrivals. Best case scenario is outdoor dining for restaurants and having up to 5 people in your house for social gatherings. Churches and other places of worship will remain closed and that's looking like it's permanent.
The Victorian government is also about to pass emergency legislation supposedly to deal with quarantine compliance, which is very fucking disingenuous. The only examples they can cite of people not self isolating after positive tests are sub continental and African migrants who they refuse to charge anyway because SJW. The law will allow the government to confer any official with police powers, including the power to arrest. If the official considers any citizen to be 'high risk' of spreading the coof they can order an immediate arrest and indefinite detention until the health risk has passed (which they will also decide). The legislation does limit the detention to people who either have the virus or are close contacts however as there's no right to court review and no due process, including presentation of evidence, then they will be able to pretty much detain anyone they feel like. The law will override any other legislation and again citizens have no right to judicial review or appeal. A suspension of Habeas Corpus because of a bad chest cold, fun times.
I understand they're allowed outside for 'essential activities' for up to two hours a day now. Essential activities include exercise, shopping for food and working in a vital service.I also have a pal in Victoria and it is absolute insanity over there. Australians have been stripped of pretty much all civil rights. I don't know what I'd do in that situation. Aren't they only allowed out one hour a day??
Lunacy, absolute lunacy. It's like Orwellian 1984 over there. So much for democracy. America is pretty batshit with the restrictions but at least we aren't on that level of insanity.
Do these dense motherfuckers even realize they'll turn their states into the new flyovers? Industries aren't going to stick around when their bottom line keeps getting fucked with for arbitrary reasons, even Silicon Valley and Hollywood might get envious of less backwards ass states.Got this email feed a little while ago. Have redacted some identifying information. Believe Newsom will be fucking the state over on this for at least the next year. He will find/make up any reason he can think of to hurt as many Californians as possible - unless he is recalled. There's no science at work here - all political control.
Expect the line for food bank food Monday to be very long again. I keep seeing the neighbor kids playing outside a lot during the day. Guess their online schooling isn't worth anything. Glad as hell son and family escaped CA, otherwise he'd still be out of work and up against it. Personally am affected but little, but seeing how others are suffering without justification bothers me.
Six months after he first ordered the shutdown of the County economy to help prevent the coronavirus from spreading here, Dr. Ed Moreno (who makes almost $350,000/year, and hasn't missed a paycheck - JS) said he “can’t anticipate” when the county might be able to loosen the restrictions that remain in place.
The first shutdown order went into effect at 12:01 a.m. March 18 and “would last three weeks,” Moreno’s office said at the time.
But with schools and many businesses still closed, indoor dining at restaurants prohibited, and thousands of county residents either out of work or making do with greatly reduced incomes, Moreno was asked on a Friday conference call whether some of those restrictions might be lifted by November.
"This pandemic has had its moments when it’s changed and been unpredictable,” making it difficult to know what’s coming next, Moreno said. And with the Gov. Gavin Newsom (who also hasn't missed a single paycheck - JS) deciding when and where counties can reopen their economies, it’s also hard to know what he’ll do.
“As the pandemic has evolved, the state has changed the metrics and criteria for tightening or loosening restrictions, and there could still be changes in the months ahead in the manner in which the state guides counties through this pandemic to simultaneously slow the spread but also encourage opportunities for our businesses to reopen.”
Three days before those remarks, Moreno told the board of supervisors the county’s coronavirus numbers have been declining. But data released during the week show that there are still lots of new cases, and we remain a long way from what the state will require before our economy can move from what is called the Purple Tier of economic shutdown (the most restrictive) to the Red Tier.
This morning, the county health department announced 83 new cases of coronavirus infection among county residents, bringing our total to 9,550. One week ago, the total was 8,990. Of the 560 cases during the week, 468 have been in the Valley, and 36 have been on the Peninsula. (So why would anyone in their right mind get tested? I sure as hell am not. I don't want any part of seeing a lot of good people hurting due to "cases". -JS)
Beyond the raw numbers, the case rate has also increased. Last Sunday, based on county data, our 7-day average of new cases per 100,000 residents was 13.0. This week, it is 17.2. (The governor’s threshold for moving to the next level of shutdown is 7.0, and to qualify, we would have to stay there for three straight weeks.)
While the state uses a different database and different formulas to calculate our “official” case rate — and its numbers never quite match what the county health department says — there can be no doubt that, for the moment, at least, we are moving in the wrong direction. (We'll be moving in the wrong direction forever. Newsom will just change his criteria again. Recall him. - JS)
That fool should cut the feelgood horseshit, this "marathon" has the potential of becoming the New Depression.People like this frighten me more than the WuFlu ever could.
What actually happens when that happens? Will it look like Brazil like everyone says it will with a small elite class and massive impoverished underclass? Or does it get so bad all the immigrants they imported team up with the red parts of the state and flip California red when the handouts stop coming? Does California stop being hip and the losers move to some new hip place to parasitize?You guys think California is bad now, just wait until everyone tries to leave for greener pastures.
What actually happens when that happens? Will it look like Brazil like everyone says it will with a small elite class and massive impoverished underclass? Or does it get so bad all the immigrants they imported team up with the red parts of the state and flip California red when the handouts stop coming? Does California stop being hip and the losers move to some new hip place to parasitize?
Yes, we need to test 2-3% of the entire US population EVERY SINGLE DAY.
Get the fuck out of here.
That fool should cut the feelgood horseshit, this "marathon" has the potential of becoming the New Depression.
God help us all if the economy collapses, society will shit itself even worse than it did this year.
I know the new grapes of wrathDo these dense motherfuckers even realize they'll turn their states into the new flyovers? Industries aren't going to stick around when their bottom line keeps getting fucked with for arbitrary reasons, even Silicon Valley and Hollywood might get envious of less backwards ass states.
You guys think California is bad now, just wait until everyone tries to leave for greener pastures.
That fool should cut the feelgood horseshit, this "marathon" has the potential of becoming the New Depression.
God help us all if the economy collapses, society will shit itself even worse than it did this year.
Good thing most hipsters don't have kids however California will become Mexifornia and politicians like Pelosi will get replaced by people who can't even speak English.
People like this frighten me more than the WuFlu ever could.
Quote from article:Speaking of testing, check this out. Even if they come to my door wanting to test me, I shall still refuse. In my county, the more cases found, the longer the hardship to be inflicted on innocent people who just want to feed their families.
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Group of ‘armed citizens’ confronts health workers conducting random COVID-19 testing
A team of state and federal health workers were recently confronted by armed residents while they were conducting random coronavirus testing in communities across Minnesota. “The incident was unfor…www.twincities.com
State health leaders have encouraged households to participate in the study if asked. It includes an interview and testing for active COVID-19 infections as well as virus-fighting antibodies that would signal a previous exposure.
Been saying this over and over. If it's not pop sci, they use politics directly or their fandoms. But at least they're clever, witty, and smart for not needing an invisible sky wizard to tell them how to live their lives/help them cope with the universe being meaninglessAlmost as if they are using Pop-Science as some sort of replacement for Religion.

These idiot
Yes, we need to test 2-3% of the entire US population EVERY SINGLE DAY.
Get the fuck out of here.
^This.One thing that's fueling my anger over all of this bullshit in the 6 month mark is I'm single and how in the hell am I supposed to meet a woman in this fucked up environment?
I thought by now people would've figured out tests aren't vaccines. You know, cause they WUVZ DA SCIENCE so much
Yes, we need to test 2-3% of the entire US population EVERY SINGLE DAY.
Get the fuck out of here.
I thought we still didn't have a functional antibody test? (Which... is that not a travesty?) I got antibody tested a few months ago, as part of LA's study, and when I spoke to my insurance company's nurse about it they said the tests are so unreliable that you have to take 5 and average them to get anything close to useful information. Their only usefulness is supposedly as an overall study on a large populace group where the incorrect positives and negatives can average out.
Can I buy drugs from them? Must have a lot of Up-ers.People like this frighten me more than the WuFlu ever could.