Just wondering: would merely making reference to a politician, such as Boris Johnson being in ICU, be considered political?

I wanted the other day to say that I believe Scott Morrison had risen to the occasion, purely in a social, humanitarian sense, to combat Covid 19 and financially help out a lot of battlers who are doing it tough, especially all those who recently lost their jobs due to this pandemic.

I wasn't sure at the time, but if its mention here is considered as being inappropriate then please take it down, I will understand.

Political, along with Religious, etc. commentary/debate is all about differentiating between 'sides' - where points of view can and do vary, leading to dissention and argument, and ultimately to in-fighting between community members - something that is ideally avoided in general conversation, ie. 'Everything Else'.

Stardock is happy to see such debate in the designated location/s where those sensitive to issues raised can happily avoid them.

Many community-based sites follow a similar process.

Stating Boris is now in ICU, or that the Aus PM has stepped up to the plate to assist battlers are both apolitial...

How is stating that someone is in ICU is political.

"apolitical"

So another feller and myself are running CV-19 tests down to Indy.

In the meanwhile I guard an entrance to a small hospital. There's two entrances but we only want people to go into one of them so that their temp can be taken and small series of questions asked. If they pass they may enter. All must wear a mask.

I have a potential tooth problem. If it gets bad I will want it pulled. I hope I can see a dentist in the event that it becomes painful and or infected. I've heard that dentists are only doing emergency work. Otherwise I feel fine. No sign of CV-19 yet.

When I'm off work I try not to go anywhere but if we need groceries I always wear a mask and try to avoid other people as best I can.

With regard to Scott Morrison, I just wanted to give credit where credit was due.  There are plenty of other Aussies who have stepped up to the plate as well, particularly health professionals, police and other public services, but I'd be here all night trying to name them all.

Another development here in Tassie is that all hospitals are in total lockdown, nobody in or out, just staff members and new patients presenting with an illness.  Due to underlying health issues I wasn't going anywhere near the hospital anyway.  In fact, while this Covid 19 is still out there in the wild, I won't leave the house and put myself at risk.   We have enough groceries to last us another 2 to 3 weeks, though if needs arise, Steve will go get whatever we might run out of.

Tomorrow I'm off to Melbourne to organize the sale of the house [great timing]...and Thursday is my next trip to the blood bank  [bloody vampires want more of me]...

Jafo

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Tomorrow I'm off to Melbourne to organize the sale of the house [great timing]...and Thursday is my next trip to the blood bank  [bloody vampires want more of me]...

Have you tried garlic?

Lol @ TheSchis

Jafo

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Tomorrow I'm off to Melbourne to organize the sale of the house [great timing]...and Thursday is my next trip to the blood bank  [bloody vampires want more of me]...

See, told ya that yer blood's worth bottlin'

Update from The Land Of The Long White Bra Used As A Face Mask (New Zealand is also known as Aotearoa, "the land of the long white cloud", for those of you going "mrbondini, WTF!?"):

The western part of Auckland was allowed to keep it's liqour stores open because they're under different rules there - no idea why, but they are.

Anyway, the totally predictable happened and everyone from the rest of Auckland got in their vee-hickles and took a little drive to West Auckland to purchase the aforementioned liqour (mainly spirits) - in doing so, going outside their bubbles (family units/flats/etc ie people you regularly live with) and neighbourhoods, which we're all being told to avoid doing. Liqour stores from West Auckland now in deep trouble with the po-lice. So it's online shopping for spirits etc now which is fine with me as that's how I do it anyway.

Still only 1 Death from our friend Co-Vid19 but that was in tandem with Pre-existing Conditions... So a CFR less than 0.1%. Lockdown will continue until early May at best but most likely you lovely folk from overseas won't be able to visit for a while after that - or whenever it ends - as borders will be closed to all but trade until infection/death rates show consistant drop off in several countries.

Bit of confusion about the worth of face masks - general medical consensus that they save other people from a sick you more than save you from sick other people but are still not anywhere like failsafe protection.

Still a country full of - mostly - men in mourning for the lack of live sports as there's only so many times you can watch the same game/games, no matter how good they were before it drives you bonkers. Yes, that Rugby World Cup win was great, but I saw it last night at 7PM, the day before at 3PM....etc, etc.

And still haven't gotten past 768 in Threes...

I Live in a little town in Nevada, even better I live on a 3 acre tract in the boonies so pretty well away from everything. There are only 8 cases in our county so people here are not taking things to serious but My wife and I are both 67 with issues and my disabled daughter is a diabetic so we are on lock-down. I was a semi-prepper so I'm doing good on supplies and I have a decent pension so over all we are in better shape than most.

Stay safe and best of luck to all.

Our Real Estate Agent is a bit of a petrol-head....known him quite a while....share taste in cars...sadly notbudgets tho...

Here's his current....

Here's some good news: Shaunna came home from hospital yesterday afternoon [April 8] and is doing a lot better.  Her leg is still a bit raw from the infection being cleaned, etc, but it has much improved in the last couple of days.  She will still be out of action for a couple more weeks while the wound heals, but no matter, we are just glad to have her home.  Steve and I can take care of business around here, so it's all okay.

Glad to hear shes ok. I just checked up the deaths of the swine flu 575,000 died the first year. Right now this virus has killed 90,000 we are going on the fifth month. 

Of course the Bird flu killed 25000000 in the first six months.

Great to see everyone is doing fairly OK!

Only 3 positive cases reported so far here at Big Bear Lake

with a pop. of about 7000 .. New report comes out tomorrow .

No death reported up here from the virus.

**  All required to wear a Mask now out in Public in this

County or could be up to a $1000.00 fine ..

Being High up on a Mountain in this case is a good thing.

We won't talk about all the snow though this week ...

Glad you have them Mike, wish I could even find some!

LightStar

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Glad you have them Mike, wish I could even find some!

Here, if you are a little bit handy you can make some yourself:

Answers to your DIY face mask questions, including what material you should use

Hope that might be of some help ?