Covid-19 (Coronavirus)

[Blackbird]

https://www.princess.com/cruise-deals-promotions/au/?

Another bottomless hole to pour money into

There might be some light at the end of the tunnel with a flight out of the UK on Saturday but not saying until she's actually on the plane!

[F5 Dave]

Phew, an antidote,
I'm sure Dave will be jumping straight on board
https://punemirror.indiatimes.com/pu...w/74642824.cms

Oh Fuck Yeah! I'm all over this!

Although the cows urine option did sound good too.

Send your money to F5Jesus c/o . . .

[husaberg]

Oh Fuck Yeah! I'm all over this!

Although the cows urine option did sound good too.

Send your money to F5Jesus c/o . . .

I can happily supply as much bovine urine as you require.

[Autech]

Works picked up big time for the ICT folks, fair few businesses getting their staff to work from home which means lots of networky stuff to be done to facilitate that if they've not had it in place to begin with.

Fun times.

Spark NZ have banned all domestic travel for their staff too, so they're not traveling tween cities etc doing mahi, interesting times for sure.

[ellipsis]

I can happily supply as much bovine urine as you require.

...nah...she's right...you provide more than an adequate amount of bovine shite already...any more bovine posts would be superlative to your internet needs...surely...

[F5 Dave]

And here is my form as I walk on earth amongst you mere mortals. https://www.mediavillage.com/article...o-save-us-all/

[Berries]

Another bottomless hole to pour money into

If she heard you talk like that I doubt she would want to come back.

[husaberg]

...nah...she's right...you provide more than an adequate amount of bovine shite already...any more bovine posts would be superlative to your internet needs...surely...

Fair enough, but i would like to point out that you were seen buying a crate of these last wednesday.
proudly aussie made its a BAARGIN, Lubricates and penetrates and is a protection aye

https://www.supercheapauto.co.nz/p/s...0g/420379.html

[OddDuck]

...and on a more serious note - at midnight tonight, NZ closes its borders. It's all over MSM / Stuff / etc but here's the link anyway:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/hea...order-controls

I completely support this decision BTW, even a casual look at what's happened in 3 weeks to Italy says that this has to happen.

A couple of comments, and yes they're flippant but hey take your positives where you can find them:

1) there are going to be fuck-all tourist drivers on the road in 2020, we'll only have the homegrown idiot varietals this year. No tourist buses either. If you want to ride Milford Sound, and the road's been sorted, it's not going to get better than now.

2) logging trucks! There's going to be an intermission in the parade of logging trucks smashing the crap out of the roads

3) maybe the planet urgently needed us to stop flying on jet planes. And cutting down on commuter transport too. Yes the bikes add to this, but there's no way that me running around the Wairarapa all weekend beats someone taking a casual holiday in Tahiti.

4) this isn't going to be the only one. We've built perfect conditions for a global pandemic, this was always going to happen, lessons learnt this time are going to serve us well in the next one.

5) Bikers as tourists are going to be welcomed with open arms, although we'll see how that goes in weeks to come. In the meantime support your ride-over-the-hill local, they need you.

[husaberg]

...and on a more serious note -

5) Bikers as tourists are going to be welcomed with open arms.

I think you missed a memo

[jellywrestler]

I completely support this decision BTW, even a casual look at what's happened in 3 weeks to Italy says that this has to happen.

it's a tough game, today in italy they lost 1 in 142117 of their population, and it will happen tommorow and so on, the bulk number 425 or so makes it sound like they're dropping in the streets.

thing is, the majority are very old, so what do those of this age who survive come out of it like?

my father in law got pneumonia a few months ago, we were given the option to let it run or intervene, we naturally took the later, he got through it but lost a lot of what he had left, it fucked him, thankfully a few weeks later he fell off his perch in his sleep.
had it returned we would have let it take it's natural course simply, he needed to go..

So as said, are these really old people getting fully better when out of it, haven't heard?

[jellywrestler]

every other country affected has a list of number with it, number dead from it, and number who have got through it.
nz just have how many have had it, have we had no-one that's officially ticked off as through the other side?

[SaferRides]

I think there have been a few cases where they have been in hospital and recovered.

It's probably a numbers game though - once there are a decent number of cases, then we will start to see a few becoming very ill.

It seems to me there has been a change in NZ's approach over the last week or so from let's slow it down to trying seriously to keep it out, which may well be politically driven.

[sidecar bob]

it's a tough game, today in italy they lost 1 in 142117 of their population, and it will happen tommorow and so on, the bulk number 425 or so makes it sound like they're dropping in the streets.

thing is, the majority are very old, so what do those of this age who survive come out of it like?

my father in law got pneumonia a few months ago, we were given the option to let it run or intervene, we naturally took the later, he got through it but lost a lot of what he had left, it fucked him, thankfully a few weeks later he fell off his perch in his sleep.
had it returned we would have let it take it's natural course simply, he needed to go..

So as said, are these really old people getting fully better when out of it, haven't heard?

So basically one person per the population of Tauranga per day, Tauranga is losing more than one person a day at the moment & has done for years, that's how they keep three or four funeral homes going.
It would be interesting to know what the daily average death rate is in Italy & how much that has increased by.
With a population of over 60 million, it will be a significant number on a good day. I calculated the Italian attributed death rate at around .0008% per day
As my mate Trevor said the other day, some of these people are simply dying from too many birthdays.
You can blame what you like, but if your 96 year old granny dies from it, it's probably not the root cause.

[F5 Dave]

HeHeHe. You said Root cause.