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stui magpie 
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| Skids wrote: | Anyone else in a house full of "Essential Services" ?
Skids = Plumber, maintaining the arteries of civilisation since 1982.
Kelly = Education assistant (looking after a psycho kid, coz his parents can't handle him) in a school with about 30 of the 350 enrolled.
Jess = Child care worker, in a centre with 15 out of the usual 70 odd... there's as many staff as kids. |
Nup,
got me, office worker now doing stuff from home and an 81 year old.
As an Introvert by nature I was purpose built to work from home. No commute, no people, loving life.
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David 
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| What'sinaname wrote: | | Pies4shaw wrote: | | What'sinaname wrote: | It explains these pretend allergies like asthma and peanuts. Should just force feed every kid peanut sandwiches for a whole school year...bingo...no more peanut allergies.
That's all we ate during primary school and not one kid with peanut allergies. |
I don’t know whether this is a joke, or you are being deliberately provocative or you have some kind of empathetic disorder? |
Review the science behind this and you tell me - on the peanuts......not the asthma. |
Whether or not force-feeding children peanut butter would help prevent the incidence of peanut allergies (not sure what the actual science is on that), there's surely nothing "pretend" about anaphylaxis – and given that that the allergy is already going to be there well before they start Grade 1, you're going to have a hell of a lot of ambulances visiting schools if that strategy is employed.
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Tannin 
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| What'sinaname wrote: | | ... these pretend allergies like asthma and peanuts. Should just force feed every kid peanut sandwiches for a whole school year...bingo...no more peanut allergies. |
Correct!
Look, there are two possibilities. (I have no idea which one of the two is correct, by the way.)
Either these allergies are indeed pretend ones, in which case you are correct, force-feeding will cure them all and everyone will like peanuts.
OR these allergies are in fact real, in which case you are correct, force-feeding will kill them all and the survivors will like peanuts.
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Tannin
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Cribbed from my mate Bob in a different place .....
Apparently we are seeing a steady rise in sex toy sales: sales are up 13% in the UK, 71% in Italy, and a whopping 135% in Canada. Australian sex toy brand Vush is reporting their sales are up 350%.
A health bulletin from New York Health Department says that you should limit sex to those you are in lockdown with, but that the safest sexual partner is yourself.
I don't remember Scott Morrison addressing these issues at all.
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| What'sinaname wrote: | | Why the heck are people still overseas and on holiday overseas? Those morons cycling around Peru. FFS, if they didn't heed the warnings weeks ago, don't go bitching about the lack of Government support now that you cant find a flight home. |
yeah im inclined to agree, i saw some whinging about the cost of the flight home, i mean, how much is your life worth?
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Wokko 
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| Tannin wrote: | Cribbed from my mate Bob in a different place .....
Apparently we are seeing a steady rise in sex toy sales: sales are up 13% in the UK, 71% in Italy, and a whopping 135% in Canada. Australian sex toy brand Vush is reporting their sales are up 350%.
A health bulletin from New York Health Department says that you should limit sex to those you are in lockdown with, but that the safest sexual partner is yourself.
I don't remember Scott Morrison addressing these issues at all. |
Was "jigsaw puzzle" a euphemism?
Do we really want to hear anything about sex from daggy dad Morrison? |
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Pies4shaw 
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| Wokko wrote: | | Pies4shaw wrote: | | What'sinaname wrote: | It explains these pretend allergies like asthma and peanuts. Should just force feed every kid peanut sandwiches for a whole school year...bingo...no more peanut allergies.
That's all we ate during primary school and not one kid with peanut allergies. |
I don’t know whether this is a joke, or you are being deliberately provocative or you have some kind of empathetic disorder? |
It IS best to give very young children peanuts, eggs, honey etc. It's quite possible that parents avoiding giving these foods to their children at all is contributing to future allergies.
I took the rest as hyperbole, at least I hope it is  |
Yes, I accept all of that.
I don’t have first-hand experience of any peanut-allergy but I am reasonably confident that it isn’t “pretend” when a kid dies from it. I was, though, taking more or less direct offence to the suggestion that asthma might be a “pretend allergy” - having spent the entirety of a fairly long working life achieving things despite not being able to breathe some (many) days, I’m pretty certain that the serial appalling childhood illnesses, capped off neatly by the collapsed lung and pneumothorax at 17, days before the year 12 exams, weren’t put on. It’s a point of extreme sensitivity for a lot of older asthmatics - there was a theory abroad when I was a young kid that it was all “attention-seeking behaviour” and that sterner discipline stopped asthma. (I’ve compensated all my life by being a determined would-be achiever and a workaholic, for fear that people might think I was malingering or mentally “soft”). Seriously - even my mother (who wasn’t unfavourably disposed to handing out a little corporal punishment) knew that wasn’t right in 1964 and told the “specialist” where to go. I certainly wasn’t protected from anything (at one stage, I had a series of pin-prick allergy tests, the upshot of which was that I was mildly allergic to more or less everything) as a child - sometimes bad things just happen. As my mother used to say, I was “behind the door when God was handing out lungs”.
Anyhow, Whatsinaname has withdrawn his comment about asthma, so I guess it was, as you say, hyperbole. |
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PyreneesPie
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I don't remember Scott Morrison addressing these issues at all. |
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Pies4shaw
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| think positive wrote: | | What'sinaname wrote: | | Why the heck are people still overseas and on holiday overseas? Those morons cycling around Peru. FFS, if they didn't heed the warnings weeks ago, don't go bitching about the lack of Government support now that you cant find a flight home. |
yeah im inclined to agree, i saw some whinging about the cost of the flight home, i mean, how much is your life worth? |
To be fair, you can only pay the $30,000 - or whatever it was - if you have it. I’m well off but I don’t have much cash to hand at any one time and I’d have to sell things to get hold of that. That’d be quite difficult from a foreign country, I think. |
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think positive
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| Pies4shaw wrote: | | think positive wrote: | | What'sinaname wrote: | | Why the heck are people still overseas and on holiday overseas? Those morons cycling around Peru. FFS, if they didn't heed the warnings weeks ago, don't go bitching about the lack of Government support now that you cant find a flight home. |
yeah im inclined to agree, i saw some whinging about the cost of the flight home, i mean, how much is your life worth? |
To be fair, you can only pay the $30,000 - or whatever it was - if you have it. I’m well off but I don’t have much cash to hand at any one time and I’d have to sell things to get hold of that. That’d be quite difficult from a foreign country, I think. |
the highest ive seen was $5,000? i havent heard anything for a while, but it was $5,000 when it started a few weeks back.
i agree that $30,000 would be bullshit! but id find it to get my kid home
- ill add that a lot of the reason for my answer was the sheer number of people who took off overseas AFTER the bodies started dropping all over the world. When the first cruise ship got stranded in port and people started dying, or being held in their rooms surrounded by creeping green orbs with red feathers, more people got on more cruise ships the next day! thats just stupidity!
I dont care how good the holiday is, at the first sign of a world wide war of any kind, im getting my arse home! people stayed and took pics of themselves outside the locked museums! I know several people who were humming and ahhing about their booked holidays way past when i would have said no way! you cant spent it in a coffin.
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stui magpie
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| Tannin wrote: | Cribbed from my mate Bob in a different place .....
Apparently we are seeing a steady rise in sex toy sales: sales are up 13% in the UK, 71% in Italy, and a whopping 135% in Canada. Australian sex toy brand Vush is reporting their sales are up 350%.
A health bulletin from New York Health Department says that you should limit sex to those you are in lockdown with, but that the safest sexual partner is yourself.
I don't remember Scott Morrison addressing these issues at all. |
I saw a great video online, someone giving a press conference talking about the panic buying of sex toys. One person asked for the list of exactly what items were bought. Watching the sign language interpreter visually describing the items was a crack up. I'll try to find it.
OK, it was about someone burning down sex shops
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iqjGCLXQyA
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Pies4shaw
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Hmmm (from The Age's blog earlier this afternoon):
Police issue 9 fines in 24 hours for social-distancing breaches
By Anthony Colangelo
Victoria Police have conducted 2198 spot checks at homes, businesses and non-essential services in the past 24 hours, making sure people were self-isolating and complying with social distancing rules.
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“Yesterday afternoon, Sex Industry Co-ordination Unit members visited a massage premises in Frankston and observed non-essential services being undertaken,” police said.
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Jezza 
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| think positive wrote: | | the highest ive seen was $5,000? i havent heard anything for a while, but it was $5,000 when it started a few weeks back. |
2,500 Australians went on cruise ships after they were warned by the government in early March to avoid going on cruise ships. I have very little sympathy for these people.
I sympathize with those who were stuck on the Diamond Princess cruise ship, the first ship to have an outbreak in early February, as they were unaware of the nature of the situation and the pandemic was in its infancy.
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Jezza
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52 more recoveries in Victoria (343 in total) and 51 new cases (968 in total).
39 cases were acquired through community transmissions which equates to 4% of all cases in Victoria.
https://www.dhhs.vic.gov.au/coronavirus-update-victoria-1-april-2020
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stui magpie
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| Pies4shaw wrote: | Hmmm (from The Age's blog earlier this afternoon):
Police issue 9 fines in 24 hours for social-distancing breaches
By Anthony Colangelo
Victoria Police have conducted 2198 spot checks at homes, businesses and non-essential services in the past 24 hours, making sure people were self-isolating and complying with social distancing rules.
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“Yesterday afternoon, Sex Industry Co-ordination Unit members visited a massage premises in Frankston and observed non-essential services being undertaken,” police said.
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| Quote: | An adult massage parlour has been fined for flouting the law and undertaking “non-essential business” in Frankston amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Police from the Sex Industry Coordination Unit observed “non-essential services being undertaken” yesterday afternoon.
The business was fined $9913 and both a female employee and a male customer were fined $1652 each.
Victoria Police would not specify what kind of activity the pair were up to. |
3 guesses what "activity" it was 
https://www.heraldsun.com.au/coronavirus/victorians-face-20000-fines-for-breaking-new-stayathome-rules/news-story/3ac48e3fcd7c76752e4c2897f0d58473
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