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jathanas said:
Walt that sums the ugly reality of COVID (and the fn lockdowns) for most of us but bringing the ottoman crack into it amps the impact of your messaging considerably.

It was a soul crushing period but my nature is to look for silver linings, no matter how small.

I had time to roast my own coffee beans and it gave me the solitude and space I sorely needed at the time.

I do not look back at that period with any fondness.
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F*CK you all for talking about me behind my back - work here is picking up again

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sideswipe said:
I sometimes forget the Craziness of Covid. But I was reminded of it this morning. Was listening to a podcast (Jack Carr Danger Close) who was interviewing Clint Emerson - a Navy SEAL who came out to Australia to be one of the 4 DS/hosts on the 7 TV show SAS Australia.

He described his trip out to Australia at peak Covid. Gets to LAX and is in the Lounge waiting for some calls to get on the plane. Nothing coming up, no one other than one airline staff member at the gate. He sees a plan leave his gate. Thinks to himself he better check what is going on. Approaches the staff member and asks about his flight. She goes "are you Clint?". Turns out that was his flight and he was to be the only passenger on it so there were no calls. 7 had to organise another flight. 4 days later he flies out as the sole passenger again. Greeted at Sydney by ppl in Hazmat. The only person in the airport. Did his quarantine in some apartment with a cop at the door for a fortnight. Guessing it wasn't a Hotel Q.

All that cost for one member of a TVshow.

And the most embarrassing bit was they were discussing it saying how crazy Australia was when we had something like 500 cases and the whole place shut down. Now I am not questioning whether our way was the right way (certainly seemed better than the US) but now we are past it, geez it sounds crazy compared to many other places.
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I should have invested in Apple.
Hindsight, ain’t she wonderful?
 
sideswipe said:
Am sending the girls to the Henry Deane this arvo for some skills work. Not sure they are ready for the Pool Bar at the Ivy.
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Last time I was at Ivy pool bar I visited a client who had just flown in from NY and had already organised a cabana with 2 bikinied minglers

As he guzzled Krug, and mingled, I valiantly attempted to sell him stuff he didn’t need

Of course there is no moral to this story
 
sideswipe said:
And the most embarrassing bit was they were discussing it saying how crazy Australia was when we had something like 500 cases and the whole place shut down. Now I am not questioning whether our way was the right way (certainly seemed better than the US) but now we are past it, geez it sounds crazy compared to many other places.
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Australia did fabulously in terms of both health and economics compared with the majority of the world. People can look back now at a vaccinated population with a milder strain and suggest openness was the way to go all the way through, but they're wrong - just got to look at the health and economic outcomes in Europe and the States -they were shit. You've got to look at it in terms of the different phases of the pandemic and the current phase with a fully vaccinated population and a less deadly strain requires a totally different response. With the benefit of hindsight, Melbourne would have run a tighter hotel quarantine and locked down straight away when those leaks happened, Sydney would have treated Delta differently to the previous strains and locked down and Scomo wouldn't have ****ed up the vaccine rollout, but everything else was done bloody well. Most states were barely touched in terms of health and were fully open internally throughout the entire pandemic.
 
sr36 said:
Australia did fabulously in terms of both health and economics compared with the majority of the world. People can look back now at a vaccinated population with a milder strain and suggest openness was the way to go all the way through, but they're wrong - just got to look at the health and economic outcomes in Europe and the States -they were s**t. You've got to look at it in terms of the different phases of the pandemic and the current phase with a fully vaccinated population and a less deadly strain requires a totally different response. With the benefit of hindsight, Melbourne would have run a tighter hotel quarantine and locked down straight away when those leaks happened, Sydney would have treated Delta differently to the previous strains and locked down and Scomo wouldn't have *ed up the vaccine rollout, but everything else was done bloody well. Most states were barely touched in terms of health and were fully open internally throughout the entire pandemic.
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We certainly did better than some places.

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sr36 said:
Australia did fabulously in terms of both health and economics compared with the majority of the world. People can look back now at a vaccinated population with a milder strain and suggest openness was the way to go all the way through, but they're wrong - just got to look at the health and economic outcomes in Europe and the States -they were s**t. You've got to look at it in terms of the different phases of the pandemic and the current phase with a fully vaccinated population and a less deadly strain requires a totally different response. With the benefit of hindsight, Melbourne would have run a tighter hotel quarantine and locked down straight away when those leaks happened, Sydney would have treated Delta differently to the previous strains and locked down and Scomo wouldn't have *ed up the vaccine rollout, but everything else was done bloody well. Most states were barely touched in terms of health and were fully open internally throughout the entire pandemic.
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Jaysus it was an observation on how it “looks” now. And the craziness of two commercial flights for one passenger. No one needs a reminder of the rest of it.


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WalterBlaknWhte said:
Last time I was at Ivy pool bar I visited a client who had just flown in from NY and had already organised a cabana with 2 bikinied minglers

As he guzzled Krug, and mingled, I valiantly attempted to sell him stuff he didn’t need

Of course there is no moral to this story
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The standout thing about joints like that is how super hot and super friendly the staff are to the punters. Hemmes knows how to hire.

Screw morals. Did you make the sale?


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Aussie Rafa out of Wimbledon, Kyrgios through to the final. Boy oh boy wowee.
 

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sideswipe said:
Jaysus it was an observation on how it “looks” now. And the craziness of two commercial flights for one passenger. No one needs a reminder of the rest of it.


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I wasn't commenting on your sentiment. And I agree that the story was absurd and funny. Particularly the bit about the plane leaving with its only passenger not on it.

I was commenting on the growing view that targeting zero was an overreaction, when the disease was more dangerous and there was no immunity in the community. Countries that targeted zero undoubtedly fared much better under pretty much any measure you can point to - if they acted decisively enough. A year on and we're already setting ourselves up to not act decisively enough next time.
 
sideswipe said:
Screw morals. Did you make the sale?
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Think we all know how this turned out...


As the afternoon proceeded, limitless Krug and a NY hedge fund manager attracted a bevy (an underused collective noun) of Sydney debutantes in their skimpies

The amateur has an enthusiasm that professional minglers struggle to maintain

I was nudged away from my client so I was soon teetering on the edge of the cabana

Humidity did me no favours - crumpled in my suit I looked like the hedgie's under-muscled security or under-dressed valet

I didn't complete the transaction

But pretty sure one of the amateurs did
 
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