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Corona virus, Port and the AFL.
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RussellEbertHandball
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Your picture reminded me that yesterday SA police said they are stopping doing breath tests because of health concerns. Might be a few more over the limit driving over the next few weeks as people probably don't give a shit.
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Dear Members and supporters,
Hope you are well.
My note to you last Friday announced that the AFL season would commence as planned, but that the games would be played behind closed doors.
Much has happened since then.
Earlier this week the AFL announced a revised 17-game 2020 fixture, while the SANFL confirmed their season will be postponed until June.
Sporting codes all around the world are considering the best, most responsible way to proceed in these difficult circumstances.
Our planning to date has been based around the assumption that the season will commence as scheduled, and that we will find a way to complete it, even if that means extending beyond September and being creative with the fixturing. We will continue on this path, until advised otherwise.
With this in mind, our focus has been largely on ensuring that the team have all that they need to compete in a safe environment. Hygiene protocols are extremely high. Virtually all external interaction with the team has ceased. We are exploring the use of charter planes to transport them to games, and will be providing a highly controlled environment for them to operate in within the hotel that they will be staying at.
If it seems a little extreme, get used to it! This is our new normal for the foreseeable future.
We expect the controls around mass gatherings will continue to tighten.
With all that in mind, we are still working through how this will impact you, your membership, our corporate partners and everyone else associated with the club.
The reality is that the coronavirus is having, and will continue to have for some time, a profound impact on all aspects of the club. This season will be unlike any season of football we’ve ever had.
I want to assure you that as we consider every new twist and turn in this complex saga, our members and partners are at the forefront of our thinking.
For example, we have spent the last few days creating new ways of generating video content from within the team’s quarantine zone. We will be providing you with access to areas of the team’s preparation that you have never had before. We figure, if you can’t watch the footy live at the ground, the least we can do is load you up with brilliant new content to keep you fully informed and entertained.
Similarly with our partners. If games days are out, we are thinking about how we can connect you to our team, members and supporters in other ways.
There are a lot of interesting ideas being developed which we will share with you soon, but at the heart of our thinking is that we all need to support each other through these unusual times. Every business and individual is being affected by this virus in some way, let’s help each other through it.
I’ve got to say that we have been amazed by the resilience and support already shown by the Port Adelaide family. Every day we are receiving notes of encouragement.
On Monday I received a personal note from the CEO of MG Motor, reassuring me that they will stand by the Port Adelaide family through these challenging times…wishing us all to stay healthy and well. Very reassuring from our newest partner.
We received a full membership renewal from a lapsed member who decided to put aside his uncertainty about the team’s performance, simply to support the club through this difficult time.
And I received a beautiful note from a supporter who happened to be standing in a supermarket check out line, and witnessed one of our young players silently pay for the groceries of a person who was clearly trying to stock up for a period of lockdown, but couldn’t afford to. No fuss, no fanfare, no recognition. I could not have been prouder.
We greatly appreciate your patience and understanding.
The reality is we don’t know when and where this will end.
What I do know is that when challenged the Port Adelaide family always stick together. We always find a way and this will be no different.
The bond between our players and our members is special, and is critical to our club. The players thrive off your passion, so please keep that coming.
Our membership team will continue to operate during normal business hours and will be available to answer any specific queries relating to your membership. You can contact them on 1300 467 232 or email membership@pafc.com.au.
Everyone at the club will play their role and together we will get through this. Our board, staff, players and volunteers are all working incredibly hard to make the best out of this difficult situation.
Thank you again for your support as a member. You are the cornerstone of our club.
On behalf of everyone at the club, including all our players and staff, please take care of yourselves and those around you and we look forward to having you back at the Adelaide Oval again soon.
KT
Dear Members and supporters,
Hope you are well.
My note to you last Friday announced that the AFL season would commence as planned, but that the games would be played behind closed doors.
Much has happened since then.
Earlier this week the AFL announced a revised 17-game 2020 fixture, while the SANFL confirmed their season will be postponed until June.
Sporting codes all around the world are considering the best, most responsible way to proceed in these difficult circumstances.
Our planning to date has been based around the assumption that the season will commence as scheduled, and that we will find a way to complete it, even if that means extending beyond September and being creative with the fixturing. We will continue on this path, until advised otherwise.
With this in mind, our focus has been largely on ensuring that the team have all that they need to compete in a safe environment. Hygiene protocols are extremely high. Virtually all external interaction with the team has ceased. We are exploring the use of charter planes to transport them to games, and will be providing a highly controlled environment for them to operate in within the hotel that they will be staying at.
If it seems a little extreme, get used to it! This is our new normal for the foreseeable future.
We expect the controls around mass gatherings will continue to tighten.
With all that in mind, we are still working through how this will impact you, your membership, our corporate partners and everyone else associated with the club.
The reality is that the coronavirus is having, and will continue to have for some time, a profound impact on all aspects of the club. This season will be unlike any season of football we’ve ever had.
I want to assure you that as we consider every new twist and turn in this complex saga, our members and partners are at the forefront of our thinking.
For example, we have spent the last few days creating new ways of generating video content from within the team’s quarantine zone. We will be providing you with access to areas of the team’s preparation that you have never had before. We figure, if you can’t watch the footy live at the ground, the least we can do is load you up with brilliant new content to keep you fully informed and entertained.
Similarly with our partners. If games days are out, we are thinking about how we can connect you to our team, members and supporters in other ways.
There are a lot of interesting ideas being developed which we will share with you soon, but at the heart of our thinking is that we all need to support each other through these unusual times. Every business and individual is being affected by this virus in some way, let’s help each other through it.
I’ve got to say that we have been amazed by the resilience and support already shown by the Port Adelaide family. Every day we are receiving notes of encouragement.
On Monday I received a personal note from the CEO of MG Motor, reassuring me that they will stand by the Port Adelaide family through these challenging times…wishing us all to stay healthy and well. Very reassuring from our newest partner.
We received a full membership renewal from a lapsed member who decided to put aside his uncertainty about the team’s performance, simply to support the club through this difficult time.
And I received a beautiful note from a supporter who happened to be standing in a supermarket check out line, and witnessed one of our young players silently pay for the groceries of a person who was clearly trying to stock up for a period of lockdown, but couldn’t afford to. No fuss, no fanfare, no recognition. I could not have been prouder.
We greatly appreciate your patience and understanding.
The reality is we don’t know when and where this will end.
What I do know is that when challenged the Port Adelaide family always stick together. We always find a way and this will be no different.
The bond between our players and our members is special, and is critical to our club. The players thrive off your passion, so please keep that coming.
Our membership team will continue to operate during normal business hours and will be available to answer any specific queries relating to your membership. You can contact them on 1300 467 232 or email membership@pafc.com.au.
Everyone at the club will play their role and together we will get through this. Our board, staff, players and volunteers are all working incredibly hard to make the best out of this difficult situation.
Thank you again for your support as a member. You are the cornerstone of our club.
On behalf of everyone at the club, including all our players and staff, please take care of yourselves and those around you and we look forward to having you back at the Adelaide Oval again soon.
KT
POTY. Thank you.
Just back from my daily trip to three supermarkets. I'm not old enough to qualify for the special hour, so the shelves were bare.
I used to go twice a week. Now I'm being told to minimise unnecessary social contact, I have to go three times a day. I'm sick of the rhetoric and mateship messages, the savages who started this artificial shortage put paid to that weeks ago.
Absolutely nothing is in short supply. If everyone bought what they normally bought, there would be no noticeable change in the shops. The sad corollary to this is the wasted food we're going to see in the weeks ahead.
Australia is uniquely fortunate in that we produce enough food for ourselves, and can survive import restrictions or shortages. A few selfish individuals (who presumably now are crowing about how clever they are) put paid to that for 20 million others.
It's time for the government to take control of distribution. Rationing should have been in from day 1. It's been proven time and time again you can't rely on people doing the right thing.
If this means the army getting involved in distribution then so be it. They were a calming sight here during the bushfire crisis, so there is a precedent.
TL;dr. I'm sick of this, and those that are continuing to exploit it. I just want to get back to good old fashioned shit posting
Rant over. Sorry, I don't use any other social network and have nowhere else to vent. TeeKray said what I wanted to say. Probably better
It's absolutely crazy. I have been in Karratha the last few weeks for work and no issues at the supermarket, no people fighting over anything, no queues - a couple of products like hand wash hand sanatiser in short supply by the end of the day, but otherwise all good.
I feel like I am in an island of sanity - I wonder why it is so different up here?
The toilet paper not on special is sitting on the shelf the longest, lol.
But when the stuff on sale/cheap generic store brand runs out, they’re reluctantly, begrudgingly buying it (and they’re not happy about it.)
Even in these “desperate panic buying times” people are still monumental tightarses, lmao...
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Well said Keith.
As usual we may blast each other to smithereens on the small stuff, but we handle the big stuff well.
As usual we may blast each other to smithereens on the small stuff, but we handle the big stuff well.
Hey man, if I sent you $5.50 plus the $200 postage could you get some of this to Canberra?
I'm already bringing two packs and a tub of santiser wipes back for my parents who are totally out
. Just insane to be flying toilet paper around the country in a suitcase.
The ACTs third case just confirmed. A 70 year old arriving from Asia on Saturday. Luckily Morrison's new rules didn't kick in until Monday so as not to inconvenience his Hillsong mate.
She caught a public bus from Sydney. This partly explains the stripping of every supermarket within an 80km radius.
I hope at the end of all this there's some kind of review, and the opportunity for voters to express themselves over the total failure of government at all levels.
She caught a public bus from Sydney. This partly explains the stripping of every supermarket within an 80km radius.
I hope at the end of all this there's some kind of review, and the opportunity for voters to express themselves over the total failure of government at all levels.
Eddie Dingle
Moving chairs
Wine, duh.
Eddie Dingle
Moving chairs
Sorry to burst your bubble but scomo will get re-elected in a landslide.
It may not be right but it will happen.
PepeSilvia
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Because you seem to be far more concerned with the ****ing stock market than the fact that we're dealing with a pandemic virus for which we currently have no cure. It is not influenza. It will kill plenty of people in the 70+ age bracket. The people who are most at risk have children, grandchildren and other family members who love and care for them. Do you have any family members/loved ones who are 70+ or are immunocompromised? Just think about that for one moment.
Aside from the above, you're all over the place with the shit you're posting. Here are some of the things you've posted that I think make you look foolish:
Yeah, look, I just console myself that we could have Bill Shorten in government, and Katy Gallagher in charge of all this
I'd forgotten her so I googled her to discover it was her birthday today. Happy Birthday Katy.
Could you imagine the unions muscling in on this crisis to further their own ends
The government seems to be doing a fair bit I think.
The NRL needs to be absolutely shamed on the back of this.
The NRL needs to be absolutely shamed on the back of this.
chiwigi
I’ll make tears from your Wines.
Those bastard unions, making sure workers get paid well and are covered in the event of a crisis!
Scum they are!
Yep. Here they'd be demanding the bus network stays operational, but closes it to passengers. Given that's how it works normally, that wouldn't be a difficult demand for the government to accommodate.
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I think it's difficult to make meaningful cross country comparisons. We know infections are age sensitive, maybe sex sensitive too. The age/sex profile of people tested may not reflect the age/sex structure of the general population, so that could skew the results. My gut feeling is that if a true random sample of tests were done, the results would be somewhat lower.
Another issue. Typcially when you compare prevelance and death rates for particular diseases across geographical areas, the data is standardised to accout for differences in age/sex structures. Let's say you're comparing heart disease rates between areas A and B. A and B may have the same rates for older age groups, but A's rate is higher simply because a higher proportion of its population is elderly. Age/sex standardisation is a technqiue for removing this effect (sorry if you're across all this). I don't believe the data in the table has been standardised. Italy's rates are likely to be artifically high because of its very old population.
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Is a stadium classified as inside or outside (still a 500 limits for outside)? Unlikely to be more than 100 people required in one room. If there are a dozen people in the media box, a couple of dozen in the change rooms and 100 or so on, in and around the field I don't see how that would be an issues given the vast spaces and the indoor/ outdoor factor.
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The Age is reporting that AFL clubs overwhelmingly want the first round of the season to go ahead as scheduled. I think we are being softened up for an AFL announcement that Rd 1 will go ahead.
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RussellEbertHandball
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KT's message is that's what they have been told to plan for
"Our planning to date has been based around the assumption that the season will commence as scheduled, and that we will find a way to complete it, even if that means extending beyond September and being creative with the fixturing. We will continue on this path, until advised otherwise."
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