Mega Thread Coronavirus & the AFL - season postponed. Part 2 * CONTINUED ABUSE WILL NOT BE TOLERATED *
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Only if you bin it instead of flushing it like so many ****wits do
This is the same organisation that pushed ahead with the expectation they'd be able to get a number of games under their belt before having to shut down.
Those games were a complete waste of time, and a June 11 restart date is just as unrealistic.
It's the attitude difference. I know people in the States who still don't isolate and think it's all overblown or a NYC problem. One person I know in LA has to work in shared space and had a sick co-worker that employers refused to send home until everyone kicked up a stink. Even then they just isolated them to an unused part of the office. Others are still getting their home reno's done, people still getting take out etc.
In China everyone I know said streets were near empty for weeks. Most locked themselves down hardcore for many weeks and didn't let a single soul enter their home. None were going to work. On the odd times they had to go out, everyone they saw was wearing a mask, shopkeepers kept several meters distance and asked for correct change to be left on the counter. And this was in places where there weren't a lot of reported cases anyway.
People in that part of the world, South Korea and Taiwan as well, just took this stuff more seriously than those in the US, so no surprises in the data.
Some really great charting on this site - https://coronavirus.1point3acres.com/ppe
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I was actually glad when I got to KFC today and saw 10 cars in the drive through since at least it would kill 30 minutes of my day. This is barely living
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Those games were perfectly useful as a test of what it would be like, and at the time it wasn't known if we'd have 1 week or 5. You're just a classic captain hindsight keyboard warrior. Let the educated run the multi billion dollar interstate organisation with thousands of employees.
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I'd rather just bomb the season and play next year unmolested. Or even a quickfire season split into 2 even conferences based on last year, with the top 4 of each playing eliminations until the last 2 play the gf
Hindsight?
You might want to check my posts in this thread, as well as similar views of many others, in the week leading up to round 1 that suggested to play any games at all would be an absolute waste of time.
I'm a passionate Collingwood supporter, and we did a number on a flag fancy, and I couldn't have been less excited or interested watching the game.
Stocks. You said you were waiting for an opportunity to buy. Got ur eye on anything?
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I actually like that idea...your 2020/21 premiers. No asterisk.
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Na not yet. Waiting for tax refund more than anything. My shares have been holding of late (holding as in up and down about 5% every day).
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People say 'well inner Sydney and Melbourne is like Europe' but forget that they are generally nowhere near places like London and much of the old European cities. It shouldn't be a surprise New York and London (and Tokyo coming soon) are hotbeds for transmission.
Yep, we should all be grateful we are as relatively sparsely populated as we are, and that we are not in winter yet. These two things alone IMO have naturally slowed the spread and bought us precious time.
If there isn't a meaningful season complete by October, then there cannot be a meaningful season that takes up summer.
If people can last without footy for a few months, the committed fandom would've been broken. Even without a footy season, there comes a point where people don't care as much a focus on cricket or something else.
If people can last without footy for a few months, the committed fandom would've been broken. Even without a footy season, there comes a point where people don't care as much a focus on cricket or something else.
Nah. There'll come a point where even for committed fan, they won't hack footy past October.
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aye comparisons for European cities v Australian ones v American ones are redundant
But your talking 50%, 10%. If panic buying starts, they will need 500%, 800%.
We may throw out 50% of bananas, but if panic buying of bananas starts, using that extra 50% gets us 1 more day of bananas.
And you cannot just call the banana factory to tell them to turn it up to 11.
Let's make 1 thing clear first, I don't think most food items will see panic buying, so this is a moot discussion.
But your argument about food wastage shows you don't really get the scale of what would happen with genuine panic buying.
The difference eliminating all waste would make would be minimal.
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Hello all, i hope you are all keeping safe and occupied 
Long shot... but does anyone here know anyone who could help me with some immigration stuff?
My fiance is in the states, I'm in europe. But i think that if Aus closes it's borders I'll qualify to get married in absentia, which i think means we could tie the knot with an aussie celebrant over skype. We already have the celebrant from our postponed aussie wedding, and proof that it was scheduled before the pandemic. Receipts from the venue etc.
My hope is that having the marriage certificate would be enough to get her out of the US powder keg and into Aus (as soon as borders were re-opened to aussies).
If anyone knows an immigration lawyer or immigration official who could help us to see if this is actually possible, please PM me.
EDIT: she is not an Australian citizen, hence needing the marriage cert
Long shot... but does anyone here know anyone who could help me with some immigration stuff?
My fiance is in the states, I'm in europe. But i think that if Aus closes it's borders I'll qualify to get married in absentia, which i think means we could tie the knot with an aussie celebrant over skype. We already have the celebrant from our postponed aussie wedding, and proof that it was scheduled before the pandemic. Receipts from the venue etc.
My hope is that having the marriage certificate would be enough to get her out of the US powder keg and into Aus (as soon as borders were re-opened to aussies).
If anyone knows an immigration lawyer or immigration official who could help us to see if this is actually possible, please PM me.
EDIT: she is not an Australian citizen, hence needing the marriage cert
Why are you the dictator of the mental health of other people? It doesn’t impact on my mental health but I can see how it might for others who live and breathe sport.
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It probably shouldn't be the major driver for depression in anyone with a well adjusted and well rounded life for sure but I honestly can kind of agree with you here: The lack of normality and a constant source of joy and discussion points during a season would cause some instability and anxiety. Coupled with stresses over employment, relationships, family and a touch of cabin fever I could easily see how it could effect the mental state in some people.
Was a rather unnecessarily judgemental post for mine: We all have hobbies and interests and prioritize them differently and place greater emphasis on them during difficult periods of life (i.e. recently unemployed or recently broken up may find comfort in sport to ease pain).
I'm excited for Monday as ill be able to take the bins out
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