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8 new cases in Australia yesterday and 1 death so the CMR increases to 1.415% but active cases drop to 7.9% (555).
4 new cases in NZ so CMR improves to 1.397% and active cases remains unchanged. Just over 2,400 new cases and 545 deaths in the UK so the CMR rises to 14.204%. More than 22k new cases and 1k deaths in the USA sees a fall in the CMR to 5.933% and active cases are down to 71.1%. In other news: The global case total will pas 5M sometime today; Australia has now recorded 100 deaths; Russia has the 2nd highest number of cases of any country and will pass 300k today; Brazil (16,260), India (6,147), Peru (4,550), Chile (3,520), Kuwait (1,073), Egypt (720), Afghanistan (581), Kazakhstan (311) and Yemen (37) all recorded their highest daily totals since the epidemic began.
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I was hearing on talkback yesterday that the UK had never closed their borders ?????
Its being discussed to action this by the end of the week ! If this is so as one said, the horse had bolted. Can anyone confirm this.
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Hey Russ from what i can make from NZ Govt we have 0 new cases, has been like that for a couple of days.
https://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/...-current-cases |
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Heard the same yesterday. Bizarre if true. Stopping people moving around seems to be one of the most successful methods of curtailing it.
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The argument about cheap chinese crap is something we have brought on ourselves due to wanting to get products very cheaply.A friend whose brother in law imports from china did a factory tour recently,and tells me the chinese have basically 3 levels of quality.1 the price most of us want to pay.2 the price we really should pay and 3 the top quality price.If we pay price 1 we get cheaply made stuff that isn’t all that good!but if we pay price 3 we can get quality that is right up there with the rest of the worlds manufacturing levels
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https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/hea...ed-to-nz-total Coronavirus: Four historical cases added to NZ total Quote:
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In the 70's Australia made just about everything you could want. Then Hawke happened. He replaced collecting taxes from importers who wanted access to our market with taxpayer subsidies to keep now exposed and uncompetitive industries afloat.
The excuse has always been that ditching tariffs was necessary and beneficial, but look at the result. We went from a nation of factory workers and farmers to a nation of coffee pourers. Between 1984 and 1994 poverty and extreme wealth doubled in Australia carving share form the middle class. We went for being one of the most egalitarian nation on earth to just another economically stratified serfdom. They let loose the pillagers (or entrepreneurs) and when the bubble burst the proletariat were left to pay for the mess. Subsequent governments played the same tune. This wasn't Hawke's fault, nor any politician. The fault lays completely with the electorate. All this bluster that we should do this or that is BS. No one is going to change their vote, nor are they going to change their spending habits. The reality is no one gives a f***. If Australians can't be bothered ticking a different box at election time what chance of any real change. And China will pass. As soon as labour costs rise the multinationals will move on to the next cheap labour market. China exports will decline enough they will have to restructure to run on internal demand. They have already tried to do this but it isn't working and I can't see how it can in the future. They will become a bit player as Japan did, only worse because they don't have the discipline. In 20 years no one will be talking about China. |
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I like how the add probable to it as well you either tested positive to it or not, what some one thought you had skews results a bit.
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The NZ question has been answered. I can't see whether they were historical cases added or actual new ones in the dataset I use.
Here's the graphs for today which is a snapshot of the trends in a number of African countries. First up are the two with the biggest case numbers, South Africa and Egypt both of which are still trending upward. ![]() Next is the intermediate group. Nigeria and Sudan are trending upward, Algeria is flat while Morocoo and Senegal are trending downward. ![]() Finally, the lower case number group. Kenya and Mauritania are on a steep upward curve while Mali and Ethiopia are trending upward as well but less sharply. The Ivory Coast is on a steep downward curve and Togo is heading downward as well. ![]()
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Pretty much every region in victoria outside melbourne is basically covid free. The geelong region has only had 1 case in the past month. It's essentially a melbourne problem atm. |
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The 2% that comes from NZ will be processed as in butter and cheese
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We're having a great time at the bar discussing conspiracy theories about China and COVID Safe while enjoying our beers, Cav pulls out a genuine shiny new Tupperware container with some Pavlova out of his jacket pocket the sneaky shyster. Gaso is out the back finishing his 93rd cigarette for the night and comes back in to join the group. Gaso rejoins the table and says - HEY! THERE'S OUR GOOD FRIEND JEFF BEZOS COMING DOWN THE STAIRS!! Jeff sees us, comes over, orders a West End Draught and joins our table for a chat. Suddenly the average wage at the table is now 2.5x New Zealand's GDP even though there's two old bastards and two working class gents. Tldr - look at median wage in Australia rather than average wage. |
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Monty Python- I Like Chinese
(sorry any chinese, this is a parody, don,t hate me) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH2P_pVze6s |
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You are endangering the world“
Quelle: BILD Artikel von: JULIAN REICHELT veröffentlicht am 17.04.2020 - 14:27 Uhr Dear President Xi Jinping Your embassy in Berlin has addressed me in an open letter because we asked in our newspaper BILD whether China should pay for the massive economic damage the corona virus is inflicting worldwide. Let me respond: 1. You rule by surveillance. You wouldn't be president without surveillance. You monitor everything, every citizen, but you refuse to monitor the diseased wet markets in your country. You shut down every newspaper and website that is critical of your rule, but not the stalls where bat soup is sold. You are not only monitoring your people, you are endangering them – and with them, the rest of the world. 2. Surveillance is a denial of freedom. And a nation that is not free, is not creative. A nation that is not innovative, does not invent anything . This is why you have made your country the world champion in intellectual property theft. China enriches itself with the inventions of others, instead of inventing on its own. The reason China does not innovate and invent is that you don't let the young people in your country think freely. China’s greatest export hit (that nobody wanted to have, but which has nevertheless gone around the world) is Corona. 3. You, your government and your scientists had to know long ago that Corona is highly infectious, but you left the world in the dark about it. Your top experts didn't respond when Western researchers asked to know what was going on in Wuhan. You were too proud and too nationalistic to tell the truth, which you felt was a national disgrace. 4. The "Washington Post" reports that your laboratories in Wuhan have been researching corona viruses in bats, but without maintaining the highest safety standards. Why are your toxic laboratories not as secure as your prisons for political prisoners? Would you like to explain this to the grieving widows, daughters, sons, husbands, parents of Corona victims all over the world? 5. In your country, your people are whispering about you. Your power is crumbling. You have created an inscrutable, non-transparent China. Before Corona, China was known as a surveillance state. Now, China is known as a surveillance state that infected the world with a deadly disease. That is your political legacy. Your embassy tells me that I am not living up to the "traditional friendship of our peoples.” I suppose you consider it a great "friendship" when you now generously send masks around the world. This isn’t friendship, I would call it imperialism hidden behind a smile – a Trojan Horse. You plan to strengthen China through a plague that you exported. You will not succeed. Corona will be your political end, sooner or later. Yours sincerely Julian Reichelt https://www.bild.de/politik/internat...8436.bild.html |
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Whoever likes that deserves the bitter, much like saying VB is a good drop - not.
I'll have a Tooheys New anyday from the tap - lagers are never bitter ![]() Back to covid.
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Many decades ago when I was young (er) I participated in a news group called soc.culture.australia (anyone remember usenet news ?).
You get people trolling calling us backward, stupid, lazy. The australians would all just go yep...and have a laugh. There were however 2 things that popped up regularly and every time spark a flame war that would rage for weeks. 1. Which is the best beer. 2. What do you call 24 cans of beer. Priorities. An regularly some european would ask how many states they could visit on their 3 week holiday....by bicycle... Oh how we laughed... |
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11 new cases for Australia yesterday and no deaths. CMR improves to 1.413% and active cases to 7.6%.
No new cases or deaths for NZ so CMR is the same and active cases drops to 2.7% (45). The UK did another realignment of case numbers and reduced them by 525 but also recorded 363 deaths so the CMR rises to 14.38%. Just over 20k new cases in the USA and 1,552 deaths sees CMR up to 5.955% but active cases reduced to 71.0%. Globally, cases surpassed the 5M mark; Brazil recorded their highest daily total of new cases with 19,694; Algeria (586), Indonesia (693), Egypt (745), UAE (941), Bangladesh (1,617), Iran (2,346) and Chile (4,038) all recorded their highest daily total to date.
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2 new cases for Australia yesterday and no deaths. CMR improves to 1.412% and active cases to 7.2%.
No new cases or deaths for NZ so CMR is the same and active cases drops to 2.3% (35). The UK had 2.615 new cases and 338 deaths so the CMR drops to 14.365%. Just over 22k new cases in the USA and 1,403 deaths sees CMR up to 5.961% but active cases reduced to 70.8%. The UK passed the 3M tests mark; Brazil remained over 16k new cases; Lebanon (63), Kenya (80), Iraq (153), Djibouti (219), Armenia (335), Indonesia (973), Egypt (774), Bangladesh (1,773), Peru (4,749) and India (6,198) all recorded their highest daily total to date - those in blue on consecutive days.
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