The Reality of Living in Australia and Covid

[El Pinguino]

What is the socio-economic of outer northern Hobart ( rhetoric Q.. my son just told me)

[El Pinguino]

He also volunteered that this woman in Qland https://www.theage.com.au/national/q...14-p59035.html
should be burnt at the stake... bit strong for him I thought.
Her handiwork has essentially rendered all genuine exemptions - few as they are - worthless.

[GILow]

Originally Posted by El Pinguino

He also volunteered that this woman in Qland https://www.theage.com.au/national/q...14-p59035.html
should be burnt at the stake... bit strong for him I thought.
Her handiwork has essentially rendered all genuine exemptions - few as they are - worthless.

I think I’d rather like your son if I met him. There’s something particularly vile and insidious about the sort of people who choose to profit from the naivety of others and in doing so put them at risk.

[JPA Cate]

Apparently the man who left quaro at the Travelodge went to Woolies in Bridgewater for an hour, over 100 people there who were at the Woolies with him should quarantine. Seems to me like this is a PROBLEM.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-...isit/100541130

If any of the people he exposed die from Covid they caught from him, do the authorities then charge him with negligent manslaughter?

He may be a recidivist, but it seems to me that there should be some consequences for entering without a proper procedure; escaping the quarantine hotel; refusal to wear a mask, and exposing all those people.

[GILow]

Originally Posted by Wotname

Thanks to this socket head muppet, there are now 60 people in quaro in Hobart for 14 days (including 13 coppers). All cooling their heels waiting to know if they are inflected.



Covid will the least of his problems if public sentiment is any guide.

And it appears he went to the supermarket.

“COVID-positive Hobart quarantine breacher visited supermarket for over an hour
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-...isit/100541130”

Jail is too good for this guy.

Edit: I see Ann beat me to it.

[GILow]

Originally Posted by El Pinguino

What is the socio-economic of outer northern Hobart ( rhetoric Q.. my son just told me)

I was approached about teaching in the area in question. I was told that a class of seven students would not be unusual (from an enrolled base of thirty).

Strangely enough that particular statistic did not worry me, with those sorts of numbers you can be reasonably sure the trouble-makers are not coming to class and that the remaining seven actually want to learn.

[skipperpete]

Originally Posted by El Pinguino

What is the socio-economic of outer northern Hobart ( rhetoric Q.. my son just told me)

Suggested quarantine facility

[El Pinguino]

My bad asking that question - just as many rich and smart *&**&%$$$ out there as poor and thick.

Meanwhile two sex workers ( 48 and 49 y.o. ) arrested in Blenheim, NZ, for breaking out of Auckland.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/cri...ck-to-auckland

Good to see that there is still work available for older women across the Tasman.

[Wotname]

Originally Posted by JPA Cate

Apparently the man who left quaro at the Travelodge went to Woolies in Bridgewater for an hour, over 100 people there who were at the Woolies with him should quarantine. Seems to me like this is a PROBLEM.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-...isit/100541130

If any of the people he exposed die, do they then charge him with negligent manslaughter?

He may be a recidivist, but it seems to me that there should be some consequences for entering without a proper procedure; escaping the quarantine hotel; refusal to wear a mask, and exposing all those people.

Originally Posted by GILow

And it appears he went to the supermarket.

“COVID-positive Hobart quarantine breacher visited supermarket for over an hour
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-...isit/100541130”

Jail is too good for this guy.

Edit: I see Ann beat me to it.

Yep, he's a gift that keeps on giving!

Apparently he remains totally uncooperative with police and health officials and it is a painstaking job trying to discover how / where /when he went while on the run.

Half of Hobart are researching medieval truth telling techniques while the other half already know what to do.

Port Arthur / Sarah Island would be a walk in the park if he ventures forth again.

[Jim Cate]

Port Arthur / Sarah Island would be a walk in the park if he ventures forth again.

I vote for Sarah Island... Port Arthur is too nice a place for him... and easy to escape from these days since they took the killer dogs away from the Neck!

Jim

[Jim Cate]

Interesting commentary in the New York Times today:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/14/o...t-america.html

Jim

[Wotname]

Originally Posted by Jim Cate

Interesting commentary in the New York Times today:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/14/o...t-america.html

Jim

Good article Jim, thanks for sharing the link.

[Wotname]

Due to his work during the Covid pandemic in Australia, six year old Jasper won the Animal of the Year award.

And slightly off topic, Bear received a special mention for finding over a 100 displaced sick and burnt Kolas during the Black Summer Bushfires of 2019-20.

Bear came from homeless background himself before his abilities were recognised.

https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/good...20-%2020211015

https://www.ifaw.org/uk/journal/anim...on-awards-2021

[Alan Mighty]

Originally Posted by Jim Cate

Interesting commentary in the New York Times today:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/14/o...t-america.html

And, sticking with the US press for a minute, the Washington Post has a great article on Nipah virus, the paramyxovirus that transferred from bats to pigs to humans in Malaysia (and from bats to humans in Bangladesh and perhaps other jurisdictions), and its connection to Hendra virus, a very closely related virus that transferred from bats to horses to humans in Brisbane (Hendra is a suburb of Brisbane; the Nipah virus was named after a village named after its river, Sungai Nipah, in Malaysia).

The WaPo story draws parallels with Covid, of course, and the investigation into its origins.

See:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/healt...als-to-humans/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nipah_virus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendra_virus

[Alan Mighty]

Originally Posted by Alan Mighty

Nipah virus, the paramyxovirus that transferred from bats to pigs to humans in Malaysia (and from bats to humans in Bangladesh and perhaps other jurisdictions), and its connection to Hendra virus, a very closely related virus that transferred from bats to horses to humans in Brisbane (Hendra is a suburb of Brisbane; the Nipah virus was named after a village named after its river, Sungai Nipah, in Malaysia).

The name of the Brissy suburb of Hendra ultimately points to Cornwall, UK, and a Cornish word for a 'hamlet'.

The name of the Nipah River (Sungai Nipah) ultimately points to a palm tree that grows in mangrove environments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendra,_Queensland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nypa_fruticans