Aussie/NZ COVID.

[Mr J]

actually I retract the previous statement, half of QLD was down here for the low tide session.

Queensland rego plates in the carpark, or can you tell Queensland ethnicity just by looking at them?

South East Queensland is in a 10km radius lockdown

• City of Brisbane
• City of Gold Coast
• City of Ipswich
• Lockyer Valley Regional Council
• Logan City
• Moreton Bay Region
• Noosa Shire Council
• Redland City
• Scenic Rim Regional Council
• Somerset Regional Council
• Sunshine Coast Regional Council

 

[waxfoot]

Queensland rego plates in the carpark, or can you tell Queensland ethnicity just by looking at them?

South East Queensland is in a 10km radius lockdown

• City of Brisbane
• City of Gold Coast
• City of Ipswich
• Lockyer Valley Regional Council
• Logan City
• Moreton Bay Region
• Noosa Shire Council
• Redland City
• Scenic Rim Regional Council
• Somerset Regional Council
• Sunshine Coast Regional Council

As he was smearing dogshit on doorhandles, mr Freeride peeked into the window of the ute he was defiling, and spotted a Yourmates shirt, and some beachbeat stickers on a PridMORE spare board in the back.

 

[Mr J]

As he was smearing dogshit on doorhandles, mr Freeride peeked into the window of the ute he was defiling, and spotted a Yourmates shirt, and some beachbeat stickers on a PridMORE spare board in the back.

I reckon Mr Freeride would be too classy for that sort of behaviour. Freeride you just wax their windows aye?

Your Mates Brewing Co. Sunshine Coast

 

[waxfoot]

I reckon Mr Freeride would be too classy for that sort of behaviour. Freeride you just wax their windows aye?

Your Mates Brewing Co. Sunshine Coast

I'm currently wearing a long sleeve YM shirt
No larry in hand though, 12 y/o single malt is the go tonight and going down oh so well.

 

[Mr J]

...besides, with the sh!t that's gone up my nose during some of the years living in London in my 20's, aint no vaccine taking me down

So I woke up to Victoria's lockdown number 6. Same rules in regional as metro.

I went out for permitted reason number 2 and exercised in the surf at a beach of my choice in the allowed 5 km radius. About 1 hour of surfing, messed up peaky swell, I enjoyed it.

Did some work, then went out for permitted reason number 5 to the regional Town Hall Vaccination centre for Astrazeneca number 2.

The injectionist told me that it was likely that I would experience a similar reaction to my first dose. In which case I thought I should get another arvo surf coz I am going to feel too crook tomorrow and the day after. Can catch up on work next week. I then used up my full 2 hour exercise allowance with another session. Did a little bit more work, I figured I already did my employer a favour by getting vaxxed on a friday, so didn't feel too much pressure. In 2 weeks I will be fully indoctrinated

Going out for permitted reason number 1 now, coz I don't think I will be up to going to the supermarket tomorrow.

 

[waxfoot]

Haha nice @Mr J
I'll need to cancel my vaccination now, next week Friday I'm getting L5/S1 fused, so dont think i'l be mobile enough for the injection the week after.

 

[Mr J]

L5/S1 would be priority @waxfoot. That's great you can get it done so quickly - private health insurance? I got fairly comprehensive insurance coz I have a habit of messing myself up with extreme sports and the socialist state doesn't prioritise non essential rehab. I'm going to enjoy a fine glass of Pepperjack Barossa valley wine now I wish you an excellent recovery.

 

[SurfFuerteventura]

Haha nice @Mr J
I'll need to cancel my vaccination now, next week Friday I'm getting L5/S1 fused, so dont think i'l be mobile enough for the injection the week after.

Best of luck.

Get one of those inflatable balls, to sit on after.

 

[casa_mugrienta]

This is just how it's going to be for urban dwellers from now on - rolling lockdowns based on a cat-and-mouse game of positive PCR test results and booster schedules. Urbanites seem to like it.

Really it's bizarre isn't it?

Further on multiple occasions I've heard people saying or posting about how they're indifferent about the lockdowns because all they do is stay home and play video games /watch anime/porn etc. anyway and order Doordash so this kind of stuff doesn't really effect them.

 

[casa_mugrienta]

OK Nostradamus.

It's not just PRCD saying that.

That's starting to be the general line of thinking for most people in the scientific community.

Basically the virus is now in 12 animal species and there's not enough vaccine production capacity to vaccinate the entire 3rd world quickly enough.

And even if you could vaccinate the entire third world you'd have to want to make them take the vaccine. Plus you'd have to keep up with constant new variants.

Globalization means this isn't just going to burn out into minor epidemics.

 

[grapedrink]

Really it's bizarre isn't it?

Further on multiple occasions I've heard people saying or posting about how they're indifferent about the lockdowns because all they do is stay home and play video games /watch anime/porn etc. anyway and order Doordash so this kind of stuff doesn't really effect them.

Yup, and you have money to pay for it from the government. Also saving money on rent because you can’t get evicted, a decision by the CDC that overrode 2/3 branches of the federal government. How they have that authority is beyond me
Meanwhile we have job postings everywhere. I spent this week in a rural blue collar area that is adjacent to some nice fresh water for recreation. Been going there for decades and it’s always been economically depressed, and they don’t get too many of the high dollar tourists. Even there I saw help wanted signs outside all of the restaurants, some of them offering signing bonuses. Friggin bananas

 

[casa_mugrienta]

Yup, and you have money to pay for it from the government. Also saving money on rent because you can’t get evicted, a decision by the CDC that overrode 2/3 branches of the federal government. How they have that authority is beyond me
Meanwhile we have job postings everywhere. I spent this week in a rural blue collar area that is adjacent to some nice fresh water for recreation. Been going there for decades and it’s always been economically depressed, and they don’t get too many of the high dollar tourists. Even there I saw help wanted signs outside all of the restaurants, some of them offering signing bonuses. Friggin bananas

DO NOT GET ME STARTED

Been traveling around the west/NW three weeks now and seeing NOW HIRING signs EVERYWHERE.

And I mean EVERYWHERE.

Every fvckin place is hiring.

I am seeing businesses CLOSED due to lack of employees.

Hiring bonus - $500-$700 in rural areas for fast food.

Amazon.com grocery in Seattle suburbs - a fvckin' $1500 hiring bonus...and a young "homeless" guy in his 20s begging for money with his girlfriend at the plaza exit.

As we were pulling away my wife said "You should leave him..."

 

[afoaf]

Interesting that you write all that. Turn that around for a second.

I had an Uber ride with a cis-female black lesbian driver last week, pronoun "she." When I use rideshare the bartender in me comes out and I start asking people about themselves.

During this ride my driver opined that what we (the royal we) are experiencing now is the fall of capitalism, which basically replaced Xianity/monarchy hundreds of years ago. All of the unrest we see is really, deep down, humanity pushing back against a SYSTEM that has taught us to love being exploited. We are realizing that we have been oppressed for centuries and are now collectively awakening to this fact, and we're pissed off. We were indoctrinated into a cult (capitalism) and now we feel the pain it has inflicted upon us. Capitalism is a religion as much as any other ism.

We have been bullied into sh!t work for centuries, the system allows for nothing else.

We have been walking on eggshells for centuries.

Now the man is walking on eggshells. Tables are turning.

There could be something to this.

all work is sh!t work

and all the same work has to be done, regardless of the system we exist in

 

[kidfury]

It's not just PRCD saying that.

That's starting to be the general line of thinking for most people in the scientific community.

Basically the virus is now in 12 animal species and there's not enough vaccine production capacity to vaccinate the entire 3rd world quickly enough.

And even if you could vaccinate the entire third world you'd have to want to make them take the vaccine. Plus you'd have to keep up with constant new variants.

Globalization means this isn't just going to burn out into minor epidemics.

What will be the role of ivermectin in this pandemic? I read here that it's been effective in treating covid infections in Brasil and India.

 

[enframed]

Not all work is sh|t work. Not all employers treat their employees the same way. My company is fucking fantastic. They pay us well. They treat their producers well. They take care of each other, and everyone makes money. No one is getting rich, though some have more money than others, of course, but no one is getting rich doing this work. But they all thrive. All these are private companies who work together to make sure everyone succeeds, even during a pandemic.

The people who don't want to work, it appears to me, are mostly in sh|t retail and hospitality. But it's not the corner taco joint that can't find employees, it's the big name celebrity chef steakhouse and Michelin rated restaurant (read: investors who want their ROI), where employees are often treated like absolute garbage. It's the restaurants that trend on Instagram that are suffering the most. The pay may be good, but the abuse, it's real. People are sick of it. They've had a taste of a life without it.

The restaurant/bar people I work with think this will all change when the "unemployment ends." Some, sure. Some people will go back, others definitely won't, they've already moved on, left that side of things.

Most people don't want to be rich. They just don't want to have to worry so much about that next paycheck, health, food, shelter, working car, real basic sh|t. If you work 40+ hours a week, you should be able to have that.

Capital extraction from the middle class and poor by the rich has to stop. Period.

 

[Autoprax]

Transitions are difficult.

It's hard to go back to a service job making 7 dollars an hour.

 

[Autoprax]

What will be the role of ivermectin in this pandemic? I read here that it's been effective in treating covid infections in Brasil and India.

Dr John is pro vaccine and also thinks therapeutics would help address the pandemic.

That seems reasonable to me.

 

[enframed]

It's to cash cow the first world.

This is what capital does.

 

[kidfury]

This is what capital does.

So, it flows from the first to the third world? Consider that premise for a moment.

 

[Boneroni]

So, it flows from the first to the third world? Consider that premise for a moment.

That's not what he said