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The Artificial Kid posted:Yeah imagine if every country on earth had just done a proper 6 week lockdown like we did. Literally no more COVID. Unfortunately there are big chunks of the world where that couldn't happen for practical reasons even if there was political will for it.
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Pwnstar posted:My fave is getting sent home for coughing too much and then getting in trouble for not having a doctors certificate to make that a valid sick day. When I worked as a croupier at the casino 15 years ago, they had rules requiring a doctors certificate for taking a shift off sick if it was either side of a weekend. I was working night shift at the time, work up in the afternoon and was feeling really rough, including needing to sneeze every minute or two. gently caress finding a clinic to go to late in the day and spreading my germs everywhere just for them to confirm I had a cold and then having to pay for it. I just went into work instead, and once on the table informed the supervisor I needed the box of tissues left next to my table. After about half an hour and half a box of tissues they decided I actually didn't need the certificate to have the night off. Cost me less time than going to the doctor. Konomex posted:One of my first workplaces would shuffle staff to cover you for a sick day, so we didn't actually need to take sick days half the time. My last workplace demanded a full on doctors note for a sick day, gently caress resting up, go spread those germs. My current workplace, after COVID, is a lot happier to just wave their hands and accept me at my word that I'm sick. My workplace moved to 4 day weeks and they are amazing. Do recommend.
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Jul 6, 2021 08:00
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Megillah Gorilla posted:I've been doing 9½ hour/4 day weeks for the last couple years now and it still feels like a holiday every week. I try to do a 9 hour day, and even then it feels like the week flies by. Saturday's are still the same as ever, Sunday is like a repeat Saturday without the time pressure of work the next day, and Monday is like a Sunday except by the end of it I'm genuinely just relaxed and ready to go back to work.
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Jul 6, 2021 14:57
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freebooter posted:Sydney extending the lockdown by another week after Perth and Brisbane and Darwin have exited theirs, I'm sure this will cause a re-examination of the "you should avoid lockdown until it's absolutely unavoidable" mentality in Sydneysiders It's more that there seems to be a real disagreement on what counts as "last resort". Most of Australia is treating cases out in the community where all the tracing isn't currently known as being when you're at that point. NSW decided to gamble that they would be able to trace everything and lost that dice roll.
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Jul 7, 2021 02:50
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I really hope Sydney can get on top of this, but if they don't/won't then it's gonna be a long few isolated months. After the rest of the country has done hard lockdowns to get into places where there is no community transmission we aren't going to give up the gains just because Gladys thinks NSW is special. At least until we have widespread vaccination. Once that's done we will have to accept there are always going to be some community cases unfortunately, but at least it will be semi-controlled.
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Jul 7, 2021 04:02
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Launchpad McQuack posted:"2 weeks to flatten the curve and give our hospitals a chance to get ready." Do you remember what happened after that in most of the rest of the world? Where countries flattened their curves and then had cases explode with the result of people not being able to work for months and thousands of people dying? Like please, point to the country that without heavy restrictions has managed to avoid Covid ripping through their population.
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Jul 7, 2021 07:42
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Chadzok posted:Sounds like they might expand the business grants to under $75k. Thank gently caress, because I'm sitting here at home watching case numbers go up in the busiest time of my year, making absolutely zero income. They didn't keep JobKeeper because Morrison really doesn't want states to lock down. Simple as that.
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Jul 7, 2021 23:24
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alf_pogs posted:i hate seeing number go up, but seeing morrison eat a poo poo sandwich for his awful messaging is almost worth it Nah. I can't stand his smug lovely face, but I would rather he was doing a good job.
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Jul 8, 2021 03:30
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Eediot Jedi posted:I dunno why the Vic libs are historically hated but last election they were big on ROAD. Just love that road. Conservative governments love roads because they let them do economic stimulus and infrastructure spending in a way that still let's all the people use it feel like rugged individuals that don't need no help from anyone.
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Jul 8, 2021 10:35
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Eediot Jedi posted:I was being dumb but I was referring to East-West link. Libs love that road so much they signed a deal two months before the election with hefty cancellation penalties. Yeah, see above.
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Jul 8, 2021 10:51
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Recoome posted:https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-13/sydney-covid-lockdown-1-billion-week-economic-cost/100287426 Thank God that Morrison encouraged them to hold off on locking down, imagine how much just a week or two would of cost!
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Jul 12, 2021 23:27
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Laserface posted:no. We're not feeling sorry for him, we're feeling sorry for you being stuck in teen edgelord mode.
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Jul 13, 2021 08:21
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NSW extended for 2 weeks. How good is not putting lockdowns in place until you need to as a last resort.
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Jul 14, 2021 02:46
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Konomex posted:It's Frydenberg, he's the one whose tired of the whingeing. He doesn't like people insinuating that he should be doing his stupid loving job. More incompetent absolutely, although we probably are lucky that Abbott wasn't PM when Covid first hit, because I imagine he would have gone with a more Trump/Johnson style response.
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Jul 14, 2021 03:09
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In more light-hearted events: https://twitter.com/TurnbullMalcolm/status/1414860872564969472?s=20 https://twitter.com/TurnbullMalcolm/status/1414861814823751680?s=20 https://twitter.com/chaser/status/1415157129288114179?s=20
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Jul 14, 2021 04:56
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alf_pogs posted:lol Kevin has to be one buck more than Malcolm In parliament they must have had a pretty decent working relationship, given that when Rudd was PM for the first time Turnbull was willing to work with him on handing emissions.
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Jul 14, 2021 05:09
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Seemlar posted:Platforming and normalizing that poo poo is a thing Seven consistently does Seven resurrected the political career of Pauline Hanson, they loving suck.
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Jul 18, 2021 14:00
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I really hope someone runs election ads which are just Scott Morrison talking about how good it is that Sydney is resisting calls to lock down, followed by the news reports a few days later of the outbreak spreading around the country.
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Jul 19, 2021 08:39
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Eediot Jedi posted:SA lockdown from 6pm tonight. Vic extended another week. :itwasgladys: Gladys and Morrison can get in the loving bin.
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Jul 20, 2021 02:54
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Eediot Jedi posted:Scott this is not what Dan meant when he said treat covid like a fire that's not out. Not empty quoting.
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Jul 20, 2021 05:18
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In brighter news, Porter and his barrister are likely going to have to pay ~$500,000 in court costs over his defamation case. https://www.theguardian.com/austral...fees-to-jo-dyer
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Jul 20, 2021 06:45
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They aren't going to go to an election before lots of people have been vaccinated, because there's too much chance of their being lockdowns happening during the election campaign which could massively burn them. I think they'll push it right to May next year, hoping that international borders are being re-opened by then and they can make some very optimistic predictions of how Australia is poised to do really well based off their management of the country. It will end up being a close election, because the Australian electorate falls for it every time.
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Jul 20, 2021 06:52
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A Labor win is always one election away.
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Jul 20, 2021 23:52
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freebooter posted:Since the pandemic had proven that in terms of politics people only care about what's happened in the last ten minutes, the Liberals will probably shoot back up in the polls once everybody's vaccinated and can go to Bali again around New Year's. The reaction to borders reopening is hard to predict. Once borders open we will have Covid in the community permanently. With as many people as possible vaccinated we're probably looking at flu numbers of infected and dead each year. That seems inevitable at this point, but Australians have got used (outbreaks aside) to not having it spreading uncontrolled. We'll eventually accept it because it will become the norm, but initially it will be a massive increase, in contrast to much of the world where it "just" being as bad as strong flu years is a massive improvement to the situation they have faced over the last 18 months.
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Jul 21, 2021 00:34
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I hate the Liberals, but I'm still amazed that our SA Liberal government has effectively said gently caress off to the Morrison/Gladys strategy and openly talks about how it's better to lock down quickly and early to get on top of things and spend less time overall restricted.
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Jul 22, 2021 02:59
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Konomex posted:He was in charge when they choose the vaccine that disproportionately benefitted one of his cabinet members, he was in charge when they picked the people who'd run the rollout, he was in charge when they discovered the alarming clotting side effect, he was in charge when they encouraged people to get it anyway (and did so himself), he was in charge when people started dying. But he doesn't hold the vaccine? Yeah but didn't you see? Last year everyone was thinking Pfizer would be hard to deal with because of needing low temperature, and at the time they didn't know AZ could have side effects and what were they meant to do, buy vaccine that could have possibly not been used? The way he makes excuses, the weasel.
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Jul 22, 2021 12:22
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It's a national emergency now because they rolled the dice on not locking down NSW with the rest of the country placed as a wager.
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Jul 23, 2021 03:15
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Animal Friend posted:so basically Berejiklian hosed around and found out... and now says the Federal government has to fix poo poo. And now NSW is trying to persuade the other states we should give up some of our vaccines to NSW. A great plan if it had come a few weeks ago accompanied by an early lockdown to ensure the outbreak didn't spread, but there's no loving chance any premier is going to get their states to be on board with the idea when they are now facing down the barrel as well.
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Jul 23, 2021 04:10
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Watching the Tokyo Olympics opening, and hoping Australia has some good things in the next decade to show off. Opening ceremonies usually celebrate a host country, and when they have previously hosted look at how they have grown since the last time. We're 2/3 of the way from Sydney 2000 to Brisbane 2032, and I can't think up to now of anything you'd point to since then.
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Jul 23, 2021 16:00
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Animal Friend posted:Feds announce 85 million more doses of Pfizer to be delivered in 2022 and 2023 Looked at an article about it and this actually seems like good forward planning for once. Talking about how it wasn't yet known if regular booster shots would be required but they are buying as if assumption is they will be to be safe.
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Jul 25, 2021 01:37
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Laserface posted:just crossposting from the gbs thread: Shithouse situation, but can't really blame those individuals, it's likely they are from random areas who have been roped in to assist with less worrying contacts since the system must be incredibly overwhelmed at this point. Even with a handful of cases the multiple layers of contacts are a nightmare, dealing with dozens each day would be nigh on impossible.
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Jul 26, 2021 06:13
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birdstrike posted:that’s basically the one thing from Bill they haven’t jettisoned Anti-corruption is one of the big things that I reckon Labor is going to hit hard as part of the election campaign, and given their history during the better part of a decade they've been in government (Jesus loving Christ that hurts to write) it's something that the Coalition is going to find it hard to push too hard against.
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Jul 27, 2021 00:48
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Synthbuttrange posted:Melb Lockdown's ending on wed if there's no nasty surprises.
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Jul 27, 2021 00:49
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freebooter posted:Something that drives me up the wall is that quick lockdown vs playing chicken has come to be characterised as a Melbourne vs Sydney thing, when in fact it's every other state and territory that has agreed that quick lockdowns are the least bad strategy, and only New South Wales which likes to let the fire burn a little longer to see whether it will get out of control or not. That's just really in media and commentary from people in Melb/Sydney. In the rest of the country it's definitely seen as a Gladys vs Everyone Else thing.
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bell jar posted:Why would Labor be anti-corruption? They've been out of power for long enough that they have a lot less scary skeletons in the closet.
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Jul 27, 2021 03:55
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Update that vaccination is now in fact a race.
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Jul 28, 2021 07:37
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So just to be clear, NSW was just a couple of weeks ago asking other states for their vaccines and is getting more of them now, but is also saying they'll ease up restrictions despite widespread cases once they reach vaccination targets for their state, inevitably leading to vases in the rest of the country?
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Aug 3, 2021 11:54
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I hope every other state has made it very clear that if they do so the walls are up until we are all vaccinated.
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Donut day for Victoria, joining the "actually you can get on top of Delta so long as you go hard and early" club.
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