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If you don't like to read about covid-19 , then don't open this thread. Simple, really.

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I don't think Tessa was talking about the thread Bakerman. We are fully immersed in Covid news here. I think al Jazeera is the only news channel not reporting on it.

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The numbers get slightly bigger but its not the end of the world yet.

Australia
Cases 39
Recovered 21
Deaths 1
Critical 1

U.K.
Cases 51
Recovered 8

USA
Cases 124
Recovered 9
Critical 7
Deaths 9

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

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Corporations and gov't dept's and conventions have begun to close. Schools across the nation are discussing whether or not to close down.
I'm beginning to wonder if this virus is a much worse danger than we are lead to believe. Frankly, I'm a bit scared.

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Absolutely! It's not only the virus we need to be concerned about. Keep a close eye on government dictates, what's being discussed in the house, political news and smallprint..........it's an ideal opportunity to pass some unacceptable law with minimum public coverage.

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Thank you Annie!
It was an observation that our news channels seem to get obsessed by one story, other important events and issues get ignored.

I tend to watch Euronews which covers items from all over the World, much more interesting.

I wonder if our focus is being drawn away from what else is happening sometimes.

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Yep! Like the Russian interference report for instance

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We are really in the crap now, what with the run on toilet paper
and the growth in electronic news papers what can we wipe our
arses on now???

Donkeyman!

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The ABC 7.30 Report did a special program this evening on the Corona Virus.

It raised several issues, in some people the symptoms are few or almost non existent so it can be spread easily in a population before serious cases, mainly in the elderly, are obvious. Apparently it has already killed more people in 7 weeks than Ebola killed in 2 years and despite what someone said earlier in this thread Covid19 is actually ten times as deadly as the ordinary flu even if the case death rate is about 1 or 2% as they believe.

Evidently it is more contagious than swine flu, SARS or MERS which had a higher fatality rates but which were not very transmittable between humans.


https://www.abc.net.au/7.30/coronavi...ecial/12026872


... and if you think only China has draconian powers to detain, arrest and isolate people read the Biosecurity Act 2015 and weep.

https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2017C00303

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We still get plenty of junk mail through the letterbox!