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Old 20-04-2020, 06:13 AM   #1951
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Ahh... Covid19... The perfect opportunity for Victoria to adopt The long touted “pay by km” system.
15c per km and $1.00 per km in CBD... Even with rego & stamp-duty waived, going to be expensive if you do 20-30,000kms a year!

http://amp.abc.net.au/article/12158612
Yeah so instead of costing $700/year it'll cost me $4500/year at a minimum because I do 30,000km/year just driving to and from work alone.

If only we all worked in the CBD and had public transport access.

If this is implemented, officially change my stance on holding China accountable for COVID-19 from DEFCON 4 to DEFCON 1

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Old 20-04-2020, 06:15 AM   #1952
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Don't know whether this has been mentioned here in this thread before or not.
(Too many pages now to go back and check).

But looking at the latest figures of infection in some of the worst hit countries, and taking each of their respective total population's into account, here are your chances of getting Covid-19 d there;

USA - 1 in 3,300 people
Spain - 1 in 238 people
Italy - 1 in 343 people
France - 1 in 430 people
Iceland - 1 in 193
Belgium - 1 in 301 people
Switzerland - 1 in 312 people
Ireland - 1 in 334 people

Now imagine if social distancing was not in place, imagine attending a music concert or other crowded sporting event?

Puts the seriousness of the virus threat into perspective when you look at the figures in that way.
If you look at the data that way then the USA seems like it's doing the best to mitigate the pandemic because you have the least chance of contracting it by a mile compared to all the other countries on that list.
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Old 20-04-2020, 06:38 AM   #1953
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Correction. 12,000-61,000 deaths per year from influenza. It was Barry Obama's administration that sat on its hands during H1N1 and waited for 1700 deaths before Barry bothered to do anything.
Each time you call him Barry or Hussein it directly affects him.
He cries out in pain and then yells "that anonymous bloke from Australia just got me again, damn!"

I'm guessing you may believe another conspiracy doing the rounds that.tens of thousands of starving and sexually abused children have just been found in a hidden tunnel leading to the Clinton Foundation?
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Old 20-04-2020, 06:46 AM   #1954
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Each time you call him Barry or Hussein it directly affects him.
He cries out in pain and then yells "that anonymous bloke from Australia just got me again, damn!"

I'm guessing you may believe another conspiracy doing the rounds that.tens of thousands of starving and sexually abused children have just been found in a hidden tunnel leading to the Clinton Foundation?
Given your nonsensical cries claiming racism in other threads to shut down discussion, maybe you should change your forum username to ccp000 as that seems more appropriate.
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Old 20-04-2020, 06:54 AM   #1955
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Each time you call him Barry or Hussein it directly affects him.
He cries out in pain and then yells "that anonymous bloke from Australia just got me again, damn!"

I'm guessing you may believe another conspiracy doing the rounds that.tens of thousands of starving and sexually abused children have just been found in a hidden tunnel leading to the Clinton Foundation?
Barry is a commonly used name for Obama. Hillary will be in jail soon...
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Old 20-04-2020, 07:14 AM   #1956
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Barry is a commonly used name for Obama. Hillary will be in jail soon...
So do you believe that rumour i posted?
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Given your nonsensical cries claiming racism in other threads to shut down discussion, maybe you should change your forum username to ccp000 as that seems more appropriate.
Nice claim except that i actually encourage discussion.

Racism is bad and i call it out even if those posting it are ignorant of their own racist ways.
Removal of racist statements or undertones doesn't stop a discussion.
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If saving Virgin is such a good thing, why doesn't an industry superfund pony up and save it by buying it and operating it? It would be a win-win, they'd be keeping Australian's employed as well as showing their prowess in managing a business.

Or maybe Gina, Pratt or Twiggy using some of their pocket cash could save Virgin?

Instead, the instigators of this global pandemic "the CCP" are circling to buy Virgin??
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If saving Virgin is such a good thing, why doesn't an industry superfund pony up and save it by buying it and operating it? It would be a win-win, they'd be keeping Australian's employed as well as showing their prowess in managing a business.

Or maybe Gina, Pratt or Twiggy using some of their pocket cash could save Virgin?
I agree with this
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If saving Virgin is such a good thing, why doesn't an industry superfund pony up and save it by buying it and operating it? It would be a win-win, they'd be keeping Australian's employed as well as showing their prowess in managing a business.
Because the trustees of super funds have an obligation to invest their members' funds wisely. Virgin isn't that.

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Or maybe Gina, Pratt or Twiggy using some of their pocket cash could save Virgin?
Same applies for the CEOs of public companies.

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Instead, the instigators of this global pandemic "the CCP" are circling to buy Virgin??
If you've got bottomless pits of money, well why wouldn't you?

Virgin is a badly run company that doesn't deserve rescuing.
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Old 20-04-2020, 08:34 AM   #1961
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Nice claim except that i actually encourage discussion.

Racism is bad and i call it out even if those posting it are ignorant of their own racist ways.
Removal of racist statements or undertones doesn't stop a discussion.
Oh the irony. Laughable. Downright laughable. Topic for another thread...
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We had 26 new cases and 1 death yesterday and the CMR rose to 1.074%.
The USA CMR also rose to 5.281% although the number of deaths was lower than the previous days.
The UK added another >5k cases but saw an improvement in CMR to 13.376% as the fatalities dropped from the ~800 level they had been at, to ~500.
Although NZ only had 9 new cases, the one death was enough to life their CMR to 0.839%.
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Looking at rough numbers it appears that Australia has recorded 1 death for every 360,000 people,whereas USA has 1 death for every 8700 people,so, I reckon with our pretty tight regulations we are a long way ahead of the game compared to others.
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Sorry...I missed your post....To be honest I don't know..The 40 percent thing was what they said on the news story is the minimum to get an accurate assessment of the cases apparently...U.S. said to be about half that... Today reported they do about 150,000 a day..with 340 million it'll take a while to do the number ...Good question on what ours is...hope it's close to 40 PC..someone here might know...Ah well back to stripping floors at work...break time over... cheers...


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Given your nonsensical cries claiming racism in other threads to shut down discussion, maybe you should change your forum username to ccp000 as that seems more appropriate.
The younger generation nowadays jump up in a blind rage to anything they claim to be an offence to there indoctrination, sadly they are that shallow and short sighted dupes that they do not understand the difference between prejudice and a point about any racial subject at all, it's all taboo ! You are not fitting in to the Marxist plan !

So we now have COVID 19 and it's the same type of thing you get back, We will tell you what it is, don't think for yourself, or you are offending them lot of good for nothing cry baby's.

I Remember back in 1970 C.H.U.M.P and A.P.E and Baron Von Bucher saying it's all coming together za Vorld plan of every leader coming under their control.
Remember the singing Sheikh, Ali Assa Seen Trololo La la la la Laaaaaa !
They had to stop that show because too much truth was in it all.
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The surprising face of the Australians who plan to claim the $1500 JobKeeper allowance has been revealed and it’s not who you might expect.

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The younger generation nowadays jump up in a blind rage to anything they claim to be an offence to there indoctrination, sadly they are that shallow and short sighted dupes that they do not understand the difference between prejudice and a point about any racial subject at all, it's all taboo ! You are not fitting in to the Marxist plan !
I am by no means an expert on Marxism, could you please explain the connection of racism and being PC to Marxism? Appreciated
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Everyone is equal and therefore must think alike. NPC cartoons will explain this easily for you.
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The surprising face of the Australians who plan to claim the $1500 JobKeeper allowance has been revealed and it’s not who you might expect.

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Thy're just better at reading & filling out forms than a lot of People..
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The younger generation nowadays jump up in a blind rage to anything they claim to be an offence to there indoctrination, sadly they are that shallow and short sighted dupes that they do not understand the difference between prejudice and a point about any racial subject at all, it's all taboo ! You are not fitting in to the Marxist plan !

So we now have COVID 19 and it's the same type of thing you get back, We will tell you what it is, don't think for yourself, or you are offending them lot of good for nothing cry baby's.

I Remember back in 1970 C.H.U.M.P and A.P.E and Baron Von Bucher saying it's all coming together za Vorld plan of every leader coming under their control.
Remember the singing Sheikh, Ali Assa Seen Trololo La la la la Laaaaaa !
They had to stop that show because too much truth was in it all.
Correction. A small amount of young people take offence or give credence to social justice issues. Most are normal people who do not give a crap about these things...
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Equality. Everyone is equal. Utter garbage.

Off topic, but the definition of 'racism' is so convoluted and meaningless that even those who still persist in using this tired word have no idea what it means. Good topic for another thread...
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I wouldn't worry about trying to understand it. It's just a rebuttal thrown out there by people who spend their lives on the internet arguing about things.
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But they may have read it on the internet, so it must be true!
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Off topic, but the definition of 'racism' is so convoluted and meaningless that even those who still persist in using this tired word have no idea what it means. Good topic for another thread...
Everyone isn't equal in Marxism, even Marx divided it into two classes and the manifesto of the communist party even adds a further two classes to that.
If you want to find something that brainwashes its followers into all thinking the same thing maybe reference mainstream religion instead, they have even written big books on how to think and act, plus weekly meetings to drum it into you.

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Looking at rough numbers it appears that Australia has recorded 1 death for every 360,000 people,whereas USA has 1 death for every 8700 people,so, I reckon with our pretty tight regulations we are a long way ahead of the game compared to others.
Yes doing well, but....a thing that does not appear to show up is that Aus & NZ are in summer/warmer mode while all those other places got hit middle of their winter period. I do wonder how much effect this has had on the spread... just curious
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Everyone isn't equal in Marxism, even Marx divided it into two classes and the manifesto of the communist party even adds a further two classes to that.
If you want to find something that brainwashes its followers into all thinking the same thing maybe reference mainstream religion instead, they have even written big books on how to think and act, plus weekly meetings to drum it into you.

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They forgot this part

*Only seems to apply to white people

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