Thread: CoronaVirus ==> Empty Shelves

Originally Posted by NeilS

Yes, I guess they do have to stand up for themselves.

• Obviously the disabled can't do it. Some of them don't even have legs to stand up on, even for themselves, and others can't see where to stand because they are blind, like my mate. While the mentally ill just aren't sufficiently aware of others to see the desperate plight of those able-bodied white heterosexual males.

• And, as usual, those women are holding down a job and trying to get ahead in their careers to help pay for the mortgage, as well as multitasking the bulk of the domestic labour and childcare. That is when they are not trying to avoid domestic violence (1 woman a week dies at hands of partner) and pretending they are not too exhausted for you know what. Anyway, women just don't understand how tough life is for an able-bodied white heterosexual male.

• Likewise, forget about those gender/sexual preference lot. What would they know about very masculine heterosexuals? They are worse than the hetrosexual women. Anyway, no self respecting able-bodied white heterosexual male would want anything to do with them. Like, it could be catching or if the alphabets started lobbying for them it might be thought that able-bodied white heterosexual male are not as hetrosexual as they would like everyone else to think they are!

• That comes to the minority ethnic groups. Where to start? Take for example the aborigines. They reckon they are so hard done dying 8-9 years younger, having much poorer health and housing despite all living off our welfare and drinking less alcohol than the rest of us, that they don't seem to think able-bodied white heterosexual males are one of their priorities to go in to bat for. While the other ethnics are too busy filling the top places in our universities with their second generation kids. Somehow they think that life is OK here and don't seem to get the plight of the able-bodied white heterosexual male at all.

So, yes, the able-bodied white heterosexual males are just going to have to stand up for themselves. Nobody else seems to be doing it for them the way they feel it should be done for them.

I feel for all those downtrodden able-bodied white heterosexual males that they feel the need to have to stand up for themselves. Those that are lobbying for the other groups that are being discriminated against have a lot to answer for and are probably the reason why the downtrodden able-bodied white heterosexual males are having such a bad time of it.

Gee NeilS the Bowelturner, you must have had a REALLY bad day...

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Originally Posted by woodPixel

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Not strictly true (though I think the sentiment is correct). I sold a boat today for $14,000 but I doubt it was an "essential" purchase...

Originally Posted by doug3030

And all the sheep have names.

A written diary shows the level of literacy skills here in NZ. No need to consider an app for our citizens.

And of course our sheep have names. How else would we call them in at night?

Pete

...and I sold a camera on Friday for $910. Once again not an essential purchase.

Originally Posted by Tccp123

Gee NeilS the Bowelturner, you must have had a REALLY bad day...

I thought it was an awesome effort to put that much thought into replying to a tongue-in-cheek post.

Originally Posted by A Duke

Hi,
I had the impression they only went onto the ventilator after the oxygen mask was not working.
Could be wrong but that was what i gathered.
Regards

Australia doesn't use the oxygen helmets we saw in footage from Italy. They work differently to the common oxygen feed up the nose used here. The helmets are at positive pressure and forces a bit more O2 into the lungs than just trying to breathe it normally. Either way I guess with a helmet you would get at least a few more hours before a ventilator is absolutely required?

I figure we are all going to catch this one eventually, just like the common cold, and being a corona virus, just like the common cold, a vaccine is not going to happen. I just hope they've got the best treatments worked out by the time it comes around to my turn. I also fear just like the common cold it is going to come back regularly, I'm skeptical of herd immunity. I understand social distancing works, I know I've had far fewer common colds since I retired and didn't have as much association with colleagues with young families with school age germ factories! But I also know I really don't want to continue living in isolation mode for too extended a period.

"I figure we are all going to catch this one eventually"

Out of the mouths of babes...

An interesting read:
Is the Virus on My Clothes? My Shoes? My Hair? My Newspaper? - The New York Times

Originally Posted by BobL

I like the NZ solution to tracing. Keep a diary and every night note down you who met up with and spoke to that day for 15 minutes. I guess they must all know each other? "Err . . . the lady with the yellow and white checked pillbox I sat behind on the bus, . . . . . . "

Bob. I told the lady in question, Mrs Edna Skrimshank, about your post thinking she'd be pleased to have been mentioned. Unfortunately, she was very upset at having been singled-out and identified on a public forum in a way that everyone in NZ would know who you were talking about.
I've a feeling you'll be hearing from her solicitor...
Pete

Some information on the ventilator controversy:

Why Ventilators May Not Be Working Well for COVID-19 Patients | Time

Time had attempted to contact Cameron Kyle-Sidell, without success. He was probably either treating patients or sleeping so no surprise there and should not be taken as suspicious. This is his U tube video:

YouTube

and another interview:

YouTube

Make up your own minds, but I would suggest we remember that Covid-19 may not behave like other "flu" viruses. Whatever the verdict, it looks to be a genuine report and not a tabloid fantasy.

Regards
Paul

Today's spreadsheet attached.

Only real notable point is that Australia continues to slide down # cases list, dropping 6 positions to 38.

USA and Europe continue to hog all the top (worst) spots with 75% of cases and 86% of deaths, even though they only have 11% of the world population.

clear out. Regarding Mrs E. Skrimshank and your request for photos, I contacted the dear lady this morning.
Unfortunately, since being so brutally outed by BobL, she has been inundated with such requests - some of them rather saucily asking for photos of her wearing nothing but her signature pill-box hat - and as you can imagine, such requests are rather upsetting to a lady of a certain age and a long-standing member of the WI.
Someone did manage to snap a short video of her entering the local pharmacy to buy surgical stockings and they posted it on EweTube - our local video platform - where it immediately 'went viral' (if one is allowed such an expression in these trying times).
Since then, she has appointed an agent to handle such requests and is demanding a fee. So, if you will send me NZ$20 I will obtain a photo and forward to you,
Pete

Originally Posted by Tccp123

Gee NeilS the Bowelturner, you must have had a REALLY bad day...

Ohhhh...such wit!