Eddieb
For the sake of the world we can but hope.
Eddieb
Joined- EddiebUK Head of State Boris Johnson is moved to intensive care with Covid-19. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-52192604 While the donkey story is a good one, it is inaccurate according to snopes.com. > The picture actually dates from 1958, during the …4
- EddiebMY wife and I are also asthmatics so are being extra careful and watchful on how things are developing. Its a concern. More lightheartedness: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern declares the Tooth Fairy and Easter Bunny as essential workers …5
EddiebAny minute now according to his first post3- EddiebSomeone mentioned Spring Breakers being a risk a week or so ago, well it;s happened just like they predicted, though these ones went to Mexico, not Florida. https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/austin-spring-breakers-coronavirus-trnd/index.html2
- Eddiebhttps://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/01/business/oil-prices-crash-storage-space/index.html Coronvirus continues to have impacts in unexpected ways. The newest one is that oil production has continued largely unchanged from pre Covid-19 levels but due …2
- EddiebSo the owners organisation is in the news again, for the wrong reasons again. > Hobby Lobby is defying state-mandated lockdowns by quietly reopening stores, including nearly all of its stores in Wisconsin and Ohio. A March 28 memo equipped …1
EddiebI saw this theory shared recently > "China releases a deadly virus, infects a small percentage of it's own people and seeds the world with virus spreaders. Once it takes hold world wide, China administers a vaccine to the remainder of it's own …1- EddiebHoly !!!!! > President Donald Trump finally leveled with America about the desperate reality of the coronavirus pandemic, warning of cruel weeks to come in one of the most chilling White House moments in modern history. > > Even with blanket …3
- EddiebNZ had the same thing. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=123193082
- EddiebI was going to put this in the combined Covid-19 mega-thread but thought it could be quite contentious and override the main conversation. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52108162 As a citizen of a nation with strict gun control I …1
EddiebI just watched this today, what did everyone else think of it? I thought while it was generally an enjoyable movie some scenes were very Disney/Cheesy and some things in the finale especially too predictable. The finale music was also very …2- EddiebWe've got a cluster of 12 in New Zealand that were all at the same wedding. One guest had recently travelled overseas and picked up the virus but was unaware and had no symptoms. She got drunk and snogged some guy at the wedding, then fell over …1
EddiebOur local TV featured a segment this evening on traffic pollution in New Zealands main centres saying that CO2 levels were down about 50% during typical peak hour periods. Given the reduction in traffic is by over 90% I'd expected this to be …1- EddiebJust seen on the news that your esteemed leader thinks the US peak death rate/Top of the curve will be in 2 weeks The way your case count is growing I can't see it plateauing in that short a period of time.1
- EddiebI'm sure everyone has seen the videos of Venice water running clean since Coronavirus caused tourists to stay home, and I've seen a few satellite images of pollution levels in China having dropped significantly. Does anyone else have any stories of …1
- EddiebSo Season 3 has started, I've only seen episode 1 so far but for those who watched the Season 2 finale will know the battle has entered the real world, which is quite a bit more advanced than our world. So far there seems to be only 1 timeline to …
EddiebInteresting, from my end I had no reason to suspect it hadn't posted as I could see it in my post and there was no notification no one else could.1- EddiebOh Dear A collection of supposedly valuable Dead Sea Scroll fragments on display at the Museum of the Bible in Washington DC has been found to be fake. The museum cost $500m US and was opened by it's founder, Evangelical Christian and billionaire …3
- EddiebI think it's for kids with 6 second attention spans. To me this would seem to be a prime time for some Cake promotion.3
- EddiebNew Zealand authorities are pushing the Stay Home message for the reasons @rtwPaul made above. It's not you they are worried about, but the potential exposure to those who may have to come and rescue you, and pulling them away from dealing with …
7 - EddiebOn March 17 the UK said > Testing is not being carried out on people who are self-isolating with mild symptoms, according to the UK …2
- EddiebThe NHS in the UK seems to barely work. We've just returned from the UK and although NZ has a reciprocal agreement with the UK, and NHS agents on the phone said any Dr would treat us, none of them would see us as there aren't enough Dr's to service …1
- EddiebHaving just transitioned from world traveller to at home, unemployed, and in lockdown as Coronavirus has kicked off I'm not doing any Zoom meetings but as we've already been in isolation for a fortnight Netflix has been getting a bit of a workout. …3
- EddiebNew Zealand recently introduced local Covid-19 testing stations with the nearest one being only a mile away, so seeing as we had recently arrived home after a year in Europe and particularly had been in London and transited through Singapore in the …2
