Rare MicCanberra Posted March 17, 2020 #76 Share Posted March 17, 2020 10 minutes ago, Chiliburn said: Come on mic we need a circus.something to cheer us up. Don’t you miss the 3 musketeers @in rod we trust @The_Big_M @gbenjo It was interesting debate at first but then denigrated into waffle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleFish1976 Posted March 17, 2020 #77 Share Posted March 17, 2020 4 hours ago, SinbadThePorter said: That probably applies, but if it does logically it should also apply to hotels and trains. Also cruise ships with more than 500 crew will be required to disembark many of them. Government is exempting forms of transport such as trains, trams, buses and I would expect, ferries (which aren't cruises, sorry @MicCanberra but nice try!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleFish1976 Posted March 17, 2020 #78 Share Posted March 17, 2020 4 hours ago, The_Big_M said: Plus keep in mind the US just introduced no gatherings over 10 people, and other major countries are also already less than 500. I'd expect that number to come down here as well tomorrow. I expect they'll make it 100 tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pully8 Posted March 17, 2020 #79 Share Posted March 17, 2020 Difficult to predict anything at present with continual changes and announcements. We have several things that we enjoy cancelled today, group activities including exercise and book discussions and other social activities. Disappointing as they added pleasure and structure to our lives. Understand the rationale but hope its not too long. The damage to the economy is bad apart from all the health related issues. Does not seem to be a way to escape the dramas of basic shortages and listening to theories about how the virus will kill or not and how many. All sorts of claims being made that sound like a bad social experiment or worse. Anyway another cruise would be lovely. Even Norfolk island has been locked down. Perhaps Tasmania? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare MicCanberra Posted March 17, 2020 #80 Share Posted March 17, 2020 8 hours ago, LittleFish1976 said: I expect they'll make it 100 tonight. I am going for 50. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare MicCanberra Posted March 17, 2020 #81 Share Posted March 17, 2020 7 hours ago, pully8 said: Difficult to predict anything at present with continual changes and announcements. We have several things that we enjoy cancelled today, group activities including exercise and book discussions and other social activities. Disappointing as they added pleasure and structure to our lives. Understand the rationale but hope its not too long. The damage to the economy is bad apart from all the health related issues. Does not seem to be a way to escape the dramas of basic shortages and listening to theories about how the virus will kill or not and how many. All sorts of claims being made that sound like a bad social experiment or worse. Anyway another cruise would be lovely. Even Norfolk island has been locked down. Perhaps Tasmania? Having been on Norfolk Island last year, I can understand why they have done that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger88 Posted March 17, 2020 #82 Share Posted March 17, 2020 Currently its 30 day ban for the US starting march 13th and another 30 day ban from Europe starting this week if I am not mistaken. Also dont forget additional 2-3 weeks to prepare the cruisers and another 1-2 weeks to precede with all the preparations... anyway, My intellectual guess would be somewhere in the middle of June everything should be alright and all the bans to be removed. I may be wrong but who knows Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare lyndarra Posted March 17, 2020 #83 Share Posted March 17, 2020 Until a vaccine is found and produced in quantity, I reckon the rest of this year is out of play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lagoon380 Posted March 17, 2020 #84 Share Posted March 17, 2020 They have several medications available that kill the virus now, the first people in Australia that got the virus were Chinese tourists and they told the doctors what to give them as that is what they were doing in China, so no real need for a vaccine if they can stop the spread now, so if they can get their act together it could be all over in a couple of months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare MicCanberra Posted March 17, 2020 #85 Share Posted March 17, 2020 42 minutes ago, lagoon380 said: They have several medications available that kill the virus now, the first people in Australia that got the virus were Chinese tourists and they told the doctors what to give them as that is what they were doing in China, so no real need for a vaccine if they can stop the spread now, so if they can get their act together it could be all over in a couple of months. I certainly hope so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
in rod we trust Posted March 17, 2020 #86 Share Posted March 17, 2020 so the gov isn't shutting much down , that will mean that cruising will probably be of the cards for at least 1 yr or more , this might send few cruise ships into folding , hope royal Caribbean is one of them that go belly up . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chiliburn Posted March 18, 2020 #87 Share Posted March 18, 2020 1 hour ago, in rod we trust said: so the gov isn't shutting much down , that will mean that cruising will probably be of the cards for at least 1 yr or more , this might send few cruise ships into folding , hope royal Caribbean is one of them that go belly up . I think you will get your hope granted Rod 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NSWP Posted March 18, 2020 #88 Share Posted March 18, 2020 1 hour ago, in rod we trust said: so the gov isn't shutting much down , that will mean that cruising will probably be of the cards for at least 1 yr or more , this might send few cruise ships into folding , hope royal Caribbean is one of them that go belly up . The Royal Caribbean Line Diamond status people won't be happy.🤐 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
in rod we trust Posted March 18, 2020 #89 Share Posted March 18, 2020 (edited) I don't understand why the gov doesn't lockdown none essential services and total limit the peoples movement . if you go by what they say 6 plus months this will go on for doesn't make sense . not that I believe in Chinese stats , but with 1 billion people and they claim they have sent the last infected person home and are now closing the hospital they built for the virus down . why wont locking Australia down for a month wont reduce the spread , if they locked it down isolated the cases we have now surely it would almost eliminate the virus . Edited March 18, 2020 by in rod we trust Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pully8 Posted March 18, 2020 #90 Share Posted March 18, 2020 Regardless of any governments rules/laws about lockdowns/isolation, suspect many will chose to isolate out of fear of death/severe illness. Hibernation somewhere is looking attractive to ride this out, but where would be safe? As an island Australia should be safe but it is not, albeit some areas are worse than others. Of course we will not know without widespread mandatory testing, not sure we will see that. Meanwhile keep safe as possible and look forward to happier days and cruising. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chiliburn Posted March 18, 2020 #91 Share Posted March 18, 2020 51 minutes ago, in rod we trust said: I don't understand why the gov doesn't lockdown none essential services and total limit the peoples movement . if you go by what they say 6 plus months this will go on for doesn't make sense . not that I believe in Chinese stats , but with 1 billion people and they claim they have sent the last infected person home and are now closing the hospital they built for the virus down . why wont locking Australia down for a month wont reduce the spread , if they locked it down isolated the cases we have now surely it would almost eliminate the virus . Maybe they should lock you up 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chiliburn Posted March 18, 2020 #92 Share Posted March 18, 2020 1 hour ago, NSWP said: The Royal Caribbean Line Diamond status people won't be happy.🤐 When the Chinese communist part buys Royal Caribbean for a bowl of rice. The diamond lounge will have a re-education officer sitting next to the concierge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aus Traveller Posted March 18, 2020 #93 Share Posted March 18, 2020 1 hour ago, in rod we trust said: I don't understand why the gov doesn't lockdown none essential services and total limit the peoples movement . if you go by what they say 6 plus months this will go on for doesn't make sense . not that I believe in Chinese stats , but with 1 billion people and they claim they have sent the last infected person home and are now closing the hospital they built for the virus down . why wont locking Australia down for a month wont reduce the spread , if they locked it down isolated the cases we have now surely it would almost eliminate the virus . We have gone into voluntary isolation. Maybe if Rod and others who can do so, also went into isolation, it would slow the spread of the virus. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare lyndarra Posted March 18, 2020 #94 Share Posted March 18, 2020 4 hours ago, lagoon380 said: They have several medications available that kill the virus now, the first people in Australia that got the virus were Chinese tourists and they told the doctors what to give them as that is what they were doing in China, so no real need for a vaccine if they can stop the spread now, so if they can get their act together it could be all over in a couple of months. The medications to which you refer to are for post infection cases with no guarantee they will be effective in all cases. Vaccines are first line of defence and, for the most part, will prevent you from being infected by the virus in the first place. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pully8 Posted March 18, 2020 #95 Share Posted March 18, 2020 Yes agree about the voluntary isolation too. Remains to be seen if it is effective on a population basis but seems the sensible thing to do. Unfortunately the thought of sustaining this for 6 months or more sounds grim in terms of quality of life. Humans are social beings at least on line communication is there as long as the internet remains functional. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Big_M Posted March 18, 2020 #96 Share Posted March 18, 2020 6 hours ago, MicCanberra said: I am going for 50. Disappointing, they're still a bit behind on that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NSWP Posted March 18, 2020 #97 Share Posted March 18, 2020 (edited) I don't believe any virus numbers coming out of a communist country like China. Full of propaganda. Has there been any release of numbers in/from North Korea or Russia? Edited March 18, 2020 by NSWP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NSWP Posted March 18, 2020 #98 Share Posted March 18, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, Chiliburn said: When the Chinese communist part buys Royal Caribbean for a bowl of rice. The diamond lounge will have a re-education officer sitting next to the concierge. Rice Wine and frogs head pate on snake skin in the Diamond lounge? 😂 Edited March 18, 2020 by NSWP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NSWP Posted March 18, 2020 #99 Share Posted March 18, 2020 (edited) 6 hours ago, MicCanberra said: I am going for 50. That will decimate the hospitality industry my golf club (Club Catalina) has at least 300 people in it every night, dining, drinking, gambling. Clubs, restaurants, cafes, pubs, movie theatres etc will be in dire financial trouble. Edited March 18, 2020 by NSWP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chiliburn Posted March 18, 2020 #100 Share Posted March 18, 2020 5 minutes ago, NSWP said: Rice Wine and frogs head pate on snake skin in the Diamond lounge? 😂 Don’t forget the bat soup and pangolin drum sticks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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