The draconian rules and laws that have been introduced will not be repealed. You can take that to the bank.
I was out west of brissy dropping some food for my parents, decided to grab some take away for them. Sorry, cash only, no eftpos. Wasn't expecting that.
There is going to be a revalue or reset downwards.
Deflation for a period then hyperinflation coming later.
Sports stars will be on a fraction of their previous.
The AU$ has fallen against all of those currencies Underoath ................... we are now a low cost centre ............... we are the India, Thailand, Vietnam of a couple of years ago, especially if you factor in a real wage drop due to an oversupply of labour.
No surprise when the only thing half the nation does is make coffee for one another. We used to make coffee ourselves at home in the morning, or at the Cafe Bar at work, but now it's half the GDP. Surely that has to translate directly to a drop in the value of the Aussie dollar.
I was guilty of that in my former career, now I'm a coastal bean counter the coffee machine at home gets the workout instead
I'm hoping that things will start to change now and we will be offshoring less production and services because we can be more competitive.
Lets let those that are vulnerable stay in self isolation and spend whatever is need to keep them safe and healthy and let those under 60ys get back to work (while still keeping some things in place to slow the transmission).
We could prioritise anti-body testing and identify all those that have unknowingly been exposed, recovered and are now immune so they can be released from isolation to get back to a normal state ASAP. Maybe there'll be a bright collar or wristband that you wear to show you are a 'safe' person.
Or a yellow star on your cloths -- or wasn't that tried already?????
Sadly I think humans are not programmed to keep the gravity of this in their minds for more than about 5 years. Being a social species H. sapiens will just keep repeating the sequence but with different viruses. Look at all the other pandemics. Flu claimed 1 million in 1968 so we know it can happen, some of us may have even been around in those days and just totally wiped it from the memory banks. Sadly, it seems humans always seem to convince themselves that somebody will save them if they get sick, what with the latest and greatest medicine and all right?
I have to say I have really like having people all just make an effort to give each other space. Seems like quite a few people have taken up walking around the block to escape the house so its actually more social in terms of giving a wave or bro hi to the people in my local neighbourhood. Shame about being banned from the water, but on the plus side I'm having an epic time doing a bit of skateboarding with my 5yo son. He's killing it. Nice to have a silent neighbourhood too in terms of cars. Took a few days to get used to, will be gutted when the boy racers start up again, little ****s
I'm hoping that there is a shift to people spending more time at home and in their local area than commuting to the city and back 5 days a week. I'm discovering that work life away from the office is achievable. Might be a few bosses who decide to save money on rent and let their workforce be more adaptive.
I was out west of brissy dropping some food for my parents, decided to grab some take away for them. Sorry, cash only, no eftpos. Wasn't expecting that.
Why's that? I would have thought that handling money would be something you would try to avoid.
The shift of average body mass upwards will halt -- for a few years - As Chris_M is on the money re-humans..
But the Government health departments will ramp up their nudge campaigns to discourage obesity.
Its the major common factor in the sub-50 age group deaths.
This is the 3rd of these viruses this century - but that is not a nudge message is it
Flying Foxes will be on the nose in community settings - no more gently gently nudge messages to move along.
Stray cats will be assaulted as they have corona viruses and can carry this one.. Fancy washing down a cat as much as you are washing your hands - in fact a new branch of pet medicine could come out of this something which stops the bum licking to swallowing cycle (which isn't fatal).
Cheers
AP
I was out west of brissy dropping some food for my parents, decided to grab some take away for them. Sorry, cash only, no eftpos. Wasn't expecting that.
Why's that? I would have thought that handling money would be something you would try to avoid.
Bank fees ... and eftpos machine hire ...all overheads that can be avoided by using cash only .
There will be some awesome domestic tourism opportunities. Cheap offerings, spots will not be so crowded with tourist from overseas. Might actually be able to enjoy queenstown again
www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/paul-craig-roberts-new-world-being-born-what-will-it-be
We are hearing from many that the world after Covid-19 will be different. The question is: Different in what way? Will it be better or worse? Elites are working to make it better for them, and worse for the rest of us. About that the evidence is clear. The Big Boys are being bailed out and their debts covered. Everyone else, except those already marginalized and without a recent work record and fixed address, got a month's rent and extended unemployment benefits.
Big Pharma sees massive profits in the virus, Government sees more power to control But the disparity in economic benefits is only a part of it. Powerful vested interests, such as Bill Gates and Big Pharma, are determined to vaccinate us all, and to control our movements with an internal passport called "vaccinated, health cleared" or other words to that effect. New tracking procedures and technologies are to be put in operation reminiscent of the "mark of the beast" to police the access of various categories of people to various areas and benefits.
Experts point out that just as we cannot be vaccinated against the common cold, except perhaps for the past year's version we cannot be vaccinated against Covid-19 and other mutating viruses, but the experts are already being shouted down. No expert opinion is to be permitted to stand in the way of vaccination profits. Neither will nutrition and vitamin advocates be allowed to get in the way.
Bill Sardi predicts that orchestrated scares generated by mandatory recalls of "toxic" vitamins await us. Big Pharma is determined to acquire control over vitamins and homeopathic remedies, and the FDA is Big Pharma's likely pawn. Vaccination has been elevated above cure, as Big Pharma and its shills such as CNN shout down the positive experience doctors report of successful treatments with Hydroxychloroquine and Azithromycin, and the effectiveness of Vitamin C, Vitamin D3, and Zinc in strengthening the ability of immune systems to fight off the virus.
Big Pharma-influenced medical orthodoxy cannot get out of the box it has been put into. When new thinking and experimentation are needed, those capable of thought are hassled and even blocked by FDA regulations and dogmatism. The permanent government and its security agencies see in the population's fear and confusion opportunities to put into place more tyrannical measures, more set-asides of Constitutional Rights, more impairments on free speech. The ability of freedom to resist oppression is ever diminished.
Various descriptions of the expected dystopia are offered on the Internet. But it does not have to turn out this way. It is up to us. Demoralized and fearful, we can accept more government power as we did after 9/11. Instead, we can collectively recognize the massive failure everywhere of Western leadership and construct a more liveable and sustainable society. The failure of leadership is an opportunity for real change
CNN, the New York Times, and the rest of the controlled media tell us every day that President Trump represents the failure of leadership. But the failure of leadership goes beyond all the leaders of the last 30 years and resides in the system itself. Global, "self-regulating," greed-driven, financialized, soulless capitalism cannot unite people into a sustainable community.
The failure of leadership resides in the long-term failure of leadership that made Western societies vulnerable by moving high-productivity, high-valued jobs offshore in order to raise corporate profits at the expense of domestic consumer incomes. It means the movement offshore of the ability to produce medicines, N95 masks, and other needed resources for national survival. It means dependency on foreign powers. It means the inability to function without massive imports. However you look at it, globalism is a death sentence. Its only advantage is to the rich, and the advantage comes to them in the form of cheap labor that swells their profits while it shrinks domestic incomes and the purchasing power of the population.
Without incomes to drive the economy, the elites provided loans and expanded credit in order to provide spending power based in personal debt to absorb the offshored production brought home to sell in American markets. The cost of college education soared as its quality declined. Education subsidies were cut and student debt substituted in its place. Inflation was understated in order to deny Social Security pensioners cost-of-living increases. Medicare payments to health care providers were squeezed down. The social safety net was ripped again and again. More and more people fell out, and homeless populations grew providing fertile breeding grounds for Covid-19.
The income and wealth distribution in the US went from fair to extremely unequal in a short time as the rich profited from the Federal Reserve pumping trillions of dollars into the prices of financial assets and from corporations buying back their own stock, thus decapitalizing the corporation while taking the company into debt, all for the temporary benefit of higher bonuses for executives and more capital gains for shareholders. The elites killed the economy for short-run benefits to themselves.
These destructive polices were the work of greed-driven short-term thinkers-people whose only vision was "I want even more." And it is these unworthy people, not their victims, that Uncle Sam is now rescuing. The massive unpayable debt bubble that already overhung the economy is being blown larger. The Federal Reserve and the US Treasury are in the process of destroying the US dollar in futile efforts to save the super-rich from their own greed-driven misbehavior.
In place of this insane approach to the economic crisis, there is a sane approach. The bailed out corporations and banks are in effect being purchased by the government. Therefore, they should be treated as the nationalized corporations that they are. Once nationalized, the government, unlike the corporations, can create the money to pay the salaries and health premiums. The predicted 30 or 40 percent unemployment can be avoided. It is better to pay salaries than to pay unemployment benefits. The psychological difference alone is worth a vast amount. .........
"The CDC is actually a vaccine company." - Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
WHO is even more under the control of Big Pharma. "The WHO is a sock puppet for the pharmaceutical industry." - Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
One soon to be answered but as yet unknown ...
Will D.Trumps political rivals carry on letting him set the agenda of distraction to win votes....
AKA "Chinese virus" - a classic tactic to move the spot light from the more important facts of life on his desk....
Infact we have a huge bureaucracy of averages who do it too
Just look at the application with the police highly publicised wasting their resources to QUIZZ the captain of the RUBY Princess.
The NSW Government health department totally totally went absent with any sensible approach to using their collective decision making...
If for no other reason than the first cruise ship docked in Japan in your face day after day with -- hold your breath ..ppsstt COVID-19
Classic move .."the goal posts" by the powerful bureaucrats (who have been floated above their natural talent grade on a decent salary) abusing resources to C Y their Butts.. and they rub it in our faces - yukkk..
If the truth comes out the one or two where the buck stops where probably distracted doing.....???????????
That could be a humorous new topic for a post?????
Cheers
AP
here's a diagram of 5 G rollout in the USA , is there a link to the virus rollout ?
Make your own conclusions, personally I think the 5G link is crap , but here it is in glorious colour