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I imagine the natives are not as worry about food. If you know how to live off the land you got the food problem pretty well solved.

Doesn't help the millions that live in cities now. The reason cities have been able to grow to large sizes is because of electricity/refrigeration allowing the storage of food and the ability of people to actually buy food. Without this big cities would not exist, maybe that would be a better idea

That the very reason I don't live in a city. First it drives me nuts to do so as I tried it. I only could take it for three months and I had to get back in the countryside.

I'm hearing you AVB, not many of us live in cities because we like it

About 30 years ago, where I live was classified as country, even for cheaper insurance...Penrith (which is one of the furthest parts of Sydney) grew to us, and we were incorporated in too. Back then, there were farms, wineries, etc all around. Gonski now.

Just heard on the TV that it seems like the panic buying is easing and things are starting to slowly get back to normal but it will take a few weeks for the supermarkets to get back to normal. Glad to see the supermarkets have decided not to issue refunds on all the stuff the idiots bought in their panic buying madness

I'm quite sure if that's correct Norm, seems that there is going to be an Emergency meeting tonight for Sco Mo and his cronies which will probably lead to shutting all non essential meeting of people down and also with a closing of Schools in Victoria and NSW. After that all the rest will follow.

Also I'd say that the NRL and AFL will also be forced to go into hiatus.

Go the Swans !

Actually it's probably a good time to get into some resto work as there's not much else one can do now is there ?

Especially now that they've just announced that they are closing our borders on Tuesday at 4.00pm to everyone apart from freight transport.

Haha, first thing my 6 year old said when he heard was 'how will I get my presents for my birthday?' after we read about non essential shops being shut...

I guess running about picking up old mowers will be classified as 'non essential travel'? Will have to take the bush tracks.

Hi BB,
Jean went to the local supermarket just before and although some of the shelves were bare she was able to get most things she wanted, bread/milk/cereal so it looks like they are managing to get some semblance of order back into things. Nothing like it has been for the last few weeks. Anyway I have a couple of hundred liters of petrol and my mate has a couple of hundred of diesel so at least we should still be able to drive around for a while

G'day Norm and all. Yeah, that's hopeful.
I hope we all learn something from this episode.

I also suspect many Australians - the Doomsday Sheep - have not
tempered, but have reached consumption saturation point.
That fact has given relief to sensible, rational people.

The whole toilet-paper debacle has alerted me to the fact
that there are more A-holes out there than previously thought.

Also, I am suspicious about how TP was being produced, apparently
just in large bundles - to maximize profit ...?

I only buy small packs and still have not found them.

What a wonderful world.
Jack

And another thing.
China is our biggest trading partner.
This virus thing has nicely undermined something I
have never supported ... GLOBALIZATION.

Australia needs to be self-sufficient.

Yet, in a PC age somethings should not be said, like ...



But we need to question some cultural practices that
cause these things ...

Hi Norm,

As far as fuel is concerned I've always had 2 to 3 weeks stored at any given time. I run a series of Jerry's and gradually decant them into our various vehicles over the discount cycle and by the time my Jerry's are all empty the price is sitting at rock bottom, thus I never pay an inflated figure.

Must admit with petrol prices currently sitting in the high 80 cents per litre, who cares how much I actually use at the moment, but there's no where to really go right now is there with everything being closed up. Even the AFL seasons just been scrapped for 2020 as I can't see it getting the go ahead after the Postponement announcement being made this afternoon.

Cheers,
BB.

BB,
High 80 cents per litre, I'm moving to Adelaide, oops looks like I left my run too late, what time are they closing the border. Just wish they would close the Vic/NSW border and then we would have closed borders around us as well seeing the Tassie Mob don't want us coming over there either
Used the cheap petrol near me on the computer this morning so we could find the cheap fuel, most were $1.58/1.59 mark but I found one not far away and we went down and got $600 worth. The bloke behind the counter was a bit confused by what we got and the line of cars storming into the station. I guess nobody had informed him that everything around the area had put the prices up 50 cents in the last few hours

Going on my normal grocery run Sunday morning. Let's see how nutty everyone got here after a week. I been working 10 hrs days for the last week here repairing equipment. No time to go any nuttier myself, the mowers already got me going crazy otherwise.

Forgot to mention the vendors are driving me bonkers too...

Hi Jack,
I guess Asian flue would be considered racist as well, I guess bird flue started over there as well. There is a constant stream of diseases that originate in those countries

As I've always said, Adelaide is the best value for money city to live in if you've got a job.

Cheers,
BB.

I think it was Tom Gleeson who said a good 8 months ago in some show he was doing

"Stop eating weird sh*t" haha

Norm, how many L was $600?

I got about 100l for $130 - and that was 98 ron. 30mins later, WA announced border closures - apparently a petrol rush shortly after

Hi Tyler,
Lucky for me I didn't pay for it, mates company paid for it, it is an easy way for him to pay me for work I do there from time to time. Ended up about 300 L of diesel, 100 in his Cruiser and 200 in a drum. That was about $380 and 200 L of petrol for me about $218

115.9 for diesel up here yesterday

Well Just got back from the grocery stores. Boy there not many people even know how to cook anyway. Anything ready to eat in cans is gone, all the frozen meals are gone. But some still how to cook on the grills ass nearly all the meats were gone as well. I saw one couple with a half basket of bananas and some guy with a half basket of potatoes. No wonder there was none for me to buy a bag of. If you are looking a loaf of bread there was none other than the store baked bread to had.

Oh well pizza is out until I make up dough and let it rise. Anyway it is better for me anyway as I can control the amount of salt in the pizza as I am on a very low salt diet due to high blood pressure. It because I ended up in the ICU because it hit 250/120 and I was having stroke like shutdown of my left side. Besides I need to go a diet so now there is no excuse not to go on one.

I'm hopeful that my oil covered hands and face is setting up my immunity to the virus or will kill it on contact with my skin

Maybe the deadly 2 stroke emissions will stop it.

I said 4 weeks ago that if we shut the whole country down we'd be in a much better place now and just keep the overseas entries closed for as long as this issue is happening overseas then we'd be free of it in that short time, but the Government has played softball with us and thus this is now going to drag out much longer than it needs to be. It's the Namby Pamby country we live in and the snowflakes that believe it's all ok until it's not, and now it's not.

You can only expect so much from a bunch of bench warmers that are after a cushy, high paying job in the private sector once they jump ship. Most of them don't really want to deal with a crises, they just want to talk crap, offload whatever responsibility they can, while attempting to enforce their own dogma and fundamentals on as many as they can.

I can imagine how hard it would be for people like todays politicians. Big companys in their ear about not shutting down the economy, profits must not go down, vested interests screaming and threatening them. You can see them, sometimes quickly, otherwise slowly depending on how big their balls are, implementing things, but they just cannot bring themselves to do what needs to be done. Not yet. I daresay it will take more death and outrage to make them take that step, and as you say, it will mean more pain overall.

I agree; it has now gone too far, they have allowed too many cases to develop, and with our testing regime at the moment, imagine how many others are only somewhat ill, or not ill at all, carrying someone elses death sentence around. If we keep up the current nonsense, it will possibly be Italy/UK/Spain/Germany within a week or two.

Unfortunately, even when this place is eventually free of it, I can imagine the vested interests that will be screaming for them to open up international travel again. This thing has a ways to go, and I am not certain there won't be a 2.0 because of further weakness.

I'm money laundering.
50/50 Pinoclean water and a dash of detergent.
Just spray notes and coins.........
speedy

I've laundered money for years.......... LOL !!!

Haha, its a good thing we don't have paper money anymore.

Yup! At least polymer banknotes can be sanitised without damage; the Yanks are in strife on this one, as their notes are still paper...

Maybe they could microwave them? Not sure what the Chinese currency is made of but I know they have been 'laundering' their money as well, and I am not talking about the property market.