Corona Virus - Bizzare Outcomes

[spacesailor]

I used my finger on the EFPOS machine today, and the wife immediately gave me "Hand Sanitizer".

First time to shop in four weeks, still, No toilet paper !.

Had some early this morning checkout chick said.

I haven't put the clock that far back say's I.

No response.

 

spacesailor

[facthunter]

They have to put up with it constantly, spacey with all kinds of infected bogans being the life of the Party. Nev

[spacesailor]

Hey, are you calling me A

bogon

or Infected.

I'm not both !.

spacesailor

[pmccarthy]

My wife bought a pack of toilet paper on line. The rolls were as illustrated in the photo, but tiny. About 40% of a standard bog roll. Conned again.

[octave]

My wife bought a pack of toilet paper on line. The rolls were as illustrated in the photo, but tiny. About 40% of a standard bog roll. Conned again.

 

You should try company

 

Who Gives a Crap

 

Been ordering from here since the begging of the year. Ours comes every 3 months but you can vary it. Costs $48 and comes in a box of 48 double length rolls including delivery. But like almost every where else they are out of stock or as they say on their site they are completely wiped out! We got our scheduled delivery on the day the great toilet paper panic broke out. Suffice to say the octave household is pretty wealthy when it comes to arse fodder. But happy to help the struggling plebs if necessary. Perhaps a trade, your aircraft looks nice

[Jerry_Atrick]

Some light hearted entertainment? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUakLzaboMo

[red750]

Perhaps a trade, your aircraft looks nice

 

[old man emu]

The missus suggested (???) that I go down to the supermarket and do a big shop to last us a fortnight, so I didn't have to go out too much. I went down early on Sunday morning and, lo and behold!, there was stuff to buy. I only got up to the limit. When I came home and was putting the stuff away, I discovered a major dilemma.

 

After putting the perishables in protective coverings, I found I was almost out of Tupperware! I thought that that situation couldn't happen because the stuff was supposed to breed in the back of dark cupboards.

[Mike Gearon]

Seems reasonably good news on the virus front in Australia today. Flattening curve and the death rate remains low.

 

Expect it will be a while before we know if it’s good testing or good ICU keeping the death rate ratio down country by country. Italy and Spain are shockers.

 

USA doesn’t look too good so far. If ever I had a moment to dislike Trump and there have been many (mocking the disabled reporter is still the lowest point) it’s his dismissal of mask wearing ad now advised by his CDC. He said he’d not want to wear a mask to meet heads of state. That’s stupid when you think about Boris and various politicians including ours coming down with the virus.

[kgwilson]

Trump is a Malignant Narcissist diagnosed by numerous psychologists in the US & around the world. The clinical definition fits Trump like a leotard.

For the malignant narcissist only self matters. So he is literally incapable of feeling empathy for others.

 

The malignant narcissist seeks praise to bolster his fragile self. Trump will take praise from anywhere. He revels in the flattery of dictators like Kim Jong-un. And if he doesn't get praise he invents it. "So many leaders have come up to me and said sir, your economy is the envy of the world."

 

Because the malignant narcissist acknowledges no self but his own, he demands loyalty from others but gives none in exchange. Again, that's pure Trump. Anyone who opposes him is instantly dismissed. By now the only people still at his side are sycophants like Pence and cynics like Pompeo.

 

For the malignant narcissist there is no such thing as truth. There is only what's good for his self. So Trump lies. He lies obviously, brazenly, laughably. When the media points out those lies, Trump feels no shame. Instead he accuses them of fake news. In other words he accuses truth-tellers of lying about his lies.

Trump feels no shame because shame implies fault and the malignant narcissist cannot admit fault, about anything, ever. So when Trump wrongly suggested a hurricane might hit Alabama and the official weather service corrected him, his psychiatric disorder wouldn't let him just say that he'd made a mistake. Instead he took a weather map and doctored it, drawing a new line on it by hand, a line that took in Alabama. He then presented that map on television as if it were the truth. It didn't matter that others didn't believe it. It mattered only that he preserved his own sense of being right.

 

The malignant narcissist ignores the law because the self is more important. So Trump solicits aid from foreign countries to get himself elected because it never occurs to him not to. He got help from Russia in 2016. He sought it from Ukraine last year. And that is what he was impeached for.

 

But his pathological psychology meant he was unable to accept the impeachment. He called it treason. He throws tantrums like a 5-year-old. He screamed that everything was rigged. The republicans did not have the balls to throw him out but anyway he would have refused to go.

 

His performance throughout the Coronavirus crisis has been appalling and his behaviour is becoming more erratic by the day. The continued Bull Share Market was all attributable to him personally in his eyes but the balloon has popped and his obsession with the economy over the health of Americans is the major reason the US now has almost 3 times as many cases as the next worst, Spain. His mental health is now being seriously questioned by the many who are studying him. This may be what finally destroys him

 

So the men in white coats will have to take him away. And as they come for him Trump will try to destroy everything around him, because a world that rejects his self, that throws him from office, literally cannot exist. All this, according to the psychiatry textbooks, is inevitable. What a joy it will be to watch. And it's starting now. I live in hope that this will happen.

[facthunter]

I'm surprised so many cannot see it.. A lot of his supporters are well armed . The Country is divided as much as it ever was. He uses the Royal Plural "WE" constantly and twists criticism of HIM to appear be anti American. Talk about a snake oil salesman. If you do something that doesn't help him you are fired as soon as possible . Getting rid of him is not going to be pretty. Nev

[pmccarthy]

Back on topic - she and I often enjoy music together. But it is wearing thin. She is playing English medieval ballads and goes crook if I put on Kevin Bloody Wilson. We have drifted to the extremes of our common preferences.

[Marty_d]

Back on topic - she and I often enjoy music together. But it is wearing thin. She is playing English medieval ballads and goes crook if I put on Kevin Bloody Wilson. We have drifted to the extremes of our common preferences.

Headphones.

[red750]

A perfect excuse for social separation. My wife is in the lounge room, I'm in the family room. We can both watch the TV programs we want.

[red750]

There is a property in Drouin Vic., with hundreds of Melbourne taxis. With the state of lockdown, no-one needs a cab, some hundreds if not thousands of cabbies out of work. Then there is the teenager who was bored sitting around at home, so got her Mum to take her for a driving lesson. Copped a $1652 fine, because driving lessons are not essential.

[Marty_d]

Should've gone via the shopping centre, then they would have been ok.

[old man emu]

Copped a $1652 fine, because driving lessons are not essential.

 

That one needs to go to Court and have some common sense applied - by the dickhead who wrote the ticket.

[red750]

Should've gone via the shopping centre, then they would have been ok.

 

They could have used that excuse if they were near home, but they were nearly 30 km away from Hampton, stopped in Frankston.

[spacesailor]

Shopping for the Purchased Ebay item, Have to Exercise L training driver, instead of using twice the amount of fuel, doing separate trips.

Now will get a black mark from Ebay for None picket of Ebay item.

Police stopping Driver going to pickup item, Is not a valid excuse for Ebay !.

spacesailor

[Jerry_Atrick]

I guess the same argument could be used as for rec flying - if it aint essential and a bad accident takes up a precious hospital bed. etc... Though, some pragmatism should be applied - fair dinkum!

 

Anyway, our PM (BoJo) has been placed in an ICU... Hope he gets through it... PM in intensive care as virus symptoms 'worsen'

[old man emu]

A couple of bizarre outcomes:

 

The Easter Holiday break starts at midnight tonight (00:01 10/4/20). Anyone want to guess how many people will die in car crashes, boating/swimming accidents, and other non-workplace accidents?

 

It's an ill wind that blows no man any good.

Went to the supermarket yesterday and all the check-outs had perspex shields between the customers and the check-out operators. Someone in the perspex industry is making a killing.

[onetrack]

The annual road death toll in W.A. is down by nearly 25% since the virus hit - it was 41 to this time last year, this year its 31. It hasn't been that low for a decade or more.

W.A. Police are reporting a 40% downturn in crime figures, which must make them very pleased, seeing as they operate on "trends" and "numbers".

There's been a massive downturn in car break-ins, house break-ins, and general assaults. But they say they're waiting for a possible upsurge in domestic violence due to the movement restrictions.

 

I'll wager there's been a major downturn in drug use and sales, as the roadblocks are effectively crimping the distribution methods of drugs hidden in cars travelling only in the wee small hours.

But no doubt drugs will be getting transferred into the regular truck freight distribution network, which is the way a lot of drugs are already distributed.

[spacesailor]

AND the Divoice rate is going to soar like an eagle!. LoL

spacesailor

[red750]

The number of calls from people dobbing in their neighbours for breaching the restrictions has skyrocketed.

 

On a different matter, we have a friend who is a widower. His wife, a colleague of my wife, passed away a couple of years ago. Tony is from Spain, and we learned today that he has lost 9 members of his family in Spain to Covid-19.

[old man emu]

The number of calls from people dobbing in their neighbours for breaching the restrictions has skyrocketed.

 

Sooooo un-Australian.

 

Now you understand how totalitarian regimes retain power. It's not those in power who destroy a society, it's the individuals' idea of self-preservation. We have a so much higher morality than non-humans.