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Well I suppose they risked their own health and the chance of taking it home to their own family and killing off their granny or something like that. Of course this only applies to those that were directly involved in the care of infected people and there weren't all that many of those.
And it's only a concert anyway; it's not like we're going to give them something useful, like a slab or a bottle of JD. |
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9 new cases for Australia and no deaths so CMR drops to 1.430% but active cases rise to 482 (6.7%).
No new cases or deaths for NZ so CMR is unchanged and active cases remain at 0.1% (1). The UK had just over 1.5k new cases and 556 deaths so the CMR is back up to 14.130%. Just over 20k new cases in the USA and 637 deaths sees CMR down to 5.78% and active cases down to 61.6%. Other notable points: The USA completed 18M tests and Spain 4M; Nepal (239), Iraq (429) and Chile (5,471) all recorded new daily highs.
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Hopefully those of us who survive get something better than a decrepit 96 year old Jimmy Barnes concert.
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AU3 ute EL futura
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Maybe she scored some ice in brissy and was distributing at a profit. I'd imagine drug supplies are been patchy in the regions. I've heard the reason north NSW desperately want the border open is they get a lot of their drugs from the GC. Likewise the "tourist" industry on the goldie is losing hand over fist due to the isolated market... Gotta kick start that economy.. |
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Hey Russell
I read somewhere that the 'r' in some formula or something should be under '1' Can you please explain? |
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#3397 | ||
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Several nations in talks about opening borders to tourism.
Hopefully that will put some people at ease. Sometimes just the sense that normality is on the cards is enough to make people feel a little better. It would be nice to be able to say in a few months that you are going on a booked holiday or you have family visiting from overseas. With strict travel measures and a possible vaccine on the way it's better than nothing.
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The local university has just sacked a lot of staff. They normally cater for thousands of foreign students (mostly Chinese) but not any more and perhaps not for a while to come. Tourism and education were two of our biggest export earners. It's going to be a while before they get back to their previous levels as far as jobs go. The govt is planning on spending big to try and keep unemployment down but the right wing of the libs hate this idea. It goes against their "small govt, low tax" ideology. |
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There is still a great deal of distrust against the Chinese. I work in the CBD right next to a large chain Hotel and my desk is at street level looking at the passers by. The hotel used to host several dozen buss loads of Chinese air hostesses each week. As this unfolded you could see the looks of disgust and fear they received from passers by. Eventually they needed a security escort between the bus and the hotel door as the looks would become snide comments and finger pointing. For a while the buses became a trickle - I've only seen 2 in the past week. They still need the security escort even though the streets were mostly empty. Give it 2 more weeks when restrictions ease even more, when people start to go out drinking and walking around inebriated and when the several buses full of Chinese hostesses return there will be some vented anger towards the Chinese I'm sure. I'm also wondering if Australia will no longer be the desirable holiday destination it one was for the Chinese due to the political banter between our nations.
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I’m thinking a post about busloads of Chinese air hostesses is well and truly deserving of pics... for research purposes of course. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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They sell most of the useful course places to full paying foreigners. The result is aussie kids need 99.99 atar to do courses that really require about 70 to satisfactorily complete. To fix it the govt imports dodgie indian/pakistani doctors. The universities can go and get stuffed in my opinion...their business model does harm so good riddance. |
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17 new cases for Australia and -1 deaths so CMR drops to 1.413% but active cases rise to 493 (6.8%).
No new cases or deaths for NZ so CMR is unchanged and active cases remain at 0.1% (1). The UK had just over 1.6k new cases and 324 deaths so the CMR is back up to 14.162%. Just over 22k new cases in the USA and 731 deaths sees CMR down to 5.751% and active cases down to 61.2%. Other notable points: Mexico passes 10k and Colombia passes 1K deaths; Russia completed 11M tests and Spain 4M; Asia (30,362) recorded a new high for daily cases; Yemen (45), Mauritania (80), Nepal (288), Azerbaijan (273), Armenia (517), Iraq (519), Argentina (904), Bangladesh (2,911), Pakistan (3,938) and India (8,812) all recorded new daily highs, those in blue for the second consecutive day and those is red for a third or more consecutive day.
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#3407 | ||
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LOL... it's actually the opposite.
In round numbers the state governments guarantee about 3,000 intern places a year. Accordingly the federal gov regulates the med schools to this number for domestic students. The 500-600 int'l students come here to study of their own volition. It's their fortune that although guaranteeing 3,000 the state governments have sufficient needs & budgets for 3,400 interns, so the surplus is offered to int'l graduates. |
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AU3 ute EL futura
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Originally Posted by zilo:
Universities have monetised education at the expense of local kids. They sell most of the useful course places to full paying foreigners. The result is aussie kids need 99.99 atar to do courses that really require about 70 to satisfactorily complete. To fix it the govt imports dodgie indian/pakistani doctors. The universities can go and get stuffed in my opinion...their business model does harm so good riddance. __________________________________________________ _______ That isn't how university funding works. The federal government decides how many places to fund in each course and those get subsidised. Those subsidised places go to australians. Over and above those places universities can offer as many full fee paying places as they like. Most of these are filled by overseas students. I took some FF subjects once upon a time for specific reasons. The reason entry levels are so high is there are far more graduating students than there are places. Even back in my day teachers were busily brainwashing students and parents into believing if the kids didn't get a degree they would never get a decent job. The high entry levels are justified for engineering medicine etc, but certain courses like physio (for some reason) are massively oversubscribed. The entry requirement reflects supply and demand. BSc Physics on the other hand is easy to get into even though it's fairly hard, because there are no jobs. The real problem with overseas students is the universities turn a blind eye to cheating and lower assessment standards to get them through the course. They are killing their market because the reason people come here is our qualifications once had some cred internationally. Corruption is rife in india and asia. Some of the "graduates" they produce are properly breathtaking. I remember a SENIOR Indian mech eng specifying round section steel for a frame because round sections are "strong". People's faces just fell off... |
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22000 new cases is interesting in the USA. Is there a breakdown by riot areas? |
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@russellw, not sure if this is just on my end, but your posts have shrunk in size to micro in the last few days or so. Maybe the cold weather of late in Melbourne has something to do with it?
I do like reading your posts, so.. if you could be so kind to look into it please? TIA. |
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"To fix it the govt imports dodgie indian/pakistani doctors." Perjorative categorisation by race is racism in 2020.
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In regard to Universities I want to know why so many of their employees are casual. Casual employment should be a transition period to permanent, not a long term arrangement.
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I'm just trying to figure out what race 'aussie' is and what race 'international' is before I jump to any conclusions about racist posts.
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collects the medicare rebate and apportions an amount to the states for health. But the states aren't compelled to use it in any particular way as it is in consolidated revenue. I am confident, from conversations I have had, ( a family member on staff at Sydney and another at Latrobe) that my comment is correct. |
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Once again, where is that nasty 'racist' boogeyman hiding? Pointing out race is not 'racism'...
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What about inferring doctors are dodgy based on their race?
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8 new cases for Australia and no deaths so CMR drops to 1.411% and active cases drop to 487 (6.7%).
No new cases or deaths for NZ so CMR is unchanged and active cases remain at 0.1% (1). The UK had just under 1.9k new cases and 359 deaths so the CMR is back up to 14.196%. Just under 22k new cases in the USA and 1,134 deaths sees CMR down to 5.744% and active cases down to 59.9%. Other notable points: Global cases pass 6.5M; Sweden had a massive increase in new cases; The USA completed 19M tests and India / Germany 4M; Asia (32,347) recorded a new high for daily cases; Ethiopia (142), Azerbaijan (325), Iraq (781),Argentina (949),Sweden (2,214), Mexico (3,891), Pakistan (4,065) and India (9,633) all recorded new daily highs, those in blue for the second consecutive day and those is red for a third or more consecutive day.
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Sweden's top epidemiologist has admitted his strategy to fight COVID-19 resulted in too many deaths, after persuading his country to avoid a strict lockdown.
"If we were to encounter the same illness with the same knowledge that we have today, I think our response would land somewhere in between what Sweden did and what the rest of the world has done," Anders Tegnell said in an interview with Swedish Radio. https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/...03-p54z99.html
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