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What I would like to know is how did she get out of the Melbourne suburbs lock down to get to Orbost in the first place

On Monday my son's school was closed due to a year11/12 student getting Covid On Tuesday the other school in my local area, Macleod College, was closed due to a year11/12 student getting Covid Today I woke to find another school not that far away is closed due to a year11/12 student getting Covid This is going to go on and on and on for months because for every new case, 374 of them yesterday, we have to wait for at least 3 to 5 more weeks to see if there are any infections passed on from the positives obtained each day, and then 3 to 5 weeks from each of them etc etc etc...Victoria's pseudo lockdown is going to be prolonged for months is my gut feel...imagine if we had have gone into a full real lockdown when this 2nd wave started? A lot less lives would have been ruined

As you may know here in Vic all Year 11 and 12 students have been back at school for the last week amidst the Covid situation that has blown up here in Vic and my son Lachlan has been back at school doing Year 12 for that time. At his school there are only 2 classes of Year 12 students so it is a small tight knit school. Late last night at about 10:30pm I received an email from the school advising NOT to send Lachlan to school today as the school has been completely closed down due to a Covid 19 case with one of the students. No more information has been forthcoming, on Sat we were turned away from being tested (see previous post) and on Daniel Andrews media conference just now he says that "testing has increased" and "a person could show no symptoms and still be positive so GET YOURSELF TESTED". I can't, he won't let me!!!! My wife, my daughter, my son and myself are sitting here scared out of our wits and in the dark...I have stuffed lungs and on a daily puffer to help, my doctor says I can't get it under any circumstances. The crap coming out of Daniel Andrews mouth every day is paramount to a criminal offence. How many times did he say "The buck stops with me", well it's time that he stood down and let someone else better manage Victoria and be a leader so Victorians can get a degree of confidence back in their life to help ride through these times

My daughter and I went to get tested today and they wouldn't test us. Caitlin works as a casual at Adairs in a small shopping center and she received a text from her boss saying a positive C - 19 case has been found at Cotton On a few stores away. Caitlin had been in that store a few days ago so we decided to go and get tested. Waiting for a while in the car we got to the front and they turned us away and said go to the hospital if we get any symptoms but they wouldn't test us. I see Andrews on the news saying they are testing more and more people every day and have even opened more testing stations. We all know you can have the virus and spread it around before you even start showing symptoms but they wouldn't test us even though there was a possible exposure.

My personal opinion is that in times of adversity, we look to leadership, and I feel that we are just not getting it. Leadership is about having the balls to make the hard decisions and as the heavy Labour supporter areas have been the hardest hit, one really must ask the question WHY it is these areas, the State Government seems to not have the balls to come down HARD on those areas for the betterment of the ENTIRE State. Whether you like Howard or not, I respected him for his continual showing of his love for this country and every single Australian in it, and let's face it, how could a person have been the 2nd longest serving Prime Minister without having done the job well by the majority of Australians. He was hard, when hard had to be, and that is why I referenced him. ---------------------------------------------- More Corruption, Cedar Meats, a large outbreak of the Virus in Victoria and A CONTRIBUTOR TO THE LABOUR PARTY: Opposition health spokeswoman Georgie Crozier said the lack of transparency in Victoria was concerning. Ms Crozier revealed the government responded to a Freedom of Information ­request on the 111-case Cedar Meats cluster by releasing entirely redacted documents. ------------------------------------------------- Anyone that turns a blind eye to that above, all I can say is to quote Bruce Springsteen "Having blind faith in your leaders will get you killed" and guess what...people are dying! What I am hearing from colleagues is that things are really really bad behind the closed doors of the Premier and the Federal Gov needs to find a way to constitutionally step in with the AFP...the Stacking corruption is so minor compared to what has gone on by Andrews

Watching this a-hole Premier's news conference I hear he is now blaming the people of Victoria, well maybe so but THAT is what we need a LEADER for, the guy is so weak...John Howard would have not taken any crap and just locked the State down in Stage 4 instead of prolonging the agony for week after week after week...Andrews is gutless and an idiot...I am furious

428 new cases in the last 24hrs plus 3 deaths and this bloody idiot Premier believes in long term suffering instead of acting quickly and LISTENING to those in the Health Industry instead of brow beating them and saying HE IS THE BOSS... Feed from Social Australia

We watched Greyhound the other night and thought it a great movie although short...90mins long and that includes 10mins of credits

Socialism vs capitalism...there now seems to be no difference except in capitalism the rich get richer and the poor get poorer creating a 2 class society instead of a 3 class one and the end result of capitalism's 2 class society is a total destruction of true democracy

Ok, then without jumping into Google, who created the PERT Weighted Average formula that is used in schedules to assign contingency to the degree of risk in schedule activities...remember this area is my domain

https://vic.liberal.org.au/News/2020-07-01/staley-andrews-dumping-tax-concessions-for-struggling-businesses-in-their-time

Did you know that the Premier of Victoria increased payroll tax for small and medium businesses last week...what an a-hole

Don't know...didn't ask Corrine that but I would only be guessing based on my opinion and what the Premier said early on in the Pandemic in that he will do what he thinks is right for Victoria AND NOT WHAT THE FEDERAL GOV SAYS plus Vic has a very different socio eco system and culture...just look at the Gang violence we have seen in recent years, many many different nationalities etc and it IS the Unions that run the State compared to other States. I spoke to many teachers during the first lockdown and they wanted to go back to work but their Union was telling them NO because, and I quote them, a small faction of a hard lined teachers group, hence why Vic Students were the last to go back. I have heard, 2nd hand, from other sources saying the medical professionals and Police wanted a much harder lock down the first time because of the different cultures etc...heck even the NSW Gov tried to stop the protests but not here in Vic. The Vic Gov spent, and is still spending millions of dollars on testing but as seen people are getting tested like here at Northland, and due to the communication management, then going into the shopping centre rubbing shoulders with everyone else including the positive outbreak at the H&M store, and partying that night then the next day getting a negative result from their test. They then go out again with their new found confidence of being negative only to find out they are positive from the partying, H&M store etc after their test. The communication to these people was not done, the recent ADF calls is a shambles, the Police are getting different stories on what they can and can't do from the top. The top people have become YES men to an arrogant premier...the media can't get any real answers from him and he is always saying that he is in charge and the buck stops with him...what a narcissist. I have also heard from a colleague that the Vic Chief Health Officer feels he is the meat in the sandwich between what he is being advised by the Federal Chief Health Officer and the Victorian Premier. AAAAAARRRGGH I have had enough of this idiot...so I better shut up from now or else you guys will be saying the same about me

Just been talking to Corrine...now to put this into perspective Corrine is absolutely flat out from 9am to 9pm every day at the moment providing remedial services to health professionals (Nurses specialists etc), Police etc...Corrine has just told me that every one of them is in so much rage, stress and deteriorating mental health because they say the Premier just won't listen to them and never has throughout this whole Pandemic. So there you go...also straight from the mouths of Health Professionals and Police. Since when has the words that come out of a politicians mouth ever been the truth and why is there so much backlash against him now...because people are starting to hear the real truth...he has to go and today would not be too soon

Sorry Nev, haven't read the Herald Sun for many many years and have never ever listened to 3AW. There use to be a saying started by The Age Newspaper: If you can't think...read The Herald (evening newspaper many years ago) If you can't read...look at The Sun (morning newspaper many years ago) - They merged together to become The Herald Sun But Nev, how do we know that he IS IN FACT listening to Health Professionals...we have already heard reports that he is brow beating them just like his arrogance in his media reports and as reported in special editorials in the important newspapers (The Australian) and even today the TV stations (Channel 9) are making negative editorial statements about him Sorry Nev, having spent the last many years working in Gov I am hearing different things from ex-colleagues than perhaps you are but I agree, we will have to agree to disagree on this one

Nev, I am saying that he has lost all credibility with the people of Vic hence why people are no longer listening to him. He blamed the Fed Gov initially months ago and now he is blaming the people. He lost all credibility with me a few years ago when it was proven that he was corrupt back with the legal Euthanasia time. He kept refusing to even listen to the Legal Euthanasia group and in one statement said they were wrong. When his own father dies he supported them and pushed it through. Now it seems whatever he wants he will do and stuff everyone else and what they believe...what about all the other groups he won't listen to unless he himself gets something out of it. The guy along with the whole labour Party (Stacking) is corrupt, arrogant and is sending the State broke AGAIN...anyone got a spare 1.3 billion dollars YES 1.3 BILLION DOLLARS that he wasted on the Eastern Freeway contract cancellation...my kids are going to be paying for that 1.3 billion dollars plus all the wasted money he has spent since for years. I remember years ago when Kennett first got in after the Labour Party...they cooked the books and Kennett had to go on TV, almost in tears, saying the State was broke and Labour had again lied to the Victorian people...how many more Labour Politicians are corrupt and what do they do, appoint OTHER LABOUR PEOPLE to investigate their own corruption...what a joke...My Great Great etc Grandfather was the first Chief Constable of Police for Victoria and I am a direct descendant of the First Fleet and Victoria was the home of all my descendants since, and I am the last with all my family now moved interstate...I will soon be as well, for the sake of my children and their children

Just took my Son to work, he works casual at Nandos, plus just had a phone call from my daughter who is also at work, Caitlin works casual at Adairs bed linen etc. When I dropped Lachlan off the Northland shopping centre was packed, as normal...there was no difference in the traffic on the roads and Caitlin says she is much busier than normal...ALL OF THIS WHEN WE ARE IN LOCKDOWN The Victorian Premier has in my opinion lost any and all credibility.

I have purposely stayed in lock down since March anyway due to compromised lungs and leaving the house only for absolute essential reasons like going to the doc for a Flu Shot. However, at 61 years of age and not working the possibility of getting a job now is extremely improbable with interstate jobs that will be coming up out of my reach for at least another 1.5 months. So, it was a real hard decision today whether to stay here in Melbourne with the family or head off interstate as I still have a Canberra address and an ACT drivers license...staying with the family won out but it is going to be hard coming out of lock down in 1.5 months when the rest of Australia has been up and running over that time.

Melb recorded most cases ever with 127 new cases and 1 death in the last 24hrs

Talking about playing with things...I have in my head a concept of changing the word "Forums" into Discussions where discussions on a given topic are held within separate categories of Discussions, the same as we have now in terms of Forums, threads and posts BUT to also have a general "Forum" that is not displayed as Discussions but as a Facebook style of short messages and quick replies. Obviously these would be stored in a "forum" but displayed like facebook with its intention to be different from "Discussions"...if you can get the gist of what I am saying. Asked the family this morning on what to call that facebook style "Forum" and I suggested "Quips" but the kids didn't know that word...they only know "Tweet" and "Facebook Post" and "Facebook Reply". So the end result I am picturing is that instead of Forums we have "Discussion Types" (a forum) like "Science and Technology Discussions" where a "Discussion" (a thread) contains user's posts discussing a specific item. Then we also have "Quips" ??? (a specific forum that is hidden as it is just a storage area) that is for quick and short posts and is displayed like Facebook or Twitter. This all comes together when viewing the Whats New section...there is the standard Whats New as it is now for Discussions and another page for Quips where if you want to reply to a Quip you do so "inline" like Facebook. The Quips page is continuous and like Facebook the Quip subject and Quip posts just drop down and forgotten about. It is just an idea I am playing around with in my head but if it goes ahead we would have Social Media Quips, full fledged interesting Discussions, public or private subject Groups, personal Blogs, current Australian News, etc etc etc

Still working on the soon to be released IPS update. Using the latest BETA version:

It snowed last night... 8:00 am: I made a snowman. 8:10 - A feminist passed by and asked me why I didn't make a snow woman. 8:15 - So, I made a snow woman. 8:17 - My feminist neighbor complained about the snow woman's voluptuous chest saying it objectified snow women everywhere. 8:20 - The gay couple living nearby threw a hissy fit and moaned it could have been two snow men instead. 8:22 - The transgender man..women...person asked why I didn't just make one snow person with detachable parts. 8:25 - The vegans at the end of the lane complained about the carrot nose, as veggies are food and not to decorate snow figures with. 8:28 - I was being called a racist because the snow couple is white. 8:31 - The middle eastern gent across the road demanded the snow woman be covered up . 8:40 - The Police arrived saying someone had been offended. 8:42 - The feminist neighbor complained again that the broomstick of the snow woman needed to be removed because it depicted women in a domestic role. 8:43 - The council equality officer arrived and threatened me with eviction. 8:45 - TV news crew from CBC showed up. I was asked if I know the difference between snowmen and snow-women? I replied "Snowballs" and am now called a sexist. 9:00 - I was on the News as a suspected terrorist, racist, homophobe sensibility offender, bent on stirring up trouble during difficult weather. 9:10 - I was asked if I have any accomplices. My children were taken by social services. 9:29 - Far left protesters offended by everything marched down the street demanding for me to be arrested. By noon it all melted Moral: There is no moral to this story. It is what we have become, all because of snowflakes.”