Coronavirus (Covid19)

[Lightning McQueen]

Friends of mine who work in the city have been told to prepare to work from home again....

Another lockdown is imminent.

They'll probably do it nationwide to baby the Victorians, that way they can be more stringent across the national borders.

Well that's my take on it, we'll see more cases here yet.

[Booney]

Friends of mine who work in the city have been told to prepare to work from home again....

Another lockdown is imminent.

They'll probably do it nationwide to baby the Victorians, that way they can be more stringent across the national borders.

Well that's my take on it, we'll see more cases here yet.

I disagree, while we're on top of any cases in SA ( as we have been since early March ) we won't be locking down again. No way.

[amber_fluid]

Friends of mine who work in the city have been told to prepare to work from home again....

Another lockdown is imminent.

They'll probably do it nationwide to baby the Victorians, that way they can be more stringent across the national borders.

Well that's my take on it, we'll see more cases here yet.

It does appear we are heading that way again.

[The Bedge]

Why would we go back into a lockdown when we are receiving such little numbers of confirmed cases?

If we were forced to revert back a few months over basically nothing, then you’d see some real anger/frustrating/backlash

[whufc]

Friends of mine who work in the city have been told to prepare to work from home again....

Another lockdown is imminent.

They'll probably do it nationwide to baby the Victorians, that way they can be more stringent across the national borders.

Well that's my take on it, we'll see more cases here yet.

I disagree, while we're on top of any cases in SA ( as we have been since early March ) we won't be locking down again. No way.

Agree. Lockdown will be the last resort especially given the financial figures to come out over the last couple of days. Methods such as having city based staff working from home will be well before a lockdown.

As other states have done I would expect to begin with we would see zone lockdowns in certain suburbs way before we have a total state lockdown.

[MW]

I've got friends who work in the CBD too and they still haven't gone back. I think you'll find any corporation with offices in Melbourne will send their workers home too, this happened to my bro.

[Booney]

Re - working from home.

There would be plenty of employers who have seen staff working from home and completing their duties without issue, they may have also seen a downturn in business over that period, put two and two together and there will be loads of employers looking to downsize their main work site to accommodate the "in house" staff, reduce over heads and keep people working from home to reduce the chances of cross infection when ( not if ) the next wave comes through.

Employers have had 3 months to work out the impact of working from home and they may now be confident of allowing people to do it longer term.

[MW]

Re - working from home.

There would be plenty of employers who have seen staff working from home and completing their duties without issue, they may have also seen a downturn in business over that period, put two and two together and there will be loads of employers looking to downsize their main work site to accommodate the "in house" staff, reduce over heads and keep people working from home to reduce the chances of cross infection when ( not if ) the next wave comes through.

Employers have had 3 months to work out the impact of working from home and they may now be confident of allowing people to do it longer term.

A mate and my brother have not been at their CBD offices since start of April. Both have not seen any change in their working life doing it from home.
If I owned commerical properties in the CBD i'd be a bit nervous...

[Corona Man]

I've got friends who work in the CBD too and they still haven't gone back. I think you'll find any corporation with offices in Melbourne will send their workers home too, this happened to my bro.

Yep been working from home since March 16th. The mobile bill (work pays anyway) is a bit bigger but everything else has been fairly smooth.

If & when we return to the office on a permanent basis, I have already flagged to my boss, I will be working from home on Fridays...

[Booney]

Re - working from home.

There would be plenty of employers who have seen staff working from home and completing their duties without issue, they may have also seen a downturn in business over that period, put two and two together and there will be loads of employers looking to downsize their main work site to accommodate the "in house" staff, reduce over heads and keep people working from home to reduce the chances of cross infection when ( not if ) the next wave comes through.

Employers have had 3 months to work out the impact of working from home and they may now be confident of allowing people to do it longer term.

A mate and my brother have not been at their CBD offices since start of April. Both have not seen any change in their working life doing it from home.
If I owned commerical properties in the CBD i'd be a bit nervous...

Your ( and mine ) Superannuation probably does.

[mighty_tiger_79]

I've got friends who work in the CBD too and they still haven't gone back. I think you'll find any corporation with offices in Melbourne will send their workers home too, this happened to my bro.

Yep been working from home since March 16th. The mobile bill (work pays anyway) is a bit bigger but everything else has been fairly smooth.

If & when we return to the office on a permanent basis, I have already flagged to my boss, I will be working from home on Fridays...

Only so you can knock off at lunch, grab a beer and formguide...

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[Lightning McQueen]

Friends of mine who work in the city have been told to prepare to work from home again....

Another lockdown is imminent.

They'll probably do it nationwide to baby the Victorians, that way they can be more stringent across the national borders.

Well that's my take on it, we'll see more cases here yet.

I disagree, while we're on top of any cases in SA ( as we have been since early March ) we won't be locking down again. No way.

Our lockdown was very small scale in comparison, I just feel that everyone has become a bit complacent and we'll end up with some clusters.

[Lightning McQueen]

Why would we go back into a lockdown when we are receiving such little numbers of confirmed cases?

If we were forced to revert back a few months over basically nothing, then you’d see some real anger/frustrating/backlash

We'll see, I'm no expert, just a hunch.

[Booney]

Our lockdown was very small scale in comparison, I just feel that everyone has become a bit complacent and we'll end up with some clusters.

Absolutely, but as long as our COVID hotel guards don't shag recently returned overseas based Australians and fling the virus around at home and their kids school and we'll be ok.

I have so much more faith in our systems but fully appreciate they'll break down at some point, now's the time though that any of us with symptoms need to stay home, get tested.

[Dutchy]

It would be political suicide to lock down a state that in essentially COVID free.

Victoria's situation hit home yesterday when I was on a Zoom call and the Vic's working form our office over there had to wear a mask indoors at all times, even when they are sitting 20m from the next person.

[Pseudo]

More dickheads running the gauntlet at Bordertown, and this time it's a couple of Croweaters.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-24/ ... a/12487872

I think a suitable punishment would be returning them to Mextoria.

[Lightning McQueen]

It would be political suicide to lock down a state that in essentially COVID free.

Victoria's situation hit home yesterday when I was on a Zoom call and the Vic's working form our office over there had to wear a mask indoors at all times, even when they are sitting 20m from the next person.

We are essentially COVID free at the moment, I think we've had it a bit too easy, I hope I'm wrong but everything is basically back to normal here.

[Booney]

Around 300 out of Melbourne and 6 deaths.

[Jim05]

Around 300 out of Melbourne and 6 deaths.

Yep, heard it was 308 and 6 or 7 deaths but that was about an hour ago and they were still going over the numbers

[Booney]

US of Idiots :

Cases - 4,169,991

New cases in the last 24 hours - 76,570

Deaths - 147,333

Deaths in the last 24 hours - 1205 ( July 22 )