^^^^
Z, that is a great program!
There is one that covers the entire journey.

The Indian Pacific runs from Sydney to Perth, via Adelaide, as you now know. I traveled on The Ghan from Adelaide to Alice a few years back. That was very enjoyable means of travel, and before the new job, contemplated the Indian Pacific journey.

Never mind now.

Victorians are banned from travel of more than 5km from home.

And the Western Australia (WA) state border is closed, particularly for Victorians.

The annual 'Grey Nomad' excursions will be missing Victorians this year. Grey nomads compromise mostly of retirees and caravans traversing Australia.

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What about the rest of Australia, you ask per chance?

A coworker has a daughter that married an Australian guy and they live in Queensland, he just told me today all the other states and territories there have closed their borders with Victoria.

OK, so I finally received my test results (20 days later). Negative for SARS-CoV-2. Must have been some other gnarly virus I had.

I'll take the antibody test just to be sure.

https://news.yahoo.com/governo...rkers-150935434.html

Governor Cuomo begs wealthy New Yorkers to come home to save ailing city

Andrew Cuomo said he was extremely worried about New York City weathering the Covid-19 aftermath if too many of the well-heeled taxpayers who fled to second homes decide there is no need to move back.

“They are in their Hamptons homes, or Hudson Valley or Connecticut. I talk to them literally every day. I say. ‘When are you coming back? I’ll buy you a drink. I’ll cook,’ “ Mr Cuomo told MSNBC, naming popular getaways for the rich.

“They’re not coming back right now. And you know what else they’re thinking, if I stay there, they pay a lower income tax because they don’t pay the New York City surcharge. So, that would be a bad place if we had to go there.”

Lawmakers have proposed a wealth tax targeting the city's 100 billionaires to help fill a $30 billion (£23bn) budget shortfall created by the Covid-19 crisis.

However, Mr Cuomo, a Democrat, said he could not support greater taxes on the ultra-wealthy as rich people already have one foot out of New York City and he fears they will leave for good if their taxes go up.

Instead, he wants the federal government and New York's congressional representatives to send billions of dollars in aid .


“A single per cent of New York’s population pays half of the state’s taxes ,” he said, “and they’re the most mobile people on the globe.”


Retailers say the city is now the worst place to do business in the country, blaming its strict months-long lockdown and exodus of its wealthiest residents.

They report foot traffic at Manhattan stores is down 85 per cent from a year ago. Nearly 3,000 small businesses in New York City have closed for good in the past four months.

Broadway theatres - normally a big draw for tourists - announced they will remain closed until at least January 2021.

I saw this article today on my phone news feed. It comes from Newsweek, of all places. According to the "Dutch Doctor Fauci" masks are ineffective against the virus.

An excerpt from the article:

"The lack of a national mask policy is at odds with many other countries in Europe. However, unlike many other countries in Europe, the Netherlands has fared relatively well for infections. There was a large spike in cases in March and April, but numbers started to fall in May. According to the World Health Organization's (WHO) latest situation report, on August 4 there were 372 new cases in the Netherlands and no deaths. In total, the country has had just over 55,400 cases and 6,140 deaths.

Unlike other European countries, the Netherlands also took a less rigid stance on lockdown measures. It introduced an "intelligent lockdown" where it asked people to work from home and maintain social distancing of five feet, but did not make these mandatory."

https://www.newsweek.com/nethe...-mask-policy-1522917

Sigh, today Governor Cooper here in NC has decreed that our Phase 2 re-opening plan (which I believe has already been extended once) will be extended another five weeks, which means bars, gyms and movie theaters can’t open till the middle of September.

Every bar, gym, theater and anything else that this ass Cooper is keeping closed, should reopen and openly defy him. He continues to ruin people and businesses over inflated and false numbers. I keep hoping he will get the wu-flu and drop dead. Even going by his numbers, the cases have been dropping the last two weeks.

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Pisses me off watching the news where some Raleigh bar owners were interviewed and said there was no way they could make it another five weeks and they would have to close.

According to our plastic surgeon turned Orange County Public Health Officer, Raul Pino, his opinion is that Central Floridians should be required to continue wearing masks until a vaccine is available, and even afterward for several months until the vaccine can be sourced and administered to a majority of Floridians. This shit has gone from stupid to completely asinine. As a side note, one of my neighbors, likely the premier cardiologist in Florida and someone who knows Pino, told me his eight year old son is better qualified to be Orange County's Senior Health Officer than Pino is. Apparently Pino left private practice due to shall we say some rather large patient lawsuits. So all the talk of flattening the curve to avoid hospitals being overwhelmed was complete BS and they intend to walk all over our lives and rights in perpetuity. My friends, its time to completely ignore all these assholes and get back to normal.

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[Whatever] County's Senior Health Officer

THANK YOU!!! I've been struggling to come up with a name to suggest to the powers that be in Texas, to rename the job titles of "County Judge", who's job requirement doesn't require anything even REMOTELY related to being a lawyer or a judge, so something else.

"Harris County Senior Health Officer/Official" sounds like it fits the bill PERFECTLY! An alternative would be "Harris County Chief Executive".

But I'm sure it was titled "County Judge" YEARS ago to make someone of small penile construct make themselves out to be more important than they really should have been. The current DOLT running Harris County has a degree in Political Science, and this 29-year old BITCH is in charge of running the county. Dumber than a box of hammers. Got DAMN, where's the Tylenol!!!

a bit OT

A White Professor Created A Bisexual, Native American Persona Online And Then Killed Her Off With Coronavirus

https://hotair.com/archives/jo...led-off-coronavirus/

A neurology professor named BethAnn McLaughlin earned a reputation as a social justice warrior in her field. She started a group called MeTooSTEM which was focused on sexual abuse claims among scientists. In 2018, McLaughlin shared an MIT Media Lab award with two other women including Tarana Burke, founder of the MeToo movement.

In 2016 she also created an online persona on Twitter with the name @Sciencing_Bi. That name claimed to be a distinct person who was a bisexual, Native American geologist

The anonymous account, @Sciencing_Bi, was an active participant in the corner of Science Twitter that frequently discusses issues of sexual misconduct in the sciences. It claimed on at least one occasion to have grown up in Alabama, to have “fled the south because of their oppression of queer folk,” and to have attended Catholic school. The account began to pointedly make reference to being Native American and, earlier this year, began to identify as Hopi.

Since 2016, it has posted often about issues around social justice in the sciences, with a focus on activism and research about sexual harassment.

In April, @Sciencing_Bi announced she was ill with the coronavirus. She publicly blamed her illness on Arizona State University for making her teach in a large lecture hall with 200 people.

The account interacted with a number of people through DMs and in the past few weeks she told anyone she spoke with that she was experiencing a difficult recovery from the virus. And then last Friday, BethAnn McLaughlin announced that @Sciencing_Bi was dead.

After her “death” BethAnn McLaughlin suggested that she’d been in an intimate relationship with the woman known only as @Sciencing_Bi. “Looking at her side of the bed and crying. Just a lot of crying.”

But pretty quickly McLaughlin’s story began to really fall apart as people noticed that details @Sciencing_Bi had claimed about Arizona State University were false, e.g. she didn’t know the correct dates for the school’s closing. Also, looking back over her tweets it seemed that she had only referenced her Native American ancestry fairly recently.

Sciencing_Bi’s claims about meeting BethAnn McLaughling in person used stock photos

The whole thing finally collapsed when Twitter suspended both accounts at once. Also, ASU told Buzzfeed they had no record of any such person

Today, McLaughlin, through her lawyer, finally admitted the truth to the NY Times: “I take full responsibility for my involvement in creating the @sciencing_bi Twitter account. My actions are inexcusable. I apologize without reservation to all the people I hurt.” McLaughlin is now saying she’s aware she needs mental health treatment and will be seeking it.

No doubt what McLaughlin did seems crazy but it’s not crazy in a random sense. McLaughlin understood that in the left-wing activists circles she was traveling in being white was a disadvantage. She created a false persona who was gay, Native American, and allegedly a victim of sexual assault, i.e. someone whose intersectional identity gave her an authority that couldn’t really be challenged.

McLaughlin clearly crossed a line inventing a person but she wasn’t wrong in her assessment of how identity politics creates social power online. How many more fake minorities are out there on Twitter pressing for social justice?

Perhaps a little OT, but well placed, sir.

Nucking futs libturds.

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Today, McLaughlin, through her lawyer, finally admitted the truth to the NY Times: “I take full responsibility for my involvement in creating the @sciencing_bi Twitter account. My actions are inexcusable. I apologize without reservation to all the people I hurt.”

People you've hurt? Umm, yeah, that would be you, genius.

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McLaughlin is now saying she’s aware she needs mental health treatment and will be seeking it.

Yeah, nice try, but, no sale. You're just another clumsy con artist.

Oh, BTW:

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Native American

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...without reservation...

Yeah, that's racist.

Close friend just got it. Our other friend was on the ventilator and in the hospital for 2 months. I haven’t been in contact (in person) with either in months.

Dogs trained to sniff out coronavirus

Our TSA handling dogs would go just swimmingly I'm sure....

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine tested positive for the corona virus during a screening prior to meeting President Trump today.

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Ohio Governor Mike DeWine tested positive for the corona virus during a screening prior to meeting President Trump today.

Any chance we can arrange a meeting between DeWine and Roy Cooper. I would love to see that sanctimonious POS get it

But he wears a mask? He doesn't deserve to be in the same room as Trump.

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Ohio Governor Mike DeWine tested positive for the corona virus during a screening prior to meeting President Trump today.

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Ohio Governor Mike DeWine tested positive for the corona virus during a screening prior to meeting President Trump today.

Any chance we can arrange a meeting between DeWine and Roy Cooper. I would love to see that sanctimonious POS get it

Yet has anyone here ever heard or read a single followup story to tell us what happened with any of these 'positive' test individuals? Of course not, most likely because most (if not all) of them never were symptomatic. Just more media BS pumped out on command to feed a narrative.

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Yet has anyone here ever heard or read a single followup story to tell us what happened with any of these 'positive' test individuals? Of course not, most likely because most (if not all) of them never were symptomatic. Just more media BS pumped out on command to feed a narrative.

Test him again, and it'll probably come up negative. These tests are suspect at best.