Nirvana??? I’ll have to see if they have any songs mimicking a pandemic too.
This would be true. Not definitively alive, unless RNA is all that’s needed to be completely alive?
Ok, I had to google this… That’s an incredible vocabulary spectrum!
In Australia - public gatherings - excluding essential services - limited to 2 people.
Advice only at this stage not enforceable - yet.
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The various hypotheses surrounding the evolutionary origins of viruses are quite interesting. One article (in “The Conversation”, 2018) here. Like Trump, they are neither human, or even considered a life-form.
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As at 3:00pm on 29 March 2020, there have been 3,966 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Australia. There have been 331 new cases since 3:00pm yesterday.
Of the 3,966 confirmed cases in Australia, 16 have died from COVID-19. More than 211,000 tests have been conducted across Australia.
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ok, now this conference I would sign up for!!! definitely!!! 
I don’t think so, 331 new cases since 3pm yest. It is now 6pm - less than 24 hours.
We are seeing additional cases as passengers on a cruise ship in NSW were not tested before disembarking. This has caused an up-surge in cases.
Most cases are from travellers, some are community based transmissions.
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I guess they didn’t get the memo about DISEMBARKING BEFORE GETTING TESTED!!!
Why do I feel they grossly underestimated the death toll on this disease???
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It’s been a bit of a debacle 
I’m stuck somewhere between insanity to tragedy. Maybe it’s both???
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That’s how I feel.
Not just about what’s happening here but everywhere.
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@Sevencasper
I don’t understand why no one said, “hey! we have to be tested first???”
The world’s gone mad. People out playing on the beach taunting a disease they thick’s nothing more than a cold, No attempt to cover their faces (a bra cut up protects form 80-85% (don’t hold me to that # @Raven-Knightly I was trying to watch the youtube video while doing dishes).
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I recommend attempting to add just a bit of hilarity to mitigate the world’s most tersely insane tragedies:
Life in Seattle, Washington (Ground Zero, USA).
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@Sevencasper
It’s 2020. This is a contact virus. clean gloves (nitrile, rubber coated garden gloves, latex (if they’re marked so, people who aren’t alergic could wear them … What kills me Is I offer someone a new pair of nitrile gloves and they turn them away because their hands sweat in them.
this generation is such a group of prissy stuck up…OMG!!! SWEATY HANDS ARE WORSE THAN ARDS!!! LET… THEM…SWEAT!!!
If the # of cases keep climbing the way they are, we’re going to be forced to wear hazmat level 4 suits with self contained pressurized air canisters just to go outside… There is a re-contamination hazard too. I don’t know how well someone with a weakened or compromised immune system who just got well enough to go home to finish recuperating will do if they come into contact again with this virus.
U wear nitrile gloves and a face-mask. I’m waiting for a UV light to arrive for sterilizing them. Until then I can’t go out accept for dire necessities.
I wen’t to home depot the other day and people treated me like I was sick as they bumped passed each other like nothing was wrong nonchalantly strolled thought th store.
No social distancing, nothing. It was ass if nothing was wrong. All the while I’m getting stared at like I was Death waling the hall with a sickle. Even the clerks looked at me.
How bad does this have to get before people get it???
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This article explains that passengers were given the green light.
I haven’t vetted the info, after I heard about it, i’ve Tried to distance myself from the ‘net - it was all too depressing.
We also had 5 confirmed in our region (rural area), so I have been more focussed on that.
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That’s up to you @Caped_Conspirathist, I weigh my opinions by what I think is most reasonable and I follow who I think is more trustworthy…
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I’m going to guess that being in a rural area will help? I guess another issue with this is going to be mistakes at any level. Sorry about my outburst. This 1/2 bug has to have a “chink” in it’s armor somewhere.
Now we have to find it. I thought these people had been quarantined? If they had the virus has more tricks than we’ve figured out yet.
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@Pro_Vapes
I’m sorry. That was more of a guessing kind of question. I know in times of great civil duress the Governors have more power in a state than the president. When I typed “I believe” I mean it’s a good bet that if anyone has the authority, the Governor would have it.
I imagine The Governor wouldn’t be able to do it without the state legislature weighing in on it. I can see 24-48 hrs. for an executive decision imposition but I have no idea about a long term one.
I apologize. reading how I responded, I have to figure out how to suggest that I have an educated guess is all.