mike14
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Imagine if that national qr standard was linked to some kind of national covid app designed to keep you safe...
COVID-19: who’s going full doomsday prep on this?
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wkkie
It's Not Easy Being Green
Along with the 5G implants, that'll go down well!
sane
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You could be on to something there, will it work on iphone in the background?
pink poodle
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Well now I am really confused.You're entitled to your opinion, but kindly stop fucking misrepresenting mine!
ForkinGreat
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Mostly because sportzball generates lot$ of monee$$$..... The CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy) will develiop, along with their sportzball careers, full of concussions and hard hits generally. Brain death will be at the end.....
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The Duckmeister
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Only got yourself to blame....
pink poodle
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I don't think so. The messages from our political leaders have been loud and clear.
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Can't speak for footy but leaving big construction projects unattended for long periods of time can lead to massive safety issues. People tend to get a bit twitchy when 2m x 3m panes of glass start falling from the sky because they've only been secured temporarily.
hifiandmtb
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UK tightens borders and travel rules as variants spark new alarm
PHE data indicates dominant variant ‘more likely to cause serious illness’ as Grant Shapps warns of threat to reopening on 21 June
www.theguardian.com
New variant then new variant then new variant then vaccine no longer effective then another vaccine on top of the previous vaccine then what?
The Duckmeister
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Mama Nature fighting back.UK tightens borders and travel rules as variants spark new alarm
PHE data indicates dominant variant ‘more likely to cause serious illness’ as Grant Shapps warns of threat to reopening on 21 June
New variant then new variant then new variant then vaccine no longer effective then another vaccine on top of the previous vaccine then what?
There were provisions in the restrictions to make/keep sites safe and/or running on min staff.. It’s not a lockdown if one of the biggest employers are still open having people move around the city..
PINT of Stella. mate!
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There are tens of thousands of people classed as 'essential' workers during lockdown and rightly so. Supermarkets have to be staffed, as do service stations, petrochemical facilities, airports, public transport, military, transport & logistics, hospitals, emergency services, agriculture etc.
Tens of thousands more in our financial services and various administrative roles also have to continue working in order for us to function as a society but they get the added bonus of being able to do it from home.
Construction is one industry where you can't just flick a switch, shut down a whole site for a few weeks - or months- and not have there being costly repercussions further down the track. There's environmental damage to half-finished jobs to consider. When building materials and heavy plant equipment are ordered for big jobs, it's usually weeks or months in advance and when it arrives it often HAS to be installed or put into use because
there's nowhere to store it safely.
Then there are the knock-on effects of long-term delays in major infrastructure projects. In a years time when your big-ticket freeway expansion, cross-city tunnel or level-crossing removal project blows past it's scheduled completion date, people -voters- will still arc up about it regardless of whether there were legitimate reasons for the delay. Big public infrastructure projects can be make-or-break for election campaigns while your larger private sector projects tend to be run by fairly big campaign donors.
As for the work itself - most construction work tends to be in outdoor and well-ventilated environments and the people employed in it are a lot more accustomed to mandatory PPE requirements and Safe Work Practices than your average massage therapist or data-entry clerk.
Finally, if all that weren't enough to convince you and particularly as this lockdown is primarily a Victorian concern - good luck getting a mass unpaid stand-down past the CFMEU!
Don’t disagree about essential major infrastructure and other significant construction projects continuing to operate..
The rest can just sit it out like everyone else does, just like landscapers working outdoors had to.. In particular developers building shitbox muti unit townhouses and apartments can cop it up the arse, building for max yeild it isn’t an essential service..
Btw I couldn’t spot a single mask over anyone’s actual nose and mouth working on the NE link in the last week, not to mention zero social distancing in front of everybody driving by.. While work safe and PPE is taken seriously, covid most certainly ain’t..
PINT of Stella. mate!
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Nah. I've seen this attitude quite a lot over the last couple of lockdowns and I think there's a fair bit of inherent snobbery behind it. People who work in white-collar or 'respectable' jobs having a sook because they've got to stay at home whilst the neck-tatted, hi-viz wearing knuckle-draggers get to come and go as they please!
hifiandmtb
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Hahaha!!! Every big project like that is way over budget & misses timelines. I reckon a bit of COVID excuse would be welcomed!
The Duckmeister
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However you look at it, footbrawlers still aren't essential...Nah. I've seen this attitude quite a lot over the last couple of lockdowns and I think there's a fair bit of inherent snobbery behind it. People who work in white-collar or 'respectable' jobs having a sook because they've got to stay at home whilst the neck-tatted, hi-viz wearing knuckle-draggers get to come and go as they please!
PINT of Stella. mate!
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Oh. They'll be trotting out that excuse regardless!