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Re: COVID in WA
Reply #165 - Apr 24^th, 2021 at 11:21pm

Carl D wrote on Apr 24^th, 2021 at 6:01pm:

‘Just nuts’: Perth Mercure Hotel patient zero travelled to India for a wedding

https://www.watoday.com.au/national/coronavirus-australia-update-live-perth-in-l...

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A man believed to be the patient zero of the Mercure Hotel cluster had recently returned to Perth from attending a wedding in India.

That REALLY bugs me.
How can that happen ?
I was not allowed to travel to NZ to see my father who was dying.
The Aust Govt said no to my application to travel to NZ.

So how can he travel to india ?

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Re: COVID in WA
Reply #166 - Apr 24^th, 2021 at 11:23pm

Sprintcyclist wrote on Apr 24^th, 2021 at 11:21pm:

Carl D wrote on Apr 24^th, 2021 at 6:01pm:

‘Just nuts’: Perth Mercure Hotel patient zero travelled to India for a wedding

https://www.watoday.com.au/national/coronavirus-australia-update-live-perth-in-l...

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A man believed to be the patient zero of the Mercure Hotel cluster had recently returned to Perth from attending a wedding in India.

That REALLY bugs me.
How can that happen ?
I was not allowed to travel to NZ to see my father who was dying.
The Aust Govt said no to my application to travel to NZ.

So how can he travel to india ?

These people are so good at playing the race card its not funny.

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greggerypeccary Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 144363 Gender:	Re: COVID in WA Reply #167 - Apr 25^th, 2021 at 6:10am On the up side, it's been wonderfully peaceful today. Hardly any cars driving by - it's great. Caught up with lots of repairs etc. around the house today. Quite enjoying this long-weekend lockdown. Feel real bad for the small businesses though.
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Re: COVID in WA
Reply #168 - Apr 25^th, 2021 at 6:56pm

Coronavirus WA: Premier Mark McGowan reveals new case numbers on day two of lockdown

https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/coronavirus/coronavirus-wa-premier-mark-mcgowan...

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Premier Mark McGowan says West Australians should expect COVID restrictions to continue beyond Monday night, despite no new cases of community transmission being recorded overnight.

Mr McGowan today revealed the only new case of the virus was a returned traveller from India who remains in hotel quarantine.

Despite the encouraging news, the Premier indicated lockdown could continue beyond its scheduled end of midnight tomorrow but refused to reveal how likely it was or how long it would go on for.

I suspect we'll probably be wearing masks for the whole of next week, at least.

greggerypeccary wrote on Apr 25^th, 2021 at 6:10am:

On the up side, it's been wonderfully peaceful today.

Hardly any cars driving by - it's great.

Caught up with lots of repairs etc. around the house today.

Quite enjoying this long-weekend lockdown.

Feel real bad for the small businesses though.

It is very quiet, isn't it? I went to the Kooyong Road IGA again today and, just like yesterday, there were very few people shopping when I was there (about 10am both days).

Everyone must have fled down south before the lockdown at midnight Friday.

Took advantage of the 'quiet time' to do a bit of work on my PC, put some blue LED fans in - 2 at the top of the case and one at the rear. They were unlit originally. Also replaced the 2 white LED fans at the front with blue ones and also did a bit of tidying up with the cables, etc. (that's the worst thing about building your own PC... cable management).

I've given up with the second older PC I've also been stuffing around with the past 2 days, I suspect there's something wrong with the power supply because it has damaged 2 Samsung solid state drives over the past couple of months. I've taken the motherboard and graphics card out and put them in storage because I'm sure they're OK. The blue case fans came out and went into the PC I've worked on today (the one in the picture). I'm going the ditch the old case and suspect power supply that's still in it - I never did like that old case anyway.

I've taken the side panel off for the attached picture, it does have a window on it but it looked better for taking the picture (then I put it back on).

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Re: COVID in WA
Reply #169 - Apr 25^th, 2021 at 8:33pm

Carl D wrote on Apr 25^th, 2021 at 6:56pm:

Coronavirus WA: Premier Mark McGowan reveals new case numbers on day two of lockdown

https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/coronavirus/coronavirus-wa-premier-mark-mcgowan...

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Premier Mark McGowan says West Australians should expect COVID restrictions to continue beyond Monday night, despite no new cases of community transmission being recorded overnight.

Mr McGowan today revealed the only new case of the virus was a returned traveller from India who remains in hotel quarantine.

Despite the encouraging news, the Premier indicated lockdown could continue beyond its scheduled end of midnight tomorrow but refused to reveal how likely it was or how long it would go on for.

I suspect we'll probably be wearing masks for the whole of next week, at least.

greggerypeccary wrote on Apr 25^th, 2021 at 6:10am:

On the up side, it's been wonderfully peaceful today.

Hardly any cars driving by - it's great.

Caught up with lots of repairs etc. around the house today.

Quite enjoying this long-weekend lockdown.

Feel real bad for the small businesses though.

It is very quiet, isn't it? I went to the Kooyong Road IGA again today and, just like yesterday, there were very few people shopping when I was there (about 10am both days).

Everyone must have fled down south before the lockdown at midnight Friday.

Took advantage of the 'quiet time' to do a bit of work on my PC, put some blue LED fans in - 2 at the top of the case and one at the rear. They were unlit originally. Also replaced the 2 white LED fans at the front with blue ones and also did a bit of tidying up with the cables, etc. (that's the worst thing about building your own PC... cable management).

I've given up with the second older PC I've also been stuffing around with the past 2 days, I suspect there's something wrong with the power supply because it has damaged 2 Samsung solid state drives over the past couple of months. I've taken the motherboard and graphics card out and put them in storage because I'm sure they're OK. The blue case fans came out and went into the PC I've worked on today (the one in the picture). I'm going the ditch the old case and suspect power supply that's still in it - I never did like that old case anyway.

I've taken the side panel off for the attached picture, it does have a window on it but it looked better for taking the picture (then I put it back on).

Jesus, that's a serious set-up!

Do you use it for gaming?

And yeah, it's nice and quiet. I'm loving it

I suspect we'll have to wear masks for the next week or so. No big deal.

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Re: COVID in WA
Reply #170 - Apr 25^th, 2021 at 9:39pm

greggerypeccary wrote on Apr 25^th, 2021 at 6:10am:

On the up side, it's been wonderfully peaceful today.

Hardly any cars driving by - it's great.

Caught up with lots of repairs etc. around the house today.

Quite enjoying this long-weekend lockdown.

Feel real bad for the small businesses though.

Mcgowan doesnt. hes busy defending Cook again over the mecure hotel which should not have been used,. f K up after f up after f up.

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Re: COVID in WA
Reply #171 - Apr 26^th, 2021 at 12:00am

greggerypeccary wrote on Apr 25^th, 2021 at 8:33pm:

Jesus, that's a serious set-up!

Do you use it for gaming?

Nah, not really. Apart from the occasional game of old arcade classics on the MAME emulator.

Actually, the motherboard and CPU are 4 years old. Bought in April, 2017. The 24" BenQ monitor was bought in 2015. Here's what's in the computer case right now:

Gigabyte GA-B250M-D3H Motherboard, Intel i5-7600 (Kaby Lake) CPU , 32GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1065 Graphics Card, 1x Samsung 870 EVO 250GB SSD, 1x Samsung 860 EVO 250GB SSD, Windows 10 Professional 20H2 64bit.

The graphics card, computer case and power supply (SilverStone 750W) are recent additions in the last few months. Also, the keyboard and mouse are only a few months old as well - Philips brand (yep, that Philips) bought from BigW at Belmont Forum.

Back to the topic... and the idiocy continues...

Party-goers hide behind plants as police bust house party in Mullaloo on day one of lockdown

https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/coronavirus/party-goers-hide-behind-plants-as-p...

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A group of party-goers have taken a leaf of faith, hiding behind plants to avoid police during a bust at an illegal house party in Mullaloo last night

Some people never learn (wish I had a dollar for every time this has been said since the start of the pandemic).

And...

Coronavirus WA: Hundreds of city motorists caught trying to leave at police border checkpoints

https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/coronavirus/coronavirus-wa-hundreds-of-city-mot...

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City travellers are continuing to ignore warnings to stay put in a bid to escape the strict coronavirus lockdown.

Just a day after Police Commissioner Chris Dawson urged people to heed isolation advice, Premier Mark McGowan revealed hundreds of travellers were still trying to flee from the restrictions.

Police at eight checkpoints, along with mobile patrols, had uncovered alarming ignorance among the 8334 vehicles which had been stopped since the lockdown came into effect at midnight on Friday.

“As of this morning, a total of 287 vehicles did not have a valid reason to leave Perth and Peel and were turned around,” Mr McGowan said.

The lockdown is for 3 days, people. Not 3 months.

Perhaps they wouldn't have been in such a rush to try and leave if they knew this was going to happen?

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A statement announcing the lockdown read: “Anyone who has travelled outside of the Perth metropolitan area and Peel region since Saturday, April 17, must wear face masks in public from 6pm tonight.”

But at a press conference on Saturday afternoon, the state government went further, saying those who had flocked to the countryside had to stay inside their holiday accommodation and could only go outside for the same four reasons people in Perth and Peel could, including one hour of exercise.

From what I read in today's Sunday Times it doesn't look like anyone was taking any notice of that with the huge crowds at the beaches and markets, etc. down south in the last 2 days. And, how would the police know who was from the Perth/Peel region and who wasn't? Unless they're checking vehicle licence plates which would probably only catch a small number of people anyway.

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Re: COVID in WA
Reply #172 - Apr 26^th, 2021 at 12:06am

Carl D wrote on Apr 26^th, 2021 at 12:00am:

greggerypeccary wrote on Apr 25^th, 2021 at 8:33pm:

Jesus, that's a serious set-up!

Do you use it for gaming?

Nah, not really. Apart from the occasional game of old arcade classics on the MAME emulator.

Actually, the motherboard and CPU are 4 years old. Bought in April, 2017. The 24" BenQ monitor was bought in 2015. Here's what's in the computer case right now:

Gigabyte GA-B250M-D3H Motherboard, Intel i5-7600 (Kaby Lake) CPU , 32GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1065 Graphics Card, 1x Samsung 870 EVO 250GB SSD, 1x Samsung 860 EVO 250GB SSD, Windows 10 Professional 20H2 64bit.

The graphics card, computer case and power supply (SilverStone 750W) are recent additions in the last few months. Also, the keyboard and mouse are only a few months old as well - Philips brand (yes, that Philips) bought from BigW at Belmont Forum.

Back to the topic... and the idiocy continues...

Party-goers hide behind plants as police bust house party in Mullaloo on day one of lockdown

https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/coronavirus/party-goers-hide-behind-plants-as-p...

Quote:

A group of party-goers have taken a leaf of faith, hiding behind plants to avoid police during a bust at an illegal house party in Mullaloo last night

Some people never learn (wish I had a dollar for every time this has been said since the start of the pandemic).

And...

Coronavirus WA: Hundreds of city motorists caught trying to leave at police border checkpoints

https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/coronavirus/coronavirus-wa-hundreds-of-city-mot...

Quote:

City travellers are continuing to ignore warnings to stay put in a bid to escape the strict coronavirus lockdown.

Just a day after Police Commissioner Chris Dawson urged people to heed isolation advice, Premier Mark McGowan revealed hundreds of travellers were still trying to flee from the restrictions.

Police at eight checkpoints, along with mobile patrols, had uncovered alarming ignorance among the 8334 vehicles which had been stopped since the lockdown came into effect at midnight on Friday.

“As of this morning, a total of 287 vehicles did not have a valid reason to leave Perth and Peel and were turned around,” Mr McGowan said.

The lockdown is for 3 days, people. Not 3 months.

Perhaps they wouldn't have been in such a rush to try and leave if they knew this was going to happen?

Quote:

A statement announcing the lockdown read: “Anyone who has travelled outside of the Perth metropolitan area and Peel region since Saturday, April 17, must wear face masks in public from 6pm tonight.”

But at a press conference on Saturday afternoon, the state government went further, saying those who had flocked to the countryside had to stay inside their holiday accommodation and could only go outside for the same four reasons people in Perth and Peel could, including one hour of exercise.

From what I read in today's Sunday Times it doesn't look like anyone was taking any notice of that with the huge crowds at the beaches and markets, etc. down south in the last 2 days. And, how would the police know who was from the Perth/Peel region and who wasn't? Unless they're checking vehicle licence plates which would probably only catch a small number of people anyway.

The cops were active in Scarborough this morning. I saw 2 people apparently getting fined for not wearing masks.

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Re: COVID in WA
Reply #174 - Apr 26^th, 2021 at 10:59am

greggerypeccary wrote on Apr 26^th, 2021 at 9:46am:

rhino wrote on Apr 26^th, 2021 at 12:06am:

The cops were active in Scarborough this morning. I saw 2 people apparently getting fined for not wearing masks.

Good.

BIG fines, I hope.

BIG fine (and prison time) for this idiot, I'm hoping.

Man pulls knife on WA police officers after mask request outside Nollamara supermarket

https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/man-pulls-knife-on-wa-poli...

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A 55-year-old man has been charged after police said he threatened them with a knife after refusing an order to wear a mask outside a northern suburbs supermarket on Saturday.

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Police deployed a Taser on him to help protect members of the public nearby after more refusals.

Good to see. Although I wouldn't be surprised if he tries to sue the police for injury/stress/whatever. One thing's for sure - there's very little chance of him suffering brain damage (he'd need a brain for that).

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Re: COVID in WA
Reply #175 - Apr 26^th, 2021 at 11:02am

Carl D wrote on Apr 26^th, 2021 at 10:59am:

greggerypeccary wrote on Apr 26^th, 2021 at 9:46am:

rhino wrote on Apr 26^th, 2021 at 12:06am:

The cops were active in Scarborough this morning. I saw 2 people apparently getting fined for not wearing masks.

Good.

BIG fines, I hope.

BIG fine (and prison time) for this idiot, I'm hoping.

Man pulls knife on WA police officers after mask request outside Nollamara supermarket

https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/man-pulls-knife-on-wa-poli...

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A 55-year-old man has been charged after police said he threatened them with a knife after refusing an order to wear a mask outside a northern suburbs supermarket on Saturday.

Quote:

Police deployed a Taser on him to help protect members of the public nearby after more refusals.

Good to see. Although I wouldn't be surprised if he tries to sue the police for injury/stress/whatever. One thing's for sure - there's very little chance of him suffering brain damage (he'd need a brain for that).

Jesus Christ!

What the hell is wrong with these people? Shocked

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Reply #176 - Apr 26^th, 2021 at 1:12pm

rhino wrote on Apr 24^th, 2021 at 11:23pm:

Sprintcyclist wrote on Apr 24^th, 2021 at 11:21pm:

Carl D wrote on Apr 24^th, 2021 at 6:01pm:

‘Just nuts’: Perth Mercure Hotel patient zero travelled to India for a wedding

https://www.watoday.com.au/national/coronavirus-australia-update-live-perth-in-l...

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A man believed to be the patient zero of the Mercure Hotel cluster had recently returned to Perth from attending a wedding in India.

That REALLY bugs me.
How can that happen ?
I was not allowed to travel to NZ to see my father who was dying.
The Aust Govt said no to my application to travel to NZ.

So how can he travel to india ?

These people are so good at playing the race card its not funny.

We taught them, we encourage them. They are just taking advantage of the West's loss of cultural confidence.

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Re: COVID in WA
Reply #178 - Apr 26^th, 2021 at 3:29pm

greggerypeccary wrote on Apr 26^th, 2021 at 11:02am:

Carl D wrote on Apr 26^th, 2021 at 10:59am:

greggerypeccary wrote on Apr 26^th, 2021 at 9:46am:

rhino wrote on Apr 26^th, 2021 at 12:06am:

The cops were active in Scarborough this morning. I saw 2 people apparently getting fined for not wearing masks.

Good.

BIG fines, I hope.

BIG fine (and prison time) for this idiot, I'm hoping.

Man pulls knife on WA police officers after mask request outside Nollamara supermarket

https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/man-pulls-knife-on-wa-poli...

Quote:

A 55-year-old man has been charged after police said he threatened them with a knife after refusing an order to wear a mask outside a northern suburbs supermarket on Saturday.

Quote:

Police deployed a Taser on him to help protect members of the public nearby after more refusals.

Good to see. Although I wouldn't be surprised if he tries to sue the police for injury/stress/whatever. One thing's for sure - there's very little chance of him suffering brain damage (he'd need a brain for that).

Jesus Christ!

What the hell is wrong with these people? Shocked

Mcgowan has created the biggest meth addiction and mental health crisis on the planet per capita and you have to ask this? Didnt we discuss the city full of out of control meth junkies in the CBD the other day? Whats your mate doing other than defending the pathological liar Cook? You should have voted for the work experience kid.

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Re: COVID in WA
Reply #179 - Apr 26^th, 2021 at 3:31pm

aquascoot wrote on Apr 26^th, 2021 at 1:40pm:

Gladys had to deal with a much bigger outbreak in the northern beaches and she didnt lock down the entire city.

she has more courage then those living in "fortress WA" Roll Eyes

Its a sh1thole. Homeless and the mentally ill with no facilities literally everywhere, camping on the beaches, central CBD, parks, family play areas. Homeless tents and their used syringes and their rubbish everywhere.

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