News Coronavirus and NRL

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[JohnnyThailand]

The trouble is this. The Cowboys CEO says there are no cases of the virus north of the Sunshine Coast, however what chance is there that that will continue to be the case if people from all over Australia cram into this brand new stadium tonight. It's a bugger, but really they have no choice.

It hasn't reached Penrith yet either, but that will all change tomorrow night surely.

People in NQ may be lucky thanks to the humidity. It ain't spreading bad in SEA. A lot of people may think the govt are under reporting it, but you can't hide 500 million people having a pandemic virus ripping through cities, especially when Italys health system is about to collapse with only 10,000 cases.

I'm living in Thailand and we were warned we'd be smashed worst after Hong Kong by end February. Yet our last 11 cases were 10 dudes sharing a joint with 1 guy who had it. On average its 1 person a day. And we had 50,000 people from Wuhan visit Bangkok during Chinese New Year... Still less cases in all of Thailand then just NSW. Add in India and Bangladesh to the mix and like 15 people have died out of 2 billion people in Asia so far who should have likely been exposed to corona earlier than Australians.

Aside from humidity, there's not much that makes sense. Theres more dense living, open eating, more tourists and less sanitation here than Australia obviously. The only 2 things that make sense are we've already had a weaker strain and haven't noticed or humidity makes it difficult for the virus to survive and spread. Especially when u consider Japan and Korea are both cold and still got hit bad. So could be good news for the aussies up in the humidity soaked tropical zones.

 

[Mr Angry]

https://www.airportia.com/australia/townsville-airport/arrivals/

Anyone going to Cowboys is probably already there.

 

[Knight76]

Geez, looks like they may be banning mass gatherings by the end of today after all.....

Who could have predicted that!

 

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[franklin2323]

Lol no, that’s not going to happen unfortunately. Vaccines take years to develop.

This doctor said a vaccine isn’t even close to being developed. He thinks the way this will go away is that after a few months so many will be infected that it will just go away because once you are infected and recovered you develop a natural immunity to the disease and you can’t transmit it to others.

If you want to get really worried about a disease google Chronic wastage disease, it’s a disease in deer populations in America that has no vaccine or cure and is 100 percent fatal, hasn’t jumped to humans yet but if it does lookout.

https://www.narcity.com/news/ca/sk/...-in-saskatchewan-is-now-in-the-testing-stages

See someone was always going to come up with something

 

[herbert henry1908]

Gatherings of 500 people or more to be banned

 

[TheFrog]

If (thats a big if) the season is called off (unlikely), do the clubs have to pay the players?

Do the TV networks have to pay the NRL?

 

[Avenger]

you could be talking about the bush fires. Remember them?

World event I’m talking about. Try and keep up.

 

[TheFrog]

Gatherings of 500 people or more to be banned

So does this mean clubs can allow some season ticket holders in each game?

 

[herbert henry1908]

Do the TV networks have to pay the NRL?

My guess is there’s some type of insurance arrangement.

 

[shear_joy9]

was going to say the season was good while it lasted, but it really wasn't

 

[herbert henry1908]

So does this mean clubs can allow some season ticket holders in each game?

I suppose you could, but it’s probably too late to work our who for this round.

 

[JamesRustle]

Gatherings of 500 people or more to be banned

There goes tonights swingers party

 

[Valheru]

Geez, looks like they may be banning mass gatherings by the end of today after all.....

Who could have predicted that!

Fair play, looks like you were right.

I still see it as an overreaction in the case of Australia at the moment but better to shut things down for a month and nip this in the butt if possible.

 

[mozza91]

What a joke.

 

[TheFrog]

Pretty sure Townsville is only Domestic. Happy to be proved wrong. Cairns definitely is International.

You could fly Jetstar Townsville to Denpasar until a couple of years ago but the route was closed as uneconomic, so there are currently no international flights.

 

[grouch]

Not confirmed yet - the government can always choose not to follow that advice.

We cross live to ScoMo at the Sharks game:

 

[Canard]

Gatherings of 500 people or more to be banned

Does this include the Cowboys game???

 

[Diesel]

TV exes will be wanting these games to go ahead, another 20k+ eyeballs watching.