anyone know how long we're going to get stuck with everything closed?

  Er, um, that’s how long you promised to wait for me, remember?


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no, im not

Australia is also at the lower end of the spectrum because it hit in our summer. Not respiratory illness season.

Good point.
Stanford University Hospital says the virus cannot survive above 80.6ºF (27ºC).
That means that, as the Australian winter approaches, those who live from the middle to the south of the continent will be much more at risk.

Obviously it can, because it survives very comfortably in a human host - core body temperature 98.6°F (37°C). However, like many opportunistic organisms, it travels in concert with other viruses which transmit by droplet infection (coughs/sneezes). Those are more prevalent in winter when the human immune system is at its lowest.

You are very wise and wonderful and full of such common sense unbiased information....it's a shame you never took up politics and held some kind of power over the idiots that control most all of our lives...
When will common sense prevail I wonder....:(

Very flattering. But it's easy to be sensible when one has the leisure to think in this environment.
My personality couldn't cope with the sharp blades between ribs and slip-falls into slimy pits that is politics.

People don't naturally take to me as a leader. I can step up when asked - when others put me there - but it has rarely happened.

I was the scapegoat in a primary school of 999 kids. In high school I learned how to survive socially by  blending in, outwardly appearing to be like the others. It had a high price; I knew that nobody really knew me and therefore the friendships I won were based on lies. I was horribly lonely on the inside and often escaped to the library and books to have time being myself - or out into the countryside for long walks.

It's not until very recently, at uni and meeting writers in my area, that I have, for the first time in my life, begun to feel at home.

A politician needs to be an extrovert, someone who adores meeting people and networking, and who has enough confidence to let flung mud slide off an oily back.

Oddly, I do have grandiose dreams of writing a social manifesto - something like Plato's Republic or The Laws, but without his theocratic and right-wing conservatism. It would be such a self-indulgence.

I say grandiose because who am I to write such a thing? There have been great philosophers who have already done most of the heavy lifting. It would end up being not an original work but a splicing together of John Stuart Mills, Simone de Beauvoir, Solzynitsyn, Edward de Bona, Peter Singer, Noam Chomsky and nurmerous others.

Please don't put yourself down...I can't stand or trust glory hunters or any one that think they have god like rights to voice their oppinions over others and shout down any one who has a good inside of how things need to proceed to keep this world fit to live in peaceably......

It sicken me that all country leaders live the life of Riley at all others expense...
How much money does one person need...Paper wealth has no woth at all if there is no food in the stores to spend it on...
Yoy can own the morning st luxurious yacht in the world ,but if there is no fuel for it to burn and no one to crew it....it becomes the most expensive peice of junk and useless ...
Shy or not....There need to be more non selfish people leafing our countries...common sense must always prevail over arrogance and bully boy tactics..  

Excellent to advice I think we all could observe and take to heart...help others by spreading the word to....:)

When I think about the hardships and sacrifice our countries made during WWII, I am disheartened that we have become so soft that not being able to get a package of toilet paper is cause for endless complaints.  

I think every counrty involved suffered hardships  including many of the German people that must or were against that war to......
Excessive horders will have to live with what they have done for the rest of their lives....it something they daren't brag about as I'm sure many would want to exact some kind of retribution for the hardships they have forced onto others unnecessarily..

And rightfully so.  The US doesn't import toilet paper, paper towels or tissues, so there's really no need to be hoarding that stuff.  Food could be a different story.  Bread is probably one of the things that goes first, but, again, it's made locally so if you don't get it today, you can try again tomorrow.