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Reports: The Prime Minister did say he would rather see 'bodies pile high in their thousands' than order a third lockdown. "I am told he shouted it in his study just after he agreed to the second lockdown in a rage. The doors were allegedly open and supposedly a number of people heard"

That's a good letter. Striking a good balance between all is forgiven, and outright declaration of war.

Really good characterisation of the blood clot risk by our chief health Officer.

Having worked at one of these shelters in Melbourne I can tell you that the standard of people in attendance is different than you'd think. I'd estimate less than a quarter of those there on the day I worked looked genuinely like the type that would be sleeping in a public park or outside a shopfront. Quite a lot of 60 yrs or olders, including couples.

You're going to have to get over it bud. And use the ignore function if it makes it easier. Having read through both these threads hours later I don't feel I've seen you mocked for your mental health situation. I saw an eye roll from Tommy which I'd attribute to a fatigue of having seen these types of threads created before that tend to end up locked.

Sorry to hear mate. Does he have the right to demand you leave? Is your current rental arrangement much better than what you think you could get now via a new sub lease on the open market? Can you work to convince him to change his mind? Can you explain your situation, and negotiate some flexibility, put a generous timeframe around the move out date, etc?

The good old days when America made its own crystal meth...

Brazil on a bad trajectory at present. 3600 deaths yesterday, daily cases yet to peak, and ICU capacity at by far the worst position in the pandemic so far... They need to vaccinate fast.

I don't know enough about your situation. In my cases it wouldn't change the outcome either way. So if the wait is painful I'd call

Having been the recruiter, I often intend to get the call back done on Friday but then time slips away and don't get to it until the Monday.

My guess is they'd have one, but over time they paid less attention to it, and some of the equipment they'd have had sitting in standby to mobilise for that event will have fallen into disrepair, as staff saw it as something would never actually happen. In my role at work we have plans like that for failures of major assets, and thankfully they get taken seriously. Dams, major water and sewer arterials, treatment plants, documents covering planned response to scenarios like statewide blackout, bushfire, cyber attack, terrorism, catastrophic failure, etc. However they can still be pretty grim scenarios, as the perfect contingency plan is something that nobody would be willing to pay for given it may never be used. I.e. dual supply pipelines, fun redundancy in the sewer system, etc.

I just wonder if the operators of the canal had a contingency plan for such an event, and if so whether it was something they actively maintained and took seriously that it would one day be used in earnest.

An amazing legal defence offered by the Kraken, in the $1.3 billion defamation case launched against her by dominion voting systems....

Myself? No. But yourself, Yes.

Yeah the toilet becomes a meditative space for most parents to get a mental break. Tho I do get the walk ins now from the kids around half the time. Will be tough on your Mrs this return to work period. Once mothers group starts it will probably help but the period before that can be quite isolating. Fingers crossed for her getting a really awesome group that gel and form lifelong connections. Benefits kids too as well as mums.

Agree. It adds extra excitement and either way it's a great outcome for you guys. My sister has 2 boys and chose to go back for a third hoping for a girl. I suggested she find out gender in advance, as her emotional stake is significant. In a post childbirth exhaustion she might be less prepared to deal with disappointment. She's sticking with being surprised though.

You are going to be surprised at birth, or your going to find out in advance? I did the former for kid 1 and latter for kid 2. Both were great. We chose to find out the gender with the second kid in order to better prepare the first for what was coming.

My 2 year old had her first ever gastro yesterday so from 6pm to 3am vomited around 30 or 40 times. Rough experience. Forgot how much more difficult it is when the child doesn't understand what's happening, and gets scared of the bucket. She needed 5 outfit changes, and I needed 3.

Mathias Cormann elected secretary general for the OECD. https://www.9news.com.au/national/mathias-cormann-elected-secretary-general-of-organisation-for-economic-cooperation-and-development/1b07bf40-a2b1-48a1-b8b4-a425b43b3052

Agreed. It also ignores what's changed already since November such as the Jan 6 events, and the stolen election lie, where the evidence from Georgia was significant poll movement between the two points. However the rural (conservative) bias in both senate and electoral college, and the importance of winning battleground states should not be underestimated.

The combined margin in Arizona, Georgia and Wisconsin that delivered him the electoral college win. If he'd lost those 50k votes he'd have won the popular election by 7m but still lost 268-270. These states plus Michigan and Pennsylvania, which are all about 5% more conservative leaning than the nation as a whole will decide the next election. A Democrat from "radically liberal" California will usually not play well in these states.

When five thirty eight are writing feature articles on how shit you are you know things are going pretty bad... https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-bad-is-liverpool/