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Our local politician in my part of Australia sent a message out with crime stopper phone number on it to dob in any tourist. I live about hour north of Sydney and its normally packed Easter weekend. Non essential travel is ban so no holidays of even visiting family members. Can get fines for...

I think there won't be many overseas hirers this year. 2nd day in a row aussie government had said overseas travel this year unlikely. Tourism minister even went so far as saying no one should book trips overseas in December to see family as it will be unlikely. I would say places like UK will...

I think cinemas are going to be OK. I have less worries about going and sitting in one seat with a crowd that is normally pretty spread out then going to a pack theme park. Cinemas are huge but only have a few employees. The big ones near me have 8 to 10 rooms and probably only see 5 or 6 staff...

I see florida is fudging the figures. Not counting people who also live in other states https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2020/04/11/floridas-count-of-coronavirus-deaths-is-missing-some-cases/?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=social&utm_content=%40TB_Tmes

Aussie government hinted today that overseas travel for tourist will be unlikely this year and maybe into next year. I think when the parks do start to reopen there won't be many overseas guest with restrictions from there own countries and from the USA for overseas travellers

For a few weeks now anyone flying into Australia is forced to stay in hotels for 14 days. As soon as you get off plane you are put on bus to the hotel. You are then confined to your room for the full 14 days. So far it looks like all hotel and food is free. Only thing besides boredom and food...

Which one of them probably depends on your election result later this year

I love usa. Mention milatary and everything starts thanking service men and couldn't care less there taxes are paying more then the next 10 countries combined. Mention minium wage, unemployment and free health care or wage subsidies and people will say not with my tax dollars and they should...

Australia government has been pretty good for a Conservative government. They double unemployment wage, took out the waiting period and need to apply for certain amount of jobs plus put the income a spouse could earn up before payment cut off. The big popular one this week has been the job...

Compared to other countries the USA has been very slow. You just have to look at flights still going on in USA. The last day at disney world was one big party and most countries had already started major lockdown. Just look at Australia the highest number of overseas cases brought into to...

This is why the USA will get even worse. 2/3 of flights tracked in the world are flying over north America or internationally to usa

Sounds like even remote tribes might be in trouble https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-fears-for-indigenous-tribes-after-doctor-in-amazon-tests-positive-11964856

Florida numbers seem to be surging into the sharp up take stage. They should have closed beaches during spring break. Similar to the last day disney world was open. Having all the cast members at MK looked great on video but having that many young people who were in contact with people from all...

The normal flu's most have been in contact with so majority of people will have built some immunity to it. Sometimes there is slight mutation so some season will be worse. Covid-19 is new to humans. No one has any immunity to it. That's why it's dangerous. If you have any health problems this...

Yep that's the point. Slow it down so hospitals can keep up. Once hospital have enough resources to keep up that's when restriction should be lifted