Corona Virus

Originally Posted by r3nov8or

"All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone," wrote the French philosopher Blaise Pascal. (c.1600)

The sarcasm in Pascal's quote is lost on most government's so called "leaders" who would be extremely happy with a population who only eats and defecate.
See below a message from my sister in law from the USA.

We got a stolen election which put a criminal and a weakling in our Whitehouse, for Trump daring to stand up to and change our long standing unfair trade agreements with China.And for calling Covid what it is, the China Virus.
China and the deep state and the one world order ilk were so desperate to get rid of their biggest threat, Trump, they unleashed a world wide crisis ie Covid, to cause chaos and fear in an effort to get rid of a guy who was accomplishing so much, in America and on the world stage, contrary to their vision.
The crisis was well marketed above and beyond its actual danger but the fear mongering worked and they could see within their grasp, the reset they’ve been grooming for decades.
God help us! We are subject to evil in the hands of the godless and the lawless who are lining their personal pockets by selling off our hard won freedoms and this beautiful and great country.

Originally Posted by PhilT2

... the cruiseline industry is in real trouble because their main clients are older.
https://www.theguardian.com/business...to-be-scrapped

To stop building new cruise ships is not the same as stopping cruises.

This summer our island's tiny port with a population ~350 is scheduled to have 28 cruise ship dockings with up to 6000 on board. Most take bus tours of the island at a couple of hundred bucks per seat, quite a ripoff for a lightning tour that spends 80-90% of the time dirt roading between stops on the bus! Some wander from the terminal up to the village main street, look bemused standing in front of the supermarket, the only store, and ask where the town is! One of my mates is a lighthouse guide 25km from the port and has had 600 people turn up on buses within 15 minutes - the facility has just one coffee machine and two toilets!

According to the guvmint, it's all for our good and prosperity and 'recovery' after the 2020 fires. Passengers cannot take food or liquor onto the ships, because that's eating into their profit, and visitors don't buy produce from our farmers markets, wineries, breweries and distilleries.

The "benefit" we get is expropriated medical services, hijacked rubbish bins, volunteer fatigue, debilitated community services, deeper potholes, overburdened public facilities, roadside litter and an exhausted hospitality workforce, just to name some. And, of course, exposure to viruses and other diseases that affect not only humans, but our primary production industries as well.

Meanwhile the cruise operators' exorbitant profits sail off into the sunset, whilst the cost burden of providing our island home as a venue for the jollification of seafarers is subsidised by our rates and your taxes.

Originally Posted by r3nov8or

Not sure about "cannot", but the passengers wouldn't bother anyway, because usually all food is included and most opt for the drinks package, if that's their thing

Cruise visitors often do tell businesses they would bother if they could, but they can't! Passengers cannot bring any alcohol from Kangaroo Island's international award winning distilleries or wineries to take home, which cuts that industry out of any impulsive purchase benefit from cruise ships.

Likewise, despite the cruise companies coercing and blackmailing the tourism and business bodies to insist the local farmers markets are open when there is a ship in port, passengers cannot take any food product onto the ship. Those passengers who do go to the markets are incredibly apologetic that although they want to buy something they cannot.

Originally Posted by phild01

I can't imagine cruise ship passengers are strip searched for cruise ship contraband.

Not strip searched, bags and coat pockets are checked, like going to the footy or a concert, when boarding the boat.

Originally Posted by Bros

if they can't sell anything why bother.

100% correct Bros. Fortunately Covid saved the community markets by stopping the cruises. Cruises had completely buggered the markets because the local stallholders burned out and quit, and instead showies came over from the mainland to fill the market stalls and sell Chinese made trinkets to cruise passengers.

How are you guys going with the Kung Flu at the moment?
What are your experiences?
I'm nearly into my fourth week of it. Back to the Doc tomorrow. It is really pi55ing me off.

There's a Dr on YouTube that reckon it's here for at least 20 years but will be mild, just like catching a cold.
I think it's in this part .... sorry, skip to 18:40