2020.03.17 Stay At Home

Never waste the opportunity offered by a good crisis. - Machiavelli


Show Notes


Quote

"It's not the end of the earth. It's just the end of you" - Oswald Spengler

RIP

Everything

Irony is cancelled

SARS-CoV-2

What did we all panic shop for?

Ghost flights https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/10/coronavirus-some-airlines-are-running-near-empty-ghost-flights.html

Epidemic-driven invasions of the state into private rights

Self quarantine or jail

"Better safe than sorry" and risk tolerance

Thalassemia https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/000587.htm

Steam https://au.ign.com/articles/steam-concurrent-user-player-record-coronavirus?sf119176844=1

Things

Reduced size parliament

Stacks

Will Stacks use Coronavirus as marketing to argue they provide a salve for social distancing

Games (specifically excluding Chess)

  • Tokyo 2020 - serious doubt
  • WSL - postponed
  • Cricket - NSW named champions after
  • ATP - postponed indefinitely
  • WTA - postponed indefinitely
  • NBL - finals called off, champion to be determined
  • A League - competition continuing,no crowds, Wellington Phoenix based in FSC for the duration, no war chest, junior footy cancelled
  • NRL - competition continuing, no crowds, Warriors based on the GC, war chest
  • AFL - 17 round season, AFLW continuing, no crowds, WAFL, SANFL, NEAFL, NAB Cup, junior footy cancelled for the foreseeable, massive war chest
  • F1 - cancelled

War Crimes

fin


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