COVID-19 updates comments and concerns

[Trent]

Any excuse to segway to Trump trouncing... Carry on.

The dude needs trouncing.

[Unicran]

The dude needs trouncing.

Needs to cut back on eating carrots. Perhaps carrots is the panacea to COVID-19.

[Ralph Wiggum]

Gotta love the protests to end the lockdown. Just waiting for natural selection to run its course....

[griffin]

I think Trump and his blind followers have earned the Darwin Award for 2020.
It just shows how little he cares about others, for sacrificing his republican voters just to target democrat states as part of his re-election strategy (encouraging them to go out in public in crowds to protest the life-saving lockdown measures, in the same week that had the biggest number of deaths the USA has had so far)... and those people who are protesting are too stupid to see that they are just being used for his own political and financial benefit.


My workplace has applied for the Jobkeeper program, and even though they haven't yet been accepted, they sent out emails to us workers yesterday to have us fill in a form if we want to participate, which suggests that they will close down our worksite as soon as they are accepted by the government (which would mean, no more money until the Jobkeeper payments start in about 6 weeks time (which is meant to backdate the payments to when you were laid off).
Obviously we would want the payments if the company isn't going to be paying us anymore, so why ask us if we want to be part of the program.
Ironically, I would expect businesses (and shops) would be allowed to go back to work by the end of May (as the virus numbers should have bottomed out by then), so we would end up being closed down for the next 4-5 weeks, only to be told we can go back to work just before the Jobkeeper payment starts.
I wonder - if the government say that we can relax our lockdown to let people go back to shopping and work before the end of May, would they still pay out the Jobkeeper money to people who were out of work for several weeks, but were back to work when the payments were to be sent out in about 6 weeks time.
I might have to do some reading up on this before I sign up to anything.

[1AZRAEL1]

When you see people shooting pictures of people they disagree with, you really have to question how low can people go and how stupid people really are.

[shockNwave]

Ah Trump, the guy who wouldn't let those pesky victims of 9/11 derail his interview* on that tragic day. So instead of cancelling the interview out of respect he went ahead and the closest he came to showing condolences was to express disappointment that the stock exchange had to be closed due to the attacks.

And now Trump wants to cut the WHO's funding because he see's the corona outbreak as a China vs. USA thing with WHO guilty of siding with China.

*Phone interview given to Alan Marcus (his former publicist).

[DELTAprime]

I can't wait to stop hearing about Trump. Just 8 more months, Just 8 more months.

[Unicran]

My workplace has applied for the Jobkeeper program, and even though they haven't yet been accepted, they sent out emails to us workers yesterday to have us fill in a form if we want to participate, which suggests that they will close down our worksite as soon as they are accepted by the government (which would mean, no more money until the Jobkeeper payments start in about 6 weeks time (which is meant to backdate the payments to when you were laid off).
Obviously we would want the payments if the company isn't going to be paying us anymore, so why ask us if we want to be part of the program.
Ironically, I would expect businesses (and shops) would be allowed to go back to work by the end of May (as the virus numbers should have bottomed out by then), so we would end up being closed down for the next 4-5 weeks, only to be told we can go back to work just before the Jobkeeper payment starts.
I wonder - if the government say that we can relax our lockdown to let people go back to shopping and work before the end of May, would they still pay out the Jobkeeper money to people who were out of work for several weeks, but were back to work when the payments were to be sent out in about 6 weeks time.
I might have to do some reading up on this before I sign up to anything.

Sorry to hear this griffin. Here is the government link.
https://treasury.gov.au/coronavirus/jobkeeper

From the fact sheet.

EMPLOYEE OBLIGATIONS
Employees will receive a notification from their employer that they are receiving the JobKeeper Payment.
To be eligible, an employee must then complete a nomination form that indicates they meet the eligibility
criteria and agree to a claim by the employer. Employees with more than one employer must only
nominate with their primary employer, and a permanent employee can only nominate with their
permanent employer (even if they have another long-term casual job).