Exciting!
And what a day. What a red letter, earth-shattering, monumental day that will be marked, forevermore, on the hearts of those who cherish professional surfing. For it is on this day, April 28, 2020, that major shifts, changes, alterations happened to all professional surfing tours but let’s not waste anymore time reading run-on sentences with incorrect punctuation and/or prepositional usage. Let’s individually, in our own safe, Coronavirus-free homes, watch World Surf League CEO Erik Logan deliver the news himself in his now iconic Manhattan Beach brogue.
What does it mean?
Oh, I have no idea as my expertise falls mostly in the field of sharks and what Kelly Slater wrote on Instagram, but, please, discuss, safely, amongst yourself.
Longtom has already been called for proper analysis later.
More, certainly, as the story develops.
I’m very grateful to still be employed. A lot of my friends are in trouble.
Read this: https://www.google.com/amp/…
Take your time. If you’re really struggling, the final par sums it up nicely, so just refer to that.
All Union Members in Hawaii are not essential workers; that statement is false. No one said essential workers are immune. And it is not true that our hospitals in Hawaii were or are being overrun; again, that is false. And I’m pretty sure the world governments are not using Covid-19 as an excuse to control their constituents. I think they’re trying to prevent their legacies being marred my mass casualties.
I take your point. I am one who is on the frontline, (postie), experiencing a higher workload as more people order online. And I guarantee you, the second the risk increases to a degree I am uncomfortable with, I’m out. However, it is about minimising the risk.
Seems like the choice is a hard one for a few months and then we can get back to normality or don’t worry about it and risk much greater consequences for a longer time. Who would be a politician, especially one who is a chasing the political wind?
It’s interesting what is considered essential and our respect for those who are. Apart from medicine, there are very few who are being paid commensurately to the risk they are under. Take teachers. Clearly schools are a vector for transmission, with examples of clusters widespread. Our government is offering incentives to schools based on them opening up to students. Guessing, even given the appreciation from parents enjoying home-schooling, the teachers won’t be getting a raise though.
Depression is insidious in many ways. Not least the impression it gives of time closing in/future shortening. It’s hard to see around that when there is no way to predict how long quarantine measures are in place. But that is the nature of this situation for the people actually making decisions. Either be tough and there won’t be much affect of the virus, or take the big risk in letting people take their own chances. Politically, it’s a Damoclean Sword. Once the decision is made to follow either path, the consequences are chosen.
Were I living in a country that had different quarantine guidelines, I would probably still lean towards isolation. But the guidelines are dictated by the indicators of transmission. If the indicators are ramping up, we get shut down further, if down, more ‘freedom’. Either way, we all bear some responsibility for looking after our fellow humans*. Physically and emotionally.
I’m grateful for the BG network of grumpy locals who give me the more than occasional laugh, even if I don’t always agree with all of their points view.
*Except for SUP-ers
Agreed
You may be right that the actual overall mortality rate is 0.5%, but you are not right in your comparison to the Flu. The flu is not aggressively tested for the same way as Covid-19 is so goes massively unreported. Most people won’t go to the doctor just for a flu. So, when you take into account all of the unreported cases of the flu, the mortality rate drops massively (just like for Covid-19 when you factor in your 20% assumption).
You need to compare statistics on a level playing field – and that level playing field is “confirmed cases”. Yes, the statistics of confirmed cases are wrong, but they are both wrong in the same way so can be compared (ie it’s like having a control sample in an experiment)
I have no idea where you”re getting your statistics from but the USA has an Influenza mortality rate of about 0.1%, not 2%.
I also have no idea where your 0.0000225% number for Cali comes from. I’m assuming you can’t possibly be stupid enough to simply have taken the California numbers and applied the same “20% of people have already had it” assumption to reach that number, so please explain how you worked that out?
Please, try to be better at life, or at least learn to verify information before further disseminating it.
Trump wouldn’t give em’ much hope….
If I lived in America with an orange barking clown as my leader, I’d lose all hope too!
Yaaaawwwwwn
i dont think anyone is ignoring the fact that the essential workers are still working. i think the broad consensus is that we dont want the virus to spread like wildfire, overwhelming our medical infrastructure/workers. the bottom line is that when push comes to shove, most people would choose life over money. what would you do if you were governor of california? would you open up the floodgates and let the good times roll?
C’mon, nothing like human sacrifice for dollars!
True, but only really for the title holder. Makes the remaining events redundant as who really gives a fuck about the fight for second place?
Second after all is just the first loser.
Jacking off to completion to this should be an olympic sport.
Wait, it’s not ?
Fuck I’ve been in training most of my life. This sucks !
I know hey. Fuck.
World Champion of Beating Off is a title Id like to wear
Sponsored by Catch Surf’s “Beater” model.
Yeah that guy can dish it but really can’t take it.
So what did the left ass cheek say to the right ass cheek?
If we stick together we can stop all this shit!!
“I feel like there’s a wedgie between us”
Oh I can take it.
I can take it reeeaaaal good, right up the arse. No lube required.
Sure, I can see how some could respect that.
It looks like everybody’s going to have to get a keyboard with an extra-strength asterisk key!
It also looks like Kelly’s going to be on tour for a couple more years – he must be rubbing his hands together!
By the way according to the Sydney Morning Herald this morning who covered this (it must’ve been a slow sports day) “an estimated 5 million people watched the final of Pipe last year”.
SMH is regularly FOS.
news.com.au more your style?
Manly Daily.
Awesome rag
You must be a hoot at parties.
https://youtu.be/2Gm9rxNxyDU
Yeah I read that article was actually a pretty good write up, if not one sided from the WSL’s perspective.
Derek will have to get his pal Fred Pawle to do a retort in the Australian.
Ke11 aint rubbing his hands together, he’s ducking cops, crossing borders with Machiavellian prince – (or King like as it were) – like impunity breaking da lawz, and sneezing on fellow CT’rs while hunting class Aussie waves. Bravo GOAT, bravo.
I had not heard of anyone tested positive till a mate told me yesterday 11 of his family in Austria got it!!!!! Fuck me – his dad 89 was 3 weeks in ICU touch and go but survived mum hospital too – rest family all recovered home – but weren’t even tested????? they all had the chills shakes and diarrhoea as main symptoms – so that was interesting and heavy!!
Who gives a fuck – when can we crowdfund for a beachgrit cruise ship??
Facemask’s optional.
Thinking we wont need as just rolling global party boat – all herd immunity
Well he could not very well do the illuminati hand sign he learned from Oprah!..That would have been too obvious!
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My mum had it and survived. Although her immune system is so compromised she is under advice to stay isolated until November in order to let it recover. While I respect your right to freedom of movement, I personally believe it is over-ridden by my mum’s continued pursuit of happiness.
See we are all connected.
How’d she get it?
Took a long planned trip to Tasmania from early to mid Feb. After a hike, returned to hotel and was having a soak in a spa with a lady who had just returned from Iran. It was a few of days before the news came out about Iran being a hot-spot. Got sick at home upon return.
Those spa stories rarely end well.
Glad she’s ok