Ain't that the Truth !!!  I moved to Albury so I'm able to deal in old stuff from Victoria and be amongst it all and basically that has not been possible due to the virus and the Restrictions ,But it also goes deeper than that ,People who have stuff they want to sell or get rid of are not selling it  off at the moment because they don't want people coming to their homes who may or may not be carrying a bug , Ontop of that Garage sales ,markets are not on either . I lined up a deal to buy a lot of furniture down near Castlemaine and then the lockdown came into being and I couldn't go  there to pick it up so the deal was lost .It's a bit of a worry where all this is going to take us all that's for sure and if you were a fly on my wall you would hear me curse the chinese most days .. I did a couple of Runs to Melbourne but then the law started coming down on people who were not at home ,Plus the virus became much worse down there so its too risky to jeopardise your health so we are all in Limbo .Very sad indeed what happened to our planet ...
Pete

I am wondering if both Sydney and Melbourne will each run a mega auction/sale at the end of the year to make up for the lost opportunities due to the CCP virus.

What I feel may happen is after September the safety net for Renters , mortgages , utilities bills , stimulus , all ends at once and there are no jobs so people will start trying to sell , Problem is there will be very few people with cash to spend and selling stuff will be sold at a loss .....No jobs no cash 

I am wondering if both Sydney and Melbourne will each run a mega auction/sale at the end of the year

Good question. Melbourne operates from a catalogue; Sydney auctions whatever turns up on the day, usually with a limit of 5 items from each seller (with deceased estates being the usual exception to the limit).

You guys are going to like this:

I live in a suburb that does not have one active covid case. But because my suburb shares a postcode with a supposed hotspot suburb I am about to go in to lockdown in a bit over an hour for the next four weeks.

Now there is some method in this madness. Doing a lockdown by postcode rather than by suburb will make it much easier to police. There are four suburbs with defined boundaries that share my postcode.

We were doing pretty well dealing with the covid issue until some dodgy untrained, underpaid contract security guards at the quarantine hotels stuffed it all up.

Gosh M-Chrome ya can have that ! I'm over being in lock down , I know a guy down there in a hot spot ,He did a Runner and is in another state,, he was scared of getting it and is not well with other issues so he is extra worried .

Pete

That sounds like the state of pandemonium? Bit like the American Armageddon; "Arm a gedden outa here", but reality: No where to run: No where to hide.

That's where being on a Farm is handy Scomo says we are an essential service. Essential for tax revenue & to be cheated on our pensions etc. to save government money. However, one is not stuck in the house. If its not raining tomorrow, I go dig a channel to replace some failed underground Electric fence wire next door, & the closest warm blooded thing to me will be a horse, or a dog.

In reality it looks like it will rain until Monday.

Marc,. Yeah he seemed to very concerned, I only chat with him online,never met,but now the government has made it 11k fine or 6 months in gaol if they get caught over the border and they are from the hot spot.
Whether or not they enforce it I don't know.,but this guy left before that anyway.

Pete

I am at home with a cold that was onset through the night. I've just been for a Corona test and should have the results tomorrow if they have kept their promise. It's only a skinny cotton bud but it is a ghastly test. I am not looking forward to the days where I need to have an endoscopy every few years and will most likely just not do it unless the quack forces me. I gag quite easily so it wasn't a good sight having me splutter everywhere whilst the test was done.

Good luck Brad.

Taa. I doubt I have the CCP virus but there's probably a 1% chance of it, given what I just read in The Australian today.

“This morning our health staff found somebody with symptoms who had actually been tested in Victoria and then got on the train and came to Sydney,” he said.

“Now, that‘s about as silly as it gets.”

This was what was said by the NSW Minister for Health earlier today. It's hard to believe someone would be so stupid. I was given a leaflet by the hospital staff today and the last instruction in it is "Self isolate until your result is received". I would hope the Victorian equivalent would say something similar.

I would imagine that most passengers visit the loo on a 1,000km rail journey. This clown would have spread his germs to them after he'd broken his own seal.

Here's another one:-

A man has flown to Sydney from Melbourne while infected with coronavirus, before attending work at Woolworths in Balmain, Health Minister Brad Hazzard has revealed.

The supermarket on Darling Street has undergone a deep clean and 50 colleagues have gone into isolation, while they undertake further testing, after the infected man worked in the self service section of the store for two days on June 26 and June 27.

So far, in the last few weeks, the only CCP virus cases in NSW are returned travellers that have been forced into quarantine and tested. Well, aside from this idiot. What a hide he has. He should be punished in both states for breaking the isolation rules.

UPDATE: Some of the desperate measures some are going to in order to cross into NSW include going to a motor registry and changing address details on drivers licences so they can 'prove' they live outside the hotspots. VicRoads awoke to this, however, and it is now required that people visit a registry and show proof of the new address before the change will be allowed.

I was in Victoria today and most people believe its a second wave coming in Vic , I think,63 new cases today and 76 the day before and 70 the day before that !!! so its not looking good. I love Victoria and like the people too ,But the government down there is run by a D-Head who seems to think VIc is a separate entity from the rest of us ,,,,, Today they started tested a Vaccine in SA I heard ...

Pete

In The Australian it was reported that there were 77 new cases in VIC. This means that people with the virus are moving around and infecting others. This is possible without even getting the virus one's self just by hand contact alone. EG: If I shake the hand of someone with the virus and then shortly after, shake someone else's hand and then they scratch their nose, that person can pick up the virus but if I wash my hands before eating, scratching, coughing, etc, I may well not pick it up even though I re-transmitted it.

I think there are four labs in Australia in the race to develop a vaccine, which is a good thing. The CCP is about to force members of its military to test their own version of a vaccine, reportedly without putting the vaccine candidate through the proper testing procedures before human trials are supposed to begin and due to Brazil's links to Belt and Road, many Brazilian citizens will be asked to be guinea pigs too. This is the danger of Belt and Road - countries are losing their sovereignty over it and China is reminding countries that sign up for the goodies that if China snaps its fingers, they all jump.

Once a vaccine is on the market I'd be one of the first in line for an Australian vaccine. I wouldn't pour the Chinese version over a dead fish.

QUOTE: The CCP is about to force members of its military to test their own version of a vaccine,