I am trying to work out how black marketeers plan on profiting from the theft of bread when it will be quite easy for bakers to play catch-up and also the thousands of local hot bread shops which tend to make a product that probably tastes better anyway.

I'm not sure I'd rate Bondi as the world's most famous beach. Australia's most famous, yes.

IMO this whole closing down thing has gone way overboard.

We have some dopes in 'the meeja' telling people to make sure that they have 14 days worth of food in the house. Any wonder there's shelf-stripping and hoarding?

If it's not the most famous, it's about to become so - whether that be for the right or wrong reasons, that's for someone else to determine. I'll stay out of that debate for a while at least.

I'm working in Bairnsdale at the moment and just witnessed a steady stream of people coming out of the supermarket with bundles of toilet paper.
The madness continues!!

Just shows that they need a lot to allow for having brains consisting of excrement.

The supermarkets said they'd enforce a 1 pack limit. Coles even has full page notices in the newspapers about it. So.... why isn't it happening?

Food at the shops today!
I shop over the border in Victoria.
Coles had plenty of meats and veggies.
The only thing I could not buy was Coke and Crap off. Those 2 shelves were empty.
Things were much more normal so to speak.

Pete

This kind of stuff is something that usually happens in Communist and Totalitarian dictatorships that we have all seen over the years and it's happening world-wide now. 😲

This is the Perfect Storm and it's unfolding before our eyes. It's The Spanish Flu, The Great Depression and WW II combined.

Vintage Pete, from what I'm hearing you'll have to go into 14-day confinement before shopping over the border again.

Hi Robbert.
Yes there is talk on the grape vine saying they are closing all borders.
There maybe some truth in it as the police have been Turing some cars around coming from Melbourne.
I hope not ,better shopping across the border.

At this stage it is only WA and SA that are closing borders. I am not sure exactly how that will be achieved, given that there's more than one way to cross state borders.

A bit like "Grapes of Wrath"

Schools will close down in the ACT from Tuesday and go online .
Bunnings and Hardly Normal may also have to close the doors in Victoria and nsw and only sell online .
Courier services stay as essential.
I just read that information on Google news.
I think it's well over due time to close the schools in NSW and victoria.
I worked for 7 years with teens who had Autism at a school and can tell you that a school is s bug breeding heaven .
While I was there I got everything from nits to tummy bugs whilst they were in my care .
No hygiene habits no matter how many times you tell them . Kids are just like that .

Pete

Tas, NT SA.WA are all closing their border.
Hmm we will.be next I imagine

Schools are also child minding centres for parents who have to work for a living. Closing every school -- especially for an indeterminate period -- would cause instant chaos.

So far, the 7 reported virus-associated deaths in Oz has been in the usual virus-prone demographic: 70 years and over. (78, 95, 82, 90, 77, 86, 81)

I think the approaching flu season, as is the case every year, will make those numbers pale in comparison.

I don't agree. 0ver 13000 are dead.
Over 800 just today in Italy.
The reports from Italy that many younger people are dead.
Although young children tend to not die with coronavirus they can carry it and spread it.
Which means in time the whole family will get it. This is not just killing older people .

School is not a minding facility for working parents ,They will have to change their work arrangements to suit the child . They are in the same situation as the many other people that loose their jobs due to coronavirus.
It's the same as I've had to change my jobs and life many times in the past for my children. Canberra would not of closed the schools without informed medical advice.
Many doctors are asking for schools to be closed
Pete