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[POWERZONE]

I'll pay that one

[Aloysius]

I'll pay that one

 

 

A sense of humour is a precious thing!!! :notworthy:

[Aloysius]

https://roadsafety.transport.nsw.gov.au/...-daily.pdf

 

NSW Road Toll Statistics: Up to and including 12 May 2020  -118

 

 

 

So in NSW fatalities on roads up to 12 May 2020 are 118

 

Corona Virus fatalities low 90's for same period for Australia.

 

Perspective required here!!!!!

 

 

Should we shut schools, close hospital beds, spend billions / week until the road toll "flattens out" ???

 

 

Or:

https://www.blackdoginstitute.org.au/res...australia/


These facts can be confronting, however, suicide can be prevented.

Current facts

• Every year:
  
• Over 65,000 Australians make a suicide attempt
  
• More than 3,000 Australians died by suicide in 2017 (1)
  
• Suicide is the leading cause of death for Australians between 15 and 44 years of age (2)
  
• Young Australians are more likely to take their own life than die in motor vehicle accidents
  
• In 2017, about 75% of people who died by suicide were males and 25% were females (1)
  
• In 2017, the suicide rate among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people was approximately twice that of non-Indigenous Australians (1)
  

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<p style="margin:12px 0px;">MAKES YOU THINK EH?

[POWERZONE]

Trouble is Aloy all the Corona Virus fatalities are in addition to the other deaths and it would've been higher without the lockdown.

 

Also it's entirely possible those lockdowns contributed to fewer deaths on the roads, workplaces and from other viruses such as flu etc.

 

Suicide can be prevented but only if it's treated seriously... like Corona Virus, but sadly it's not.

 

We could also have prevented deaths (and saved millions) by not going to war in Iraq or Afghanistan.

[Aloysius]

Geez guys,


That's the point lost on people who appear to be quite intelligent.


The response to a problem that kills less in australia than the road fatalities in a single state is massive compared to the response to road fatalities.


That is surely grounds for pondering our response to road deaths, or suicide?


Hello?

[POWERZONE]

Geez guys,


That's the point lost on people who appear to be quite intelligent.


The response to a problem that kills less in australia than the road fatalities in a single state is massive compared to the response to road fatalities.


That is surely grounds for pondering our response to road deaths, or suicide?


Hello?

 

Ok help us out here mate. Are you saying we're over responding to the virus or under responding to road deaths... or a bit of both ?

 

We HAVE been responding to road deaths. Think speed limits, demerit points, speed / red light cameras, breath/drug testing, seat belts, airbags, ABS brakes and other continual safety upgrades in cars and roads. All paid for by our exorbitant costs of compulsory rego and insurance. As a result Australia has halved its yearly road deaths since 1970 despite doubling its population.

 

However I'm curious about your plan to further lower our road deaths mate.

Do we close all the roads and pay for everyone to stay/work at home?

 

Make everyone wear a helmet ?

 

Make suicide illegal ?

 

Legislate against stupidity ? The only way you could possibly stop some mongrel doing 200kph on the freeway is to close the roads to everyone.

 

What's your plan ?

[Aloysius]

Definitly both - obviously and given the record!!!

 

 

You might say, as you sort of have, that the reduction in public alcohol intake has assisted in holding road fatalities. 

 

Don't ask me for a silver bullet, these issues are driven by public attitude more than anything else.

 

The perceived over response measured in the light of other responses has a lot to do with massive fears over something that has less than massive results - think data not emotion - less than 100 deaths in Aus - thank God or whoever you may be grateful to.

 

Read Google news and figure out how many articles are not directly related to Covid 19.

 

Read any news and count how many headlines are there about suicide, road fatality, domestic violence.......

 

 

We are told what we want to hear about - it's a problem we bring to the table - it's what we want or accept.

 

This post is not intended to be anything to do with politics - it's about us!

[POWERZONE]

Sure thing. But in your previous post you suggested there are grounds for an altered response to road deaths.

 

Is changing the extent of coverage in the media likely to do this ?

 

Google news was all over the Porsche driver and subsequent related dramatic events. We all then discussed it at length but I remember quite clearly at the time you said you were unaware of it because it happened in Melbourne.

 

Is this problem we bring to the table maybe a parochial one do you think ?

 

PS... Go the blues

[Aloysius]

Sure thing. But in your previous post you suggested there are grounds for an altered response to road deaths.

 

Is changing the extent of coverage in the media likely to do this ?

 

Google news was all over the Porsche driver and subsequent related dramatic events. We all then discussed it at length but I remember quite clearly at the time you said you were unaware of it because it happened in Melbourne.

 

Is this problem we bring to the table maybe a parochial one do you think ?




Well done Pz presumably you agree!

 
PS... Go the blues

[POWERZONE]

Well done Pz presumably you agree!

 
PS... Go the blues

I'll just quickly quote this random comment for nostalgia when the appropriate times comes

[POWERZONE]

I'm happy for him to remain standing if he wants to but I don't believe it has anything to do with Marxism.

 

Maybe he just needed to go to the swanny

[POWERZONE]

A gambler would probably use the same routine

[POWERZONE]

Nup. don't need it.

 

4G+ with 100mb download in a bunker 11 meters below ground is well beyond my needs.

[POWERZONE]

With great difficulty.

 

Unless you get one of these with a Telstra account.

 


  4g.jpeg (Size: 3.51 KB / Downloads: 24)

 

With Vodafone I was getting around 5mbs download, Optus around 10mbs - and they were achieved with the modem sitting upside down.

 

Telstra scored around 6mbs but when I put the modem on its side it shot up to 4G+ and over 100mbs off peak.

 

Obviously it had the closest tower and it must have been vertically polarised.

 

Twice as fast as my NBN - not bad from inside a Faraday cage 11 meters below the surface.

 

Chances are that might improve if punters switch to 5G.

 

 

 

[POWERZONE]

NBN is good for the low ping of 3ms which I'll probably need when I look at gaming later this year.

[POWERZONE]

I'm in Sydney - so the ping would be about 9 hours

[POWERZONE]

Precisely... all via port 80.

[POWERZONE]

Or Britain

[Aloysius]

I'll just quickly quote this random comment for nostalgia when the appropriate times comes

 

 

 

Did'na come laddie!!!

 

 

Go the maroons!!

[POWERZONE]

Ya'll know it was rigged right ?

 

The blues won it BIG !

 

 

Blues?? Er hang on..... :rundog:<em> </em>