Foxy,

Your little mate, Chris Lewis, accused me of starting threads just to shoot down anyone who disagreed with me. I suppose I'm saying something similar about you, just that in your case, it's about attention seeking and talking about what you feel about something; I mean, nobody is going to just pop up and ask you what you remember about your mother, are they? So, you manufacture the occasion.

I note that only 7 posters took you up. Perhaps I am not the only one who believes that what they think of or remember about their mothers, or any other members of their families, is none of your business

Dear Chris,

I think we all found something we could share.
I am glad that I started this thread and that it
brought so many people together.

Well done everyone. We need more discussions that
unite us rather than divide us.

ttbn is the ultimate keyboard warrior. He even enjoys undermining a thread where he apparently has no interest but feels obliged to contribute in a negative way.

I would ignore him foxy.

For those of you young enough to still have a mother, Brad Hazzard had given instructions not to kiss her. If you don't know who Brad Hazzard is, he is the NSW health minister responsible the Ruby Princess fiasco that helped the spread of the China virus. So, perhaps you will ignore the advice of such a 'genius'.

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Dear ttbn,

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You wrote :

« … Brad Hazzard is … the NSW health minister responsible the Ruby Princess fiasco that helped the spread of the China virus. »
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You’re jumping the gun on that one, ttbn. NSW premier, Gladys Berejiklian, has set up a special commission to carry out a thorough criminal investigation of the fiasco and find out who was responsible for it.

The federal government made a key change to the information it seeks from cruise ships in light of the escalating scandal of the Ruby Princess.

The change is an apparent admission that insufficient detail was given on the health of passengers on board the ship, though who was responsible for the failure — the company or health authorities — is yet to be determined.

When the Ruby Princess docked on March 19 the ship was asked to answer “yes” or “no” to the question of whether any passengers or crew had:

Persistent coughing and difficulty breathing with no apparent cause and no history or similar symptoms (but not persistent coughing and difficulty breathing caused by asthma, heart disease, obesity, chronic bronchitis or emphysema).

The question was revised on March 25, to ask whether any passengers or crew had:

New coughing illness which developed in the past two weeks (but not caused by an existing chronic disease e.g. asthma, heart disease, obesity, chronic bronchitis or emphysema). Yes or No.

The Federal Department of Health explained the question was revised to “align” it with screening processes used for ill travellers on arrival, and to “address feedback from stakeholders” that the question as it was previously worded was not clear regarding reporting of COVID-19 symptoms.

A department spokesman explained : “The decision to change the wording of the question was supported by the chief human biosecurity officers in each state and territory,” (the chief human biosecurity officer at the federal level is the chief medical officer Brendan Murphy.)

Medical practitioners see the change as being too little, too late.

We shall just have to wait and see the results of the criminal investigation.

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G'day Foxy,

My wife, after hearing so many are out of work, wants to set up a 'pataka' (free food stall) outside our whare (house). Seems back in the day a Partaka outside ones whare when there was excess kai (food) was common. After the whanau (extended family) has been supplied with whatever you had, then it was seen as normal to leave extra in a small covered house made from bush outside near the road. Passerby's would simply help themselves. She said people never took to much, just what they could use. I told her we are more sophisticated in our society today, we have the local council and the cops to stop you from doing such things.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6uCSUoGvmY