Hey guys
Most people are aware we are going to be in for a lockdown for the next 2 weeks.
I'm not going to be going into work. So what now?
Any suggestions would be great! Also feel free to post what you'll be doing during the lockdown and share your plans.
Eg. Cooking
Gaming (consoles, board games)
Any indoor activity
How much do you like your family?
I am envious of people who have enough time to be bore…. Actually not really, it must suck
I am envious of people who have a lot of spare time
WoW 9.1 Patch
is there flying in that patch?
Paint the bedroom
Clean the windows
Change the oil + filter on the car
Clean out the garage/shed
Put in a rainwater tank
Fix the gutters
Mend the fence
Take a break
Half of sydney rents so cant do some of this
“The starting point for a first home buyer is to get a good job that pays good money" - Joe Hockey, 2015.
Have a Kit-Kat?
Watch friendlyjordies on YouTube and wake up to the shocking police state you're living in! Dictator Dan has nothing on Bruz!
No catchy Nazi-esque name for Gladys yet?
C’mon One Neuron voters, think harder!
If we hadn't had the two weeks to flatten the curve over a year ago I'd never have known how to pronounce her last name. Repetition learning works.
Give it another year before I figure out how to get Gladys to rhyme with Hitler.
I've still got no idea how to pronounce her name lol I just call her Jickles
Gulag Gladys
Me likee!
Is that what the new ro3e skin is called
Glad the (co)vidfailure
She's still trying to wash off "koala killer"
Or maybe "in-love accomplice"
Koala Killer has always been the classic
How about the Delta Princess?
What, no mailbox every second day?
Nah you save that for the end of the week so it feels like a holiday away from the house.
Warzone
Home based fitness blitz? there are heaps of exercises you can do at home without any equipment. Could be combined with some outdoor exercise too, if you’re comfortable with it not being too crowded wherever you live.
Maybe some meditation too. It could be a well-being based lockdown.
Do you think I could wash my car in the driveway of my own home or would I get into trouble doing this ?
I don't see why you would get into trouble unless you did it during strict water restrictions; you're at home …
You will if you use your next door neighbours' tap
What about your next door neighbours bikini?
Edit: dw probably illegal for separate reason.
Get TRX suspension trainer and exercise at home.
What's the chances this will only be a 2 week lockdown..? The numbers didn't look so flash…(coming from someone in Melb)
Not that great
She lost control of it in the early stages and I think the price will be paid .
My conclusion is the press conferences of yesterday where the morning it was a no brainer to call a lockdown ( the day before she should have call it not half of Syd ) but still strived to keep Syd open even though clearly contact tracers were behind all the outbreaks .
6 weeks because not everyone going to follow the rules and the spread is way far further than contact tracers can handle .
It's weird looking on from a VIC where 1-3 cases is red alert. Apparently Sydney is much more segmented and the spread can be controlled a bit easier but I remember how hard it was/how long it took when we were getting 20-30 cases a day…
I don't think it's as segmented as some people think.
Something like half a million people work in the cbd. That's a lot of people from all parts of the city using public transport and mingling.
Segmentation is more in terms of socioeconomic cirlces (postcode elitism and such) rather than geographically.
@SummerZero: Sydney is much more insular and less social. Regions don’t interact with each other as much (insular peninsular or ‘the shire). We don’t ‘go places’ on public transport as much as melbournians do because its not as easy.
We usually stay in our locale because getting anywhere is a mission and PITA.
How long were Melbourne’s for?
2 weeks: 1st week 5 radius and 2nd week 10km radius. Believe it is 25km radius right now.
It was 3rd week 4 reasons removed, 25km limit. 4th week distance restrictions removed. 5th week (this week) more people allowed at houses and meeting up or whatever.
We can spend some time thanking glads for not going earlier on a 3 day short sharp lockdown.
Thats what happens when you’ve criticised others.
This is delta strain. Very different beast.
If you do a lockdown, I think you would need a "proper" one. Three days off (false hope), and then 'x' weeks back on would be too disruptive, especially mentally.
At least with one continuous timeline, gradually built up, may help to manage people's expectations of what's ahead, whilst communicating with them (not overloading with information), keeping them updated of progress or regress, and providing the "why". They're mentally prepped and tuned in so to speak. And can plan ahead.
I’m sure you we’re clear about the random ridiculous restrictions on some lga’s and those that travelled to those lga’s for work but not shopping and some people in lga’s could leave greater sydney and some couldn’t and was shellharbour included or wasn’t it. Guess what, most people had NFI what the non-lockdown lockdown rules were.
She backed herself into a corner criticising other states and had to be dragged kicking and screaming to do the right thing.
for work but not shopping
You realise the effect that a covid breakout has on consumer confidence, right?
The message may be enough to cut down shopper numbers voluntarily (as it has in the past, in Australia and elsewhere). And thus people opt to stay out of those LGAs. Who is stupid enough to want to travel to a disease hotspot? Not me, I ain't that stupid and I care about my health.
Work isn't leisure. That's why the employer has to pay the employee a sufficient amount to return to "operate" and "execute".
do the right thing
Since you're expert in epidemiology, financial and economic forecasting, behavioural science and economic psychology, and you know the Sydney populace so well, what is the right thing (in your opinion)?
@[Deactivated]: The right thing to do is to not play politics and give people a simple and clear public health order to follow. You need to make the instructions easy to adhere to or people just won’t follow them.
We saw the mess Hazzard got himself into by calling the limo driver a fool and then discovering it was his rules that were lacking. Still no apology.
It’s been clear from the outset that this mob has had a holier than thou attitude towards other states and when it came to the crunch to protect NSW citizens they have failed us because of their politicking.
@Vote for Pedro: Agreed, 85% of what you said. "Holier than thou"? All the states are guilty the same way. We're all working as one unit: Australia. I wish the premiers would stop talking about what other states are doing (or not doing) and, instead, focus on understanding the problem, the causal/contributory factors, potential solutions, and focusing on the "execution" with consideration to the dynamic nature of change and the long-term horizon. Some positivity about what's working and honesty about what's not, please.
In my view, any failures (to mitigate the seeding from "blooming" early enough, in any state) was due to lacklustre execution (including unclear communication or half-harsed implementation of instructions and rules) and contingency planning, not learning adequately from past mistakes, not understanding more deeply what people may be like. Not politicking per se. Any politicking is a distraction from the aforementioned points. Mistakes are made (ours and others) and/or limited understanding led to a misjudgement. Acknowledge it. Done. In the past. Now, what have we learned, and how to remedy and proceed?
Granted, this is the delta variant. So it kinda sucks.
I think the way NSW's lockdown turned out has been pretty smooth-sailing so far. Prevention of "covid blooming"? Not so much.
Every time I have a week off with nowhere to go I decide I’m going to deep clean my house and do loads of exercise and actually what I end up doing is sitting on the couch watching TV and eating. I’ve become an expert at it now.
Play June's Journey!
Cooking - try a different country dish via YouTube tutorial (* Google hub in kitchen) I made toum few days ago, ate with roasted chicken…..so satisfying.
Games - xbox ultimate game pass $1 for 3 months…..tons of games to play. PC or Xbox.
Indoor activity - drawing, painting, reading, build a Lego theme " Lockdown with delta variant, who is to blame"
Smart TV , Couch , Pillow, Bedsheet & lots of junk food
watch amazon adverts on here….
bitcoin mining and day trading
I have a trade buy Flight Centre and Webjet 10 mins in on Mon .
Bobs Your Uncle be the end of the day or 1 yrs time ( preferred play ) :)
Market should be up on monday. Lockdown = more stimulus = more money
Shop at ‘essential’ retailers like Athletes Foot, Rebel Sports, JB Hi-Fi and Harvey Norman 🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️
Or the bike shop.
Or Flower Power
Civilization 6.
You're welcome.
Lockdown is due to lift…. Just one more turn!!
Take advantage of the empty roads - ride your bicycle! If your bicycle sucks, get a better one! (or upgrade your current one - huge gains made putting good tyres on, for example)
+1 Also great to watch Tour de France on ch30 in HD for inspo! Amazing heli shots of European castles transports you to France
It is not really a lockdown if there is no enforcement.
Lockdown was a bit longer, so I had time to prepare/get supplies, but some things I did:
Lockdown is no longer in place down here, but I still get to work from home and not a huge fan of being around people, so I still keep doing much of the above, except the sourdough/kombucha. Next on my list is learning to be a better chess player and learning a new language.
Yeah I had that much shit that marketplace/ebay kept me busy on the side, threw out two bedrooms worth of crap in the shed, still couldn’t believe how much stuff we had when we moved
Day one, and you are already freaking out. It's only two weeks- two weeks!
Paint a room, clean the house, wash the car, why would you in "two weeks" consider some sort of Uni course.
Relax, relax, relax
Get a projector and watch movies on the big screen. Time to set up your home theater.
some of the stuff listed here feels like 2 weeks free time at home. But don't you guys have work? I will be working from home 9-5 Monday to Friday.
Yes
yes what?
There was only one question in your comment, which I answered yes to.
Now that I don't commute I have about an extra 10 useful hours in my week, that's not even taking into account all the delays due to disruptions. They're daylight hours too, which makes them particularly awesome. The other thing is many people fill their time with activities outside the home so now all that time is free time to do things at home, so that could potentially be another 10-20 hours per week at home for some people. For me in lockdown versus not, there's probably an extra 10 hours per week at home.
So for some people there could potentially be an extra 60+ hours to fill. Depends on pre-lockdown life.
netflix binge marathon is the obvious choice here
tons of games out there you could play (if you don't mind blocky graphics minecraft is the ULTIMATE time sink)
warzone
xbox game pass 3 month trial for $1
Get an oculus quest 2 and immerse yourself in a different world.
Walks
I thought you wrote wanks but yeah
More gaming time for me, but the best thing is having a good gym at home.
Will train most days and then go walking. Streets and park will be dead in my area. Win win.
how much can you bench bro?
My one lift record is 155kg. But generally I lift between 100-120kg.
impressive, how much do u weigh?
Watching friendlyjordies on YouTube, learning about the corruption and ineptitude of the NSW and Federal Governments.
Exercise - cycling / running / walking / swimming / surfing / ball sports
Having time to practice every day for 2 weeks would mean you would see drastic improvements (or enough time to learn anything reasonably well)
Drink up my Boozebud orders and then buy some more.
Do your free udemy course collection?
pray and become closer to God.
It is time to start that home business on the side which you've always thought about.
If you don't already have a massive backlog of games steam is having a sale right now. I smashed out about 5 games over the last melb 2 weeker
I don't understand when people say they don't know what to do when they have spare time at home. Are they that extraverted that all their hobbies are outside?
Art/craft
Fixing/renovating the house
Learn something new
Reading
Tv
Meditate, yoga
Exercise
Games
Cooking new dishes
Cleaning/ big tidying up
As someone who has recently come to accept I am a rather extroverted person, I've found reading has brought me a great deal of satisfaction this year. People just don't know where to start reading and generally always associate it with fiction.
Plan to finish projects and learn new hobbies.
Truth is you’ll watch the news all day, obsess over numbers and indulge in food and booze. You’ll watch a whole bunch of movies but nothing productive will get done.
Lego ucs falcon
You could become a covid compliance officer
Cause after shopping etc I am almost 100% certain they haven't invented this job in NSW yet.
Start all the arts and crafts I didn't touch from the first lockdown.
Going soon to be, gone fishing.
Netflix Binge
Waiting for a mate to get his copy of Mario Golf, so I can lay the smack down with my Slim Shady Mii armed with a Mushroom driver.
Steam summer sale is currently on, get yourself a couple of games for the pc :)
I mean it's 10 working days and a weekend and a half Will you really notice it that much?