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Elana Mitchell's avatar

Postponing until next year might enable the airlines to get their baggage handling under control again and you can risk travelling with checked baggage if needed.

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John Birmingham's avatar

Alan Joyce: You ask too much, cat woman!

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Elana Mitchell's avatar

Joyce is obviously a dog person. Figures 😾

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Currently known as Simon's avatar

Irish Setters. Dumbest dog on the planet but loveable and very pretty.

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Michael Barnes's avatar

Given the temperatures I've been experiencing in Plaguetown lately I have to ask, hasn't Canberra frozen over?

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dweeze's avatar

I read the headline and briefly had a ray of hope that some entity had cancelled the whole city of Canberra.

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John Birmingham's avatar

Lulz

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Damo's avatar

I dunno about elsewhere, but here in Canberra the general public seem to be unaware or unconcerned or both that we are having infection rates that are not dissimilar to lockdown times. I we are a mask any time I go out but hardly anyone else is.

But, having just been down to the Bay for a few days, much of a muchness there.

The real problem here, and probs everywhere, is that hospital staff are getting sick at high rates and so there are serious bed shortages - not because there physically aren't the beds, but there aren't the staff to operate them.

So your lack of comfort with coming was probably wise.

Hopefully things will be less awful by Conflux.

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John Birmingham's avatar

I think most people are just in deep denial. They want it to be over, but its not even close.

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