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Its sad that you enjoying seeing a major tourism sector employer going down like this. Right now over 85000 people have been put out of work in creative industry, Tourism is yet to get thier final figure, but that will be in the half a million range in the coming weeks. I don't care that you hate Dreamworld, but I do care that your enjoying the fact the a lot of people will be out of work that feeds their family. Grow up!

Mate, we already have treatment for mental health, and there are many examples of financial assistance being provided with more rumoured to be on the way. There's no treatment currently for this virus. So let's contain it until we know more about it, hey? Everyone is feeling this in some way right now. Allowances are going to be made. As callous as it is to say, if someone can't weather a 2 week out of work period, they've probably over-extended themselves. And if it goes beyond two weeks, then its obviously more serious than a fucking flu, isn't it?

Yeah forgot ardent were the ones eating bats...

In less than 48-hours over $47 million worth of lost income has been reported by small-to-medium businesses and independent contractors who have had jobs cancelled across the creative industries, and this number is only set to grow. 10,000 gigs cancelled 84,000 people impacted and growing quicly.... not a convenient excuse... its the truth Data collated from Australian Festival Association for reference.

ok.

For those who still think this is no different to the flu - https://www.bodyandsoul.com.au/health/health-news/covid19-vs-the-flu-whats-the-difference/news-story/63ca94a2ad90f19cc036eddea0607265 There are some statistics in here - Flu mortality is listed as 0.1% vs. Covid 3.5%. Transmission rates are also listed for Flu (1.3 people infected for each infected person) vs Covid (stated as "double" the flu, but could be anywhere between 2-3 - so i've used 2.6). To make it a little easier to see, i've coloured the first death in yellow. It takes 5 transmission steps for corona to kill. It takes 28 steps for the flu. The current dashboard puts the number of confirmed cases at 153,648 and the number of deaths at 5746 - but we also know that the confirmed cases is inaccurate because it doesn't count those who are awaiting test results or haven't been tested. The deaths however are a better indicator because they're usually reported a lot quicker. That puts us somewhere in the middle of step 13 or 14. We're only halfway through the steps it requires for the flu to get its first kill and there's already close to 6000 dead. If you think corona is no worse than the flu, you need to read more.

Some more pics from the park:

VRTP have silently updated their operating hours on their individual park sites from Wednesday. Parks are now operating until MW 4:00pm PC/WNW 3:30pm SW 3:00pm

Suicide isn’t a virus though, completely different circumstances.

You are saying ardent has caused this substantial drop in share price? Everyone knows that if it wasn’t for Corona Virus, the share price would be at a higher value than it is now. So blaming ardent for ‘letting this happen’ doesn’t make sense to me. And before you say ‘the park has X,Y and Z problems’, yes it does but management (Ardent) have made the effort to change for a while now.

Oh look, i've no doubt there are many industries that are legitimately hurting. One of my friends owns a food truck. His bookings for the next 6 months have just been completely canned, and there are big question marks over the deposits paid to some of these venues, and whether those venues will issue refunds of the "non-refundable" deposits. So I get it. There are legitimate industries in pain. But there will also be the cop outs. Like the events advertised with 4 weeks until date of event, that expect to sell out in 2 weeks, and don't, at venues that say the state government health advice means they can continue trading. Like citing the collapse of a major airline, a coronavirus, and terrorist attacks for the collapse of a poorly managed theme park that was showing signs of that poor management well before any of those events occurred. This outbreak will devastate many industries. It will also provide scapegoats to many others that find it a convenient excuse. It is both.

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Yay statistics

This cancellation is purely based on Caronavirus. Compare this to every other event that has had poor ticket sales in the last month and cancellations. With almost 100% of all major events across the country now cancelled or about to cancel, this is a safe bet as to the reason. The last one 12 months ago had great ticket sales, so did Winterfest and Happy Halloween. I do believe when they first announcedIllusions, they did have good ticket sales for the first few days until the news cycle aped up with the Caronavirus details. This virus has killed the events and arts industry already in the last 72 hrs.

Thanks Yaark, though they need to be uploaded at full res via the link on the attraction page: If its just a photo of an area of the park without a ride, use the link on the main park page: If the photo is a bit dark or tilted, don't be afraid to correct prior to upload. Updated list. Fully 6 and Sky Voyager seem like easy ones. People got photos outside these for months, yet none of the finished product lol?

When I last checked JQ were only offering that for international, but it now has been extended to all bookings so I might just take the voucher.

Oh my fuck the stupid. At present, testing is by referral. You need a referral from a GP to get tested, and GP consults can be done over the phone \ facetime bulk billed by medicare. I've already discussed this, so I won't dwell the point - Covid spreads faster than the flu. It remains undetected longer than the flu. We have no mitigating strategies. We're seeing exponential growth in the number of infections, and the number of deaths, mainly due to the stupid actions of those countries who haven't locked down. Those who aren't seeing large spikes are countries that already lived through epidemics like SARS, and learned from it - singapore, thailand, etc. The only reason we're so far seeing such low numbers is because we're an island nation and we're able to more tightly control our borders. But Australia today is where Italy was 2-3 weeks ago. And they didn't lock down. and now their health system is overwhelmed. Don't be so fucking selfish. They should follow the lead of the market leaders and fucking close down. Precisely. Yeah, you said that already. Less people are going to get sick at once if less people are exposed to it. #flattenthecurve Many parks that have closed have flagged an open date, and then revised it based on latest advice. I think closing for two weeks now would be a good start. I'm pretty sure they all did.

At least they've practiced it before.

I have a customer who regularly comes in that works at the port of Brisbane, and has been saying that he hasn't worked in 2 weeks because containers just aren't coming in (im assuming he didn't mean not coming in altogether, but at a less frequent rate). So yeah either more quarantine or just nothing coming from china is believable imo.

Went to Funfields today. The park was extremely quiet (top temp was 19 deg combined with COVID-19 hysteria). Every attraction was walk on and most of the time we were allowed to stay on the ride for multiple cycles. Even got 5 or 6 runs on the toboggan without having to use the brake at all. Generally you encounter a slow kart in front of you. The Tiki boats are normally a 3 minute cycle. We were on them for at least 20 minutes without anyone else queueing for the ride. The only ride we had to wait for was the go karts. Although we only had to wait 2 cycles. I took some photos of the new rides and attractions previously requested in this thread: Some attractions have received updates to their theming as well: Photos were just taken on my phone, so apologies if quality isn't great

@Original Everything you said is wrong and people reading what you said will become stupid.

It's not just the flu though. This doesn't have a vaccine, nor does it have treatments like Tamiflu. So the flu has things that mitigate its potential impacts. This doesn't have those backstops, so it has the potential to overwhelm the healthcare system if allowed to spread quickly, which causes indirect deaths because people with all your regular illnesses and injuries can't get access for proper treatment. It's one of those Y2K bug situations. If we take measures to slow its spread, and we avert a spike, then people will say those measures were over the top because it was a fizzer.

I am being logical, the negative consequences are massive. Since when has a government package ever been enough in times of financial crisis? Again, I didn't say, not act, I just said don't go to the over the top extremes they are now. Look at the end of the day you'll never change my opinion that the world has gone mad, and the hysteria is being pushed to the extreme and that this is actually doing us more harm than good and is leading us in the end to a higher death toll than we could end up with. Obviously you'll never change your opinion that this is the right thing to do, be damed of the other consequences, even if they end up having a more negative impact on you in the future than this virus had. So, I'm just going to leave it there, and at the end of this, however long from now, one of us get to say "I was right".

Events have to be canceled to prevent it spreading, what do you want them to do. Not act and let it spread so businesses can continue operating? Than we have hospitals packed with sick patients, people dying everywhere, lack of resources to support society. You aren’t being logical, sometimes negative consequences stem from preventative measures, but that’s life. The government have rolled out a package for smaller business to continue. Whether you think it is sufficient is up to you. But you can’t get angry that a park like Disneyland closed when so many people gather there in tight spaces.

And when the death toll is higher from people committing suicide from an up the shit economy over the death toll from Corona? But hey at least you guys feel safe right now.

You couldn't be further from the truth if you tried @Pyro. I hate seeing DW like this and maybe your disgust should be pointed at Ardent who caused this.