Oh yeah. It will be Fortress Australia for real. I don’t anticipate us letting any non-citizens in for like one to two years, realistically. Also, there’s a ban on overseas travel out of Australia, with few exceptions. I’m not sure when that will be relaxed. Same sort of time frame I would think.
Ha! I shared this idea ITT like a month ago as one of the things we needed to be doing.
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btw it continues to be extremely plausible that Tasmania will eradicate the coronavirus completely. It also could well happen in the Northern Territory, but unlike Tasmania, none of you know what the hell that is.
In my state it’s still not impossible that we might also do it, but I’m pretty sure we’re a giant underdog.
I’ve found them. The dumbest people in the world.
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They’re dumb for not going to Male and getting a cheaper hotel. Your next couple months will be spent in a bizarre little city in the middle of the ocean. Enjoy.
dumber than average for not cancelling/postponing their honeymoon? Yes
Incredibly stupid? Seems like they don’t have any options for getting home
I mean they flew to the goddamn Maldives on March 22.
March 22.
And then
By Wednesday, they received notice that their country’s airports would all be closed by midnight Thursday. Flights back to South Africa are five hours to Doha, Qatar, a three-hour layover, and then nine hours to Johannesburg — so even if they scrambled, and even if they could get a flight, the complexities of leaving their remote island ensured they’d never make it home in time.
As much of the world rapidly ground to a halt, the few other guests still at the resort last week escaped to their respective countries. The last of them to leave, Americans, had to wrangle permission for a flight to Russia, before returning to the United States.
So everyone else on the island manged to make it home.
And then…how does this NY Times article happen? Did the intrepid reporter stumble across this scoop, pounding the pavement in, um, an isolated Maldives resort? Or did these fucking moron attention whores try (and succeed, thanks NYT) to get the Times to write about them? I’ll give you three guesses and the first two don’t count.
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The first thing I’d do if I was the SAs is to talk to management, and insist for the duration that everyone on the island, including themselves, (a) take shifts working, I’d volunteer to wash dishes, (b) have equal access to all the amenities and stock, including all staff, and (c ) everyone, including management and themselves, constitute a General Assembly for the island.
If they don’t agree, I’d then go directly to the staff.
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Even if they may not have made it home in time. Their odds of being able to get home from Doha - a major city with direct flights to South Africa - is far, far higher than being able to get home from a remote island. I’m pretty sure they didn’t go then since they didn’t want to cut their honeymoon short and thought things would just work out for them. The exact same thinking that caused them to go on their honeymoon in the first place.
Haven’t looked into this, but I’d bet it’s at least 50% odds that she is/trying to be an instagram blogger.
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50%?
Yeah by March 22 we were already like 5 years into this pandemic in relativistic time.
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I don’t think Western-splaining horizontalism to the natives of a former colony with a history that includes a caste system and demanding they do things your way is going to go over very well.
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Ex- LA Ram kicker RIP
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This is post #9983 and the timeline scroller thing is already starting to misbehave. Somebody better start that new thread soon. No pressure though. I’m sure everybody will be perfectly happy and accepting of whatever title gets chosen.
Of course. It’d be up to the staff, not the customers.
But I’d certainly bring it up. I’d certainly insist that the over-the-top hand-n-foot service shiz stop. And I’d certainly insist on washing some dishes.
I’m not all that familiar with the Maldives, but in many cultures in that part of the world it would be considered very rude and inappropriate for you to insist on anything like that.
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Weather is nice. I’d sleep outside. Maybe couch surf at locals houses cheap and I’d wash dishes too. After a while maybe I could bring up revolution.
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