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Thanks Grammy! I'll be catching up on all of yesterday's writing that didn't get done because I was too furious.Good morning MJhave a lovely day and great job on your interview
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Thanks Grammy! I'll be catching up on all of yesterday's writing that didn't get done because I was too furious.Good morning MJhave a lovely day and great job on your interview
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Oh, I'm just too private for social media. Long ago when Dora was sick, I stumbled across advice on byc from which i realised she might have coccidiosis and that I should take her to a vet. That was my first appointment with Dr Mark. We got her over it and a few days later the foxes took all three hens. Fast forward to when I was over that shock and ready to start over, Janet and Mary were settled in and I had read so many byc articles in an attempt to do better than last time. Eventually I decided I needed to join up to do my best for them, so here I am. But this is the only social media I do because I have a sense of ownership of my data which I prefer doesn't find its way to the various AIs of the business world. So even being on byc compromises my values wrt data privacy but for 4 very good reasonsMJ, when I did my interview I was mindful of a number of things I didn't want to connect to my BYC profile. I suspect we have some similarities in our background, but don't want to discuss them publically. If you do, PM me. I met one of my favorite Aussies in Oct 2001, she was your director of mental health... Probably spelling it wrong but Beverly Raphael. She so reminded me of my Grandmother.
I may not be understanding what you have said here so if I have please forgive me.What has been reported is that he said he picked up a pizza from the pizza house which had the health officials thinking he caught it from the box, so anyone with a puzza from the same shop could've caught it too. When in fact he'd been working there in close contact with a security from the medi-hotel who also worked at the pizza place. They'd been working side by side for two weeks.
That's what we've all been told.
Why lie about working in a pizza house? My friends and I think maybe he wasn't officially employed at the pizza house, eg cash in hand instead of tax paying, and didn't want to be caught out.
Anyway there's a task force now combing through the relevant legislation to throw the book at him.
His lies have caused tens of millions of dollars loss to our local economy and countless other harms to ordinary peolle trying to do their best for everyone.
I feel the same way.Oh,
Oh, I'm just too private for social media. Long ago when Dora was sick, I stumbled across advice on byc from which i realised she might have coccidiosis and that I should take her to a vet. That was my first appointment with Dr Mark. We got her over it and a few days later the foxes took all three hens. Fast forward to when I was over that shock and ready to start over, Janet and Mary were settled in and I had read so many byc articles in an attempt to do better than last time. Eventually I decided I needed to join up to do my best for them, so here I am. But this is the only social media I do because I have a sense of ownership of my data which I prefer doesn't find its way to the various AIs of the business world. So even being on byc compromises my values wrt data privacy but for 4 very good reasons
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I must seem standoffish but that's because of the tensions between me trying to live my best life and the prized friendships that have formed here and what I know about personal data on the intertubes. So I'm constantly engaged in a balancing act, as we all are!
The identity of the man who lied is not publicly known and he hasn't been interviewed by the media. To my best knowledge he had been interviewed only by contact tracing health officials who eventually realised his story didn't make sense. Since then, he's probably been interviewed by the police too.I may not be understanding what you have said here so if I have please forgive me.
If what you assume is true, he must have been very frightened and chose what seemed to him to be the path that would cause the least trouble for him. Surely he could not have envisioned all the disruption this could cause because if he could, he would have fessed up immediately. I for one would like to see the interview to judge the competency of the person who interviewed him.
I get very concerned when the government is searching for something to charge someone with. If the law is not clear, pass one, don't invent one. The rules should be clear and we should all know them. No government agency or task force should be twisting the law in order to punish someone. That simply is another form of tyranny.
The consequences for lying to an investigator should clear and all should know them, they should not be invented on the spot. That is not how a just society works.
If the investigators could say, if you lie to me its five years in prison, who is going to lie to them. It sounds like that is not the case if they are combing the legislation to come up with something with which to charge him.
In case you can't tell, I am very passionate about wrongful prosecutions and overzealous prosecutors.
I feel this requires many photos and I seriously hope I offended no one.
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I read about it on the news here and I surmised the same that he must have been afraid to admit that he worked at the pizza place because he was working without authorization.The identity of the man who lied is not publicly known and he hasn't been interviewed by the media. To my best knowledge he had been interviewed only by contact tracing health officials who eventually realised his story didn't make sense. Since then, he's probably been interviewed by the police too.
My friends and I are surmising about his employment being unlawful because we can't think of any other reason for him to be untruthful in a contact tracing context. He was employed in a medihotel too, but a different one from the covid positive security guard who also worked the same pizza house. So he would've known the seriousness of the situation.
I'm sure there are clear laws already, but we never have problems like this so the task force is looking at existing legislation to see how if fits this man's wrong-doing. No one is inventing new crimes on the fly. Even if they wanted to, it's not possible given SA's bicameral system of government.
Perhaps the missing info is that this is a city of communities made up of people who really care about each other. So his identity is protected by officials and also by the rest of us who realise we need to not know his name if a semblance of justice is to unfold in due course.
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Another interesting point is that the police cheif didn't want to charge him with anything because he didn't want to frighten other people who may have lied into pushing their lies further.I may not be understanding what you have said here so if I have please forgive me.
If what you assume is true, he must have been very frightened and chose what seemed to him to be the path that would cause the least trouble for him. Surely he could not have envisioned all the disruption this could cause because if he could, he would have fessed up immediately. I for one would like to see the interview to judge the competency of the person who interviewed him.
I get very concerned when the government is searching for something to charge someone with. If the law is not clear, pass one, don't invent one. The rules should be clear and we should all know them. No government agency or task force should be twisting the law in order to punish someone. That simply is another form of tyranny.
The consequences for lying to an investigator should clear and all should know them, they should not be invented on the spot. That is not how a just society works.
If the investigators could say, if you lie to me its five years in prison, who is going to lie to them. It sounds like that is not the case if they are combing the legislation to come up with something with which to charge him.
In case you can't tell, I am very passionate about wrongful prosecutions and overzealous prosecutors.
I feel this requires many photos and I seriously hope I offended no one.
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It's not a big deal, lots of people do it, but the employer will get a fine.I read about it on the news here and I surmised the same that he must have been afraid to admit that he worked at the pizza place because he was working without authorization.
Clearly I misunderstood the situation. My apologies to all.It's not a big deal, lots of people do it, but the employer will get a fine.
It's possible the employer was threatening the employee.