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8 minutes ago, dreamercruise said:

In some countries, the fortune that you accumulate over your lifetime of honest hard work can be taken away overnight without any good reasons.  

I want to know which countries where that doesn't happen😂. 

6 hours ago, NSWP said:

What and where is this?

 

Busselton Jetty? 

Are we in the UK? 

2 hours ago, ontheweb said:

I think residents of Key West consider their home not only not part of Florida, but a nation onto itself.

It is the Conch Republic😆:

Conch Republic

I'm guessing somewhere in New Zealand? 

5 hours ago, NSWP said:

Some dickhead on Princess Board said...this is not Russia, you cannot be forced to have a vaccination.  I have news for you, stay home.

😆 Now that is funny. I guess no one told them Russia has the opposite problem, not enough people getting the jab. So maybe they should move to Russia😜. 

56 minutes ago, qbay46 said:

The Cathedral, Mt Buffalo National Park, VIC

Yep got it. All yours. 

If you go on the other boards there are some very angry people calling it a "human rights violations" 😳. I would love to see then try and take that to the UN😂

1 hour ago, Docker123 said:

Somewhere up Kosciusko?

A little more south. Not in NSW. 

3 hours ago, onlyslightlymad said:

Is it in the Lake District, UK?

Not the UK

Name this formation:

Muscat Oman?

26 minutes ago, qbay46 said:

Not,there go east a far distance

Israel?

Are we in Morocco?

On 3/22/2021 at 10:38 AM, NSWP said:

What about the rice? That is grown in paddy fields fertilized by humans,🚾      lol.

Hey it worked for the Japanese for centuries😄:

When People in Japan Got Rich Buying and Selling Poop

Garlos Pies had a staring role on The Amazing Race last night😄. They had to make pies at their factory, interesting to see how they were made and the judge was tough on them😉

2 minutes ago, Hlitner said:

We do generally agree.  But where I see a huge issue is this new idea, pushed by some healthcare experts, that we need a zero risk environment.  Until COVID most accepted the health risk that we considered part of life.  If a new standard is zero risk from COVID that will likely never be achieved....ever!  It is just like influenza which is never zero risk (we have been on cruises with flu outbreaks).  So if we all accept this new zero risk scenario then, what next?  Does every country stay locked down forever, borders closed forever, schools closed forever?  

 

When DW and I decided to spend our usual winter in Puerto Vallarta we were aware that the risk of COVID was increased when we went to Mexico.  After a lot of thought and discussion we decided that we would do our best, using common sense, to minimize our personal risk but we were not going to stop living our life because of COVID.  So we did go to Mexico (for 10 weeks), lived our life with some COVID mitigation strategies, and returned safely home.  All of our friends who are in Mexico are also doing quite fine and following their own COVID mitigation strategies.  All of us decided that the increased risk of living our normal life outweighed the "joy" and less risk of staying home for the winter.  Like just about everything we do in life it was a calculated risk.

 

Some "experts" now preach a strategy which says, if there is any risk you must say no.  That is not a world where I choose to live.  I accept that taking an unreasonable risk is not wise, but living a life with zero risk is true folly.

 

Hank

To be honest you sound like you are catastrophizing😳. I have not heard anyone in any country preaching zero risk but the reality the risk level is different around the world. Now America is doing great with vaccination rates so that might be colouring your view to what is happening in the rest of the world, but other countries are further behind. It seems right they might want to keep themselves closed of till their vacination levels are at least the level of the countries with the highest vaccination rates. The world is bigger than the USA and countries all have unique problems and circumstances they need to take into account. There is no one size fits all solution and to suggest because America is doing better every country should open up is a little arrogant.

1 hour ago, qbay46 said:

Lepenski Vir, Serbia

You need your own been everywhere song😆 For those who are curious is a mesolithic settlement on the Danube that they think spanned 9000-6000BC. Here some pics, a reconstruction of the hut and some artifacts they found:

2 hours ago, lyndarra said:

Konya, Turkey?

Not Turkey but your not too far away

Oh wow😮 I really didn't think my guess was right😂

Name this archaelogical site:

15 minutes ago, qbay46 said:

Where are we leaving from

Dubai?

19 minutes ago, qbay46 said:

Torghatten Rock on Torget island, Norway

Nice one🏆. It is fairly easy easy walk till the last 500m where you start scrambling over lose rocks but worth it for the view:

Cave entry and passage way in:

Glad we did it early in the morning though as the path was already getting hot as we were coming down.

20 minutes ago, SelectSys said:

Perhaps the previous admin was waiting on approval of another vaccine candidate? I see the current Admin is now shipping US purchased AstraZeneca vaccine to Canada and Mexico.  I guess the current admin decided not to wait to complete the trials and to go with the current vaccines.

https://www.npr.org/2021/03/19/979279426/biden-takes-first-jab-at-vaccine-diplomacy-sharing-doses-with-mexico-canada

While AstraZeneca's vaccine has been approved for use in many other countries, including Mexico and Canada, it still hasn't been given emergency use authorization by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. So, the White House announced it is working through the technicalities to loan 2.5 million doses to Mexico and 1.5 million doses to Canada from its stockpile of 7 million doses.

It is probably because they will expire before approval. Better to give them away than waste them. South Africa got batch with 15 April expiry, they say they may not be able to get it to everyone in time.

Name the place I'm taking this photo:

2 hours ago, Big Kev said:

Fakarava it IS  ....  AND THE WINNER IS    " ILIKEANSWERS "

We joined the Norwegian Jewel repo for its first Australian season  in 2017, which was a 39 night journey from Vancouver.   We had done many crossings with RCI, (each about 28 nights), but when we found this NCL itinerary, we had the pleasure of getting to see the Islands in the Tuamotu Islands Archipelago and the Marquesas Islands, as well as the usual suspects incl Samoa etc.  Highly recommend..

Over to you    ilikeanswers   - all yours..

 

Sue and Phil

We got lucky to see Fakarava on our Aranui cruise. The cruises before went to a different island but they changed it back to Fakarava for our sailing and I was so happy as that was an island I had wanted to visit🤗.