RCM Meeting February 11th, 2020
President Warwick Cavell opened the meeting and invited the chair of the day to kick off the meeting with a toast to rotary international.
The chair of the day Paul Fowler reminded members of Rotary’s 4-way test and invited members to toast Rotary International.
Gerard Hogan entertained the congregation with a poem from John O’Brien as the members enjoyed their breakfast.
Announcements:
Russell Rolls reminded members about a working bee at DIK on 22 Feb 2020.
Alan Seale presented New Generation Service Exchange a vocational exchange program for 1 month - 6 months that RCM have supported in the past. The program has had exchanges with Rotary Club of Herzogenaurach, Bavaria Germany. The club has supported opera artist to participate in the Bayreuth young artist festival in Germany. RCM has built a relationship with Melbourne opera and has sought nominations of young artist for the exchange program. RCM will be pursuing this program in the future.
President’s announcements:
Warwick thanked to Roy for organising the club bbq and fellowship.
Informed members that the Board meetings using zoom has been going well.
Informed members about the Bare brass core meeting.
Speaker of the day was our very own Herb Greenwood. Herb’s presentation was about Rugby in China and SARS.
Herb was traveling around China when SARS hit. And described to the members the war footing at which the Chinese government was dealing with the pandemic. Herb drew similarities with the Corona virus and China’s reaction to that.
Suggested preventative methods are:
Avoid crowds - people showing no symptoms can be infected.
Sterilise everything - virus can last for up to 24 hours.
Wash your hands with soap thoroughly – at least 10-20 seconds with soap.
Takeaways:
Things you can get vaccinated for- Measles, Mumps, Rubella.
Things you can’t vaccinate against- Lies, Ignorance and Paranoia.
It took 3 years (2002-2005) for WHO to contain SARS.
Raffle winners- Warwick, Roger, Rajesh
Warwick closed meeting and thanked everyone.
