COVID-19 Virus.

[Marty_d]

I can imagine that boosters will be an ongoing thing, get your top up every 6 / 5 / 4 months (which will depend on the medical evidence coming in).

 

[nomadpete]

Delta is still out there, but Omicron is spreading so much faster that it is now the most likely to be caught.

 

My view on it is -

 

Although Omicron is so very 'catchable', it is causing far less hospitalisations. It is expected that sooner or later pretty much everybody is going to catch some varient or another. So my take on it is the 'experts' have decided that it is best to let us all catch this one. So they are encouraging us all to go out and socialise and catch it now. Combined with vacination, giving us strong herd immunity asap, from a gentler sickness. The next variant might be more deadly.

Edited December 23, 2021 by nomadpete

[old man emu]

4 hours ago, Yenn said:

I shall have to do some research if OME doesn't beat me to it.

I'll have to ask you to do that. I've got to get back to the kitchen and make another batch of mince pies for Christmas dinner.

[nomadpete]

Aaaah, it's nice to make a feast to celebrate the festive season.

[nomadpete]

Or our midsummer festive season.

[Yenn]

I can see you now slaving over a hot stove. Hope yours are as good as the ones my wife has been making for 65 plus years. How do you go with Shortbread?

It seems that the Spanish flu was just about over in a couple of years. The current flu is nowhere finished, but then there are so many more of us and flu is a disease that thrives on big populations.

[old man emu]

Not much feasting and merry-making on this emu's nest. Just got back from seeing the wife in hospital. She won't be seeing in the New Year. She has an infection that is running riot through her body. The worst of it is that she is suffering now from delirium. One never knows if she is in the same reality as the rest of us.

[Jerry_Atrick]

Ahhh F@ck! Really sorry to hear that, OME.. Both of you are in our thoughts.. wish there was more we could do or offer...

 

 

[nomadpete]

OME, I feel your stress.

To see your other half losing their connection with normality is the utlimate distress.

 

Hang in there.

[willedoo]

It looks like government policy is now herd immunity. It had to happen sometime, so let's hope it weakens the virus strains to the point where we can get back to some normality. After opening the border, Queensland has gone from virtually zero cases to daily numbers in the thousands in just three weeks. The state government has basically said you're 80% double vaxxed so you're on your own now, good luck. Hopefully Western Australia will have that bit of breathing space to get better prepared for the onslaught of covid heading their way.

 

The government is funding ten free RAT tests over a period of three months for concession card holders. I don't yet know whether you can go to the chemist and get ten kits in one go or whether you can only get one at a time, with a limit of ten per three months.

[nomadpete]

No, don't bother going to your local chemist, expecting to get any RAT test package. They probably don't have enough to even test their own staff.

Thanks SFM. You are telling us to go and get a free RAT when there are none available in the shops. Great preparation? Our governments all claimed that we are all prepared for the covid to go rampant but the testing and the hospitals are already over-run, they have stopped counting cases (testing is now meaningless), and it has only just begun to ramp up.

Edited January 5, 2022 by nomadpete

[onetrack]

You wouldn't allow any politician to operate a lolly right outside a girls school, because they'd go broke in 5 mins, such is their lack of organisational and business skills.

 

You must always remember that Parliament is the equivalent of a sheltered workshop, with highly overpaid employees, where no-one can be sacked for incompetence.

 

Edited January 5, 2022 by onetrack

[Marty_d]

1 hour ago, nomadpete said:

No, don't bother going to your local chemist, expecting to get any RAT test package. They probably don't have enough to even test their own staff.

 

Some idiot put on their website that the pharmacy my wife works at had RAT's when they didn't.  Consequently they were fielding calls all day.

[Jerry_Atrick]

2 hours ago, onetrack said:

You wouldn't allow any politician to operate a lolly right outside a girls school, because they'd go broke in 5 mins, such is their lack of organisational and business skills.

 

You must always remember that Parliament is the equivalent of a sheltered workshop, with highly overpaid employees, where no-one can be sacked for incompetence.

 

While there is an opportunity every election, few exercise it.. Despite the potential relative improvement the other one may bring (or not, as the case may be)_.

 

@nomadpete- were you speaking to this guy today?

 

[onetrack]

Meant to write "lolly shop", but my proof-reading skills are obviously substandard today. But I guess you all knew what I meant to write.

[willedoo]

The press never give up. They're making a big deal of the one million cases recorded in the U.S. in one day, with headlines like 'United States clocks up shocking million daily Covid cases'. If you apply that as a percentage of population, that figure would translate to approximately 75,000 cases per day in Australia. We're not too far off 60,000 per day now, and if you added the positive RAT tests not registered and cases not tested, we would easily hit our 75,000.

 

So where's our 'shocking' headlines? Nothing to see here, move along.

[red750]

Stats reports all say "and X number died with Covid", not from Covid.

 

When someone with tinnitus slams their car into a tree, they don't say "... died with tinnitus."

[facthunter]

Not your most convincing post, Red.  Nev

[willedoo]

Looking at the stats from a country like Ukraine would indicate vaccination to be effective. Double vaxxed rate there is only 30% of population. Out of a population of 44 million, they've had 96,000 deaths. Currently only 4,500 cases per day, but 1,300 hospitalizations per day and 270 deaths per day. That's one in three cases ending up in hospital.

[Yenn]

Where can we get info that doesn't have a private agenda. most of what i see seems to be slanted one way or another to match what the informant wants us to believe.

Today in The Australian they had a list of the most seriously affected countries, which was fairly accurate, except they left out Brazil and Peru. That makes an absolute mockery of their figures as they are up there worse than USA and the UK.

As it goes on we seem to be getting less and less information and more bullshit.

[red750]

My son is working from home again because he is on the early shift and they have the choice. He said today he is glad he is not in the office - 13 staff have tested positive. Our family room is a defacto call centre.

[willedoo]

Went out today and some people are still using the check in app. I thought the government had stopped contact tracing now that we are on 10,000+ cases per day in Queensland. I don't think they're publishing exposure sites any more.

 

To get into the hospital today, you had to show vaccination proof, proof of check in, and they were handing out paper surgical type masks as they are not allowing entry with cloth masks.

 

Same old mixed messaging as well. The Premier is telling anyone elderly to stay home and don't go out if possible over the next six weeks. Another character is telling people not to hoard food, but to buy only what you need. But to stay home for six weeks, you need to hoard six weeks worth of food. Same old thing.

Edited January 7, 2022 by willedoo

[nomadpete]

[red750]

[spacesailor]

Thats a bit on the nose !.

BUT

 At least  NOW, our rivers are CLEANER, than the days of old !.

AND

We lo longer BURN the cities to cleansed that stench.. 

spacesailor