Australian Reports of the Virus Spread

[Pushka]

You still see this in 'the comments section'. Stop the flights from India. People don't seem to have realised that Delta has gone worldwide. Or they would just never consider banning travellers from the UK. (aside that Hong Kong has just done that very thing...banned anyone who has been in the UK for the past 21 days).

And the latest cases in SA came from Liberia. I usually post this on FB when people go on a racist rant.

 

[r21111]

The 2nd case in Brisbane was a covid ward receptionist worker who wasn't vaccinated, could well be a whole new leak.

AP is furious she wasn't vaccinated.

she may be furious but isn’t she responsible for managing health dept? did i hear right she wants to ban most international arrivals

 

[bcworld]

she may be furious but isn’t she responsible for managing health dept? did i hear right she wants to ban most international arrivals

Yes, all except compassionate cases.

 

[jakeseven7]

The 2nd case in Brisbane was a covid ward receptionist worker who wasn't vaccinated, could well be a whole new leak.

AP is furious she wasn't vaccinated.

As she should be. AP is clearly furious at her CHO. She’s spitting at her as they cross paths.

The QLD CHO through sloppy polices has now contributed to three QLD outbreaks - two at the covid wards because workers were not prioritised to be vaccinated and one by putting domestic HQ detainees (who really should not have been in there at all) in with international HQ detainees.

Oh well, only a few more months until the QLD CHO is moved on. Yes the virus is infectious but there have been some epically stupid decisions made up here.

 

[jakeseven7]

Yvette taking a ethnic swipe at Indians.
Needs to be pulled into line

Queensland authorities frustrated with international arrivals​

“In relation to international travel, can I say that we know about half of the people who are coming in on international flights are not Australian residents or citizens ,” Yvette D’Ath says.
“We also know many people are being allowed to leave Australia to go overseas and to return. That is (happening) frequently and some of our recent clusters, including the family who had gone to India, had been allowed to go over to India from another jurisdiction in Australia and returned via Brisbane and we saw transmission happening there.”

What a disaster of a press conference.

AP blaming NSW, Feds and unicorns for everything. Stuffing up the vaccine advice too - was she even at the national cabinet? Seriously....

Deputy Premier stuttering out incorrect facts didn’t even make sense. What was he even there for.

CHO clearly desperately deflecting blame that was directed to them by AP and blaming NSW as well.

Health Minister pumping out lines that sounded like we were back in 1940’s again... disgusting.

Very disappointing from our leadership and doesn’t really instill much confidence in being able to manage what is comparatively a tiny outbreak.

 

[Must...Fly!]

I suppose AP going to Tokyo for the Olympics will be considered absolutely essential travel though.

 

[dajop]

If you and others like you are finding pleasure for what the people of NSW are going through, then shame on you, Jon Faine and the other Victorians that you speculate share the view. Absolutely despicable.

I'm not taking pleasure in what NSW are going through, but it is some relief that this has been a bit of a wake up call for Australia. A wake up call the country desperately needed to shake the country out of its complacency. Before now, it seems (at least looking from the outside) COVID for the last twelve months (northern beaches not withstanding, but that was the one part of any of the five big cities where if you had to have an outbreak you would choose to, because of its ease of isolation) is something that is "their problem" , "their" being the rest of the world + Victoria. And within Australia, almost entirely caused by (one particular) government's incompetence, but now as I've been saying all along, we're seeing a lot of it is due to luck or bad luck what happens, not any specific actions of one particular government or group of people.

Many have been complaining for some time about the lack of urgency and lack of plan around vaccination. Victoria had an outbreak? Throw them a few extra Pfizer's. Now that it is really quite apparent that this can hit anyone, anywhere, it seems the nation has been jolted out of its complacency.

In the short term these NSW/WA/NT/QLD lockdowns will cause pain, but in the long term it might be exactly what boots the nation as a whole onto more decisive action to "come out from under the doona", and save the country and people from further pain down the track.

The Sydney outbreak itself has probably accelerated the vaccination timelines by several months. If it had not happened, I don't think we'd see the pressure to open up AZ to a larger group.

 

[HappyFlyerFamily]

I would be inclined not to fine the fully vaccinated. I would also suspect that many turned up not expecting the limit to be exceeded. However the host family should cop the maximum fine as clearly they would have known.

Agree with the logic to fine the host, but if there is a rule to fine attendees/guests then it should be one rule regardless of vaccination status. May get special vaccinated rules down the track but we’re not there yet.

 

[justinbrett]

I'm not taking pleasure in what NSW are going through

I would distance yourself from that article then, it has already been widely panned by many other journalists and I think you missed the spirit of how many others received the article

• Journalist Bridie Jabour led the pack, tweeting: “I truly thought Melbourne people wishing Covid on Sydney was just an insane thing relegated to hyper-partisan corners of Twitter in bizarre parasocial relationships with the premier.”
• Alex Hart - Rubbish. We are in a sick position when people in different states want people in other states to get infected to justify their own ideology. The state v state stuff is pathetic and frankly unAustralia
• What sort of lunatic not only desires a lockdown on a whole city but actually commits those mean spirited thoughts to print? Save your projections for your therapist I suggest
• This is not the time for interstate rivalry but for collaboration. #Covid is a shared enemy in more ways than one.
• I just want to make something *very* clear. Mock and criticise the governments and leaders. Go hard. I will be. But to say that our fellow Australians in NSW 'deserve' this, or that it 'serves them right' is contemptible.

I also heard the ABC refused to print an article he wrote on Dan Andrews.

I'll say it again, I find the article absolutely despicable

 

[antycbr]

I would distance yourself from that article then, it has already been widely panned by many other journalists and I think you missed the spirit of how many others received the article

• Journalist Bridie Jabour led the pack, tweeting: “I truly thought Melbourne people wishing Covid on Sydney was just an insane thing relegated to hyper-partisan corners of Twitter in bizarre parasocial relationships with the premier.”
• Alex Hart - Rubbish. We are in a sick position when people in different states want people in other states to get infected to justify their own ideology. The state v state stuff is pathetic and frankly unAustralia
• What sort of lunatic not only desires a lockdown on a whole city but actually commits those mean spirited thoughts to print? Save your projections for your therapist I suggest
• This is not the time for interstate rivalry but for collaboration. #Covid is a shared enemy in more ways than one.
• I just want to make something *very* clear. Mock and criticise the governments and leaders. Go hard. I will be. But to say that our fellow Australians in NSW 'deserve' this, or that it 'serves them right' is contemptible.

I also heard the ABC refused to print an article he wrote on Dan Andrews.

I'll say it again, I find the article absolutely despicable

Jon Faine is also a paid Victorian Government contractor and Vic Gov insisted that Faine do the interview. That's why the ABC spiked the article.
The article got buried in the SMH pretty quickly.

I think the outbreaks across the board might stop the state vs state comparisons. Raf Epstein's twitter posts are getting pulled from the Guardian as well.

Time for a national approach.

 

[kamchatsky]

Jon Faine is also a paid Victorian Government contractor and Vic Gov insisted that Faine do the interview. That's why the ABC spiked the article.
The article got buried in the SMH pretty quickly.

I think the outbreaks across the board might stop the state vs state comparisons. Raf Epstein's twitter posts are getting pulled from the Guardian as well.

Time for a national approach.

Only if the states lets it happen. I cannot see it happening.

 

[dajop]

Time for a national approach.

Agreed, the time for a national approach is well overdue. I do have a question is why is the call for a national approach so much stronger now than it was 3 weeks ago when Melbourne was in the middle of another lockdown?

 

[Must...Fly!]

Jon Faine is also a paid Victorian Government contractor and Vic Gov insisted that Faine do the interview. That's why the ABC spiked the article.
The article got buried in the SMH pretty quickly.

I think the outbreaks across the board might stop the state vs state comparisons. Raf Epstein's twitter posts are getting pulled from the Guardian as well.

Time for a national approach.

Beat me to it, he is a spokesperson for the government now and no article authored by him should meet editorial standards for publication.

 

[Denali]

I mentioned elsewhere that NSW has lockdown issues because I have coworker off getting his tyres replaced and another taking his kids go karting and then you read this.

People biting restaurant owners and bus loads of people travelling to the zoo - what is going on?

'I don't want to regret what I'm about to say': Berejiklian's bold COVID prediction as NSW records 19 new cases

Premier Gladys Berejiklian says she's hopeful NSW has avoided a "surge" in COVID-19 cases, after 19 new locally acquired infections were confirmed on day four of the state's lockdown.

www.abc.net.au

 

[antycbr]

Only if the states lets it happen. I cannot see it happening.

It might happen - 8 vs the Feds!

 

[bcworld]

0 new local cases in WA

https://twitter.com/x/status/1409713824861605894

 

[jakeseven7]

It might happen - 8 vs the Feds!

Well VIC and NSW teamed up to roll the Nat Cab last night. We only need a few more to do this. Apparently Dan and Gladys still very close.

 

[jase05]

Some porkies being told it seems. Starting to get found out

https://twitter.com/x/status/1409678496763236355

 

[Must...Fly!]

Some porkies being told it seems. Starting to get found out

https://twitter.com/x/status/1409678496763236355

I don't understand, why the (suppose) lies? Was it some kind of "other" party? Or was 30 the cap for household gatherings at the time?

 

[bcworld]

I don't understand, why the (suppose) lies? Was it some kind of "other" party? Or was 30 the cap for household gatherings at the time?

30 visitor cap to the household I think.