Australian Reports of the Virus Spread

[jakeseven7]

This.

It’s not so much that most of Australia is “over lockdowns” it is that most have never had to experience a real lockdown of any significant duration.

I think it’s broader…. People even in states that have not had many lockdowns are over everything covid related; restrictions, snap border closures etc etc

It’s just a big fat ‘over covid and the government response it brings’.

The governments seem to feel this now and thus the massive focus on the vaccine ‘strollout’ and getting that done…

 

[bcworld]

Gladys: numbers will be higher tomorrow. Seems like focus has definitely moved out west (Fairfield, Liverpool, Canterbury-Bankstown).

 

[jakeseven7]

Watching Gladys' on live stream and loving the facial expressions on the sign language person, especially when Gladys spoke about Sydney people travelling to regional areas when they were not allowed to. She was not impressed

Yes… clearly also compliance has been an issue in Western and SW Sydney - unsurprisingly I guess…

 

[Lynda2475]

clearly also compliance has been an issue in Western and SW Sydney

South West Sydney LHD is the usual suspect for non compliance and always the lowest test rates for all outbreaks so far unfortunately.

 

[jase05]

Hard lockdown required, time for some tough love Gladys

 

[Denali]

Yes… clearly also compliance has been an issue in Western and SW Sydney - unsurprisingly I guess…

Ive been saying that the amount of people out and about blows my mind. People I know out shopping and taking kids go karting, my local Costco FB group seems to be in a competition doing daily shops. I just dont get it.

 

[jakeseven7]

Ive been saying that the amount of people out and about blows my mind. People I know out shopping and taking kids go karting, my local Costco FB group seems to be in a competition doing daily shops. I just dont get it.

People are tired….

I wonder also if all this talk about Delta being mild has people less worried?

 

[justinbrett]

Kerry Chant sounds very annoyed at NSW!

 

[bcworld]

Kerry Chant sounds very annoyed at NSW!

Yes...she has a very different tone today!

 

[Lynda2475]

Kerry Chant sounds very annoyed at South West Sydney (Fairfield, Liverpool and Canterbury Bankstown LGAs)

Corrected that for you

 

[jakeseven7]

Yes...she has a very different tone today!

Wouldn’t you be… clearly people are moving around far too much and the contact tracers are arriving too late to stop the next infection.

Police doubling presence in the W/SW LGA’s mentioned..

 

[lovetravellingoz]

Gladys: numbers will be higher tomorrow. Seems like focus has definitely moved out west (Fairfield, Liverpool, Canterbury-Bankstown).

Of note as the numbers announced are only till 8PM yesterday, is that they will already most likely know about XX positives since.

Given the unusually very strong language and tone of both Gladys and Dr Chant today the immediate term outlook does not sound at all good.

 

[justinbrett]

I wonder if mandatory masks for regional NSW will be lifted? The justification was to protect against Sydneysiders who had already left the city - but after 14 days that should not be the case. I guess they see masks as no impact but I can tell you a lot of people are working from home up here and most of the pubs and cafes are dead.

Newcastle got State of Origin next week, it will be interesting to see what restrictions they put on it. I assume even if masks are no longer mandatory in Newcastle they will be for the game (I think they did that for the A league last year).

 

[lovetravellingoz]

And on hospitalisations and that it is not just the elderly being hospitalised..

By Dannielle Maguire, ABC

Chant: COVID doesn't just hospitalise the elderly​

NSW Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant went through the hospitalisation rate for the state:

"Currently we have 37 COVID patients admitted to hospital and of these patients there are seven people in ICU, two of whom are ventilated.
"Now this is in the context where NSW Health also provides excellent home assessment and care.
"So the fact that 37 patients have been admitted to hospital should indicate to the community the fact that COVID, including the Delta strain, is not a mild disease.
"It can be mild in some but for many it can lead to hospitalisation and death.

"Fourteen of the 37 admitted to hospital — 14 people admitted to hospital at the moment are under the age of 55... which should dispel the myth that this is something that only impacts on the elderly.

"Of those, eight are under the age of 35.

"Again, dispelling that myth that it only leads to hospitalisation for the elderly.
"Of the seven people in ICU, one is in their 30s.
"A bit of a wake-up call to young people, one in their 50s, two in their 60s and three in their 70s."

 

[Lynda2475]

Costco

All located in South West or Western Sydney LHDs, best avoided for now.

Newcastle got State of Origin next week, it will be interesting to see what restrictions they put on it. I assume even if masks are no longer mandatory in Newcastle they will be for the game (I think they did that for the A league last year).

I think you can pretty much guarantee masks will be mandatory.

 

[justinbrett]

All located in South West or Western Sydney LHDs, best avoided for now.



I think you can pretty much guarantee masks will be mandatory.

Mandatory-Mandatory or Queensland-Mandatory?

(For State of Origin Game 2 in Brisbane, masks were only required once you entered the stadium and could be removed once you got to your seat).

 

[MooTime]

People are tired….

I wonder also if all this talk about Delta being mild has people less worried?

True, if this Delta was a real belter of fleeting spreading, wouldn't the numbers be in the 1000's now.
How did us in Vic close it down if it was so fleeting?

ah nonsense this fleeting, couldn't the old alpha strain remain live & spread via surfaces at one point? I emeber an add on TV showing how easy it is to spread from your hand onto surfaces etc (infra red type images)... have the vaccine uptake seen a big uptake in Syd over last 2 weeks? As it did in Melbourne during recent outbreak?

Maybe, just thinking alternate view, we have to just get used to now hundreds if not 1000's of cases...I mean we as a country gave it a decent old crack of covid zero, but it just seems too hard long term. Majority of ppl just can't be bothered with constant lockdowns, only to go back in lockdown at some later point again & again. Nothing changes. Business suffering, travel industry stanglehold ah I don't know.

Let's join other parts of the world & bubble away with semi low cases, just seems we have ground hog day/month.

 

[Denali]

Some of the reporters at the media conference are a bit aggressively snarky - giving me outraged mum and dads at the local P&C vibes.

 

[stryker]

Let's join other parts of the world & bubble away with semi low cases, just seems we have ground hog day/month.

You must be thinking of the UK.

Will be interesting to see how it pans out there (we should know within a month or two). We can then make decisions on the basis of some fact.

 

[jakeseven7]

Some of the reporters at the media conference are a bit aggressively snarky - giving me outraged mum and dads at the local P&C vibes.

Very aggressive to get their questions in, as they don’t take all questions in NSW they scream over the top of each other to get their questions in as well. Really annoying.