Australian Reports of the Virus Spread

[jakeseven7]

I prefer Nyunggai Warren Mundine's take on it in the Australian today:
Australians are like kids on a long car ride repeatedly asking when they’ll get there, with Mum fibbing it will be soon to tide them over until the next stop. I’m tired of being treated like a child; tired of rule by highly paid bureaucrats and their complex, contradictory and sometimes absurd edicts.

I think the NSW situation is going to be interesting to watch purely because they have broken away from the crutch of ‘as guided by health advice’ so whatever happens they don’t have that to fall back onto as an excuse.

I think it is the right thing to do to move away from being directed by NSW Health and Dr Chant to just taking their advice as a part of a mix of others.

 

[Lynda2475]

move away from being directed by NSW Health and Dr Chant to just taking their advice as a part of a mix of others.

I think you'll find there was plenty of decisions made disregarding NSW Health and Dr Chant over the last 10 months, its always been a balancing act in NSW.

I actually like Dr Chant she has never come across as loopy like Young and Spurrier, but if hospitals arent ready now after 2 years, they never will be. And if you are over 16 and not fully jabbed yet you are not trying hard enough.

 

[Carrots]

Her answer to everything is rapid antigen tests regardless of the question.

"So Mary-Louise, how do you think Australia should repair its relationship with France?"

-"Rapid Antigen Tests"

Clearly she has never watched My Big Fat Greek Wedding, because the real answer (every time) should be "Windex".

 

[Pushka]

Mary Louise McLockdown is the one that chills my soul, absolutely one that would press the big red button that says "lock all australians doors and windows" if she had it.

Raina sends chills down mine. Haven't heard from her since late last year when she predicted thousands of cases per day in January.

 

[Lynda2475]

Mary Louise McLockdown is the one that chills my soul, absolutely one that would press the big red button that says "lock all australians doors and windows" if she had it.

Yep she is the worst, i change the channel if they are about to cut to her. She is obviously relishing all the extra $ for sound bites.

 

[N860CR]

Mary Louise McLockdown is the one that chills my soul, absolutely one that would press the big red button that says "lock all australians doors and windows" if she had it.

Took me a minute to figure out who that was, but yes she’s off the chart insane. It’s borderline irresponsible for ABC to keep rolling her out.

 

[Princess Fiona]

@Princess Fiona can you please point me to the site that publishes the above image. I need to send it a couple of fear mongering friends.

It’s one of the Drs on my Facebook group.
She has given permission for it to be shared but it’s not on a website.

EDIT: the NSW surveillance reports give that data but in a different format. I’ll try to dig it out later.

 

[antycbr]

Interesting opinion piece in the Sydney Morning Herald... co authored by Tim Soutphommasane, a former Race Discrimination Commissioner.

Left behind: progressives need to catch up with Perrottet and stop being so afraid of freedom

The left risks being marooned in the pre-vaccine world of 2020, still criticising Liberal political leaders for exposing Australians to COVID rather than offering their own alternative. There is no optimism, no energy, no hope.

www.smh.com.au

Basically saying that the left of the spectrum have become too addicted to lockdowns and are afraid of freedom.

I had lockdown described to me as "middle class people stay at home while working class people bring them things and take all the risks" and that seems to be entirely borne out by where the spread is.

 

[jrfsp]

I had lockdown described to me as "middle class people stay at home while working class people bring them things and take all the risks" and that seems to be entirely borne out by where the spread is.

I agree here, but even post lockdown that wont change in fact it might even get worse.

 

[N860CR]

I had lockdown described to me as "middle class people stay at home while working class people bring them things and take all the risks" and that seems to be entirely borne out by where the spread is.

Spot on. I’ve seen plenty of it in my suburb. People who can afford to stay home indefinitely in their 4 million dollar Annandale home whining on Facebook about people “just doing the wrong thing”. Whereas they’ll then complain that their Ubereats from Sokyu has taken 45 mins. Can’t imagine too many of my neighbors are delivering Maccas in their Q7s

 

[MARTINE]

Spot on. I’ve seen plenty of it in my suburb. People who can afford to stay home indefinitely in their 4 million dollar Annandale home whining on Facebook about people “just doing the wrong thing”. Whereas they’ll then complain that their Ubereats from Sokyu has taken 45 mins. Can’t imagine too many of my neighbors are delivering Maccas in their Q7s

What is a Q7s - sorry I have not heard this term(forgive my ignorance)..

 

[N860CR]

What is a Q7s - sorry I have not heard this term(forgive my ignorance)..

Sorry, Audi Q7. Bit of a running joke in my circle… they seem to attract a certain type (apologies to anyone who drives a Q7 who I’m unfairly maligning)

 

[MARTINE]

Sorry, Audi Q7. Bit of a running joke in my circle… they seem to attract a certain type (apologies to anyone who drives a Q7 who I’m unfairly maligning)

.. and I dont !

 

[zenyattamondatta]

I had lockdown described to me as "middle class people stay at home while working class people bring them things and take all the risks"

A fellow columnist, Matthew Parris, quotes an imperishable account of the lockdown by a Times reader: “middle class people hiding and working class people bringing them things”. No wonder that some in the first tribe romanticise what has been the definition of a necessary evil. I keep thinking of Robert Duvall in Apocalypse Now. “Some day,” he tells his men, inconsolably, “this war’s gonna end.”

The lockdown epiphany that wasn’t

I seem to be rare in my class in not looking at the world anew

www.ft.com

 

[drron]

More from Tasmania.We have just had a physicians meeting on what to expect from December.It is official Tasmania is waiting until 90% double vaxxed before opening the borders.They are concerned about hospitals being overwhelmed but then ordered by the Covid Commander that every positive case has to be in hospital even if completely well.

 

[Pushka]

but then ordered by the Covid Commander that every positive case has to be in hospital even if completely well.

This is what we did way back in March 2019 2020. We are going forwards backwards. If vaccinated and felt well, who would get tested unless absolutely compelled? ie frog marched into a testing station.

 

[antycbr]

More from Tasmania.We have just had a physicians meeting on what to expect from December.It is official Tasmania is waiting until 90% double vaxxed before opening the borders.They are concerned about hospitals being overwhelmed but then ordered by the Covid Commander that every positive case has to be in hospital even if completely well.

And if they don't ever get to 90%, then what?

Do you have a perspective as to whether Tasmania will get there?

And putting all positive cases in hospital is a high risk situation - they'd be better off in health accommodation.

Hospitals are full of people who are vulnerable seems like an unsound idea to put people in there if it is not medically necessary.

 

[MARTINE]

This is what we did way back in March 2019. We are going forwards backwards. If vaccinated and felt well, who would get tested unless absolutely compelled? ie frog marched into a testing station.

They’ll have to open up MONA as a posh field hospital.. does not make sense

 

[Pushka]

They’ll have to open up MONA as a posh field hospital.. does not make sense

SA Health have done it again today. Truck driver tested negative in NSW yesterday morning drove into SA and tested again then moved further into SA and home. Test result came in this morning as positive. Had one Pfizer and asymptomatic. He and the people he lives with have been moved into a med hotel in Adelaide. How long can they keep doing this when Covid arrives.

 

[oz_mark]

This is what we did way back in March 2019. We are going forwards backwards. If vaccinated and felt well, who would get tested unless absolutely compelled? ie frog marched into a testing station.

What were you doing it for in 2019?