Australian Reports of the Virus Spread

[antycbr]

Well I am out of lockdown in NSW today and went straight to my nail salon. The same one that had the broken eftpos machine.

The whole place has been totally renovated, looks amazing.
Sadly the machine hasn’t survived the renos.
Must have been stood on or something.
But my nails are looking fab.
Next appointments lashes and hair.

Decided to leave the drinks and dining for a bit.
Shrek can now make a mean Cosmo.

Glad you can see where the government assistance has gone.

 

[justinbrett]

Well I am out of lockdown in NSW today and went straight to my nail salon. The same one that had the broken eftpos machine.

The whole place has been totally renovated, looks amazing.
Sadly the machine hasn’t survived the renos.
Must have been stood on or something.
But my nails are looking fab.
Next appointments lashes and hair.

Decided to leave the drinks and dining for a bit.
Shrek can now make a mean Cosmo.

Just tried to get an Uber and it's a 20 minute wait with 2.5x surge pricing.

I think many are partaking in the drinks - or perhaps just the Uber drivers

Impressive for a bitterly cold and wet night.

 

[Batterytraveller]

Just tried to get an Uber and it's a 20 minute wait with 2.5x surge pricing.

I think many are partaking in the drinks - or perhaps just the Uber drivers

Impressive for a bitterly cold and wet night.

Uber relies on an continuous stream of low paid immigrants to fill out the ranks. Many have left to fill openings in more secure and better paid occupations. Without a continuous stream of new chumps to work for too little money, the business model doesn't work when everyone else is hurting for staff.

 

[HappyFlyerFamily]

The main queues I saw today were outside barber shops! Cafes were not overlay busy - my morning spot had a couple of people dining in and place I met for a meeting was about 30% busy.

Perhaps some cafes and dining places are complying with the space capacity (4sqm??) so it might make it look less busy.

 

[Milboo]

that was based on tables set up with distancing and capacity considerations.

 

[somebol]

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Doesn't make sense does it.

With our numbers, there shouldn't be any restrictions anymore. I am actually surprised that people are so compliant and actually want the restrictions to continue. It could be the high percentage of public servants

 

[OATEK]

With Vic at 1,466 today they could well have peaked ahed of a further rise when things open up. Sydney at 360 will mean they are starting from a lower base than planned for at the 70% opening up.

 

[moa999]

As above. Good results by NSW

https://twitter.com/x/status/1447683463402774531

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And Vic

https://twitter.com/x/status/1447680826716528641

 

[antycbr]

As above. Good results by NSW

That 74% figure was from yesterday I believe, which reflects midnight Sunday's level of coverage. So when we opened up in NSW we were already significantly above 70%. The same thing is likely to happen with 80%. While some of these will be not "effective" for a couple of weeks, similarly the bulk of the vaccinations are in the last 3 months and should still be at peak effectiveness.

 

[Quickstatus]

barber shops

I don't go to barbers who have an appointment system.
My barber pushed up his price from $23 to $24 - a crazy 4% increase.

broken eftpos machine

My barber has always been CO

 

[antycbr]

I don't go to barbers who have an appointment system.
My barber pushed up his price from $23 to $24 - a crazy 4% increase.

My barber has always been CO

The ones that were CO no doubt had issues with Jobkeeper proving income loss right?

 

[jakeseven7]

With Vic at 1,466 today they could well have peaked ahed of a further rise when things open up. Sydney at 360 will mean they are starting from a lower base than planned for at the 70% opening up.

The case numbers at opening really don’t mean too much anymore (it was just another half sound byte to enforce NSW’s lockdown) What is encouraging though is the lower number of acute cases in VIC v NSW which yet again underlines the importance of vaccinations

 

[Quickstatus]

Doesn't make sense...numbers...high percentage of public servants

About half of Canberrans are Public Servants and their salary is uninhibited by the pandemic.
I suspect there is a lot of WFH (except for the nurses who cant WFH)

 

[Quickstatus]

CO

When CO, such discussions are off the table...

 

[OATEK]

The case numbers at opening really don’t mean too much anymore (it was just another half sound byte to enforce NSW’s lockdown) What is encouraging though is the lower number of acute cases in VIC v NSW which yet again underlines the importance of vaccinations

I don't entirely agree. Case numbers still indicate spread of the virus, and are a predictor that there will be more hospital admissions. What we hope is changing is the rate of hospital admissions relative to case numbers. What would be good in giving confidence to the average punter would be if hospitalisations go up at a different/lower rate to case numbers after opening up in SYD. That would mean we would start to track more like Vic for hospitalisations thanks to vaccinations.

 

[Quickstatus]

Case numbers still indicate spread of the virus, and are a predictor that there will be more hospital admissions.

I suspect everyone will eventually get it which is IMO the ultimate goal - yes! for everyone to catch it but under the cover of vaccinations.
The best time to do that is the non winter months.

UK
12% population Covid positive at some point in the pandemic
67% (over 12) 2Jab
33,000 new cases per day
114 deaths per day
0.3% Covid positives die

I can still see lockdowns happening - if hospitals and ICU get overwhelmed. More finger pointing will occur then and "shakedown politics".

 

[Must...Fly!]

Funny how we talk about "if" hospitalisations increase at a lower rate than cases. As if we're trail blazers........

 

[Pushka]

The ones that were CO no doubt had issues with Jobkeeper proving income loss right?

Only if they pocketed it instead of putting it through a bank account and correct ATO returns.

 

[jakeseven7]

I don't entirely agree. Case numbers still indicate spread of the virus, and are a predictor that there will be more hospital admissions. What we hope is changing is the rate of hospital admissions relative to case numbers. What would be good in giving confidence to the average punter would be if hospitalisations go up at a different/lower rate to case numbers after opening up in SYD. That would mean we would start to track more like Vic for hospitalisations thanks to vaccinations.

It’s not ready my point to disagree with however, the NSW health modelling indicates the difference is literally a couple of DAYS between increments of hundreds of cases. It honestly doesn’t mean much anymore with high vaccination rates. But your opinion is of course your own

 

[Lynda2475]

The case numbers at opening really don’t mean too much anymore (it was just another half sound byte to enforce NSW’s lockdown) What is encouraging though is the lower number of acute cases in VIC v NSW which yet again underlines the importance of vaccinations

Not sure why you think Vic is performing better than NSW wrt to hospitalizations and ICU , not much difference in the hospitalization numbers especially if you adjust for population difference and Vic currently has more ventilated patients.