Australian Reports of the Virus Spread

[lakeman]

Funny and sad at the same time. Sad that the older generation are not keeping up with new tech.

Not all camera apps recognise QR codes natively.
I had to help a 50 yo on the weekend checking in

 

[moa999]

Not all camera apps recognise QR codes natively.

Yep. Most cheaper Androids don't.

Best to install Google Lens, or use the State app to scan the code.

 

[MooTime]

QLD 2 covid cases on the loose + 1 in HQ from Melbourne, oh the dangers....... surely surely WA to close right away, been great while it lasted.
How long was it?? ha.

 

[Quickstatus]

No Covid admissions but 5 admissions for acute pancreatitis

 

[Lynda2475]

If you just launch the state app, then it doesn't matter how old your phone is as log as it has a camera. There is no time saving opening camera first, in fact it slows things down as it ends up launching the app anyway.

 

[andye]

No Covid admissions but 5 admissions for acute pancreatitis

Not left the pub since restrictions lifted?

 

[Quickstatus]

pub

All 5 so far so far only has the “2carbon”disease as the cause

I’ll let AFF members work out what 2 carbon is

 

[jakeseven7]

QLD 2 covid cases on the loose + 1 in HQ from Melbourne, oh the dangers....... surely surely WA to close right away, been great while it lasted.
How long was it?? ha.

37 seconds

And I’m glad - because it makes the WA Gov look like fools every time it goes up down up down and just builds more resentment against them = pressure to speed up their woeful vaccination program

 

[jakeseven7]

HIGH ALERT.

Please let this get our slow vaccination rates up….

It’s going to keep spilling over the border…

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Qld on high alert over two new local virus cases​

Of those cases, one is an unvaccinated 17-year-old from the Gold Coast who presented to the Gold Coast University Hospital with a headache before being diagnosed with the virus.

He is understood to be a close contact of someone who travelled from NSW, with investigations underway into how that person crossed the border into Queensland.

The second case is a woman in her 30s from Melbourne.

A truck driver from Gympie has also contracted the virus, though he tested positive in NSW and has been included in their figures.

The truck driver travelled to Bundaberg while infectious.

‘The race is on’: SA unveils reopening plan

Welcome to Tuesday’s live coverage of Australia’s Covid-19 situation.

www.news.com.au

 

[HappyFlyerFamily]

A funny story I heard way back. An older mother asked her daughter what she should do with all the photos she’d taken of all the various QR code’s.

I saw a strange interaction where an older person swiped a QR code with a credit card at a doctor’s surgery, then sit in waiting area to be called

 

[Tiki]

HIGH ALERT.

Please let this get our slow vaccination rates up….

It’s going to keep spilling over the border…

——

Qld on high alert over two new local virus cases​

Of those cases, one is an unvaccinated 17-year-old from the Gold Coast who presented to the Gold Coast University Hospital with a headache before being diagnosed with the virus.

He is understood to be a close contact of someone who travelled from NSW, with investigations underway into how that person crossed the border into Queensland.

The second case is a woman in her 30s from Melbourne.

A truck driver from Gympie has also contracted the virus, though he tested positive in NSW and has been included in their figures.

The truck driver travelled to Bundaberg while infectious.

‘The race is on’: SA unveils reopening plan

Welcome to Tuesday’s live coverage of Australia’s Covid-19 situation.

www.news.com.au

Unless it spreads and causes a lockdown it is unlikely to get vax rates up. Qlders have dodged so many "bullets" they think they are invincible.

 

[drron]

!5 days since NSW reopened and still cases below 300.

 

[HappyFlyerFamily]

!5 days since NSW reopened and still cases below 300.

Well if this can keep up under 400 (And low hospitalization and ICU) until past the coincidental NSW doom date of 16 June, then that would be a nice outcome

 

[Port Power]

Or just plain diligence and self-interest. The 2 Bunnings I go to here in sthn Tas are also diligent in checking the checkin-ing. But contrary to experience in a comment a few posts above, folk here are very good at using the QR codes, notwithstanding no local cases for a year or more (no scares). And if they initially forget, there are prompts to remind them. Server at a restaurant will ask one or two times if everyone at a table has checked in ... the gym supervisor will periodically ask people in the gym if they have checked in ... etc. QR code signs throughout a premesis, not just at entrance.

Over here in Perth I continue to check in at most places, and I see others checking in as well. All the big places like Bunnings and supermarkets, and definitely restaurants and pubs. And doctors’ offices. Not so much every little shop in a centre where you might stoop for only to browse, Definitely at airport and entering Qantas lounge, who check its being done.

 

[lovetravellingoz]

I saw a strange interaction where an older person swiped a QR code with a credit card at a doctor’s surgery, then sit in waiting area to be called

They obviously had the vaccine with the chip and so can now do contactless checkins

 

[N860CR]

Here’s an interesting one… just booked a hotel in Coffs Harbour and received an email telling me I needed to show a negative covid test taken within 48 hours or they won’t check me in

 

[jakeseven7]

Here’s an interesting one… just booked a hotel in Coffs Harbour and received an email telling me I needed to show a negative covid test taken within 48 hours or they won’t check me in

Hello free PDF editor.

Ridiculous.

 

[MooTime]

Here’s an interesting one… just booked a hotel in Coffs Harbour and received an email telling me I needed to show a negative covid test taken within 48 hours or they won’t check me in

I'm booked in for The Coughs Harbour for early December, but through a private accomodation Vrbo, like AirBnB, no mention of any covid test, not even a need to be double juiced.

Private, no reception, but obviously still mixing with other guests at times, common pool etc.

 

[antycbr]

Here’s an interesting one… just booked a hotel in Coffs Harbour and received an email telling me I needed to show a negative covid test taken within 48 hours or they won’t check me in

This is getting ridiculous. This is going to bankrupt all of the states with the continued PCR test costs. NSW has spent more than a billion I believe.

Just found the costs: Private pathology companies receive a Medicare subsidy of $85 per test and public laboratories receive a benefit of $42.50.

RATs cost $10. Surprise surprise - the Royal Australian College of Pathologists is opposed to the use of RATs.

Buy Laverty/Sonic shares asap...

 

[VPS]

This is getting ridiculous. This is going to bankrupt all of the states with the continued PCR test costs. NSW has spent more than a billion I believe.


Buy Laverty/Sonic shares asap...

I think you missed the boat for Sonic and Laverty is owned by Healius - wouldn't bother with them at all