General Coronavirus chit chat thread - non-travel specific

[tgh]

Swmbo said this evening that Sweden are going for herd immunity.
No restrictions all..

 

[Cossie]

Good thing @Flashback, her indoors has been sending me emails when I'm holed up in my office/room listening to music, loudly.
On a different note it would be nice if some on here didn't find the need to gloat so much about how well they are doing whilst a lot of people out there are suffering, but of course, as usual, ymmv.

 

[Flashback]

Good thing @Flashback, her indoors has been sending me emails when I'm holed up in my office/room listening to music, loudly.
On a different note it would be nice if some on here didn't find the need to gloat so much about how well they are doing whilst a lot of people out there are suffering, but of course, as usual, ymmv.

Agree, there's others like me who have lost 2 jobs. I'm very, very fortunate that I've been able to find a small project to work on, but that's only 1-2 weeks work and then I'm back to nothing again; but at least had the foresight to plan for a rainy day so not in dire straits.

 

[Cossie]

Swmbo said this evening that Sweden are going for herd immunity.
No restrictions all..

I'll have to ask some of my Swedish friends. Summer is coming there, maybe that will help.

 

[amaroo]

Haven't been on a cruise conference recently, have they? .

Our screening exceeds the NSW gov half cough effort

 

[SeatBackForward]

Swmbo said this evening that Sweden are going for herd immunity.
No restrictions all..

But they have a very good medical system to handle it, or so it's claimed.

 

[amaroo]

But they have a very good medical system to handle it, or so it's claimed.

We shall see. FTR - I reckon it's the way to go including here in Australia.

 

[amaroo]

I used the tele doctor service yesterday - just perfect.

Script written, collected, and dispensed with absolute total ease. Loving not hanging out in the waiting room.

 

[SeatBackForward]

We shall see. FTR - I reckon it's the way to go including here in Australia.

It's a valid approach *if* and big if,you can keep the high risk candidates away, and thats the issue, it spreads so easily that it's hard to control that.

Bit like sending kids to the house that had chickenpox.

Once you've had COVID you should be issued a certificate and be exempt from all the restrictions.

 

[amaroo]

It's a valid approach *if* and big if,you can keep the high risk candidates away, and thats the issue, it spreads so easily that it's hard to control that.

Bit like sending kids to the house that had chickenpox.

Once you've had COVID you should be issued a certificate and be exempt from all the restrictions.

If the vaccine takes longer than the arrival of the next flu season - rinse and repeat.

Ask yourself, how long will it take to vaccinate >7 Billion people?

International travel is rooted for the foreseeable future, IMHO.

 

[cove]

We are travelling to get our flu shots in the morning. In the isolation period our wheelie bins travelled further than we did.
All ok over here in Western Australia Island.

 

[tgh]

Assuming immunity is a big call , too early imo.
There is no scenario that says au can just write off all the oldies, not gonna happen

 

[amaroo]

We are travelling to get our flu shots in the morning. In the isolation period our wheelie bins travelled further than we did.
All ok over here in Western Australia Island.

Wait until the Indo problem arrives at the front door. All those FIFO Bail weekend warriors and the super rich indos that have already fled for their safe compounds in Perth and beyond.

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Assuming immunity is a big call , too early imo.
There is no scenario that says au can just write off all the oldies, not gonna happen

Good luck trying to defeat Nature.

 

[Flashback]

I used the tele doctor service yesterday - just perfect.

Script written, collected, and dispensed with absolute total ease. Loving not hanging out in the waiting room.

Out of interest, was it a new script or a repeat? The reason I ask is that's one thing I love about the NHS over here, prescriptions are all electronic so you simply logon, request a repeat and then it gets processed and automatically sent to the pharmacist to dispense. Absolutely brilliant.

 

[CaptJCool]

I'll have to ask some of my Swedish friends. Summer is coming there, maybe that will help.

SWEDEN

As the rest of Europe lives under lockdown, Sweden keeps calm and carries on

All its neighbours have shut up shop to beat coronavirus but the Swedes insist ‘we are not in quarantine’. Is that the right approach?

www.theguardian.com

'They are leading us to catastrophe': Sweden's coronavirus stoicism begins to jar

There’s a surreal calm in the last country in Europe to hold out against lockdown. But the death toll is rising and some are voicing dissent

www.theguardian.com

 

[amaroo]

Out of interest, was it a new script or a repeat? The reason I ask is that's one thing I love about the NHS over here, prescriptions are all electronic so you simply logon, request a repeat and then it gets processed and automatically sent to the pharmacist to dispense. Absolutely brilliant.

Might be the case for others. But for us the script is written old school, and needs to be collected at the front counter. Clip the ticket stuff for medicare I suspect, similar to referrals, etc.

The scripts with have repeats listed or they will not. Total lottery depending on the what's being ordered.

 

[Flashback]

Might be the case for others. But for us the script is written old school, and needs to be collected at the front counter. Clip the ticket stuff for medicare I suspect, similar to referrals, etc.

The scripts with have repeats listed or they will not. Total lottery depending on the what's being ordered.

That's a shame, they could really reduce overhead and the need for using up a GP's time in Australia if they modernised!

 

[juddles]

We shall see. FTR - I reckon it's the way to go including here in Australia.

amaroo, I quietly disagree. This whole thing is a balance - between trying to save (globally) millions of (mainly) seniors lives, but at harsh economic cost. The "flattening of the curve" is an attempt to keep the disparity between available ICU beds and those needing them at a minimum - I don't think anyone actually thinks the difference can be kept at zero.

If a country decides to go for "herd immunity" - ie letting some die so the others do not suffer economically, I suspect that they are on a very foolish course. I have no idea about the Swedish economy, but given that most nations are trying to save their elders, the economic fallout will be severe - so any country, even if miraculously free from Corona, will suffer anyway - from tourism through to exports.

 

[amaroo]

That's a shame, they could really reduce overhead and the need for using up a GP's time in Australia if they modernised!

Don't agree with that. I prefer some contact, particularly when dispensing drugs. We have 20+ year relationship with our family doctor, the NHS must have a better safety net system than the one your describing

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amaroo, I quietly disagree. This whole thing is a balance - between trying to save (globally) millions of (mainly) seniors lives, but at harsh economic cost. The "flattening of the curve" is an attempt to keep the disparity between available ICU beds and those needing them at a minimum - I don't think anyone actually thinks the difference can be kept at zero.

If a country decides to go for "herd immunity" - ie letting some die so the others do not suffer economically, I suspect that they are on a very foolish course. I have no idea about the Swedish economy, but given that most nations are trying to save their elders, the economic fallout will be severe - so any country, even if miraculously free from Corona, will suffer anyway - from tourism through to exports.

Q - why remove 2/3 of my post? If you're going to quote - quote!

 

[Flashback]

Don't agree with that. I prefer some contact, particularly when dispensing drugs. We have 20+ year relationship with our family doctor, the NHS must have a better safety net system than the one your describing

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Q - why remove 2/3 of my post? If you're going to quote - quote!

It's not for new prescriptions, it's for repeats. They have checks and balances in place as well to trigger a phone check-in to ensure that the repeats being asked for are still valid. Works very well IMHO.

That being said, new prescriptions are no longer paper based; it's all electronic so those get sent straight to the pharmac_.