Coronavirus - Australia
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@rapido said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@canefan said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@gt12 said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - Australia:
stupid fucking idiotic Qld Government motherfuckers!!!!
State-wide mandatory mask wearing. From 5pm. There has not been a case of COVID in Cairns outside of the Quarantine Hotels since May last year. We are 2100km from the "hot spot" most people don't even have access to masks, and yet have to wear them just to come to work!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now we have to wear a mask to go any fucking where. I think we have reached a new low point of stupidity.
FUUUUUUCK!!!! Hotels were booked solid from this weekend. I bet the cancellations start rolling in! fucking fuck you.
Holy shit, I can't imagine what level of stupid is required to make that a rule in a state which is two and half times the size of Texas (I don't know that, but other fun facts here) and seems to have a total population about the same as New Zealand.
Wow. Just, fucking wow.
oh it's absolutely retarded.
Sydney is half the distance away, why are they not masked up?
Melbourne is approximately the same distance.
Adelaide and Auckland are just a little bit further away, i guess it doesn't travel that far
Yes, i now it's about flights, but i bet there are more flights elsewhere than here.
Cancellations have rolled in over the past 24 hours, but the Qld government are confident it will have no impact on the school holiday tourism sector....
My sister is spewing. Finally having the chance to head up to Moloolaba from VIC after having not left the state for over a year and this happens a few days before departure. I expect she will pivot and head to WA or somewhere else warm to spend her tourist dollars
Great use of the word pivot. Kudos.
Fanks. Sis probably won't take the risk of travelling by air. Looks like QLD's loss might be SA's gain, as they can always drive home if something happens
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lockdown over, thanks to fuck all cases turning up. there seems to be a theme here, but i can't put my finger on it...
I don't know, maybe these lockdowns do work after all? The fact we go in to them and then come out real fast after finding fuck all transmission points to it.
Of course, that fails to take in to account all the time between initial infection and lockdown, but hey what do i know?
mask mandate in Qld staying for another 2 weeks.
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@booboo said in Coronavirus - Australia:
Mucho gossip about the office today about cases on the Sunny Coast not being reported as yet.
Mind you, given the sauce I'll take it with a grain ... cellar ... of salt.
considering the anecdotal evidence of people bailing to the Sunny Coast on Monday pre-lockdown i wouldn't be surprised
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@booboo said in Coronavirus - Australia:
Mucho gossip about the office today about cases on the Sunny Coast not being reported as yet.
Mind you, given the sauce I'll take it with a grain ... cellar ... of salt.
Not sure they would have come out of lockdown if that was the case, especially if they were community transmissions.
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Just looked up the Strayan vaccine tracker.
841,885 to date.
Given we needed 200K per day to meet the October target I'd suggest we're behind.
Mrs Boo, who works in health care (admin in private hospital ... it's a stretch but 1B the way I read it ) is eligible but has received no official communication. From Govt or employer.
Asked me how she goes about getting jab.
Frankly all I did was look up the government website. So suggested she do they same.
I just don't think there is enough push from the government(s) to make this happen.
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If it makes you feel better, we'll (apparently) get a letter in May telling us when we can get the jab.
My friend today (who has pretty reasonable intel) said for my age expect a jab in October.
Of course, the Olympics are supposedly happening in August.
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I guess the other part of the issue here is that we are:
a. Down about 3m vaccines that never arrived from Europe, and
b. Seeing a bit of noise around the AZ jab come out.With both those things in play, you can sorta understand why they're not actively pushing people.to rush put and get vaccinated
Frustrating though.
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@voodoo said in Coronavirus - Australia:
I guess the other part of the issue here is that we are:
a. Down about 3m vaccines that never arrived from Europe, and
b. Seeing a bit of noise around the AZ jab come out.With both those things in play, you can sorta understand why they're not actively pushing people.to rush put and get vaccinated
Frustrating though.
And in Oz, as in NZ, the virus has a very low presence. So the motivation of the authorities to push the programme through is not so high
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From the Oz
NATASHA ROBINSON
RICHARD FERGUSON10:27PM APRIL 6
Health experts have called for the establishment of a wide network of mass immunisation centres in Australia to provide an immediate boost to the nation’s flagging COVID-19 vaccine program.
University of NSW epidemiologist Mary-Louise McLaws, who is an adviser to the World Health Organisation, said Australia would need to perform on average 132,000 vaccinations every day if the October time frame of the bulk of the population receiving at least one shot was to be met.
“We’re not doing very well so far,” Professor McLaws said. “At the current rate they’re not going to make that deadline at all. They will need to increase the daily vaccination rate sevenfold if everyone is to receive at least one dose by October.”
The federal government says it plans to set up mass vaccination centres as the vaccine rollout continues but Professor McLaws questioned whether the plans were of the scale required.
“Their definition of mass vaccination and mine are very different,” she said. “You need a lot of them. I’m thinking of what is done during Ebola, polio, all of the vaccination programs since time immemorial.
“If people can’t get to the stadiums, then open up the parks in each suburb, open up the schoolyards on weekends.”
Australia has so far vaccinated about one million people at the rate of about 3.3 vaccinations per hundred people. In contrast, by week six of their vaccination programs, Israel had immunised 54 per 100 people and the UK 7.4 per 100 people.
Opposition health spokesman Mark Butler said on Tuesday that he could not understand the government’s reluctance to use mass vaccination hubs — with warehouses and stadiums being used in countries like Britain — and also demanded that pharmacists be used sooner.
“I don’t understand why the commonwealth is so resistant to an idea that’s been rolled out in pretty much every country I’ve looked at around the world,” Mr Butler told ABC radio.
“We should bring on pharmacists sooner. At the moment it doesn’t look like pharmacists will be brought into the strategy until June at the latest.
“I don’t think the numbers lie. And the numbers show how far behind we are … the strategy put together by the commonwealth is not working.”
University of Sydney vaccine expert Robert Booys also backed the establishment of mass vaccination centres. “Our vaccine rollout has been less than adequate so far,” he said.
“I think it will make a really big difference to have large sites with well-trained people with large supplies.”
However, Rod Pearce, the chair of the Immunisation Coalition, said the GP network had the capacity to deliver the majority of vaccinations. Last year, general practice surgeries delivered 17 million flu jabs.
“I think general practice has got a huge capacity to absorb vaccine-giving if the supply becomes reliable,” Dr Pearce said.
Acting Chief Medical Officer Michael Kidd said he was not ruling out the use of US-style mass vaccination hubs to speed up the COVID-19 vaccine rollout.
Dr Kidd said the commonwealth was already in discussions with the states about the use of suitable sites.
Scott Morrison on Tuesday denied there was any “hold-up” in distributing COVID-19 vaccines, saying the government missed its target of four million jabs by April because it did not receive at least three million vaccine doses.
The Prime Minister said the country’s rollout was doing well relative to a number of other developed nations.
“At this stage in the rollout it’s actually better than where Germany was, it’s better than where New Zealand was, it’s better than where South Korea was and Japan was,” he said.
At least 854,983 Australians have now had at least one dose of the vaccine, and 270,943 jabs have been administered by GPS.
Some 112,830 people in disability support facilities have also been inoculated.
NATASHA ROBINSONHEALTH EDITOR
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@canefan said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@voodoo said in Coronavirus - Australia:
I guess the other part of the issue here is that we are:
a. Down about 3m vaccines that never arrived from Europe, and
b. Seeing a bit of noise around the AZ jab come out.With both those things in play, you can sorta understand why they're not actively pushing people.to rush put and get vaccinated
Frustrating though.
And in Oz, as in NZ, the virus has a very low presence. So the motivation of the authorities to push the programme through is not so high
That said, I know two essential workers that have either had their jab or scheduled for one, so NZ is making progress on vaccinations
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@kirwan said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@canefan said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@voodoo said in Coronavirus - Australia:
I guess the other part of the issue here is that we are:
a. Down about 3m vaccines that never arrived from Europe, and
b. Seeing a bit of noise around the AZ jab come out.With both those things in play, you can sorta understand why they're not actively pushing people.to rush put and get vaccinated
Frustrating though.
And in Oz, as in NZ, the virus has a very low presence. So the motivation of the authorities to push the programme through is not so high
That said, I know two essential workers that have either had their jab or scheduled for one, so NZ is making progress on vaccinations
Good news!
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@kirwan My wife is in a residential hospital and has been told all staff and residents will get the jab this month. That part of the roll out is slow as many / most of the residents cannot give informed consent so they have to contact whoever has the Enduring Power of Attorney
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@voodoo said in Coronavirus - Australia:
The Prime Minister said the country’s rollout was doing well relative to a number of other developed nations.
“At this stage in the rollout it’s actually better than where Germany was, it’s better than where New Zealand was, it’s better than where South Korea was and Japan was,” he said.That sums up the government - not at any stage does it seek to be the best, just content with being able to say we're not the worst. Useless fluffybunnies.
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@dogmeat said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@kirwan My wife is in a residential hospital and has been told all staff and residents will get the jab this month. That part of the roll out is slow as many / most of the residents cannot give informed consent so they have to contact whoever has the Enduring Power of Attorney
Yes, they seem to be targetting the right people and at a good pace. Sooner we have herd immunity, the sooner we can end these lockdowns.
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@canefan said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@voodoo said in Coronavirus - Australia:
I guess the other part of the issue here is that we are:
a. Down about 3m vaccines that never arrived from Europe, and
b. Seeing a bit of noise around the AZ jab come out.With both those things in play, you can sorta understand why they're not actively pushing people.to rush put and get vaccinated
Frustrating though.
And in Oz, as in NZ, the virus has a very low presence. So the motivation of the authorities to push the programme through is not so high
It's not much of a priority to the virus manufacturers either - protection of the vulnerable in countries with a lot of Covid has to outweigh healthy Australians and Kiwis desire for international travel.
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@godder said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@canefan said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@voodoo said in Coronavirus - Australia:
I guess the other part of the issue here is that we are:
a. Down about 3m vaccines that never arrived from Europe, and
b. Seeing a bit of noise around the AZ jab come out.With both those things in play, you can sorta understand why they're not actively pushing people.to rush put and get vaccinated
Frustrating though.
And in Oz, as in NZ, the virus has a very low presence. So the motivation of the authorities to push the programme through is not so high
It's not much of a priority to the virus manufacturers either - protection of the vulnerable in countries with a lot of Covid has to outweigh healthy Australians and Kiwis desire
for international travel. make a living from tourismLets not minimise a real issue.
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@kirwan said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@godder said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@canefan said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@voodoo said in Coronavirus - Australia:
I guess the other part of the issue here is that we are:
a. Down about 3m vaccines that never arrived from Europe, and
b. Seeing a bit of noise around the AZ jab come out.With both those things in play, you can sorta understand why they're not actively pushing people.to rush put and get vaccinated
Frustrating though.
And in Oz, as in NZ, the virus has a very low presence. So the motivation of the authorities to push the programme through is not so high
It's not much of a priority to the virus manufacturers either - protection of the vulnerable in countries with a lot of Covid has to outweigh healthy Australians and Kiwis desire
for international travel. make a living from tourismLets not minimise a real issue.
One particular sector's woes down here are still going to be a lower priority than local death rates.