Coronavirus - Australia
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@nepia said in Coronavirus - Australia:
So my jinx ability has continued as the bubble is paused for 72 hours and I was flying on Friday morning. Have changed flights to Saturday morning so hopefully it's only a minor pause.
Stink bro. Good luck. My BIL was scheduled to fly tmrw, that ain't happening.
Life still good here in QLD, I may never go home.
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@voodoo said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@nepia said in Coronavirus - Australia:
So my jinx ability has continued as the bubble is paused for 72 hours and I was flying on Friday morning. Have changed flights to Saturday morning so hopefully it's only a minor pause.
Stink bro. Good luck. My BIL was scheduled to fly tmrw, that ain't happening.
Life still good here in QLD, I may never go home.
AirNZ are pretty good about changing flights, they let me change twice today. Tried to get a flight earlier than Friday just in case, 20 minutes after that changed they put the pause in place, so I phoned up and changed to Saturday.
Have you gone full bogan?
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@nepia said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@voodoo said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@nepia said in Coronavirus - Australia:
So my jinx ability has continued as the bubble is paused for 72 hours and I was flying on Friday morning. Have changed flights to Saturday morning so hopefully it's only a minor pause.
Stink bro. Good luck. My BIL was scheduled to fly tmrw, that ain't happening.
Life still good here in QLD, I may never go home.
AirNZ are pretty good about changing flights, they let me change twice today. Tried to get a flight earlier than Friday just in case, 20 minutes after that changed they put the pause in place, so I phoned up and changed to Saturday.
Have you gone full bogan?
Thats great mate. Probably reflective of flights not being that full given people still a bit hesitant to travel?
My inner bogan has never been far from the surface. Unfortunately my hair is more affro than bogan
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@voodoo said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@nepia said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@voodoo said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@nepia said in Coronavirus - Australia:
So my jinx ability has continued as the bubble is paused for 72 hours and I was flying on Friday morning. Have changed flights to Saturday morning so hopefully it's only a minor pause.
Stink bro. Good luck. My BIL was scheduled to fly tmrw, that ain't happening.
Life still good here in QLD, I may never go home.
AirNZ are pretty good about changing flights, they let me change twice today. Tried to get a flight earlier than Friday just in case, 20 minutes after that changed they put the pause in place, so I phoned up and changed to Saturday.
Have you gone full bogan?
Thats great mate. Probably reflective of flights not being that full given people still a bit hesitant to travel?
My inner bogan has never been far from the surface. Unfortunately my hair is more affro than bogan
I think you misspelt fortunately.
Some flights were full, tried to change to Wednesday and they were full, one of the Fridays were full, and the later Saturday was full. But we got on the 11:40am flight so that's a good time.
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â(So far) we havenât been able to reach consensus on how borders are managed. Itâs a mess,â Deakin University epidemiologist Professor Catherine Bennett told news.com.au.
âEvery state response is different.
âHow can it be that if all decisions are evidence based ⌠(but) we are all doing it differently?
âIt just means thereâs different levels of risk tolerance.â
While Prof Bennett acknowledged there were different populations and challenges for each state, how authorities responded to travellers shouldnât be different.
âThe whole country has been left in turmoil at the moment â do we travel for school holidays or not?â she said.
âSome states relax restrictions sooner than others and you have no way of knowing whatâs going to happen.
âI think thatâs really difficult for people but also, we as experts canât make sense of it either, and we canât see how it relates to measurable risk in any consistent way.â
Prof Bennett pointed out that states like Queensland and Western Australia often introduced higher levels of restrictions for returning travellers than those actually set in states grappling with outbreaks, and some of these decisions were actually putting people at higher risk of getting covid.
Well if that doesn't tell you everything, nothing will. It's not a health response, it's a political one.
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@antipodean said in Coronavirus - Australia:
â(So far) we havenât been able to reach consensus on how borders are managed. Itâs a mess,â Deakin University epidemiologist Professor Catherine Bennett told news.com.au.
âEvery state response is different.
âHow can it be that if all decisions are evidence based ⌠(but) we are all doing it differently?
âIt just means thereâs different levels of risk tolerance.â
While Prof Bennett acknowledged there were different populations and challenges for each state, how authorities responded to travellers shouldnât be different.
âThe whole country has been left in turmoil at the moment â do we travel for school holidays or not?â she said.
âSome states relax restrictions sooner than others and you have no way of knowing whatâs going to happen.
âI think thatâs really difficult for people but also, we as experts canât make sense of it either, and we canât see how it relates to measurable risk in any consistent way.â
Prof Bennett pointed out that states like Queensland and Western Australia often introduced higher levels of restrictions for returning travellers than those actually set in states grappling with outbreaks, and some of these decisions were actually putting people at higher risk of getting covid.
Well if that doesn't tell you everything, nothing will. It's not a health response, it's a political one
Following the Mother Country
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@antipodean the part i found telling was ridiculous decisions like putting people in to hotel quarantine on ridiculously low risk, and by putting them in quarantine, actually increasing their risk of catching it
As an aside, the Qld Chief Health Officer has just been announced as the new Governor. Make of that what you will...
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@nta said in Coronavirus - Australia:
Bloke I used to work with got on the Indian Pacific in Sydney middle of last week.
Three days later in Perth, he had to quarantine for 48 hours after the NSW cases popped up.
Ridiculous.
the God Emperor of WA does exactly what he wants.
did i read somewhere a story that the WA cops were accessing the data of COVID-tracing apps in their investigations?
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@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@nta said in Coronavirus - Australia:
Bloke I used to work with got on the Indian Pacific in Sydney middle of last week.
Three days later in Perth, he had to quarantine for 48 hours after the NSW cases popped up.
Ridiculous.
the God Emperor of WA does exactly what he wants.
did i read somewhere a story that the WA cops were accessing the data of COVID-tracing apps in their investigations?
I think a few of our state law enforcement departments would find that info VERY interesting.
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@nta said in Coronavirus - Australia:
Latest from Sydaknee....
Why don't they make allowances for those who are vaccinated?
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@antipodean said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@nta said in Coronavirus - Australia:
Latest from Sydaknee....
Why don't they make allowances for those who are vaccinated?
smacks of effort...
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@antipodean said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@nta said in Coronavirus - Australia:
Latest from Sydaknee....
Why don't they make allowances for those who are vaccinated?
because they are fucking idiots!!!!!
gah!!!
sort your shit Sydney i really want to come down in a few weeks!!!!!!
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@mariner4life good luck with that:
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It's not like we can't print off proof of vaccination status from the Federal Government (myGov).
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@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@nta but i will be fully vaccinated
oh yeah wait, to a state government, vaccines are only a thing to use when you need to deflect attention to the federal government
i hate everyone
More importantly: what the fuck is this going to do to rugby on Saturday? Our host club was going to have their Old Boys day and that promised a bit of free piss and food...