Coronavirus - Australia
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@barbarian said in Coronavirus - Australia:
I'm supposed to be on a regional flight with my 11 month old baby tomorrow. Originally my wife was accompanying us, but COVID has ripped through our house and she will still be isolating. Thanks to the NSW close contact rules we are allowed out as we both have recovered in the last 14 days.
It's the first flight with the baby. I'm doing it on my own. And the airport is apparently an apocalypse. Having real second thoughts now, and eyeing off the 5 hour drive down the coast instead...
good chance your flight will be delayed 5 hours anyway...
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@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - Australia:
Also, on Security. Am I the only one who finds it ridiculous the levels we go to when screening every single person because of one very high profile, and some less high profile incidents 20 years ago?
No. No, you definitely are not. It gives me the shits every time... especially when there have been SOOO many tests proving that the "Security" is fucking ineffective anyway.
And I always get to fuming that it's not just that it was one very high profile incident 20 years ago. It's that they are testing against somebody doing exactly the same thing again. That incident was so successful because it was reasonably innovative.
Then some fella thought of making a "shoe bomb" - and suddenly we're all taking our shoes off to go through Security.
Guess what... the next big event is going to be another new idea... and not prevented by checking for copycat terrorists.The worst part for me is always re-boarding the plane at whatever airport I stopped at halfway from UK-NZ. By then, I've already been travelling for god-knows how many hours. I'm probably more than a little inebriated. And then I have to go through some nonsense security to board my 2nd plane. "Yes, sure, I'll take my laptop out of my bag, put it all aside for some reason, great - yes, you're doing a great job. Now, please pass me those 2 glass
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@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - Australia:
Also, on Security. Am I the only one who finds it ridiculous the levels we go to when screening every single person because of one very high profile, and some less high profile incidents 20 years ago?
@antipodean said in Coronavirus - Australia:
Sydney Airport is a shit fight. Apparently it's the fault of "inexperienced travellers" and "close contact rules".
Perfect opportunity to kill two birds with one stone: The theatre of security and these ridiculous covid rules in 2022.
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I keep forgetting this is a thing still. Why we ned to wear a mask inside an airport terminal is beyond my meagre intellect, but it's a good time to check out why:
~20% of the population has had a confirmed case, of which 0.13% have died...
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@antipodean said in Coronavirus - Australia:
I keep forgetting this is a thing still. Why we ned to wear a mask inside an airport terminal is beyond my meagre intellect, but it's a good time to check out why:
~20% of the population has had a confirmed case, of which 0.13% have died...
air travel is the last hold out isn't it?
other than that, Covid is done in Australia.
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@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@antipodean said in Coronavirus - Australia:
I keep forgetting this is a thing still. Why we ned to wear a mask inside an airport terminal is beyond my meagre intellect, but it's a good time to check out why:
~20% of the population has had a confirmed case, of which 0.13% have died...
air travel is the last hold out isn't it?
other than that, Covid is done in Australia.
think each state is still different, even with the recent roll back in VIC and NSW, in NSW public transport (even trains) masks are still a thing
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@bayimports said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@antipodean said in Coronavirus - Australia:
I keep forgetting this is a thing still. Why we ned to wear a mask inside an airport terminal is beyond my meagre intellect, but it's a good time to check out why:
~20% of the population has had a confirmed case, of which 0.13% have died...
air travel is the last hold out isn't it?
other than that, Covid is done in Australia.
think each state is still different, even with the recent roll back in VIC and NSW, in NSW public transport (even trains) masks are still a thing
same in Vic, and i honestly dont mind, everything else pretty much back to normal
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The great irony is air travel hasn't been a spreader event.
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@antipodean but is that possibly, at least in a small way, effected by the fact it was pretty much the first place they made masks compulsory
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@Kiwiwomble No, not really. Masks haven't prevented transmission elsewhere. What works on planes is hospital grade filters in the aircon.
edit - I certainly recall flying during covid when it wasn't mandatory.
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@antipodean i definitely dont, thought it came in very quick
theories on how plan travel has avoided becoming a mass spread event if not masks?
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@Kiwiwomble said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@antipodean i definitely dont, thought it came in very quick
theories on how plan travel has avoided becoming a mass spread event if not masks?
I think I've answered that.
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@antipodean apologies, i assumed there would be more to it
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Some talk over here about going back to restrictive mask mandates again because Covid cases have increased. That would be a big fucking downer if they do. Now that things are starting to slowly get back to a pre covid normal I am only now just starting to realise how much the last two or three years got me down. And I had things a lot easier than a lot of people.
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@Crazy-Horse I see there are a small number of noisy fucktards clamouring for the State to (again) enforce a practise with no efficacy. These same clowns ignore that a covid statistic categorically does not mean someone died from the virus, rather they died with.
As of Friday people aged 70+ are 6.4% of the cases and 83.8% of the deaths.
I could be wrong but after the last two years, I sincerely doubt the public is willing to put up with this bullshit again.
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@antipodean I did hear Victoria has said they are not likely to go backwards but I don't trust the bloody Qld government not to.
Agree, reintroducing any sort of mandate will piss a lot of people off.
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Yeah, I think if we were losing 22 people a day, and they were like the road toll - young as well as old, and sudden unexpected deaths - then he'd have a point. But they're really not.
Which isn't to say that they don't matter, but that's a really crap comparison.
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@antipodean said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@Crazy-Horse I see there are a small number of noisy fucktards clamouring for the State to (again) enforce a practise with no efficacy. These same clowns ignore that a covid statistic categorically does not mean someone died from the virus, rather they died with.
As of Friday people aged 70+ are 6.4% of the cases and 83.8% of the deaths.
I could be wrong but after the last two years, I sincerely doubt the public is willing to put up with this bullshit again.
Is anyone keeping tabs on flu deaths? I don't want to trivialise the death toll, but there are lots of people dying of lots of other things. But it's time to get on with life for everyone else