Coronavirus 3 - Al Pacino's turn to mumble

[Bucks5]

Masks are mandatory once again in Victoria for people over 12 years old while indoors but not at home. This includes workplaces and secondary schools and started from 11:59pm last night.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-14/ ... /100294588

[What'sinaname]

the AFL exodus has started.

[What'sinaname]

Here's a positive

https://www.news.com.au/sport/afl/afl-s ... 25018d59be

An article that doesn't start with

FORMER COLLINGWOOD.........

[Pies4shaw]

[Pies4shaw]

From the ABC blog:

Victoria will not go into lockdown, ABC understands
The ABC understands more new rules will be introduced today, including new caps on home visits, but the state will not be put into lockdown.

[Pies4shaw]

In Victoria, 10 new local cases and no new cases acquired overseas.
- 27,061 test results were received

There are 26 active cases.

The Government says that "Seven of the 10 locally-acquired cases were announced yesterday. All 10 are linked to the current outbreaks."

The discrepancy in the numbers shows why fixed reporting periods are important. The media have been reporting 11 cases, this morning - as now emerges, that's been essentially adding yesterday's 1, as announced, to the 7 cases disclosed early afternoon and the further 3 disclosed last night. In fact, the 1 announced yesterday morning is actually a case from the previous day. It doesn't matter much when it's a cross-over about a couple of cases but it's important that the reporting be consistent, otherwise it can start to be difficult to see what's happening.

[Pies4shaw]

^ And, as if to emphasise how confusing the reportage can become if people don't stick to a fixed 24-hour reporting period, the Age's blog just reported "no new cases in Victoria overnight". It's true enough - but, since the reporting period stops at midnight, any new cases would be reported tomorrow, not today (although it is likely we'd be told about new cases since midnight at the press conference later today, as we were yesterday). All this really means is that there were no additional cases in the 24-hour reporting period that we did not already know about.

[Nick - Pie Man]

Props to the Vics contact tracing team though, they smashed this one out of the park. Four levels deep in 24 hours.

[Pies4shaw]

Just on the UK numbers, there have been 50 and 49 new deaths, respectively, reported the last two days and new cases yesterday were over 42,000. I note also that the UK Government is doing it's bit to keep COVID deaths down - by shifting the goalposts - today's report is "49 new deaths within 28 days of a positive test". So if you die of COVID in the UK more than 4 weeks after your test, you didn't (officially) die of COVID at all (but you're probably still dead).

Here's the UK's deaths "dashboard": https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/deaths

[think positive]

Props to the Vics contact tracing team though, they smashed this one out of the park. Four levels deep in 24 hours.

yep

the pricks in the removalists vans should do some bloody hard time community service, in fact anyone doing the wrong thing, because look what it can cost us, fines wont work, enforced labour, such as rubbish collection, or maybe cleaning up testing stations, picking up all the bloody masks laying around, or lock them up.

[Nick - Pie Man]

You're kinder than I am. It should be jail for life.

[Pies4shaw]

^ Well, it won't be. Compare, eg, with the way we treat "terror suspects", despite the knowledge that they do far less damage in Australia than these idiots.

[Nick - Pie Man]

One can always hope that street justice will sort them out

[stui magpie]

I'm curious, what are people most concerned about with this new outbreak in Vic?

Is it the prospect of having Covid rampant in the community, people getting sick and some dying/ or

Having another 4 month lockdown, continued restrictions our day to day life?


My impression is most people are more scared of another long lockdown than dying of Covid

[stui magpie]

Props to the Vics contact tracing team though, they smashed this one out of the park. Four levels deep in 24 hours.

if they actually managed to do that, well done. All that practice finally worked.