Coronavirus 4 - Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

[stui magpie]

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Yep, telling people to get tested when they can't is ridiculous bureaucracy, very soon I expect the mandatory isolation period to be dropped and common sense applied, if you feel unwell don't go to work.

Things will ramp up though come May-June, start of traditional flue season. That's when we're likely to get some increased restrictions.

[Pies4shaw]

What does “ramp up” look like, when in the last month we’ve had a million cases, 1,000 deaths, a stuffed economy and hospitals so full that people with cancer are being told they don’t really need their tumours out?

(Except in WA, of course.)

[Dave The Man]

Things will ramp up though come May-June, start of traditional flue season. That's when we're likely to get some increased restrictions.

So might be worse with Case Numbers that are getting Now?

[eddiesmith]

Did I just read Australia had its highest death toll on a single day last week? Unvaxxed elderly?

NSW the other day said every death that day bar one under 65 had severe health issues.

[stui magpie]

What does “ramp up” look like, when in the last month we’ve had a million cases, 1,000 deaths, a stuffed economy and hospitals so full that people with cancer are being told they don’t really need their tumours out?

(Except in WA, of course.)

You're complaining about the economy now? Really? And we've had basically 2 million recorded cases in the last month, not 1.

What it will look like is hospitalisations and deaths will decline from now on, then spike again in Winter.

People who had their booster in December/January (like me) will need another to get them through Winter but apart from some likely increased restrictions, life will go on as Covid becomes Endemic.

I'm struggling to understand your motivation with the daily death count, do you think we should go into hard lockdown again as if that would help?

[think positive]

I reckon he’s just sick of people under playing it. For a lot of us it’s not so bad if we keeptk ourselves, wear masks and yes, vaccinate. For people with existing health problems and exhausted front lines workers, nothing is getting easier or less frightening.

You know at the start people were for people, except when it came to dunny rolls! Now it’s gone past the old **** you to **** you on steroids.

I guess until you lose someone.

[stui magpie]

I blame government spin. At first we were supposed to all be in it together, then the unvaccinated are the enemy, the rules keep changing to the point it's ridiculous and now it's open slather but you need to use rapid tests if you can find one. I'm over it, I'm over the doomsayers, I'm happy I can go to retail shops and cafes and I'm not scared.

Losing someone is never pleasant but dying is an inevitable part of life, it's just a matter of when. Being scared of dying is just FOMO.

I just finished reading Billy Connely's autobiography. In one passage he speaks about bread. He likes white bread, his wife want's him to eat wholegrain. His comment (paraphrased) was that if eating wholegrain bread added a week to his life, it wouldn't be a week in his prime years it would be a week lying in a bed incontinent crying. We all die, it's just timing.

[eddiesmith]

Yep, its been mixed messaging, even Dan today said he won't let us live in fear of the virus any longer, finally!!!

But this is all most people have wanted, choice. If you need to be protected because you're immunocompromised or are fearful then they are free to take any steps to protect themselves. But for other people, why should they need to stay locked up? As I've said before my nan won't get vaccinated so I won't visit, its a choice she's made and I've made mine.

We've had nearly 2 years to get the health system ready, unfortunately the dream of chasing Covid zero seems to have led to them not thinking it was ever going to get out of control. This false belief that they could keep locking down until it was over to control spread.

It was like this claim they'd fund 4,000 ICU beds then say well you didn't really expect it did you because we can't actually do that.

[Pies4shaw]

I reckon he’s just sick of people under playing it.

It takes a certain kind of lunacy to look at numbers that show that the situation is much worse than it’s ever been and think they demonstrate that it’s actually better.

[stui magpie]

I reckon he’s just sick of people under playing it.

It takes a certain kind of lunacy to look at numbers that show that the situation is much worse than it’s ever been and think they demonstrate that it’s actually better.

If taking the optimistic view is lunacy, then guilty as charged.

Worse than it's ever been?

The majority of us have the least amount of restrictions on us that we've had for nearly 2 years.

Hospitality and retail are open, kids are about to go back to school, people in hospitals have peaked well below capacity and modelling predictions and are starting to decline (meaning non-critical surgery should soon be open again and surgeons can get back to work instead of playing golf), borders are open (except WA) so we can travel and holiday.

The numbers clearly show that the number of people requiring hospitalisation as a proportion of those contracting the virus is extremely small compared to past waves, so in my view it takes a special kind of negativity to think that right now is the worst it's been.

[pietillidie]

Did David recover fine?

[Pies4shaw]

In Victoria:

Hospital: 1,057
ICU: 119
Ventilated: 45
Deaths: 29

and in NSW:

- 2,943 hospitalisations
- 183 people in ICU
- 29 deaths

[stui magpie]

Did David recover fine?

Don't know, he's being very quiet on social media, I saw him lurking here yesterday but he's not giving anything away.

[David]

Thanks for checking in, PTID. I'm doing okay! Still in the thick of it, but my symptoms have been relatively mild so far. Lola and Ingmar have both since also tested positive, but they're in a similar boat. Hopefully it's not going to get worse from here, but if it doesn't then fingers crossed we'll be able to leave the house again on the weekend!

[think positive]

2 years to the day since China gave us this very special gift that keeps on giving. **** you China! (the govenment, the government!)