Coronavirus 4 - Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

[Pies4shaw]

Deaths per day, average from last 7 days, NSW 4, Vic 10. Neither of those numbers is exactly cause for celebration as it's still 14 people dead in the past week, but the positive is they are low numbers and not getting larger.

I think you probably just didn't type what you meant - but it's actually 105 deaths in the last week (and 100 the week before that), so it's 14 dead per day in the past week.

[stui magpie]

Apologies, I meant to say an average of 14 deaths per day for the past week.

[Pies4shaw]

[Dave The Man]

People Striking for Better Pay at the Moment must think Money Must Grow on Trees

[stui magpie]

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Not necessarily, depends on the industry

[Dave The Man]

So why are we Opening Up again IF as said on Current Affair saying you need to have 3 Vaccines Doses to be safe?

[stui magpie]

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OK, I don't watch ACA but I think you may have misunderstood.

1 shot provides protection, 2 provides the maximum.

6 months after the second shot, it's recommended to get a booster, or 3rd shot, as the effectiveness starts to reduce.

So with 80%+ fully vaccinated it's safe to reopen, they're starting booster shots now on the people who were first up, 6 months ago.

I'll be looking at my 3rd shot in January, similar to you.

[Dave The Man]

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OK, I don't watch ACA but I think you may have misunderstood.

1 shot provides protection, 2 provides the maximum.

6 months after the second shot, it's recommended to get a booster, or 3rd shot, as the effectiveness starts to reduce.

So with 80%+ fully vaccinated it's safe to reopen, they're starting booster shots now on the people who were first up, 6 months ago.

I'll be looking at my 3rd shot in January, similar to you.

That what I thought it was but I guess ACA might of done a Bad Job of Getting that Across.

My 6th Month since 2nd Jab would be X-Mas Eve

[Dave The Man]

This where they said about the 3 Jabs

https://twitter.com/ACurrentAffair9/sta ... lq40g&s=19

[Pies4shaw]

In NSW:

- 282 new locally acquired cases
- 2 new overseas acquired cases
- 284 total new cases
- 457 people in hospital
- 109 people in ICU
- 1 death

In Victoria:

Hospitalised: 817
7 Day Average: 789
In ICU: 147
Ventilated: 88

Tests: 55,679
New cases: 1,510
Lives lost: 4
Active cases: 24,715

[What'sinaname]

More than 2 weeks in and sky hasn't fallen in NSW

[roar]

^^ No doubt if there is to be any sky falling, it will be here, in Victoria.

[David]

Have they given up on contact tracing here, or what? I just checked for the first time in a few days and there are, like, four exposure sites left in Melbourne. Would be nice to know I don't need to bother scanning QR codes in shop windows any more if they're not even using the data.

[stui magpie]

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I don't think they've given up, more likely focusing on high priority and regional areas, we're having to do our own contact tracing for work cases and provide the info to the department if requested.

I'm not sure what you're looking at but there's more than 10 exposure sites added just yesterday. Edit, notice that most of those are regional and there's at least 5 days in most cases between the exposure and adding the detail to the website.
https://www.coronavirus.vic.gov.au/case ... sure-sites



In other news, the bill for the proposed new legislation to replace the current state of emergency one is to go to Parliament today.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-25/ ... /100567664

Reactions vary depending on where you read, I'll wait til I see the actual bill and make my own mind up.

From the bits I've read of the summary, I like the idea that the Health Minister signs orders after getting advice from the CHO and I like the increased transparency with stuff used to make decisions required to be tabled in Parliament.

I'm not sure about independent oversite committee's that have no teeth, sounds like an exercise in blame deflection but I'll wait until I see how it works.

The Opposition are screaming about giving Dan too much power, I'm going to view it leaving Dan out of the argument and just look at what power do you want a premier to have. My initial inclination is you want a Premier to have the power to act quickly if required without needing lots of approvals, but they need to be accountable for that and provide the reasons after. This seems to enable that so again I'll reserve judgement.

[Dave The Man]

^^ No doubt if there is to be any sky falling, it will be here, in Victoria.

Because the Media Love Shitting on Victoria and Kissing NSW Ass