(10-26-2021, 11:19 PM)LP link Wrote:So what will NSW or Qld do if things turn ordinary after summer, I think I'd rather have prior warning like the Vic bill than just having new rules sprung on me unannounced like might happen in NSW or Qld.

(10-26-2021, 10:50 PM)madbluboy link Wrote:Scomo has confirmed that the unvaccinated can come into the country providing they quarantine.

Now Andrews has to be the one to block Novak and co from playing.

(10-27-2021, 02:23 AM)Mav date Wrote:It'll be interesting to see if Dan's critics do a big 180 and switch from slamming Dan for applying a double standard to unvaccinated tennis players by allowing them to play to slamming him for not recognising that the Aus Open needs an exemption. 

(10-27-2021, 02:32 AM)LP link Wrote:I'll be more surprised if they don't flip, I expect it!

Can we run a lottery on who goes off first, Credlin, Bolt, Panahi or maybe a outsider like Jones?

(10-27-2021, 02:44 AM)madbluboy date Wrote:Have any of them commented on the Australian open yet?

(10-26-2021, 11:19 PM)LP link Wrote:I've been chatting with associates in the Northern Hemispehere overnight, they are not confident at all as winter approaches up there. They think our current COVID decline is a false dawn similar to that experienced in the UK and Israel, buying the politicians, health officials and bureaucrats time to ready themselves for the next wave.

Specifically we spoke about the right wing attack on scientists and health officials, they said it was the same there earlier this year when falling numbers started a wave of enquiries labelling the predictions of epidemiology experts alarmist and extreme, then as things got colder cases started rising again! As a result a lot of foreign governments are putting the same rules in lace that are proposed here, which is a portent to much harder lockdowns next time around if it happens!

So what will NSW or Qld do if things turn ordinary after summer, I think I'd rather have prior warning like the Vic bill than just having new rules sprung on me unannounced like might happen in NSW or Qld.

(10-27-2021, 04:51 AM)Thryleon date Wrote:Most alarming, is that Israel released the shackles, at the beginning of their summer, with almost 0 positives per day.

Its taken some time for things to get to a pretty awkward spot for them, but awkward nonetheless.

The worst of this is STILL very much ahead of us, and I keep telling people (despite whether or not they want to listen) that how we treat people during this very testing time, is almost as important as the pandemic response.

If society decends to levels where the common person "couldnt give a stuff" about others, then we are in all sorts of trouble COVID or 0 COVID.