(03-10-2022, 11:18 PM)Thryleon link Wrote:Whats the answer then?

Hide indoors, locked away doing nothing?

We have all gotten vaccinated.  We are all still wearing masks in public. 

When we lost my dad back in 2005, we all declared that life was precious and you shouldnt take a minute for granted because it might be the last minute you get to spend with your loved ones.  Two years on, we are now in a position where we are adequately protected to get on with it and with the knowledge that the majority of people will be perfectly fine, but these statistics you quote, and these cases LP point to aren't necessarily people who are in hospital because of covid, and (I would know because I saw it up close and personal for the last couple of years) and many of the people I know who are aged, vulnerable, vaccinated, AND got COVID, are still alive and kicking quite happily.

COVID isnt the threat everyone told you it was.  Sorry to burst your bubble.



The sooner you all come to terms with the fact that its a matter of when not if, and the fact that when you do it, the odds are overwhelmingly stacked in favour of a perfectly fine recovery and minimal symptoms, the better you will feel about it.

The numbers arent worth talking about, the world is very much ok with COVID, and our infections are not that high considering the trains are full again.

(03-11-2022, 12:03 AM)DJC date Wrote:It's also interesting to look at the Australian median death rates by ethnicity.  Some groups in our country are being hit much harder.  That could be down to socio-economic factors or cultural/religious attitudes to vaccination and/or medical treatment. I don't think that it could be different population demographics, but it could be.

(03-11-2022, 01:06 AM)Mav date Wrote:The point of the governmental warnings over the new subvariant is to persuade people to get the booster. The booster offers much more protection against Omicron but the "it's just the sniffles" talk helps to drive down the demand for the booster.

(03-11-2022, 01:25 AM)LP link Wrote:There is a problem going to surface, and it relates to re-infection.

People are starting to get re-infected on quite short cycles, the immunity offered by Omicron dwindles very quickly, and people are presenting 8 or 10 weeks after being infected and they are infected again.

The vaccines have done the job, they don't have acute symptoms, but the need to avoid an immune system overload means they can't be vaccinated. I think if I recall the minimum interval is now 6 weeks clear health before the Sars-CoV-2 vaccine.

With the lead-time to vaccination being several weeks and the short re-infection cycle it's becoming a bigger issue to find a window for the best practice safe treatment, they may be forced to move to a riskier model.

(03-11-2022, 01:32 AM)DJC date Wrote:My daughter just had her booster, six weeks after completing her COVID isolation.  The post-vaccination symptoms were worse than COVID  :

(03-11-2022, 01:35 AM)LP link Wrote:Pfizer?

At least when you get a reaction you know it's working, I'm more worried about people who get a mild dose of COVID then conclude the vaccines aren't required.

(03-11-2022, 01:38 AM)madbluboy date Wrote:Today I have heard LP allude to covid killing Shane Warne and just at lunch I overheard a man saying it was the booster shot that did him in.

Bullcrap from both sides.

(03-10-2022, 10:29 AM)LP link Wrote:The media is drawing a !ink between COVID and Warne, now Senator Kitching also at 52!

Not sure there is a link, but would you take that risk, just a sniffle isn't it?

Are you sure?