CV and mad panic behaviour

[kruddler]

But what does it say about returning after a positive test? I know there's a protocol just as I know there are secret sauces used by McDonalds. My casual Googling doesn't give me any details of either.

Its about as clear as the free agency compensation formula.......nobody knows.

The AFL don't talk about Covid, they talk about 'health and safety protocols'. Which is code for Covid, but could also cover players needing to isolate....if that is even still a thing.

All that being said, if one of the girls missed a game through 'H+S P', they usually played the following week. Sometimes they'd miss 2 weeks. I guess it depends on how well they are feeling as much as anything else.

[Mav]

Yep, I'd say the Covid Protocol is about as accessible to the public as the interplanetary plan for Earth to be destroyed to make way for a bypass in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:

"But the plans were on display . . ."
"On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them."
"That's the display department."
"With a torch."
"Ah, well the lights had probably gone."
"So had the stairs."
"But look, you found the notice, didn't you?"
"Yes," said Arthur, "yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying Beware of the Leopard."

[Mav]

The AFLW has shown that the AFL can't put Covid in the rearview mirror just yet. Covid has run though Collingwood's AFLW team and their final has been postponed as a result. Apparently, they wouldn't be able to field more than a handful or 2 of players.

We're heading towards colder weather aka flu season when people tend to spend more time inside and the new sub-variant is one of the most transmissible diseases known to man. No wonder the AFL is barrelling ahead with an extra list of 20 backup players per team.

[LP]

COVID is a con, just a cold, can be cured with a handful of cheap worm tablets and some sensible bed rest, we should open up as our liberty is impinged!

Clive Palmer says hello, lucky to live apparently despite all his wealth! :o

Sure he is overweight, sure he isn't healthy, but he has resources available to him beyond 1000x that of the common person!

I've several associates who have been through COVID at various levels now, some asymptomatic, others needing hospitalisation, several of them just aren't the same weeks and months after coming out the other side of the infection. Depressed, foggy, distracted, confused, exhausted, the difference before and after for these unlucky few is stark.

I drive on freeways daily about 1hr each way, something has degraded the skills of many drivers, something has changed the behaviour, I'll be gobsmacked if as more and more return to work we don't see accidents increase, another hidden cost!

Are these issues the price we will all pay in the long term that far far outweighs the initial loss of life?

[dodge]

Man, it's a weird thing!

As previously mentioned, my son got it, but pretty mildly.  He passed it onto me - I had a razor blade throat (didn't eat for two days), could have filled up a swimming pool with the amount of phlegm that was going on and felt crap.  No fever.  My wife got it and it seemed like a bad head cold for her.

I had no energy for about 10 days afterwards.  Going to the shops to get milk took about an hour to recover from.  Couldn't concentrate, felt really fatigued, but not tired (if that makes sense).  OK now.

Daughter hasn't had it at all.  We were testing here daily while my wife was isolating.

Interestingly, we spoke to the Covid hotline, and we didn't need to start the isolation period again for the new infections, so our daughter went back to school at the same time as our son, while my wife and I were isolating. 

[LP]

Interestingly, we spoke to the Covid hotline, and we didn't need to start the isolation period again for the new infections, so our daughter went back to school at the same time as our son, while my wife and I were isolating.

Yep, this seems to be the technical difference between being ill like having symptoms and being infectious.

The general public think you are infectious when you are ill, but it seems by the time you are ill the infectious period has mostly passed.

[LP]

The time for vigilance is not over yet,

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/03/...-to-covid/

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2201607

The long term trick here is going to be vigilance combined with early and appropriate action, people need to adjust because things are not going back to the way they were anytime soon.

[LP]

I fear our politicians are demonstrating just how indifferent they can be to the plight of everyday people.

Scomo in particular seems to be using a popularist viewpoint to call for changes to the COVID ISO rules, while in the background case numbers and deaths are now starting to rise for the first time in many weeks. Some domestic regions are even re-establishing COVID wards, which is a tad alarming for those of us watching on.

Scomo has basically made a very public bet using everybody's welfare, that things won't get bad by the time election day comes around, which can only be 4 to 6 weeks away! A vote for Scomo is a vote for freedom, except it looks like it won't be, he is betting that a new COVID wave doesn't hit before we vote!

Fortunately, the number of ICU cases is low as a percentage of total cases, but the case spike is alarming and the total is quite quite big in some regions. From what I can tell Omicron is about 1/3rd as acute as other variants, but that is offset by increased virulence and seemingly reduce resistance in over 65s.

[Thryleon]

^^

I understand that the numbers are concerning, but the reality is that across the globe people are living in relative normality and not wearing masks, attending the office etc, and whilst cases rise, the hospitalisations are low.  If you eliminated the positives that werent even that sick, then the concern is actually not too great in the greater populace.  I can tell you, I have caught the train for the last 2 months, and still no where near it.

Somehow, in my sisters household, her son copped it, then 4 days later she did, and then a week later the middle child caught it at school.  Brother in law is still negative, and they have taken 0 measures.  IF you cant catch it living with someone who is positive (note same bed, not really isolating etc) then a lot of the iso rules are a bonafide waste of time.

[Lods]

Vaccination requirements easing in QLD.

https://www.9news.com.au/national/corona...ce0d7285d7

Most venues across Queensland will be open to unvaccinated people as the state eases a raft of COVID-19 restrictions next week.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announced today that hospitality and tourism venues will be open to "everyone regardless of vaccination status" from 1am on Thursday April 14.
The venues include pubs, clubs, cafes and restaurants, theme parks, casinos and cinemas, weddings, showgrounds, galleries, libraries, museums and stadiums.