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07-12-2021, 01:45 AM
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Do we rename her Gladys Burythemall?
Some will call louder than ever for closed borders, but it's probably too little too late, and it looks like permits for work invalidate that effort anyway. The solution was possibly a swift and decisive lockdown, but that opportunity is lost.
Death from Sars-CoV-2 as horrendous and unfortunate that it may be, it is not the real long term cost of this pandemic, and the authorities seem to give little regard to personal or societal cost of surviving with debilitating long term effects.
New studies starting to surface expose long term issues include thrombotic patina(clots in fine capillaries), neurotoxic and cognitive effects and also long term hypoxia(silent hypoxia). One recent study exposed almost 10% of asymptomatic Sars-CoV-2 cases showed signs of reduced grey matter, a sign of asymptomatic hypoxia (silent hypoxia). They don't know yet what will happen to these people long term, it's a bit grim!
There are estimates that in the UK between 3% to 8% of all infection cases, symptomatic or asymptomatic, may eventually leave the workforce and never return to work. The cost is likely to be horrendous and the impact of that on things like national disability schemes will be devastating.
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07-12-2021, 02:03 AM
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Fairfax publish photos of Gladys looking like Darth Vader.
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(She'd be well advised to perhaps wear something other than black, and perhaps update the hairstyle before Skywalker arrives!)
News Ltd concentrate on Rudd and Turnbull's "Meddling in the vaccine rollout!"
ScoMo seems to have withered and died on the vine or perhaps while hiding under the bed sheets like Foo, meanwhile the vaccination message disappears behind a phalanx of political headlines.
Our political leadership lacks ............................., that is all I can say about it!
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Interesting claim by Raphael Epstein:
Quote:Who is defined as a close contact?
This is a crucial question because so many of the daily new cases in Sydney are out and about while infectious.
From a distance, it looks like NSW is counting close contacts in a way that only catches about a third as many people as the contacts currently tracked by Victoria.
This May, Victoria had over 100 primary contacts for every case. Going on Saturday's count, NSW would have had over 50,000 on that method but it declared only 15,000.
Victoria learnt a hard and bitter lesson. You need to identify not just the "contact", the person who had been to an exposure site.
You need to identify all the contacts of each of those contacts. And then you need to go further to the third ring: the contacts of contacts of contacts. And they all need to be asked to isolate until the closest contact to the initial case has been cleared by a health department.
It was well into November last year before Victoria learnt this lesson.
Four questions NSW needs answers for as its COVID outbreak intensifies, abc.net.au
Is this true? If so, the NSW contact tracing system is hardly the “gold standard”.
If only AFL coaches had been seconded to run the pandemic response across Australia. The AFL is a monkey-see, monkey-do industry. There’s no copyright or patents: if a competitor is doing something right, you copy it. If you don’t know what the secret ingredient is, you poach a coach or player to tell you. But it seems politicians are more worried about maintaining their brand rather than learning from others.
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(07-12-2021, 02:09 AM)Mav date Wrote:Is this true? If so, the NSW contact tracing system is hardly the “gold standard”. A trick of politics is that you get to choose the tape measure!
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Along with that bitchy "Queensland hospitals are for Queenslanders" statement, they're all pathetic. Pay rises in the state. Flying to Tokyo for absolutely no reason. Promoting that addle brained fool Young to Governor General. Seriously sick and backward state.
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(07-12-2021, 04:16 AM)capcom link Wrote:Seriously sick and backward state.
...but the weather's pretty good.  
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07-12-2021, 10:03 AM
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Mav, I assume you check Kevin Rudd's twitter feed from to time ? Worth it IMO.
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I don’t follow any Twitter accounts, Paul. Maybe I should, but life is too short, if not 128 characters short!
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