CV and mad panic behaviour

[madbluboy]

Thanks guys.
Better today, still got a bad cough. Fever appears to be over.

[shawny]

Right before the election as predicted.

My mum has covid now and she is very sick. Has had a fever for 5 days, have to check in on her this morning.
Been a while since her 3rd shot so her protection has probably dropped a bit, if she was unvaccinated I have no doubt she would be in hospital.

All the very best to your mum buddy. I'm sure she will recover well.

[cookie2]

All the very best to your mum buddy. I'm sure she will recover well.

X2

I had it a few weeks ago and it knocked me for six so she has my sympathies.

[Baggers]

Thanks guys.
Better today, still got a bad cough. Fever appears to be over.

Really pleased to hear that. May her recovery continue and be rapid.

[ElwoodBlues1]

Really pleased to hear that. May her recovery continue and be rapid.

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[LP]

Great 10 minute explanation from Feynman on the scientific method, and also how dodgy hypothesis works.
Feynman on Scientific Method. - YouTube

[ElwoodBlues1]

Covid deaths on the way up in 2022 in Aus.17% increase and that's on the light side imho given death notices are being manipulated to not include CoVid as the underlying cause yet hospital staff are clearly seeing the evidence.
An increase in Cardiac related deaths linked to CoVid as well with reasons not clear.
Maybe 2022 is just a bad year but I'd be concerned in 2023 if this trend continues and it's obvious hospitals are still running CoVid preventive methods for a reason unlike out in the public .

[LP]

Maybe 2022 is just a bad year but I'd be concerned in 2023 if this trend continues and it's obvious hospitals are still running CoVid preventive methods for a reason unlike out in the public .

Certainly I think the safer path is to remain sceptical, minimise exposing yourself to risk without going overboard, assume a lot of the current decision making is politically based and not based on science.

In the lead up to elections the politicians have taken control again, and things are changing, but the official health message hasn't really change much at all.

As an aside, I know two people extremely crook with COVID at the moment, it's not fun and not trivial like a seasonal cold. Under the current rules they would be free to go about public life, but fortunately they are able to isolate responsibly, but many won't and like yourself I think that attitiude doesn't bode well for Autumn / Winter 2023! My GP reckons booster time should be Jan / Feb next year, and to expect a surge in cases April / May.

[Thryleon]

Just towards the last 3 days of my 2 week stint to Hawaii.

Covid not even rating a mention here, very few wearing masks.

I haven't bothered with mask wearing. 

Has been great.  Average temperatures between 20 and 28 all day.  Seen it rain twice sporadically.

Coming home with a tan.  I understand why the Americans are the most obese nation on the planet.  They're portions are ridiculous.

This has been the most expensive holiday I've ever been on given the disparity between Aussie and USA dollar. 

Covid doesn't get any news coverage here either.

[madbluboy]

There could hardly be a more damning illustration of Australia’s double standards on COVID-19. On Friday night, Matthew Wade, wicketkeeper for the host nation at the T20 World Cup, is competing against England in Melbourne despite having tested positive for the virus.

In the meantime, Novak Djokovic, still scarred by his deportation at the whim of a government desperate to demonise the unvaccinated, languishes in confusion as to whether he will even be allowed into the country to chase his 10th Australian Open title.

The inconsistency of the rules is enough to make you scream.

We saw as much at this year’s Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, where, after 10 days of fervent mask-wearing and bubble-forming befitting Australia’s perception of England as a plague zone, the green-and-gold fielded Tahlia McGrath for the women’s T20 final regardless of the fact she was COVID-positive.

Somehow, it perfectly encapsulated the hypocrisy that has defined much of Australia’s hard-line pandemic response. If there is a piece of dutiful COVID theatre to perform, its athletes are first in the queue. But if there is a match to be won, all protocols go out of the window.

In one sense, the relaxations are to be welcomed. But in another, they expose the absurdity of what is still happening to Djokovic. The Serb remains scarred by his ordeal last winter, where he was incarcerated in a glorified Melbourne detention centre, then finally thrown out of Australia after the immigration minister ruled he could be a lightning rod for anti-vaxxers. It was, as the Australian Lawyers’ Alliance put it, an “Orwellian” decision that punished Djokovic more for the way he thought than the way he acted.