CV and mad panic behaviour

[DJC]

I'm pretty good with the technology side of things (doing some computer programming in a past life) and even i struggled.
I got stuck in an endless loop of verification and linking that simply wouldn't work with MyGOV and service victoria app.
Ultimately i had to download a completely different app to get it to work, but that was found by sheer luck rather than any info i could find online.

I pity some of the older folks who wouldn't even know what an app store is.

I had a similar problem but managed to resolve it without seeking help from a young person.  I channeled the IT Crew 

It's just as well that I did because every cafe/restaurant we've been to has insisted on sighting our vaccination certificates.  They all said that they're getting 100% compliance and no-one arcing up.

You're right about older folk.  There should be a service to help folk get their vaccination certificate and an analog alternative for folk who don't do digital.

[dodge]

My father in law doesn't even have a mobile - he's 84- let alone a smart phone.  He carries around a print out which seems to satisfy staff.

My parents don't have individual email addresses, so can't both register for My Gov.  Dad also refuses to update his phone, so his phone isn't new enough to register anyway.  Don't know what he is doing to get into places.  Mum by default is the same!

[capcom]

But they soldier on ...

[PaulP]

I also carry a paper print out - works fine.

[dodge]

Yes, they do, Cap.

[bratblue]

I was talking to my mates Mrs last night who's an ICU specialist at a big Melb hospital. Some of the things she said was that all of her covid patients are unvaxxed. Most have other health problems like obesity diabeties smokers etc. They aren't dying like they used to with better treatments but they will be ruined for life anyway. It takes eleven people to turn them over which happens twice a day. They are all in a coma and on ventilators. Their families almost always go and get vaxxed when they see how sick there loved ones are. The nurses and docs are getting totally worn out and are sick of having to wear all the stuff they need to work in a covid ward. It costs 4000 a day per patient and most stay for a long time.

[dodge]

Sorry - tangent, which I'm good at.

My FIL owned a shop.  When he retired nearly 10 years ago, the most current technology he had was the old credit card 'click-clack' machine.  Didn't even have a cash register.  These newfangled phone things don't work for him.

[Thryleon]

In a global pandemic, whatever the differences are in the motivations from the voices of true dissent and conspiracy theorists, the message is the same: do not get the jab!

My wife is a chronic asthmatic. If she were to catch Covid, do you think she would feel happier if it were to have been caught from a true dissenter rather than a conspiracy theorist?

She's probably going to be ok. 

Particularly if she got vaccinated.

Thats the reality.

The fit and healthy thirty something year olds or the teenage girls ive heard of having myocarditis might just have long lasting effects to protect her in the odd chance she fell to the wrong end of break through infection.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-cond...c-20352539

https://www.myocarditisfoundation.org/ab...ocarditis/

There is a lot of sensationalism regarding this.  Im double vaxxed have been for almost 6 months.

Plenty of examples ive heard of in the exact demographic of people least effected by covid.

16 year olds going to hospital two days after being vaccinated with heart issues isn't what I would call playing the percentages.

Here is the issue.  Some of us are so blinded by protecting those of us whom we know are vulnerable (who can be protected by vaccination) yet are unnecessarily exposing fit healthy and well people to a vaccine that IS causing a heart conditions to occur in young people.

Thats ok, they should get myocarditis at 16. 

Oh, I'm not saying dont get the jab.  I'm saying that perhaps the jab is a stupid idea for people not at risk.

But we've committed to that above all else. Rightly or wrongly.

[LP]

Myocarditis and / or pericarditis are also both effects of COVID, as is thrombosis, facts conveniently overlooked by vaccine naysayers.

The scientists now know TTS happens in people with APS, a condition which also more than doubles their risk of COVID death.

But who cares, let them get COVID at some random time in some random place with unknown treatment availability, perhaps so they can hide out for a few days as it's just a cold, rather than vaccinate them at a known time and place to be monitored by specialists from the earliest possible stages.

[capcom]

Must say with EB and Thry posts, it's great to get the inside running on all perspectives to this bloody frightening pandemic.     

I read them all of course, regardless of member