News Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread II

[Horace]

I’m trying to find some info but I’m not having much luck, was wondering if someone could help me out?

Can anyone go and get tested for COVID19 or are they still just testing people with symptoms?

(in Victoria)

Yes, you can get tested and the more people who do the better. Ring the covid-9 hotline, which you will find from the link below and you should be able to organise a test at a site convenient to you.

Department of Health and Human Services Victoria | Novel coronavirus: updated advice

www.dhhs.vic.gov.au

I rang last Thursday, registered and was tested last Friday morning. Results back yesterday as negative. I got tested becuase I had a few mild symptoms early in February.

 

[Horace]

I think it is important for as many people as possible to get tested (if only to experience the discomfort) as the recent tests have unearthed 30 positive cases. Those people were in the main walking around unaware they had it and these are the people who pose a risk to everyone of spreading it.

That number is very small and certainly very encouraging that the virus has not really got into the community to more than a small extent.

However, if we extrapolate that out to Melbourne's 5M population, a sample of around 150000 people converts to around 1000 people across surburbia. 1000 people have the capacity on average to infect another 3 people each so that could become 3000 extra infected fairly quickly. Not quite like in the Mallee, in a mouse plague but still a worry.



I doubt if it will have moved much into rural areas, however there has been a recent positive case in Kyabram plus I understand one person from near Camperdown has died from it, having been on one of the Cruise ships.

 

[Event Horizon]

are we really paying for it if not one of them has to attend hospital?

Yes, as if it gets out of the "cluster" into the general community, could trigger a wave.

 

[Val Keating]

Currently waiting in line at a drive through testing Place

 

[Val Keating]

All done. The swab up the nose isn’t great but the thing was done in about 2 minutes. Find out in 24-48 hours

 

[Scallop Industry Thug]

All done. The swab up the nose isn’t great but the thing was done in about 2 minutes. Find out in 24-48 hours

How comfortable scale of 1-10?

10 is watching 98 GF replay.

 

[Val Keating]

How comfortable scale of 1-10?

10 is watching 98 GF replay.

About a 4.5

 

[DaveyBoy123]

Currently waiting in line at a drive through testing Place

Did you get asked:

 

[DaveyBoy123]

Interesting article on Fauci's thoughts on contact sports... There are obviously AFL implications here as well:

Dr Anthony Fauci, the leading infectious diseases official in the United States, has said that contact sports like the NFL are a "perfect set-up for spreading" COVID-19.

• Dr Fauci has been a key part of the response to infectious diseases in the US for 36 years
• He explained how sweat is not the problem in sports, but 'virus shedding' through touch
• He said the only way to be sure was constant testing for the virus, which is not practical

Full article:

'The perfect set-up for spreading': Dr Fauci explains the 'almost impossible' task facing contact sports

The face of America's health response to the coronavirus pandemic, Dr Anthony Fauci, explains how COVID-19 is spread and how that creates an incredible challenge for contact sports.

www.abc.net.au

 

[Hojuman]

Currently waiting in line at a drive through testing Place

 

[DaveyBoy123]

What can we spray interstate teams with?

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The Mexican border city of Nogales, Sonora, has set up ‘sanitizing tunnels’ to disinfect people leaving the US through Nogales, Arizona. On the Mexican side of two major border crossings, drivers coming from Arizona must exit their vehicles and step into an inflatable tunnel that sprays them with a cleansing solution. The border city’s mayor has told Mexican news outlets that a majority of the people who have tested positive for Covid-19 in Nogales, Sonora, had recently returned from the US:

 

[DaveyBoy123]

What would Australia's equivalent be... A vegemite sandwich?

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The global pandemic has left millions of Indonesians struggling to make ends meet. Now the authorities are rolling out “rice ATMs” in a bid to ensure greater access for those in need to the essential Asian staple, Reuters reports.

Ten rice dispensaries in and around Jakarta are part of a government initiative to assist those worst affected by the coronavirus outbreak, which has caused millions to lose their jobs in Southeast Asia’s largest economy.

Stacked with kilos of good-quality rice and operated by magnetic cards, the tall automated teller machines look much like normal cashpoints, only that they pump out grain instead of banknotes.

Residents eligible for the rice ration include daily wage earners, the unemployed, those who do not own a house and people who live below the poverty line.

More than 14,000 Indonesians have contracted the coronavirus since early March, with 991 killed by the disease, the highest death toll in East Asia outside China.

 

[Horace]

How comfortable scale of 1-10?

10 is watching 98 GF replay.

Its a minus 20 on that scale. The discomfort of the test is more or less forgotten with 24 hours. The pain of 1998 will be just as awful after 24 years in 2022.

 

[ferball]

Yeah I’m over it but more importantly my wife and kids are over it. I didn’t expect them back this term. With our infection numbers so low I feel like sending kids back to school and slowly removing restrictions is the right thing to do

It's just a matter of management I guess. So long as we keep on top of outbreaks we should be okay.

I'm surprised at the Victorian numbers being high. Is that cos of more testing? If so then it's potentially gonna break out again and maybe require more restrictions. But if people get a bit of break then it might be okay if we get more restrictions.

I went out and polished off a bottle of rum with a mate on Friday night. Could probably stay in lockdown for another three weeks after letting off a bit of steam. Kids went to their grandma's on Saturday (Ma in law) and got to let off a bit of steam so they were better as well.

 

[Hojuman]

Ahhhh, my boy Pete. What a complete burke. Any doubt dispelled now.

Pete Evans shares bizarre virus conspiracy

Pete Evans has responded to the president of the Royal Australian College of GPs who said yesterday that the embattled celebrity chef should spend time with family following his latest social media posts.

www.news.com.au

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

Ahhhh, my boy Pete. What a complete burke. Any doubt dispelled now.

Pete Evans shares bizarre virus conspiracy

Pete Evans has responded to the president of the Royal Australian College of GPs who said yesterday that the embattled celebrity chef should spend time with family following his latest social media posts.

www.news.com.au

Stark raving lunatic.

 

[Caracas]

About a 4.5

So, it was like the second quarter, then?


On iPhone using BigFooty.com mobile app

 

[Sillygit]

Ahhhh, my boy Pete. What a complete burke. Any doubt dispelled now.

Pete Evans shares bizarre virus conspiracy

Pete Evans has responded to the president of the Royal Australian College of GPs who said yesterday that the embattled celebrity chef should spend time with family following his latest social media posts.

www.news.com.au

holy moly, he's onto the code words now, certifiable

 

[Val Keating]

Ahhhh, my boy Pete. What a complete burke. Any doubt dispelled now.

Pete Evans shares bizarre virus conspiracy

Pete Evans has responded to the president of the Royal Australian College of GPs who said yesterday that the embattled celebrity chef should spend time with family following his latest social media posts.

www.news.com.au

It was sort of funny before but now I think he might actually be mental.

 

[DesertRoo]

It was sort of funny before but now I think he might actually be mental.

He sounds exactly like the people who’ve been conditioned online..
It’s what happened with a whole generation of western jihadis. mkultra becoming sentient.

 

[DaveyBoy123]

So, it was like the second quarter, then?

Wouldn't that mean that the testers would keep missing the nostrils and poking Val & Co. in the eye?

 

[Val Keating]

Wouldn't that mean that the testers would keep missing the nostrils and poking Val & Co. in the eye?

Still a better result then 98

 

[Scallop Industry Thug]

Wouldn't that mean that the testers would keep missing the nostrils and poking Val & Co. in the eye?

They’ve been testing at night the past 3 months. Sun got in their eyes today.

 

[Val Keating]

He sounds exactly like the people who’ve been conditioned online..
It’s what happened with a whole generation of western jihadis. mkultra becoming sentient.

I honestly don’t know what mkultra becoming sentient means

 

[DesertRoo]

I honestly don’t know what mkultra becoming sentient means

These people are being conditioned and their beliefs reinforced via social media. Most likely via bots or thousands of accounts being controlled by small groups.

shareblue media is an example of this..

it’s the lessons lost of mind control, that is mkultra, being played out over the interwebs. People being triggered by keywords is an obvious sign.