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Within reason, yes - but I don't see weekly jabs on the horizon any time soon. Getting a booster every year or so is no problem.

I don't think that a booster every six to twelve months while COVID is a global pandemic is the big scary thing you think it is.

One of the great things about Australia (and the NHS model in general) is that universal health care is just that - universal. Besides, I quite like our doctors and nurses and don't want to inflict the trauma of refusing care on them. I don't think any sizeable population will argue, in...

Neither have I, despite the fact that I live in Brisbane. It could be that I have just been lucky, but hand washing, masks, and not coming out while sick could be a factor too

There are some papers suggesting that the spike protein might inhibit DNA damage repair but linking that to vaccines smacks of the misinformation about mRNA vaccines “altering DNA”.

You cannot claim that people are talking out of turn and then claim that the vaccine causes DNA damage.

You tell her ;) Sorry, microbiologist. And frankly, my memory of all she said wasn’t picture perfect. Danger of misquotation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Elena_Bottazzi

Heard an interview with a virologist recently where she did say that mid-20th century vaccines such as smallpox and polio did basically guarantee full protection, but that is not the case with modern vaccines as COVID is complex and the low-hanging fruit has all really been picked now.

Describes me perfectly. I’m 35, run 5km at about 4:35 pace, and yet if I got COVID I would be written off as “underlying conditions”.

If it weren’t for the vaccine then the world would not have returned to a state of near-normal living by now.

People who have had two vaccines are less likely to transmit the virus to other people than those with no vaccines on board.

Of course they would, they’re far less likely to give COVID to the other guests.

Because the choice not to get the vaccine affects others. Every unvaccinated person has a higher chance of contracting and passing on the virus, every unvaccinated person is a far larger risk of taking an ICU bed for weeks on end, every transmission of COVID is an opportunity for a new variant.

It’s the virus so bad that it has killed over half a million people in the US over 18 months. Just because it is asymptomatic in some, doesn’t mean it’s not deadly in others. Not everything presents like Ebola or Cholera, where there is no such thing as a mild case. I mean, people can carry and...

While their original error was egregious, it's at least not as bad as you stated it: "The article also misstated the number of Covid hospitalizations in U.S. children. It is more than 63,000 from August 2020 to October 2021, not 900,000 since the beginning of the pandemic" source...

It's like the initial check in (up here in QLD) originally being very slapdash and haphazard, they will refine it over time and I bet it will get a lot tougher to break over the next 12 months at large events.

We have people willingly believing that COVID isn't real, somehow Ivermectin is a reasonable treatment but vaccines which have undergone four-stage testing are not, and even doing things as dumb as attending COVID parties. I trust that enough people are inherently stupid that we all need rules...

How racist! ;)

But none of these things are barred to you, none of them are linked to your immunisation status. You just need a credit or bank card for online shopping, and you don't need immunisation status ID to access the public health system. I grant that this *is* already happening in China, but this is...

But isn’t that the normal price to pay for choosing to participate in a technologically advanced society? Yes, card is starting to take over from cash. But on the flip side, this reduces germ transmission, tax avoidance, the need to carry a wallet and coins. Online tax management saves a heap...

I believe - and I am not an expert yadda yadda - that it was driven by the virus’ long survival time on metal surfaces

36 years ago I didn't even exist. But yes, I find it ridiculous that people will post about privacy and not wanting the government to know what they do... from their smartphone.

I think that the four years of a Doctorate of Medicine and professional pathway training they pursue afterwards ensures that they're able to cover off on the basics of Cause of Death.

Ironically, one of the things that makes COVID so effective is the fact that it is not universally deadly

That's because it's impossible. Frankly, my Mum died from a gall bladder infection according to the charge sheet, but she really died from the cancer obstructing the bladder which caused the infection. I mean, it's pretty ridiculous to argue that a large portion of patients who died, while...

I can't remember? The first incident where it was used, I think, was Ben Cousins.

I reckon that nowadays if something similar were to occur (i.e. a situation outside of the rules' specific jurisdiction like that), they would be hit under the general "bringing game into disrepute" tag and fair enough.

Yes. The participants come in, they are accommodated in what is, effectively, a large hospital ward. My partner is a doctor, so she or the nursing staff administer the doses and ensure that any reactions are observed, documented, and most importantly of all, managed.

I think it does depend on where you work. Public sector is way ahead of the private sector on this IMO, let alone heavily casualised sectors like hospitality. I must have given thousands of coffee drinkers colds back in the day…

COVID has changed our approach to sickies in Australia IMO. Used to be that you got thought of as a trooper for coming in sick.