Corona virus, Port and the AFL. Part 3.

[El Zorro]

fu** you Marshall
fu** you Spurrier
fu** you Stevens

I think your hatred is misplaced.

 

[Holden Hillbilly]

If games go ahead - NO SPECTATORS.

 

[JohnHinckleyJr]

Spurrier is a bonafied speedder event

 

[El Zorro]

It makes sense to pause the AFL season for 7 days doesnt it?

play this round last where the bye was

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They might want to get as many rounds played as possible while they can. Who knows when this will get better. They might have to cancel a chunk of the season and move directly to finals or something like that.

 

[tribey]

Not really. We wouldn't accept their current case and death rates, no matter what percentage of the population were vaccinated. Australians are getting what Australians want - 0 cases.

COVID-zero was an enormous advantage once it became clear that was possible after the early months of the pandemic, but to only have around ~12% of people vaccinated amidst that advantage is one of the great failures.

We had the Queensland Premier uploading an anti-vax sizzle reel to her official Twitter in the service of sh¡tting on the AZ, while Morrison will win the next election in a landslide because Albo is a loose concept at this point.

 

[raptalia]

The UK is coming out of lockdown with 50k cases a day though?

and it is predicted the UK will have 200,000 cases a day within weeks. At present the death rate is comparatively low but the predicitons are it will rise as the infection rate soars. The Astrazeneca vaccine has an efficacy rate of 82% and there are still 26,000,000 people in the UK to vaccinate. Then there is long COVID, that is people who suffer long term effects without being hospitalised.

The rest of the world has resisted the UK strategy and in the US some states are actually moving back to restrictions as the Delta variant takes hold.

It is also worth mentioning that the man who engineered Freedom Day UK is isolating after exposure to a cabinet colleague who tested positive.

 

[El Zorro]

The UK's Freedom Day is Bush's Mission Accomplished moment.

 

[tribey]

and it is predicted the UK will have 200,000 cases a day within weeks. At present the death rate is comparatively low but the predicitons are it will rise as the infection rate soars. The Astrazeneca vaccine has an efficacy rate of 82% and there are still 26,000,000 people in the UK to vaccinate. Then there is long COVID, that is people who suffer long term effects without being hospitalised.

An entire generation of children who are subject to a shoulder shrug. Ehhh, you should be fine, probably.

 

[Arsene Wenger]

Hundreds of thousands of deaths over there compared to less than 1000 here? I'm not sure if that classes us as buggering it up ...

sorry, "buggered up" prob not the best phrase to have used, but i guess my point is the slow vaccination rate has made the country endure these lockdowns over and over. It just seems so unsustainable in the long run. I am of course happy to do the right thing, but its a really challenging time....

 

[tribey]

“What about horse racing, this weekend”

Mike Smithson asking the big questions.

 

[NoddyHolder]

The irony of countries like the US, UK and European countries coming out of this and getting their freedom and we going into lockdown. We really buggered this up

I'd still much rather be where we are than most of the rest of the world. Just need to get vaccinations caught up and we can get back to the new normal

 

[Arsene Wenger]

I know Australia has a population per square meter advantage but UK have had 129,000 and USA 608,000 deaths from Covid.

Australia has had 914

Not sure we really buggered this up

correct - a loosely worded comment.

 

[El Zorro]

sorry, "buggered up" prob not the best phrase to have used, but i guess my point is the slow vaccination rate has made the country endure these lockdowns over and over. It just seems so unsustainable in the long run. I am of course happy to do the right thing, but its a really challenging time....

12 months ago it was the right thing to do given the novelty of the threat, etc.. 12 months later, it is a ****ing disgrace that we are basically in the same situation.

 

[JimmyBC]

I'm staying positive we ended the other lockdown early if I recall, hopefully the cases dry up in the next few days.

 

[tribey]

I'm staying positive we ended the other lockdown early if I recall, hopefully the cases dry up in the next few days.

The Greek in the city will obviously be the key. If that becomes a superspreader event we’re cooked.

 

[Ray Nolan]

sorry, "buggered up" prob not the best phrase to have used, but i guess my point is the slow vaccination rate has made the country endure these lockdowns over and over. It just seems so unsustainable in the long run. I am of course happy to do the right thing, but its a really challenging time....

We've definitely buggered up the vaccination process, but hindsight is always 20/20, who was to know that the AZ vaccine would get such bad press in Australia on the back of a few tragic cases, whereas in the UK the same vaccine is seen as a national saviour.

 

[Cuzz09]

I'm staying positive we ended the other lockdown early if I recall, hopefully the cases dry up in the next few days.

It will 100% end early.

Adelaidians are good at this stuff.

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[JimmyBC]

The Greek in the city will obviously be the key. If that becomes a superspreader event we’re cooked.

Do we actually know if it's the delta variant in Adelaide?

 

[tribey]

Do we actually know if it's the delta variant in Adelaide?

Confirmed today.

 

[dav3]

“What about horse racing, this weekend”

Mike Smithson asking the big questions.

Maybe he sees them as bigger goats

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Maybe he sees them as bigger goats

 

[VineValerian]

It will 100% end early.

Adelaidians are good at this stuff.

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Have to be glass half full for sure.

 

[Festerz]

Mike Smithson asking the big questions.

flipping Idiot is he.

Should be locked down. Permanently.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

The main thing now is no new cases in the wild. That might limit the length of the lockdown.

So far it appears they are all close contacts.

 

[Adz2332]

wonder what the landscape re the footy will look like after this weekends games.....

Bye brought forward? couple week hiatus while they hub properly etc?