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Won't be long now before NSW Government introduces more COVID restrictions to try and ease the pressure on hospitals.
Coronavirus 2020 / Worldwide (Stats live update in OP) Part 8: This Thread is for Reasonable ON TOPIC Discussion
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There still seems to be some level of contact tracing in NSW, we got a message about 90 minutes ago saying we checked into a location at the same time as a now confirmed case on the 27th. Couple of negative RATs just to be sure and we're business as usual.
So there's about a week's delay at the moment but that's probably because of the PCR result backlog. Definitely not "gold standard" anymore
Plenty in this thread violently masturbate to Covid figures and scaremongering
You're the biggest advocate of covid.
You've shown time and time again with your posting.
Longer covid goes on more professions are pivoting to working from home/online. I've been around BF long enough to see football discussion on this forum diminish over the last 4 years since I first joined but non related football discussion have stayed similar or increased.
With more people stuck at home and Infront of a computer it has created an opportunity for distraction to log into non work related websites to waste time.
Social media is BF biggest enemy like Twitter, ista or FB but longer or meaningful discussion ain't had on those mediums. BF is the next best thing regarding everyday life (covid safe) discussions and possible football related ones.
Many people have mentioned they've logged into BF more than usual over the last two years due to covid, me included, which puts coin in your pocket.
What are the biggest/largest active threads over the last 6 months? We've had a drought winning finalist, footballer controversies but I wouldn't be surprised if the largest thread discussions are non football related.
I shopped in the CBD for 3 hours and only a 'sunglasses hut' store asked me to check in.
I said 'No' and walked out as I wasn't planning on buying anything.
Victoria to follow then I guess.
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I've always questioned the long term benefits of harsh lockdowns as I thought when we inevitably opened up we would still get high cases and fairly high deaths. But thankfully it looks like I am wrong. Cases are booming but deaths are not. How lucky are we that we let it rip just as a weaker variant comes along.
Not sure what the Victorian government can do, it was clear lockdown 6 wasn’t working so they told Victorians to get vaccinated to get out of lockdowns. The government didn't anticipate another variant but they are sticking with the plan. The only thing they've done is reintroduce mask in indoor settings, they don't want to let it rip but they just can't do much more and a big lockdown is completely out of the question, it is an election year after all.
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QR codes not sure I see a reason at retail now even if you get SMS..
Not sure you can buy a RAT anywhere around us.
Local facebook page people been asking anyone has spares.
or local testing place been shut at the repat so again not sure anyone really getting tested.
you can see testing figures way down although around 20% positive in Vic and NSW
I am happy hospital numbers not going up too much in Vic. NSW climbing now.
Seems Delta people only.
All the doom and gloom 100k a day they struggling to test
Wait to school goes back..lots of 5-11 year olds not even get their first jab before they go back.
Be interesting what they do when lots of kids have it re classes?
Not sure you can buy a RAT anywhere around us.
Local facebook page people been asking anyone has spares.
or local testing place been shut at the repat so again not sure anyone really getting tested.
you can see testing figures way down although around 20% positive in Vic and NSW
I am happy hospital numbers not going up too much in Vic. NSW climbing now.
Seems Delta people only.
All the doom and gloom 100k a day they struggling to test
Wait to school goes back..lots of 5-11 year olds not even get their first jab before they go back.
Be interesting what they do when lots of kids have it re classes?
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...but even this time around Victoria is consistently having more daily deaths from much less reported cases than NSW.
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You’re too far down the rabbit hole. Dig up.
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I thought we opened up before Omicron came along.
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NSW and Vic did that is how Omicron just walked in.
As no more quarantine for the double vaxed.. Just do not go out to you get tested
Pinky promise is the new isolation mandate.
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yep Scotty must of been told by his bosses.. Lots of $$ in RAT tests from businesses to be made with markups. $10-$20 a pop.
So do not subside or make free.
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Yeah the testing situation is a complete shambles, it’s pretty disgusting actually.
Partner woke up crook this morning, tried about half a dozen places for RATs and gave up. The lines for the closish testing sites are all enormous and the couple right near us have been closer as they’re over capacity.
Partner woke up crook this morning, tried about half a dozen places for RATs and gave up. The lines for the closish testing sites are all enormous and the couple right near us have been closer as they’re over capacity.
I ran into the same problem myself this morning. Keep going back as they’ll open up again until they reach capacity- I finally got in after going back twice.
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how many people will not wait.. Just assume Omicron (papers say mild) although have Delta instead.
Think I read 70% of cases Omicron now in NSW.. still 6k then a day Delta which they say leads to hospitaliations
Hospital numbers are getting inflated, definitely needs to be rectified soon to enable an accurate picture:
‘Up to half’ of NSW Covid hospital patients went in for something totally different and later tested positive in routine testing
The Prime Minister will press premiers for a uniform definition of Covid hospitalisations — after it was revealed that hundreds of patients listed as hospitalised were not taken to hospital because of the virus at all.www.news.com.au
this misreporting of numbers “with COVID” instead of “due to COVID” is getting out of hand. Take the NSW hospital numbers and half it. That’s your number.
We did and cases remained steady due to vaccine and Delta. Then came Omicron and fast spread due to vaccine not as good against it but less severe.
The numbers out of Europe suggested with Delta we would be good to live relatively normal until about late February early March before vaccine waning become a issue.
And the worst part in all this is it adds fuel to the conspiracies. The government are just as complicit in helping fuel the misinformation that gets spread.
It really wouldn’t be a hard thing to rectify either. If they’re presenting for something like a broken arm and then test positive for covid while getting treated for the arm, just include them in the daily case total and not the hospital numbers. These people aren’t covid patients taking up beds from someone that may need it more.
