Thread: Corona Virus

Must say NSW Health via RPAH, did a great job on the front line workers. My first shot was pretty quick with about 10 mins worth of Queueing. Second shot time was determined by how fast I could walk.

TV news showing the M1 blocked on the Qld side of the border and traffic diverted to checkpoints on the Gold Coast Highway. I'm not there so I can only guess, but it sounds like Qld has completely locked out NSW.

Border zone has disappeared from the hotspots map.

COVID-19 hotspots | Health and wellbeing | Queensland Government

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Originally Posted by DiscoMick

Qld is expanding its hotspots to include Byron, Ballina, Tweed, Lismore and the rest of NSW, it appears.

Declared Hotspots Direction | Queensland Health

Originally Posted by Vern

Theres a series called My Secret Terrius, it s Korean from memory, about Covid 19, made before Covid 19 was even around.

They had Sars back in the day and it led to their great response to Covid last year.

55 million people jammed into a tiny country, 50 mill in the Seoul area alone.

DL

Originally Posted by windsock

In the NZ presser today our Director General of Health indicated "We are watching very closely to see what this means for how we respond in NZ". This in relation to how NSW responded and I guess a tacit indication of what not to do when it ends up here eventually.

Key lessons are that:

(a) Delta moves too fast to track and trace through contact tracers - you have to lockdown, stop people moving around and then identify the infected;

(b) you have to go to a complete lockdown - partial ones don't work;

(c) you can't lock down individual suburbs - it didn't work in Melbourne, it's not working in Sydney;

(d) if there's no compliance / buy-in by most people you won't be able to control it - compliance in Sydney last week was estimated to be 40%;

(e) following on from (d), your messaging has to be clear. Doesn't matter if it's harsh so long as it's clear.

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

TV news showing the M1 blocked on the Qld side of the border and traffic diverted to checkpoints on the Gold Coast Highway. I'm not there so I can only guess, but it sounds like Qld has completely locked out NSW.

Pity Qantas fly over the border isn't it......

Regards,
Tote

Originally Posted by Eevo

one thing i dont understand, os why are 136 cases in nsw is a national emergency, but 700 odd cases in vic wasnt.

Come on, you know the answer to that.

Originally Posted by Tombie

Weird.

I decided to get the jab about 7:30am Monday
Rang the Doc at 9.00am,
Drive straight to Docs at 9:45am
Pfizer Jabbed and sitting outside by the 10:02am for my 15min wait.

Second jab on 9th August.

Not a single side effect noted.

60 yo or younger?

Just interested because it seems some regional areas are awash with Pfizer for some reason.

cheers, DL

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And I'm zwodder