Corona Virus

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Originally Posted by Saitch

If you get desperate, Bob, I can always float a few bottles down the Nth Pine.

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Buckley's chance of them getting past those pirates at Aspley.

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Originally Posted by trout1105

It looks like you will have to make the choice of taking the risk in going to get your prescriptions/flue jab yourself or learn how to do internet banking (you obviously have internet connection there) or maybe forgoing some of your medications if possible for a while.

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And the phone and internet work here, although the mobile is a bit dodgy.

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Another alternative is to use PayPal for transferring funds to a Mobile # or an E-mail address. Have used PP for years & had no problems.

Send Money, Transfer Money or Pay Online - PayPal Australia


Times like this calls for an Amazon Drone to drop stuff off.

Can you kill coronavirus with UV light? - BBC Future

This is worth a read. The bus under a UV C Light tunnel in China is a ripper in my thoughts.

NOTE - UV c is dangerous and not what we get out in the sun!

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/wwfeatures/...k/p087xkfv.jpg

Australia will fare better than most countries because our health system is among the best in the World. We may have been slow off the mark, but now we are up and running, and ready for the worst.


If vulnerable communities are more susceptible to the spread of COVID-19, what does that mean for Australia?

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Originally Posted by bob10

You are indeed a wise old geezer.


5 Reasons Drinking Whisky Is Healthy For You

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Doesn't do your Liver much good though . [bigsmile1]

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Originally Posted by Fatso

Doesn't do your Liver much good though . [bigsmile1]

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Moderation is for forums... [biggrin]

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Originally Posted by bob10

Australia will fare better than most countries because our health system is among the best in the World. We may have been slow off the mark, but now we are up and running, and ready for the worst.


If vulnerable communities are more susceptible to the spread of COVID-19, what does that mean for Australia?

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Really the state of the health care system does not seem to matter much. There is little they can do but stock you on a ventilator and hope. As long as you do not run out of ventilators the results are the same.

I see they are planning on using Australian health care workers as guinea pigs by giving them the BCG vaccine. Hopefully it does not have the opposite effect.

Any visitors to the NT will be quarantined in a hotel, and will have to pay the bill.They are trying to completely isolate the NT from the rest of Australia, and with the large indigenous population living in remote areas with minimal medical facilities, I can understand that.

NT arrivals face $2,500 bill for coronavirus hotel quarantine

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Originally Posted by ozscott

I have added the uppercase word to your quote to show how I understand the data.

And because so many have it and have not been recorded as having it (That is likely based on how it spreads and how little of the population has been tested) and because the percentages of those who had an outcome and died were only those who tested as positive, the death rate versus recovery rate is misleading. The only figure that counts is the percentage who died of all of those with the disease. Otherwise the numbers are skewed.

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Yes, agree but we can only include the figures that we have available. I may be sitting here typing this and be asymptomatic (I hope not) and never know, therefore, never RECORDED and so cannot be included in any statistical information. Unless the entire gobal population is tested then the numbers will always be skewed. I'm sure there is some whizkid/professor/statistics nut out there crunching away to determine the approx number that are asymptomatic but this is still only a guesstimation.

But we (I) am not talking "death rate versus recovery rate", what has been discussed is the number of deaths as a percentage of those cases that have had an outcome, resolution, final decision, call it what you like.

Lets say everyone on the planet is going to come in contact with this, ~7.5 billion.
Of those 5 billion are tested.
Of those 3 billion are positive.
Of those 60 million (that's the conservative 2%) die.
So that left 2.5 billion out of the testing.
If 60% of the tests were positive that would leave 1.5 billion out of the equation.
Therefore the true percentage would be 1.33% of 4.5 billion.

As you can see it is impossible to calculate the TRUE number if the true number of infections is not known. What is known is the number of recovered and the number of deceased. It is only from the KNOWN firgures we can calculate correctly. How you calculate that i.e. deaths per infection or deaths per outcome, is up to you.

I think Inc is on the right track though, as those infected are just that, until they have that infection resolved (one way or the other) then they should not be part of the calculation. Yes it looks much better but I don't think is a proper calculation. And to be honest, I hope they keep using that calculation in the media because if many saw the correct figures there would be scenes from the Walkin Dead.:eek2:

We will never know the true toll this had on China, those figures will be known only to the highest in "the Party" and never divulged to the world. China has mislead the world on this from the start.