Thread: Corona Virus

Originally Posted by vnx205

I immediately thought of that movie, but then realised it was the opposite of what has been proposed.

In the movie it was the tiny nation that declared war on the much bigger nation, probably the USA. The big nation's armed forces were distracted by something I can't remember and didn't notice that someone had declared war on them, so the tiny nation was victorious.

Great movie.

It quite possibly could be the same scenario, VN


The UK is so busy buggering things up for themselves at the moment, that they might not notice either.

I thought of Tomorrow, When the War Began, in which NZ invades us.

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

I thought of Tomorrow, When the War Began, in which NZ invades us.

NZ invaded Aus a long time ago Mick

Originally Posted by Homestar

Probably not a game changer, but if results are as stated, it comes under the heading of "every little bit helps".

And before we get too carried away, it needs to be pointed out that the data that the conclusions have been made on has not been published, the paper has not been peer reviewed, and the authors have already been criticised for "publishing via press release".

Originally Posted by windsock

Thinking a bit more on this... They were found to be infected here after being in NZ about a week.

If we assume they were infected before boarding the plane in UK, how many were infected on the flight to Doha, Brisbane then NZ?

If we presume someone else was infected on those flights and these sisters caught it on board the flight from the other passenger(s), how many other passengers have caught it and disembarked at Doha, Brisbane and Auckland?



As a side issue from this story, it has been revealed approx. 250 passengers a day are arriving at Auckland airport from overseas. It doesn't matter their nationality or their reasons to be here. What matters is health status and the monitoring of this for a quarantine duration. That is a lot of people to be managing. Reading that news I was surprised more cases were not being picked up. In the midst of a global pandemic our quarantine system missed the two infections they needed to find. Two infections per approx 1750 passengers arriving a week? If the management of this quarantine system has been poor enough to allow two out with infections, how good is the monitoring that is being done if only two travelers have been found infected (by an outside testing facility btw) when it would appear a couple of thousand a week are placed in quarantine? Two from approx 1750 in the middle of a global pandemic? 0.11% of our recent arrivals are positive? I call bull**** on that!

How many travelers are disembarking (not just transiting) in Aust each day? How is the traveler being managed? I am hoping this wasn't a very expensive lesson.

Most of the cases being picked up in Victoria - with the exception of some family clusters - are returning travellers who are in quarantine.

The stuff-ups have been that staff at one of the hotels being used for quarantine got infected.

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

I thought of Tomorrow, When the War Began, in which NZ invades us.

That wasn't NZ, it was a large, Asian nation to the north of us

Originally Posted by rick130

I take that as really only 8, as most all international returnees are coming back through Sydney or Melbourne and going straight into quarantine, which artificially inflates the figures.

The community transmission figure is the one to really be concerned about.

I'd take that as really only 6.

Lots of people returning from India apparently, with what must be very high rates of infection.

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

I thought of Tomorrow, When the War Began, in which NZ invades us.

Originally Posted by rick130

That wasn't NZ, it was a large, Asian nation to the north of us

Indoamnesia?