Thread: Corona Virus

Originally Posted by 4bee

I wonder if people actually know what 90 & 110 mean these days?

Well, in the case of the new Defender it's their price in thousands.

Originally Posted by Arapiles

Well, in the case of the new Defender it's their price in thousands.

I realise that is TiC, but it doesn't sound that impossible when one takes a shufti at some websites.

Originally Posted by Gordie

Because it is tradition to speak of fish in pounds.

Maybe in NZ but not here - well not any more - is technically illegal .

Originally Posted by 101RRS

Maybe in NZ but not here - well not any more - is technically illegal .

Huh?????

Originally Posted by 4bee

I realise that is TiC, but it doesn't sound that impossible when one takes a shufti at some websites.

I constructed a P400 the other day and it came in over $150k.

And most of the options I chose are standard on the Y62 Patrol at $50k less ....

Originally Posted by Arapiles

I constructed a P400 the other day and it came in over $150k.

And most of the options I chose are standard on the Y62 Patrol at $50k less ....

Are you comparing metric against imperial? Cheers

Originally Posted by BradC

While I understand what you are getting at, it would appear that many years of constant "growth" at a rate much faster than the existing population could actually create functioning members of society has seen those groups in those specific regions and occupations become "average Melburnians".

No, I wasn't doing some kind of covert signalling - it really is just specific groups and regions:

"Of Victoria's 2060 active cases on Friday, 993 were related to aged care and 297 were among healthcare workers – between them about 63 per cent of the total. In response, the state government announced that, from late on Friday it had started asymptomatic testing in the COVID-19 wards of hospitals. All staff would be tested weekly for six weeks even if they displayed no symptoms, a spokeswoman said.

Professor Sutton said the cases in metropolitan Melbourne were concentrated in just a couple of dozen local government areas in the city's north and west and in the south-east.

"You can't lock down five million people in Melbourne because you have a certain number of healthcare workers who are contracting COVID-19," Deakin University epidemiologist Professor Catherine Bennett said.

Melbourne University epidemiologist Professor James McCaw broadly agreed, saying there was now "very little circulation within the general community"

Mr Andrews said there was just one new case with an unknown source and 286 healthcare workers who were listed as active cases.

Victoria's Chief Health Officer has declared the coronavirus is on its "last gasp" as the state recorded another 76 cases of coronavirus and 11 deaths ...... "We are on the winning stretch now, there's no question. This is the last gasp of the virus, and we need to work harder than maybe we've ever done before to make sure that that last gasp is, indeed, the last one," he said."

Victoria could move to reopen as new cases largely restricted to health workers, experts say

Victoria coronavirus: Premier Daniel Andrews confirms 76 new coronavirus cases and 11 overnight deaths

So, I'll reiterate the points I've made before:

1. The current outbreak is not widespread in the community and never was - it is, and always was, limited to specific worksites and suburbs;

2. There's been virtually no "community transmission", if that term means infected people whose source of infection can't be traced;

3. Notwithstanding sledging by the Murdoch press, there's no evidence that it was circulating within or because of any specific ethnic, racial or religious groups - unless "health care worker", "abbatoir worker" or "aged care worker" are ethnic groups;

4. Compliance by the general population with the Stage 4 restrictions - which are I think, stricter than anyone else in Australia has had to comply with - has been almost universal, notwithstanding that the virus isn't circulating widely in most of Melbourne.


All of the above information is freely available on the internet.

Funny though that the only news anyone on here thought to focus on was the 100 - 200 protesters yesterday.

From British Medical Journal and the Long term Covid effects , heart, circulation etc
Quite dry as such but interesting

Hard to distingush from Postviral fatigue syndrome/CFS/ME