Thread: Corona Virus

Originally Posted by bob10

Yes, it is a difficult situation. Dare I say,' Unprecedented.? ' I can see your point, and understand where you are coming from. I wish I had a crystal ball, all we can do is hold our breath [ metaphorically] and hope for the best. If the best doesn't come , we have to learn to live with it. As difficult as that may be. Or , in the best Qld tradition, drink rum and carry on.

If one is Blind Drunk 110% of the time one isn't going to worry about this ****. Sounds good to me. Bring it on.

Originally Posted by shwza

😂😂😂 good luck with this lot

Ian has ways & Magic Buttons.

Originally Posted by superquag

Too late. Have been on Vit D3 / K2 supplementation for years. Haven't had a cold or flu for.... Years. My Serum level is always on high side of the Bell Curve Why test ?- Because individual D - level is not tied to dose, we're all very different in how we absorb or generate it.
(K2 "re-directs" calcium into bones, not arteries)

"Deficient" is regarded as <30nmol/L, 50 and you're looking Good, 70 and beyond is Jolly Useful and to be desired. Over 120 and you'll rarely get any 'flu.

The Yanks use a funnier measurement, ng/mL, in which you want at least 30 to feel safe. 70 is great !

Dose advice ranges from 2,000 IU to 10,000IU. Dr Tony FAUCI admits to taking 6,000IU. - He does not have covid (That we know of...) but then again, he appears to be in excellent health - for any age above 50. I think he's 80 - something.

IF you take a Statin, then pills/Cod Liver Oil supplements are useful, as low cholesterol = lower sun-generated Vit D.

How useful ? - higher initial Vit D correlates with milder symptoms / no infection than 'Deficient' numbers. - I'll take every advantage I can get, at my vintage ! Some treatment protocols use high doses of D, 10,000 or more.

Gosh, the things we find on a 4WD forum !

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Dr Fauci has also been vaccinated.

Originally Posted by 4bee

Two of a kind then? (High Five) We like our Virgins in one piece not a hundred.

All I can think of when you write this Des is George Burns!!!

“Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.”

Originally Posted by RHS58

Dr Fauci has also been vaccinated.

Obviously not a 'Time Lord', then!

Originally Posted by Tote

Without wanting to drag this into the political sphere, I wonder if the government is motivated by the impact of shutting down the hotel quarantine system on the hotel chains that are hosting it? There's a lot of beds in Sydney being sustained by the quarantine business that would otherwise be empty throwing people out of work.
The Wellcamp airport may well be a viable option but I've only heard the plus side for implementing it driven by those who support it. I imagine that if Wellcamp was used then every other state would want to implement remote Quarantine which would probably not work. There's also a difference in the standards that the medical unions would have the government implement and the reality of achieving those standards in a hastily constructed Donga community such as is proposed for Wellcamp. This bloke writes of a very high standard of facility that would be difficult to achieve in a short space of time We need to face the hard truths of hotel quarantine
Some suggestions such as Military bases and Christmas Island are clearly not suitable due to remoteness, lack of facilities or both.

I would have thought that Rottnest Island would be another ideal location but I've not heard anyone championing it, other than Andrew Miller.. I suspect there is a bit of Nimbyism going on here too as I'm sure state premiers would love for quarantine to be far away from capital cities, managed and financed by the federal government so they could get on with running their states and toss rocks at the feds every time someone got infected, I would if I was a Premier.

And FWIW I don't disagree with either of Bob's points but I wanted to explore the effect of a "heads in the sand" approach of closed borders over the longer term. Regardless of the reasons for Austraila remaining isolated there will come a day when as a country we are significantly disadvantaged by this approach and the rest of the world moves on. At the rate that the UK is vaccinating its population that point is looming over the horizon, the same with the US.

Regards,
Tote

The Wellcamp airport may well be a viable option but I've only heard the plus side for implementing it driven by those who support it. I imagine that if Wellcamp was u

Tote I believe it should be an option for every Australian State to have a Remote Quarantine Area & the sooner the better as Hotel Qu. seems to breaking down day after day.

Originally Posted by 4bee

Tote I believe it should be an option for every Australian State to have a Remote Quarantine Area & the sooner the better as Hotel Qu. seems to breaking down day after day.

Why don't we just use Canberra? ? No one's going to break the rules and go there, might have a problem with runaways though

Right at the bottom end of the whole 'hotel quarantine' issue, is a problem with "The Narrative", and that is the dogma that transmission is via DROPLETS, not 'aerosol'. A droplet or three is impeded / stopped by a...... Mask. Therefore, Masking ain't ever going away....

But, if the heretics are correct, then aerosolisation is the villain, and masks lose their cachet. Oops. And aerosols weigh very little, so tend to hang in the air and float for tens of metres.

Here's a good comparison / Visualisation site. - Zooming In: Visualizing the Relative Size of Particles