Thread: Corona Virus

This is really worth a read re transmission of the Covid 19 virus and how its transmission mode was not understood.
All pandemic long, scientists brawled over how the virus spreads. Droplets! No, aerosols! At the heart of the fight was a teensy error with huge consequences.

See here: The 60-Year-Old Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill | WIRED

In good news, I tested negative today.

Sydney not lockdown scene - its on again.

Coronavirus: Pfizer's Covid vaccine is linked to MORE blood clots than AstraZeneca's in the UK | Daily Mail Online

Back in March

I got curious coz an aquaintance was saying something about a pfizer blood clot in qld but it seems it is being written off as due to a knee operation.

Don't know if the crowd above is mainstream or tabloid journalism (hard to tell these days with so many 'opinion' pieces)

Actually doing a search found plenty of not so glowing pfizer stuff

Also on the CDC website there is a searchable database of reported side effects and no vaccine is without its faults. Pfizer has memory loss and heart and other organ related issues. The percentages for Astra and Pfizer side effects per population were of course sfa compared to dangers of aspirin (I take daily aspirin), birth control pills and simply covid itself.

The only issue with short testing time is are we going to find Astra causes blindness in 20 years time and Pfizer causes your heart to explode in 20 years time etc etc although I suspect bureacratic hurdles not just safety has a lot to do with how long it takes to get things approved when there is no urgency like a pandemic.

Now where the hell is my second Astra shot dammit !!!

Originally Posted by sashadidi

This is really worth a read re transmission of the Covid 19 virus and how its transmission mode was not understood.
All pandemic long, scientists brawled over how the virus spreads. Droplets! No, aerosols! At the heart of the fight was a teensy error with huge consequences.

See here: The 60-Year-Old Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill | WIRED

Posted in Walrus on the 14th of May.

Q & A , health experts advice " NSW should have gone into lock down to stop people wandering". Considering NSW has exported this outbreak to NZ, and Victoria, and goodness knows where else, ,and have had to shut down their Parliament, they have a point.

NSW government criticised on Q+A for not going into COVID lockdown over Bondi cluster of Delta variant - ABC News

Originally Posted by bob10

Q & A , health experts advice " NSW should have gone into lock down to stop people wandering". Considering NSW has exported this outbreak to NZ, and Victoria, and goodness knows where else, ,and have had to shut down their Parliament, they have a point.

NSW government criticised on Q+A for not going into COVID lockdown over Bondi cluster of Delta variant - ABC News

Potentially exported to NZ.

Sewage testing in Wellington was negative yesterday from tests done on Monday 21, the day he left. Later test results may be interesting. Critical five day swab tests results are due in today. By the end of the weekend we will know if he was infectious while here. Problem as I see it here at the moment though is all focus is on Wellington. People were at the locations of interest from all over NZ and now they are home again.

Originally Posted by windsock

Potentially exported to NZ.

Sewage testing in Wellington was negative yesterday from tests done on Monday 21, the day he left. Later test results may be interesting. Critical five day swab tests results are due in today. By the end of the weekend we will know if he was infectious while here. Problem as I see it here at the moment though is all focus is on Wellington. People were at the locations of interest from all over NZ and now they are home again.

Good news, hopefully it remains that way.

Wife and have had our second astra shot, no side effects at all on second one, bearable body aches on first one but all good on second.