Thread: Corona Virus

Originally Posted by bob10

Yeah ,I get it. It's just disappointing that we see health workers tirelessly putting in the hard yards, age care workers as well. And then aged care workers told the federal mob are mandating vaccinations, with the wink, wink, because they don't want to be vaccinated. And we know that just isn't true for the vast majority. Can't go into it here, of course. Then our tireless health workers are forced to work double shifts, etc, etc, and looked at with scorn when they get tested positive , by people who should know better. You only kick a dog for so long before it bites you .

Cheers Bob. Yes the political smoke and mirrors elitism is unAustralian. and yes we can’t talk about it here - I’ve already been sanctioned on this site for stating the bleeding obvious. So I will stop now, except to say that I’m ashamed to be an Australian caught in the midst this internationally incompetent response to Covid19 in 2021, both in terms of the appalling treatment of the second class half of our fellow citizens, as well as our National attitude to those countries that desperately need the support of wealthy countries like ours.

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

The USA has not approved the Astra Zeneca vaccine for emergency use, so it does not regard people like me who have had AZ as having been vaccinated.
If you're going to the USA (not me) then get Pfizer, Moderna or Johnson and Johnson.

Whether they have or not is no consequence to me as I have never wanted to visit there previously & no more OS destinations for me anyway. Done my travelling starting back when PNG got Nationhood then Europe on & off for quite a few years after.

Originally Posted by SpudHeadTed

Yes, problem is I will need to join the NSW health ministers ‘hunger games’ !! because I did the right thing and got AstraZeneca first dose only a week before they changed the advice to folks in their 50’s getting Pfizer. But because I’ve had one dose of AZ I can’t now get Pfizer !!!

My wife is American! and we need to travel to USA and EU for work!! Postponed already for a year now!! We are NOT happy!

They're researching the mixing of AZ and Pfizer and have had positive results. It'll be interesting to see if this will become an option or if later down the track you can have Pfizer doses as a booster.

Originally Posted by bob10

I'll be wearing Cowboys colours, the Wife is the Manly supporter. Well she was born there , and we did live there for a year or two after marriage, in the Manly National building on the Corso, overlooking Manly beach. Good times, Went to work on the Hydrofoil, walked thru the Gardens, down Cowper wharf road, while the ship was in refit. The walk back to the Manly Ferry after work took a bit longer normally, a cleansing ale at the Rockers, and on Friday another at the Bells, then the first and last, walk down the Corso to the North Steyn [ I think it was, on the corner opposite the beach] I loved living in Sydney.

That sounds a bit like half The Village People, Bob.


& remember....


Hard Hats, Cowboys,

Originally Posted by Slunnie

They're researching the mixing of AZ and Pfizer and have had positive results. It'll be interesting to see if this will become an option or if later down the track you can have Pfizer doses as a booster.

Yes thanks mate, it's the vague later that's the problem for us. ...Also very uncertain given the Aus vaccine roll out and the appalling attitude towards any Australian citizens who need to travel overseas or return to Australia.

We're also way behind on approving Pfizer after AZ ...while some countries have already prioritised Pfizer as second shot - AZ and Pfizer together are more effective. But here because of lack of supply of Pfizer, under 60's who had first shot of AZ HAVE TO GET SECOND SHOT OF AZ! ...Even though it is a risk and AZ is being phased out!.

Yes I know the advice is that second AZ is not as risky, but it must be if other countries are prioritizing Pfizer for second shot. AZ is only for emergencies in USA and if it was not made in UK it may not be accepted in EU either.

How easy it is to make a simple mistake. Covid alert in a WA hospital, after a seafarer was brought ashore for testing. [ 28 staff members , 18 patients and five visitors need to be tested] ;

Infection breach exposes WA hospital staff, patients to COVID-19 (msn.com)

Originally Posted by Slunnie

In the rural areas we have taken it seriously by wearing masks etc even though it isn't out here. It does our head in when people in lockdown where the virus is circulating wont isolate and they keep coming out here, by bus loads in some cases! At this rate I cant see how it wont explode in the Greater Sydney area and we are all hoping it doesn't get brought out here so we get locked down as well.

There seems to be a courtesy in rural areas that is absent in the large cities.

I was working down in Portland earlier in the year and everyone was wearing masks in public even though they didn't have to. I don't think they've had a local Covid case the whole time.

DL

We are being told we must consider living with the virus. Long Covid suggests perhaps we should think again.
from the New Daily;


‘Destroyed my life‘: Long COVID patients warn against living with the virus (thenewdaily.com.au)