Covid Mk ll

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Originally Posted by NavyDiver

I did go in to a sauna for 15 minutes after running, gym, bike and swim. Now we do it at work every day for free :( not fun to be honest. I got lucky today. Doctor kicked me out as he had not seen the PCR test and IS HIGHLY STRESSED. Possibly by me?

Any way I ripped off all my PPE and ran home to work remotely- Tea, lunch and window open. Off for a run shortly- The joy of being booted :)

My poor nurse and staff have now joined the STRESSED+ crew. Wish I could get them to run. The free sauna's in PPE are NOT helping!

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Obviously you were one of the chosen ones who get all the good Jobs. Or not.[bigrolf]

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Originally Posted by bob10

None up here, we use gum leaves .Apparently southerners cleaned supply out. A lot of **** down south apparently. [bighmmm]

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I reckon that method has to be treated with a lot of respect if those leaves come from a Leaf with hard dry sharp edges like a fretwork Saw.


While crouching over it, it is a bit difficult to grasp said leaf at each end & then with a slight sawing motion cut the business off.



To hard & it's goodbye ' nads, too soft & it "smears"a bit.
A Banana Leaf would seem fairly ideal & it would save looking for those extra sheets we all seem to need during Stage 2, & they could be torn up into normal size sheets & hung on a nail behind the Dunny door.. Job done.

TiC

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Originally Posted by Arapiles

I've seen a few places in the country with the toilet paper aisles cleaned out ..... after 2 years of this, God knows why. Maybe because it was really only Melbourne that had issues with Covid until Omicron came along and spread the love to the regions? Apparently it's all through my hometown now.

Edit: and the local big Coles has limits on toilet paper, paracetamol, chicken breasts, chicken thighs, mince and sausages. No such limits in the local IGAs - apparently Coles and Woolies are having problems with their overcomplicated but over-centralised supply chains, e.g., they only get their chicken from Inghams and Inghams is having problems with staff absenteeism due to Covid.

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Scary bit is after 2 years of this crap - a lot of the doom and gloom predictions have started to come true. Perhaps we should have stayed in lockdown until 2024 (or when WW3 starts - which ever comes first). [emoji33][emoji33][emoji33]

Got to use my gen set during an extended power outage - would be a disaster to lose all of the food supplies we stocked up on. So that is one tick for my prepper partner. [emoji106]

Still yet to to work through the toilet paper stockpile - thank god it has no use by date. If the food had gone off though…..well then it may be seriously needed. 🤢

By the way - on a genuinely serious note: has WA past it’s Omicron peak already? Signs are looking good for the hermit state. If they beat Omicron there will be no re-opening for some time to come. [emoji848]

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Originally Posted by Arapiles

I've seen a few places in the country with the toilet paper aisles cleaned out ..... after 2 years of this, God knows why. Maybe because it was really only Melbourne that had issues with Covid until Omicron came along and spread the love to the regions? Apparently it's all through my hometown now.

Edit: and the local big Coles has limits on toilet paper, paracetamol, chicken breasts, chicken thighs, mince and sausages. No such limits in the local IGAs - apparently Coles and Woolies are having problems with their overcomplicated but over-centralised supply chains, e.g., they only get their chicken from Inghams and Inghams is having problems with staff absenteeism due to Covid.

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Issues with the Tissues in fact?[bigrolf]


I suppose if Push comes to Shove one could wipe their bum on a Banana. If you get my drift.

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Originally Posted by Arapiles

I've seen a few places in the country with the toilet paper aisles cleaned out ..... after 2 years of this, God knows why. Maybe because it was really only Melbourne that had issues with Covid until Omicron came along and spread the love to the regions? Apparently it's all through my hometown now.

Edit: and the local big Coles has limits on toilet paper, paracetamol, chicken breasts, chicken thighs, mince and sausages. No such limits in the local IGAs - apparently Coles and Woolies are having problems with their overcomplicated but over-centralised supply chains, e.g., they only get their chicken from Inghams and Inghams is having problems with staff absenteeism due to Covid.

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Interesting regarding the supply chain issues, we were at Warren last weekend and the IGA there has plenty of stock and no limits, in fact their produce and meat is consistently better than anything that we can get in Yass and Canberra.

Regards,
Tote

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Originally Posted by Arapiles

I've seen a few places in the country with the toilet paper aisles cleaned out ..... after 2 years of this, God knows why. Maybe because it was really only Melbourne that had issues with Covid until Omicron came along and spread the love to the regions? Apparently it's all through my hometown now.

Edit: and the local big Coles has limits on toilet paper, paracetamol, chicken breasts, chicken thighs, mince and sausages. No such limits in the local IGAs - apparently Coles and Woolies are having problems with their overcomplicated but over-centralised supply chains, e.g., they only get their chicken from Inghams and Inghams is having problems with staff absenteeism due to Covid.

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I think I’ve already mentioned this but I’ll go again
Just before Christmas I done some wiring at a customers house who works for one of the major toilet paper manufacturers, he said that the shipping container shortage is stopping the main pulp manufacturers getting the base rolls (bloody big ones) sent off to the end product manufacturers
He heard about this through management and stocked a spare room full before they stopped letting staff buy the rolls at discount

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Gav

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Originally Posted by DiscoDB

Scary bit is after 2 years of this crap - a lot of the doom and gloom predictions have started to come true. Perhaps we should have stayed in lockdown until 2024 (or when WW3 starts - which ever comes first). [emoji33][emoji33][emoji33]

Got to use my gen set during an extended power outage - would be a disaster to lose all of the food supplies we stocked up on. So that is one tick for my prepper partner. [emoji106]

Still yet to to work through the toilet paper stockpile - thank god it has no use by date. If the food had gone off though…..well then it may be seriously needed. 🤢

By the way - on a genuinely serious note: has WA past it’s Omicron peak already? Signs are looking good for the hermit state. If they beat Omicron there will be no re-opening for some time to come. [emoji848]

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Seeing as how we are being serious, no jurisdiction in the World has done as good as QLD. Just saying.

Top doc hopeful as we sneak up on peak: Fewer in hospital, but 15 more lives lost (inqld.com.au)

Before we start talking its over, there's a new kid on the block. Omicron BA2. Now the dominant strain in Denmark. The WHO says there were 21 million new COVID cases reported globally last week, the highest weekly number since the pandemic began. Masses of unvaccinated people in some countries mean more variants are almost certain to emerge. WA may have pulled the right rein on this.


New Omicron variant 'more contagious' than version sweeping globe (inqld.com.au)

The Vic Premier advocates three doses as the benchmark vaccination , but National Cabinet has not agreed to change the definition from 2 doses as the benchmark, besides international recognition that the third dose is critical. This comes at a time when hundreds of thousands of booster shot appointments are going to waste across NSW. And children are going back to school in NSW and Victoria. What could possibly go wrong?

Andrews flags three-dose COVID vaccination definition (thenewdaily.com.au)

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Originally Posted by DiscoDB

By the way - on a genuinely serious note: has WA past it’s Omicron peak already? Signs are looking good for the hermit state.

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Only because our testing rate is crap. Plus yesterday being even worse with less than 6k tests done.

We went for a bit of a drive yesterday about cracker time and saw huge masses of people all packed together in various "viewing spots" and nary a mask to be seen. Give it a week or two.