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I'm personally not seeing Homestar's reply as personal, blunt maybe. No doubt due to frustration over your constant politicization of the subject and the recurring subliminal, political messages. It's so ingrained you probably don't even know you're doing it.Quote:
Originally Posted by SpudHeadTed
I don't know who you vote for, but I'll take a WAG and confidently suggest it's not tory.
Victoria records 120 COVID cases and two deaths as details of lockdown extension set to be announced - ABC News
C'mon Victoria, I thought you'd get this one under control quicker than this. What's going on?
Personally I don't give a rats about the football codes but do understand that it brings pleasure to lots of people so is probably a good thing to keep it going. It does annoy me when the teams and their hangers on get to have special dispensation to travel where they want, have border closures deferred so they can all get to their bubble, break covid rules by sneaking girls into their rooms etc and generally misbehaving.Quote:
Originally Posted by DiscoMick
If you are referring to the ex president of one of the clubs not being able to attend the grand final as a commentator, tough titties, he can work from home just like the rest of us.....
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Originally Posted by BradC
I'm surprised too - it's a big one-day jump. Maybe it relates to the warm weekend a couple of weeks ago when people were out and about? Maybe there was a super-spreader event? Last year it turned out that some of the big increases were because entire large families in the Western suburbs were getting infected: this was actually better (in a controlling the spread of disease sense) than it being 8 individuals.
The Vic government is now talking about abandoning the zero Covid goal with the question being what number of cases represents bumping along and doesn't trigger a Sydney-style outbreak.
I assume the big vic jump just kicked my hope of visiting Western Vic ASAP down the line[bawl] bugger plus.
1116 new cases in NSW and 4 more deaths so VIC is doing pretty well in comparison even with 100 ca
ses today.
Keep at it VIC you will nail this bastard eventually[thumbsupbig]
I find that concerning. The prevailing attitude seems to be "look, people are going to die, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make". I suppose at the end of the day, dead people can't vote, so it's not an ongoing problem.Quote:
Originally Posted by Arapiles
I've seen a lot of commentary about the WA "We don't want it here because it'll overwhelm our health system", but unless you are inside the WA health system you won't know it's already chronically overwhelmed and we have zero COVID cases.
There has to be a balance struck, and I really don't know where that is because I don't have all the information, but the general "**** you, I'm alright Jack" attitude which is keeping the R > 1, I find personally concerning.
Re: Today’s VIC cases.
Need to remember we still have a rate of reproduction above 1.3 and are probably 3-4 weeks away from the peak. Has come down from 2 at the start of lockdown 6, but never got to zero at the end of lockdown 5 (probably re-opened too quickly).
I also noticed that numbers drop after the weekend, and then increase mid-week. The level of test results also cycles in line with this pattern.
My concern is a lot of people clearly have given up on getting back to or close to zero (before we get over 80% vaccinated), but I guess this reflects the number of deaths is much lower this time around as more people get vaccinated.
On a positive side, at present NSW has a lower rate of reproduction than VIC but this can change quickly if they start to relax too early.
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Originally Posted by NavyDiver
Just find someone with broad shoulders & a devil may care attitude & you'll be jake.
It is obvious that some "authorities" are not pulling their weight. Nothing new there then.
[QUOTE=BradC;3106701]I find that concerning. The prevailing attitude seems to be "look, people are going to die, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make". I suppose at theI've seen a lot of commentary about the WA "We don't want it here because it'll overwhelm our health system", but unless you are inside the WA health system you won't know it's already chronically overwhelmed and we have zero COVID cases.Quote:
end of the day, dead people can't vote, so it's not an ongoing problem.
There has to be a balance struck, and I really don't know where that is because I don't have all the information, but the general "**** you, I'm alright Jack" attitude which is keeping the R > 1, I find personally concerning.
"end of the day, dead people can't vote, so it's not an ongoing problem."
They also cannot collect their Pensions so Treasury should be happy.
It will all look good on paper. OH YEEEEAAAAAR?