Thread: Covid Mk ll

So have the booster shots started to arrive yet? The first of the most vulnerable were fully vaccinated close to 6 months ago. Hope we are not 6 months late getting the booster shots here.

All it takes is a few rogue Premiers to declare you are not fully vaccinated until you have had 3 shots.

Originally Posted by 350RRC

Isn't it 'Please stay at home'?

Not on the mid north coast. We haven't had any cases here in the coffs area from memory at all this year, actually think we are up to around 500 days covid free.

Originally Posted by JDNSW

Yass opened up on Saturday, despite unexplained sewage testing results. It locked down again tonight after (at least) one case was identified today. At a supermarket checkout on Friday.

My eldest grand daughter is a contact and has been tested this afternoon, hopefully results tomorrow.

And the kids went back to school today (for a week until the holidays), but now they all got emails telling them school is cancelled again, learn from home.

Ah - the good old Short Sharp Snap Freedom Days. We’ve seen our fair share of them in Victoria.

I see Gladys also cancelled the daily 11am press conference and then turned up for a 11am press conference the first day it was cancelled.

Hard to break old habits.

Further to Yass - last night parents got an email that Yass Public School has been exposed by "a member of the school community" being infected. Hopefully more information today!

Some good news for NSW and the ACT - Link to Chris Billington's excellent graphs, thanks to DiscoDB for putting these links up earlier

NSW
https://chrisbillington.net/COVID_NSW.html

Victoria
https://chrisbillington.net/COVID_VIC_2021.html

ACT
https://chrisbillington.net/COVID_ACT.html

New Zealand
https://chrisbillington.net/COVID_NZ.html

Regards,
Tote

Further from Yass - grand daughter's test has come back negative.

Lockdown in the ACT has been extended for another month .

Since the outbreak daily infection numbers have been relatively consistent in the 10 to 20 range - not climbing but not getting better. The original source is still not known but we have had at least another 6 new infections brought in from outside from Sydney as well as the original infection - determined by gnome testing. So it would seem that as we get on top of our local version a new one comes in from outside. While you can leave the ACT no one is supposed to come back in - the exception is the Prime Minister who is allowed to go to Sydney to visit his family on weekends and come back on Monday mornings - no one else can do this so I guess the rules only apply to the great unwashed.

The police do random stops at the borders and on average 80 cars are turned back each day - these are generally people from Sydney without a valid reason to come to the ACT - tourists. The number of people from Sydney - especially tradies is unbelieveable. We have the problem of Queanbeyan and to a lesser extent Yass - people from Canberra are a threat to those populations but equally residents from there are a threat to Canberra. Many people live across the border and work in the ACT.

The main issue with the lockdown is retail stores like Bunnings are only open for Click and Collect making it hard if you dont know exactly what you want.

Originally Posted by DiscoDB

Ah - the good old Short Sharp Snap Freedom Days. We’ve seen our fair share of them in Victoria.

I see Gladys also cancelled the daily 11am press conference and then turned up for a 11am press conference the first day it was cancelled.

Hard to break old habits.

I don't understand why so many people are getting all bent out of shape about the Premier not attending every single 11AM press conference.

I thought this morning's press conference was one of the more useful ones with health officials giving their usual important information and some slightly more useful questions from the reporters. I don't think it suffered from the Premier's absence.

It didn't surprise me that she turned up on Monday. I had predicted that she would do something like that to make the point that she was not hiding and was not going to miss every press conference.

Some people are worried that the government is not "being held to account" if she isn't there to answer questions, but so many of the reporters' questions are clearly not designed to do that.

If the mayors of the Western Region who had a meeting with her today were asked if they would have preferred that she attended the press conference instead, I think I know what they would consider to be more important. (Yes, I know that it would be possible to do both).

I watch the press conferences for the information provided by heath officials. I still get that without the Premier's presence.