Thread: Covid Mk ll

Still nearly a fortnight to go - earliest booking I could get was 19/1. Hoping there are no glitches between now and then. I have no intention of going to town before then!

Originally Posted by NavyDiver

Doc mentioned he spoke with 10 plus new cases today as I was left with the hordes of booking calls. A few of ours are in hospital not many happily.
The Local Pizza xmas party shut the place with everyone sharing Ditto for two other business here.

I made a dick out of myself. My vax order came before we were open. ( I had put dates on the orders two weeks ago promise) a few hours of calls got a re-delivery this morning ( thank you DHL)

Expecting 600 +200 kids. Three trays of vax and two tiny boxes arrived. Dopey me assumed the little boxes were vax diluent. Called in a bit of panic and send pics of the delivery. Found the two tiny boxes were 200 5-12 vax! Same size as my sodium chloride boxes fooled me.

Driving around for almond croissant for my kids birthday - Failed- 6 shops all closed at 7am this morning. Bakeries normally open ?? The car que for Covid testing in Burwood and Doncaster was WOW plus.
croissant fail had a quick supermarket visit to get some alternatives. The Shelves seemed rather bare. Not stressed until we get hundreds of covid cases in my place with the kids next week. PPE will be double duty stuff- Its bloody hot inside all that guff

I noticed the Drakes out in the countryside this weekend had a few bare patches on the shelves, same with the Woolies near me, which had no toilet paper. If you can't get almond croissants at a bakery, Starbucks does them, or at least they do in Brissy.

Originally Posted by trout1105

Using the RAT to self test is a good concept in theory BUT there will always be a cohort of people that even if they get a positive test result will ignore it and front up to work regardless.
It only takes one person to bastardise their RAT test and front up to work to continue the spread of this virus AND cause a continuance of staff shortages.

I doubt there's much choice over here in covidville there's simply not the testing capacity to give everyone PCR tests and the horse has well and truly bolted on registering RAT tests to capture or enforce reporting of the results. I've seen a couple of informal surveys where they asked the question " if you've done a RAT test and been positive have you followed up with a PCR" resulting in addition of that case to the numbers. Both surveys I have seen were running around 60% for "not in the numbers". I'd reckon NSW case numbers are running at about 100,000 a day. I'm not sure that's necessarily a bad thing though as most cases seem to be pretty mild and short lasting, particularly as the current guidelines are a week off work if you are positive and if you have no symptoms you are good to go with the added benefit of a few months of natural immunity heading into winter. The hundreds of thousands of NSW people who have caught covid since Christmas will be all good to go back to work when their holidays end

I got 2 alerts from the covid app this morning after a half hour trip down the street. On the upside its good to know the notification of exposure system is still working but it does show how widespread exposure sites are, I was in both places for a total of 30 min or less. (nsw app records your check out when you leave a shop)

Regards,
Tote

Originally Posted by incisor

that is not where my research lead me but i wasn't given another choice so went with what they had...


still no ill affects other than a lightly tender upper arm

Surprised to hear that, I thought it was common knowledge( well that is what Diver told me ) main thing, you are done.

Originally Posted by Geedublya

I could only get Pfizer choice as well. Arm was bloody sore but no other effects so far.

I spoke too soon, chills a headache and muscular aches started up.

Originally Posted by Geedublya

I spoke too soon, chills a headache and muscular aches started up.

Still fine here!

Hope your through it quickly….

I was boosted 20/11/21, all pfizer, no ill effects and have eluded infection thus far. No point going out, the shelves in the shops are bare.

Originally Posted by Tote

........................ I'm not sure that's necessarily a bad thing though as most cases seem to be pretty mild and short lasting, particularly as the current guidelines are a week off work if you are positive and if you have no symptoms you are good to go with the added benefit of a few months of natural immunity heading into winter. .........................
Regards,
Tote

A few questions about this immunity assumption (not asking Tote this).

1. If one gets the Omicron 'sniffle' is one immune to Delta for while, or vica versa?

2. The preferred booster is one of the mRNA types which, apparently, is not as effective against Omicron as AZ because they target specific spike proteins that the big O has mutated from. (3Toes post about hospital admissions and deaths a couple of pages ago)

The idea of mRNA boosting came about well before Omicron came about.

Is this idea still correct?

3. What's wrong with getting AZ as a booster given #2 ?

DL