Thread: Covid Mk ll

Originally Posted by 4bee

I can, once. It was a lunch shop & I had to ask, as you do, "Excuse me, am I invisible?"


No, certainly not 4 hours but when you are hungry it felt like it was.


Nowadays I let my feet do the talking & bugger off out.

I am just wondering what the Science is behind being safe from covid infection if exposed for less than 4 hours?

I thought the rules changes earlier and close contacts were only those who share your house with or those you spend more than 4 hours with in close proximity. Current numbers make contact tracing almost impossible.

Originally Posted by NavyDiver

Should and do is clearly not what is occurring here. Contact tracing was clearly abandoned in NSW and VIC I think. I know three Covid contract tracers personally. All lost that job months ago. I assume gov gave up yet we are still do it???? ( those three who are all very young all got new job covid vax bookings!)

A clearly very sick mask-less tosser in a supermarket had me back pedaling fast recently. I had signed in and have not heard a thing. I know the store manager and know it was a Covid case! Two staff are now off with Covid for that place!

I would be shocked if the contract tracing is working at all as I know people with Covid have been in my place. Not a word to us at all!

Not worth grumbling as no one in GOV seem to listen much. Excuse me if it sound like a grump to you all sorry.


Booster, wearing a surgical not cloth mask, and keeping your distance from people.

Agreed - hence used “should” not “will”.

It should also be automated and not rely on people scrolling through data to make contact. Then you could get an instant notification and decide if you need to take action.

I see it as we have all become personally responsible - and I am comfortable with this.

Looking hopeful that Omicron has not only got rid of Delta, but is past the peak. The effective reproduction rate is the lowest it has been in a long time.

All going well we may be getting closer to achieving herd immunity. 🤞

Originally Posted by trout1105

I am just wondering what the Science is behind being safe from covid infection if exposed for less than 4 hours?

Probably the same science behind why Perth and the Peel region isn’t in lockdown.

I'm getting potential contact notifications every day (NSW) on the sign on app.
But I believe the way it's now working is that if anyone goes positive and had visited that store/site at any time over that day, you will get a notification.

Originally Posted by 101RRS

I thought the rules changes earlier and close contacts were only those who share your house with or those you spend more than 4 hours with in close proximity. Current numbers make contact tracing almost impossible.

A close contact might now be someone you spend more that 4hrs with in close proximity, but it takes far far less to catch it. Even Johns relative caught it having a 15min conversation in an outside carpark.

All of this changing of the rules is about the narrative and making covid disappear. In 4-5 weeks when they stop testing school kids, all of a sudden covid will not exist anymore, I would bet PCR testing stops also and there will be no data on its spread and daily infections - the line will be that the only thing that matters now is ICU demand. Its a bit like how we stopped talking about the boats which solved that problem and how it became illegal to report on Naru which solved that problem also. Once people stop talking about covid and this is issue is over, then we can all get back to serving the economy (which apparently is our main objective in life) and we're good to go for an election while looking like the saviours.

It's not about the reality.

Probably easier to assume we have all been in contact with a Covid case if you live in Sydney or Melbourne.

Originally Posted by Slunnie

A close contact might now be someone you spend more that 4hrs with in close proximity, but it takes far far less to catch it. Even Johns relative caught it having a 15min conversation in an outside carpark.

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It's weird though.
I have a number of friends where only 1 family member has it, the rest continue to test negative.

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