Thread: Covid Mk ll

Originally Posted by discomatt69

That is insane given how many are out there just claiming it every 3 months as a wage top up, it should be stopped because the scammers are ripping off the tax payer millions, covid is everywhere, remove restrictions for work, everyone go to work unless your sick, and I mean sick not just a positive test and slight sniffle which is what the vast majority get.
Get on with life, can people not see what is happening to the world due to covid responses?
The longer the responses go on the worst the world will get, no computer chips for cars is bad enough, wait until half the worlds computers and servers need fixing...
The world has gone totally mad
Rant over

Yes, I see what is happening - lack of response to covid now has almost a hundred deaths a day, with the number climbing rapidly. Hospitals Australia wide are in crisis due to the number of covid patients and the number of staff who have caught it. The economic problems you refer to are mainly due to the effects of the disease rather than attempts to limit it. Sending infectious people to work to spread the infection is the last thing needed. Same for insisting people go to the office when they could work from home just so that inner city businesses can survive. And the refusal to require mask wearing in places where it is obviously necessary is criminal.

The chip shortage has little if anything to do with covid precautions - every chip maker in the world has been working flat out, and I am unaware of any that has been restricted by covid precautions. The problem is that demand has been different from predictions by manufacturers and customers, combined with the cost, lead time and expertise needed to increase chip production.

You are right, the world has gone totally mad. Almost the whole world has abandoned most realistic precautions against covid despite the rate of sickness and death being higher than at any time so far in the pandemic. Covid is expected to be the principal cause of death in Australia by next month.

Originally Posted by JDNSW

Yes, I see what is happening - lack of response to covid now has almost a hundred deaths a day, with the number climbing rapidly. Hospitals Australia wide are in crisis due to the number of covid patients and the number of staff who have caught it. The economic problems you refer to are mainly due to the effects of the disease rather than attempts to limit it. Sending infectious people to work to spread the infection is the last thing needed. Same for insisting people go to the office when they could work from home just so that inner city businesses can survive. And the refusal to require mask wearing in places where it is obviously necessary is criminal.

The chip shortage has little if anything to do with covid precautions - every chip maker in the world has been working flat out, and I am unaware of any that has been restricted by covid precautions. The problem is that demand has been different from predictions by manufacturers and customers, combined with the cost, lead time and expertise needed to increase chip production.

You are right, the world has gone totally mad. Almost the whole world has abandoned most realistic precautions against covid despite the rate of sickness and death being higher than at any time so far in the pandemic. Covid is expected to be the principal cause of death in Australia by next month.

ABC Melbourne covered my pet P.I.T.A. being Chemists not funded to take Covid Anti Viral meds to high risk Covid cases at home. That was two days ago and Fed Government/Health department has yet to act on it. . I was solo at work with three staff told not to come to work so did not participate or hear it sadly. Shared the issue on a forum of Practice managers gave a ripper. A Doctor treating a Covid Positive type ran into that person maskless in a supermarket 30 minutes later (QLD). Lots more similar yarns about. A person who was hurt tested + in the Ambulance. Hospital as Paramedics are really in the firing line again now.

We are all in the lottery of impacts from Covid, Severe or worse, Just a PITA, Long term impacts or garden type mild or asymptomatic. We know repeat cases are giving "you" a first, second or third chance in the Covid lottery.

I find it odd so many feel not having 3rd or 4th booster is smart when I cannot see any negative impacts of have 3rd or 4th booster? It is a odd world when polio, measles and other almost eliminated diseases are having a revival due to some clear misinformation campaigners.

No matter- as usual we can choose to take care of people we care about or not. Sharing is NOT caring!

A run in the sun, Lunch then Covid Vax sessions for me today. 15 km mental health run yesterday to build on

Originally Posted by 101RRS

There has been a bit in the media recently about income support being extended to cover those with Covid and their close contacts who are either casual workers or don't have sick leave. Not much else has been disclosed about eligibility for the payment.

My niece is a casual worker in the health care industry and recently got Covid and had to stop work - in her industry for two weeks - she applied for the payment but was knocked back - apparently there is some sort of assets test and as she has a car that could be sold to fund her "sick leave" and a couple of Thou in the bank she was deemed ineligible for the payment so has to fund her sick leave herself.

Now she did the right thing and stayed home and isolated but how many learning they would need to sell their car or use their meager savings to pay for government enforced sick leave would continue to work with covid - some certainly would.

Garry

If she sells the motor she may have great difficulty getting to work. "They" would have thought of that wouldn't they? Wouldn't they?

Originally Posted by NavyDiver

ABC Melbourne covered my pet P.I.T.A. being Chemists not funded to take Covid Anti Viral meds to high risk Covid cases at home. That was two days ago and Fed Government/Health department has yet to act on it. . I was solo at work with three staff told not to come to work so did not participate or hear it sadly. Shared the issue on a forum of Practice managers gave a ripper. A Doctor treating a Covid Positive type ran into that person maskless in a supermarket 30 minutes later (QLD). Lots more similar yarns about. A person who was hurt tested + in the Ambulance. Hospital as Paramedics are really in the firing line again now.

We are all in the lottery of impacts from Covid, Severe or worse, Just a PITA, Long term impacts or garden type mild or asymptomatic. We know repeat cases are giving "you" a first, second or third chance in the Covid lottery.

I find it odd so many feel not having 3rd or 4th booster is smart when I cannot see any negative impacts of have 3rd or 4th booster? It is a odd world when polio, measles and other almost eliminated diseases are having a revival due to some clear misinformation campaigners.

No matter- as usual we can choose to take care of people we care about or not. Sharing is NOT caring!

A run in the sun, Lunch then Covid Vax sessions for me today. 15 km mental health run yesterday to build on

You really do have a cushy number going on there, James. 15km? ****, I do that in a year.

Originally Posted by 4bee

You really do have a cushy number going on there, James. 15km? ****, I do that in a year.

Get a pedometer Des. I bet you do more than that every week or so mate

Originally Posted by NavyDiver

Get a pedometer Des. I bet you do more than that every week or so mate

I wish, I really wish.

Article by Professor Chris Goodnow:

Professor Chris Goodnow holds the Bill and Patricia Ritchie Chair, is head of the Immunogenomics Laboratory at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, and professor and director of the UNSW Cellular Genomics Futures Institute in the Faculty of Medicine at UNSW Sydney.

He seems suitably qualified ....

Three myths about COVID-19 — and the biggest challenge that lies ahead - ABC News

Biggest take away .... getting infected doesn't protect you from the effects of Covid and multiple infections lead to worse outcomes:


"The risk of cardiovascular disease, for example, increased after one infection, but doubled in people who had two infections, and tripled in those who had been infected thrice."

Another negative test. My luck must run out eventually