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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Nov 16, 2021 22:21:46 GMT
My home state has had officially 4 Covid related fatalities since the beginning of all this badness. Our interstate borders are opening up here November 23rd.. There is a mad dash for the public to get their shots.. As of yesterday we were over 80% of over-16 year olds jabbed.. It's expected there will be a big increase in cases here as Melbournites and Sydneysiders will immediately flock over here.. ARGH. And yes. I didn't realise there were multiple ways to wear a mask.. there is only 1 dammmittt.. You and yours stay safe Aussie. You are a fine man and Im proud to know you. Thanks..
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Nov 16, 2021 22:26:42 GMT
Only 4? Yeesh. I can't even imagine it. You made me curious so I looked it up, and AUS has under 2k total deaths? Seems like y'all are handling the pandemic really well... or were. I'm seeing a huge spike in the number of cases starting in June/July of last year. What happened? This was part of a work update about 10 mins ago on our intranet : " South Australia From 23 November 2021, to coincide with South Australia reaching 80% double vaccination of people aged 16+ years, a new Test, Trace, Isolate and Quarantine (TTIQ) model is being introduced into South Australia. The new model stipulates that anyone identified as a low-risk casual contact, casual contact, or close contact of someone who is COVID-19 positive will be contacted by SA Health and provided with advice on what is required with regards to quarantining and getting tested. The updated testing and quarantine requirements also redefine who is classified as a close and casual contact, with fully vaccinated close contacts only isolating until they receive their first negative test result. Whether you are a low-risk casual contact, casual contact, or close contact depends on: the amount of time you were exposed how close you were to the case whether you and the case were wearing a mask, and the setting or location of the exposure. With this new model, fewer people will be required to quarantine, and often for shorter periods of time. For example, if a vaccinated person is required to quarantine it will only be for seven days, compared to an unvaccinated person who will be required to quarantine for 14 days. For more information please refer to the attached documents from the SA Government which provide the Test, Trace, Isolate and Quarantine Requirements (TTIQ) as well as FAQs which provide additional information on close contacts, settings and locations of exposure direction for all South Australians or persons travelling within South Australia." Northern Territory The NT Government has directed that all persons in the NT are required to wear masks at all times outside of the home until the 22nd November 2021. This is due to nine new positive COVID cases today, linked to a number of recent exposure sites across the NT. Furthermore, in the NT there is a Government mandated PHO (Public Health Order) that requires all public-facing workers to be vaccinated. There is a secret Covid Hotel directly next door to my work- they have police guards 24/7 and 2 of our 4 entrances are permanently blocked off. I see ambulances and medical staff in hazmat suits every couple days.. Umm.. I think June/July of last year the powers that be still hadn't shut the borders then.. Melbourne and Sydney are the worst states at the moment its just running high there (I won't compare to some of the higher countries because that's not fair- I really feel for all you UK'ers and USA'ers.. I have many friends in both countries giving me updates- a good portion seriously want to move to Australia once this is all over :-(
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Nov 16, 2021 22:28:11 GMT
Stats as of yesterday Tuesday 16th November : www.covid-19.sa.gov.au/home/dashboard"Official figures for Tuesday 16 November 2021 Last updated on 16 Nov 2021 at 6:26 pm. New cases1 Active cases2 Total cases921 Patients in hospital0 Patients in ICU0 Recovered915 Deaths4 Daily tests4,746 Total tests"
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There’s a horror movie called Alien? That’s really offensive. No wonder everyone keeps invading you.
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Post by shutupbanks on Nov 16, 2021 22:49:53 GMT
Only 4? Yeesh. I can't even imagine it. You made me curious so I looked it up, and AUS has under 2k total deaths? Seems like y'all are handling the pandemic really well... or were. I'm seeing a huge spike in the number of cases starting in June/July of last year. What happened? We have a rubbish Prime Minister so it was left to individual state Premiers to put together plans for their own states. In all seriousness… we do have a rubbish Prime Minister… there was a horrific outbreak in aged care facilities in Victoria (and in typical Australian fashion there are still arguments about it being state or federal responsibility) and the rest of the country decided in various ways that they didn’t want that to happen there so they enforced (to varying degrees of effectiveness) a lot of restrictions in the short-term to prevent a larger-scale disaster that we’ve seen elsewhere in the world. It doesn’t hurt that we are a nation largely made up of people born elsewhere, or with ancestry a couple of generations removed from elsewhere so there’s a huge personal connection with what’s going on around the world and people wanted to avoid that. Of course, some nut jobs have come out of the woodwork and tried to ruin it.
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Post by Kestrel on Nov 16, 2021 23:16:09 GMT
When were the elections? The reason I'm so surprised is by July 2021 y'all'd already been through ~18 months of the pandemic with exceptionally low numbers, and the vaccine had been available for a while, but then there's this huge spike. We're restrictions relaxed too soon? Meanwhile, a hop-skip-and-a-jump away, New Zealand's death toll is in the double digits -- but they also have a big spike in cases around July 2021. My parents had actually planned to visit NZ this winter but the whole thing got cancelled due to the pandemic... and I'm just super hung-up on that double digits thing. AUS is sitting pretty as 73:1,000,000 deaths, but NZ is at a 7:1,000,000 ratio. I mean, not to sound critical or anything. Im just curious. Over here in the good ol' USA we've got so many people acting like the pandemic was over (or never happened) while the death toll skyrockets. It boggles the mind that we're responsible for almost 20% of the global total. Thank god the anti-fax movement ain't in us. IIRC that whole mess was the product of a scam by a quack doctor from the U.K..
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Nov 16, 2021 23:40:32 GMT
When were the elections? The reason I'm so surprised is by July 2021 y'all'd already been through ~18 months of the pandemic with exceptionally low numbers, and the vaccine had been available for a while, but then there's this huge spike. We're restrictions relaxed too soon? Meanwhile, a hop-skip-and-a-jump away, New Zealand's death toll is in the double digits -- but they also have a big spike in cases around July 2021. My parents had actually planned to visit NZ this winter but the whole thing got cancelled due to the pandemic... and I'm just super hung-up on that double digits thing. AUS is sitting pretty as 73:1,000,000 deaths, but NZ is at a 7:1,000,000 ratio. I mean, not to sound critical or anything. Im just curious. Over here in the good ol' USA we've got so many people acting like the pandemic was over (or never happened) while the death toll skyrockets. It boggles the mind that we're responsible for almost 20% of the global total. Thank god the anti-fax movement ain't in us. IIRC that whole mess was the product of a scam by a quack doctor from the U.K.. shutupbanks was spot on, our current PM is.. useless.. for lack of a better word. With our floods/fires that ripped through so much of this country.. he literally was suntanning in Hawaii with his family.. Just google "Scotty from Marketing" as his background is in Marketing.. I am trying to think what happened July of this year.. I know the State of Victoria has had about 6-9 snap lockdown anywhere from 2 weeks to 5 months straight (they have the world record which is sad. Thousands of people are losing jobs, not able to afford rent/motgages etc etc. There are daily protests there that are getting bigger all the time. There actually is a protest here this Saturday, I saw a post on BookFace advertising it.. argh.. then watch within 1 week there will be a "mysterious increase" in cases..
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Post by muckypup on Nov 16, 2021 23:50:05 GMT
Only 4? Yeesh. I can't even imagine it. You made me curious so I looked it up, and AUS has under 2k total deaths? Seems like y'all are handling the pandemic really well... or were. I'm seeing a huge spike in the number of cases starting in June/July of last year. What happened? We have a rubbish Prime Minister so it was left to individual state Premiers to put together plans for their own states. In all seriousness… we do have a rubbish Prime Minister… there was a horrific outbreak in aged care facilities in Victoria (and in typical Australian fashion there are still arguments about it being state or federal responsibility) and the rest of the country decided in various ways that they didn’t want that to happen there so they enforced (to varying degrees of effectiveness) a lot of restrictions in the short-term to prevent a larger-scale disaster that we’ve seen elsewhere in the world. It doesn’t hurt that we are a nation largely made up of people born elsewhere, or with ancestry a couple of generations removed from elsewhere so there’s a huge personal connection with what’s going on around the world and people wanted to avoid that. Of course, some nut jobs have come out of the woodwork and tried to ruin it. not as rubbish a prime minster as ours in the uk were pushing 150,000 deaths and a similar figure with diagnosed long covid & he still walks round with no mask and no clue.
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Post by tuigirl on Nov 17, 2021 8:01:57 GMT
My home state has had officially 4 Covid related fatalities since the beginning of all this badness. Our interstate borders are opening up here November 23rd.. There is a mad dash for the public to get their shots.. As of yesterday we were over 80% of over-16 year olds jabbed.. It's expected there will be a big increase in cases here as Melbournites and Sydneysiders will immediately flock over here.. ARGH. And yes. I didn't realise there were multiple ways to wear a mask.. there is only 1 dammmittt.. Well, you have a much better vaccination rate than we are having. Germany is pretty bad compared to Spain and Portugal (who had some real suffering and disaster going on). You should be kind of fine. Plus, you are heading into summer.
I am really dreading the winter over here.
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Post by Kestrel on Nov 18, 2021 0:16:55 GMT
I'm thinking about making a collage/sculpture out of those orange-colored prescription bottles. Like... either a horse or a chimpanzee.
This is the current state of my health.
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Nov 18, 2021 4:51:37 GMT
It's "Thunderdome" time here in South Australia the last 2 hours. It's all over the news, basically every public event/place. Adelaide Oval (cricket/football/concerts etc) , our zoo's, Entertainment Centres etc etc . As of 1st Dec "no double jab no entry" and big huge fines if you get caught out.
There's a big anti vaxx protest this Saturday in the City- this will fuel them and fire them up!
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Post by Timelord007 on Nov 18, 2021 7:30:46 GMT
It's "Thunderdome" time here in South Australia the last 2 hours. It's all over the news, basically every public event/place. Adelaide Oval (cricket/football/concerts etc) , our zoo's, Entertainment Centres etc etc . As of 1st Dec "no double jab no entry" and big huge fines if you get caught out. There's a big anti vaxx protest this Saturday in the City- this will fuel them and fire them up! Imbeciles, i had covid & it nearly killed me, it killed my dad, these idiots still think it's make believe that governments invented or that the vaccine chipped, they'd soon change there opinions if they were infected. Covid has destroyed mine & many others lives, not being able have closure & see my dad when he was dying I'll never be the same again something inside me has died.
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Post by tuigirl on Nov 18, 2021 7:58:40 GMT
It's "Thunderdome" time here in South Australia the last 2 hours. It's all over the news, basically every public event/place. Adelaide Oval (cricket/football/concerts etc) , our zoo's, Entertainment Centres etc etc . As of 1st Dec "no double jab no entry" and big huge fines if you get caught out. There's a big anti vaxx protest this Saturday in the City- this will fuel them and fire them up!Well, just look over here. We are going under at the moment. Many hospitals are already over capacity not accepting any more patients and people are dying because they cannot be treated in time. Delusional pathetic fools.
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There’s a horror movie called Alien? That’s really offensive. No wonder everyone keeps invading you.
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Post by shutupbanks on Nov 18, 2021 9:35:27 GMT
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Nov 18, 2021 9:57:12 GMT
They are literally harassing and abusing under 18's. If anyone tried that with my boy, the Furyian in me would be unleashed. How dare they! Go picket the Politicians.
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Post by tuigirl on Nov 18, 2021 19:41:41 GMT
They are literally harassing and abusing under 18's. If anyone tried that with my boy, the Furyian in me would be unleashed. How dare they! Go picket the Politicians.
I am very close to "Blood for the Blood God!" with these people....
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Post by Timelord007 on Nov 19, 2021 8:54:05 GMT
They are literally harassing and abusing under 18's. If anyone tried that with my boy, the Furyian in me would be unleashed. How dare they! Go picket the Politicians.
There just ignorant imbeciles if they lost someone to Covid there opinions soon change, i had ambulance out twice when i had it my poor mom thought going lose her husband & her son in same week. One of the worst weeks of my life, losing dad, not being able see him because restrictions & me being infected, having to lie on phone telling him everything going be alright get well come home knowing full well he wasn't has completely broken me. I will never be the same again something inside me has died. Seeing these idiots protesting makes my blood boil & I'm going have take step back out this thread because it bringing back memories I'd rather not think about.
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Post by muckypup on Nov 19, 2021 10:09:11 GMT
They are literally harassing and abusing under 18's. If anyone tried that with my boy, the Furyian in me would be unleashed. How dare they! Go picket the Politicians.
There just ignorant imbeciles if they lost someone to Covid there opinions soon change, i had ambulance out twice when i had it my poor mom thought going lose her husband & her son in same week. One of the worst weeks of my life, losing dad, not being able see him because restrictions & me being infected, having to lie on phone telling him everything going be alright get well come home knowing full well he wasn't has completely broken me. I will never be the same again something inside me has died. Seeing these idiots protesting makes my blood boil & I'm going have take step back out this thread because it bringing back memories I'd rather not think about. I know there morons, as you know I’m a bit sick at moment and going to hospital at least once a week……there are about 8 of the idiots, always there, hassling everyone as they get off the bus or walk to main entrance from the car park…… you take care of yourself…….let someone else get upset…… you hold on to your memories, good and bad make us who we are…. . I lost one of my friends just last week to it, they think he caught it on a bus while on holiday…….7 days after he got back we lost him…. stay strong my friend.
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Post by Chakoteya on Nov 19, 2021 11:06:30 GMT
{{{hugs for all}}}
We're here for you whenever. (If you need to rant, feel free to PM to get it off your torso...)
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Post by tuigirl on Nov 19, 2021 17:52:07 GMT
{{{hugs for all}}} We're here for you whenever. (If you need to rant, feel free to PM to get it off your torso...) I feel like a HUGE rant, but honestly, that would be unfair to you.
So hugs back instead.
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Post by tuigirl on Nov 19, 2021 17:58:53 GMT
I am massively frustrated. The health system in my German state is now at the verge of collapse. The airforce has now been mobilized to help fly sick people from our hospitals to hospitals in Italy and other countries. The army is helping out in the health system. Our hospitals are FULL. This is what happens when you have a major election right in the middle of growing COVID numbers, and try to pamper the anitvaxxer idiots and then things explode. We have now numbers bigger than every before and now we are looking forward to yet another lockdown which will INCLUDE the vaccinated people because the numbers are so massive, it is out of control. As of now, we are basically a disaster zone. All big events and all Christmas markets and all nice things have been cancelled. Workload has increased and my already strained mental health is not getting any better, even without having to deal with ******* on Facebook. F*** you, you **** selfish imbecile ****. Thanks for ruining another winter and endangering the whole population let alone damaging businesses and cultural events and event creators. F*** you. Hope you enjoy your freedom.
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