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100%. Covid-19 variants will probably turn into a yearly flu jab (maybe).
The cliff notes are - just get the jab.
My 2nd Pfizer jab was back at the end of July. No issues at all. If a booster jab becomes a thing (prefer Moderna or Johnson & Johnson), l'd get it right now. I think the biggest issue in Australia is the lack of supply. The Federal Government should also have the capability to make mRNA vaccine, we as a nation are exposed if we don't have that capability (compare the Chinese vaccine (Sinovac) effectiveness (65.9%, 90.3% for hospitalisation) to Pfizer/Moderna (90%)).
Sinovac - https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2107715
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You might need one when winter returns to the northWhy? are you after a job?
Probably watching on as Vic's ring of steel rusts and buckles.Has anyone heard from Tassie and South Oz?
The irony.....excuse the punProbably watching on as Vic's ring of steel rusts and buckles.
Hey how's "State Daddy" going?The irony.....excuse the pun
Not too sure ....busy having lunch at the pub on a glorious sunny spring day....very busy no masksHey how's "State Daddy" going?
Did the whole state have to dance for him or something today. Or was a simple sacrifice enough?
Hey how's "State Daddy" going?
Did the whole state have to dance for him or something today. Or was a simple sacrifice enough?
Ok, so Joe Rogan caught covid then said he cured it in about 3 days using "Monoclonal antibodies, ivermectin, Z-pak, prednisone, everything. And I also got an anti-D drip and a vitamin drip."
"That's the peak. That's the spike that we are going to have to manage.""And even then it will be very challenging, because we will open up and it will tear through the people who are not vaccinated.
Victoria had a hard lockdown last time I checked. Everyone was whinging about how hard lockdown was the only way. Big fkning fail as it turns out. You just delay the inevitable.Excellent. And in the next couple of months all our local Joe Rogan wannabes can chance their arm with COVID. State and Federal governments have made it clear that when vaccination rates reach 70-80% Australia opens up. Then we can see what happens when delta COVID gets a good clear run at the proud independents who trust their God, their Vitamin D, their invermection and their general excellent health to protect them.
Clearly COVID isn't the Plague. Probably out of 2 million unvaccinated people no more that 25-30,000 should die and maybe another 180,000 get seriously ill. Of course that assumes they end up in our health system at all.
The most significant opening up will occur once 80 per cent of the 16+ population has had two doses of a vaccine, in line with the National Cabinet plan.
"It is not going away until we get 80 per cent of people through the vaccination program," Mr Andrews cautioned.
"That's the peak. That's the spike that we are going to have to manage."
COVID will 'tear through the people who are not vaccinated', once targets are met Andrews says
Victoria records 183 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 as the state pushes to get vaccination rates ahead of a rapidly growing outbreak.www.abc.net.au
Shouldn't you be blaming Biden and jumping up and down about how terrible he is. Or do we not notice the obvious difference this time round.The Johns Hopkins COVID resource centre gives an excellent snapshot of the current state of play with infections. The US is now approaching 200k cases a day after dropping to 20k a day in July 2021.
New COVID-19 Cases Worldwide - Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center
Have countries flattened the curve? Daily confirmed new COVID-19 cases for the most affected countries over time.coronavirus.jhu.edu
Shouldn't you be blaming Biden and jumping up and down about how terrible he is. Or do we not notice the obvious difference this time round.
Is he the one that is demonising those who are in the front line of prevention, so that many are scared to go to work for fear of violence against them?
Shepparton face mask manufacturer Med-Con has shed 90 staff since November, after demand for Australian-made surgical grade masks dropped in favour of importing cheaper products.
Med-Con chief executive Steven Csiszar said the Lemnos factory just outside Shepparton produced masks for "everyone" in 2020, "working cleverly" to fit orders from state health departments in around a whopping 60 million mask contract from the Commonwealth Government.
State governments are always quick to blame the feds when things are not ready (a good many times with justification).We helped everyone,” Mr Csiszar said.
Before the pandemic Med-Con made two million masks a year and employed 14 people.
Demand skyrocketed as the virus set in, seeing international supply chains falter and Australian governments scramble to secure locally made face masks.
Med-Con was the solution — the only Australian factory capable of producing the desperately needed masks at the time.
The Med-Con factory shifted gears, employing 150 staff during its busiest period.
In what truly resembled a war-time effort, defence personnel were called in to plug the gaps until Med-Con had enough machinery and employees to operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Working around the clock, the Med-Con team fulfilled its 60 million mask order from the Federal Government by December 2020.
But Mr Csiszar said the state health departments that relied on Med-Con during a crucial time in 2020 were nowhere to be seen when international trade picked up again.
“We haven't had an order from any of the state health departments now for months,” he said.
“The assumptions we can make are they either have too much stock, which is unlikely, or they've gone back to international suppliers.”
In March 2020 Med-Con commissioned three new mask-making machines from Echuca company Foodmach, providing a much-needed boost for local industry.
Now eight of its 10 machines sit idle most days, and Med-Con struggles to shift stock from the factory floor.
Its team is shrinking rapidly towards pre-pandemic proportions, with just 25 employees retaining a job.
Mr Csiszar said Med-Con was "very fortunate" to have a five-year contract with the Commonwealth Government to continue manufacturing a stockpile of face masks.
Biden was the exact one saying it was a hoax only by proxy. It was in fact the Democrats that created the confusion.Why? Don't you read the news? Who is being infected and why they are being infected? Why are the huge increases mainly in states with GOP governors and whose populations are influenced by officials who are willing to put their own population at risk to score political points?
Is Biden out there saying that COVID is a hoax or to take some weird medication to stop it? Is he passing laws making it illegal for schools and other institutions to mandate masks to protect their attendees? Is he the one trying to discredit the CDC? Is he the one that is demonising those who are in the front line of prevention, so that many are scared to go to work for fear of violence against them? One could go on.
If you don't understand why there is a difference this time round then .... it is probably better left unsaid.
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