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Will the "Corona Virus" turn into a worldwide epidemic or fizzle out?

  • Yes

    Votes: 37 49.3%

  • No

    Votes: 9 12.0%

  • Bigger than SARS, but not worldwide epidemic (Black Death/bubonic plague)

    Votes: 25 33.3%

  • Undecided

    Votes: 4 5.3%
  • Total voters
    75
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moXJO said:
How's it going over there?
Stopped hearing about covid now the Ukraine war is all over the papers.
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Pretty normal as it has been for the last 2 years but people are starting to hold back a bit more now and small businesses are starting to scream as numbers drop off and restrictions on numbers come in.

Talking to a local nurse they haven't seen any cases in the local hospital yet which surprised me.

In the main most are following the rules so will be interesting if the rise of infection rates continues to be slow in comparison to the east coast.
 
IFocus said:
Pretty normal as it has been for the last 2 years but people are starting to hold back a bit more now and small businesses are starting to scream as numbers drop off and restrictions on numbers come in.

Talking to a local nurse they haven't seen any cases in the local hospital yet which surprised me.

In the main most are following the rules so will be interesting if the rise of infection rates continues to be slow in comparison to the east coast.
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It starts off pretty slow and then just takes off. It's realistically a 2 day thing of feeling like sht. Effects are well known now.

The worst part is the scare mongering from media. NSW is back to normal pretty much. Winter revision is the tester. But everyone caught it here, so immunities are high. Will keep an eye on the data though.
 
IFocus said:
Pretty normal as it has been for the last 2 years but people are starting to hold back a bit more now and small businesses are starting to scream as numbers drop off and restrictions on numbers come in.
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Bearing in mind I probably move in different circles, most, about 3/4, are super angry about how things are. Even on talkback (6PR) there are fewer and fewer McGowan sycophants and more and more enraged.

IFocus said:
Talking to a local nurse they haven't seen any cases in the local hospital yet which surprised me.
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I have a fair few clients in the medical profession, including one of the nurses at Joondalup that looked after that first death recently. They are speaking out more.
IFocus said:
In the main most are following the rules so will be interesting if the rise of infection rates continues to be slow in comparison to the east coast.
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Yep, we're a complicit bunch. That can be good if we trust the gu'mint. But bad if our gu'mint is overly and unnecessarily authoritarian.

McClown is a petty tyrant, so its bad.

Preventing people seeing their loved ones at end of life has woken a lot of people up... I know how they feel, I am unremittingly seething that my own Mum spent the last 10 days of her life, absolutely alone (That was in Qld early 2021).
 
Yeah, it's certainly a clown world out there.

Lets take a look at WA. Case numbers are increasing, yet restrictions are loosening. Hmm, a real pandemic. Does that not strike anyone as strange? The same scenario has pretty much happened everywhere in Australia and many parts of the world.
 
DB008 said:
Yeah, it's certainly a clown world out there.

Lets take a look at WA. Case numbers are increasing, yet restrictions are loosening. Hmm, a real pandemic. Does that not strike anyone as strange? The same scenario has pretty much happened everywhere in Australia and many parts of the world.
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Yeah, they throw open borders and export it all to other states again. Shouldn't they stay locked down to stop the spread of a "deadly" virus?

It's an odd strategy. The whole thing was a lesson in stupidity.
 

Hong Kong public hospitals hanging by a thread amid surge of fifth-wave Covid cases​

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DB008 said:
Yeah, it's certainly a clown world out there.

Lets take a look at WA. Case numbers are increasing, yet restrictions are loosening. Hmm, a real pandemic. Does that not strike anyone as strange? The same scenario has pretty much happened everywhere in Australia and many parts of the world.
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No they have upped the restrictions (4mt square rule, hospital visitor numbers, RAT tests for nursing home entry etc) and held off border opening for vax rates to rise (mainly indigenous far north WA).

The rest of Oz (many in WA as well for that matter) are not aware of the large number indigenous communities in WA.
 
sptrawler said:
I wonder if Hong Kong has a new strain of covid, they seem to taking it very seriously, testing everyone.
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No, it's Omicron.
Hong Kong has had a policy of hospitalising evey covid case. Overrun by numbers this could not continue.
Having the population equivalent of NSW tucked into the equivalent of Sydney has no doubt exacerbated spread, and its comparatively high number of older people will contribute to a relatively high death rate.
It has not helped that Hong Kong also has relatively low rates of 2-dose and boosted vaccinations:
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Me: *arrives at property to plate two gallopers and about 3 hours worth of work with youngstock

Trainer: (after I've nearly finished the second galloper) Do you mind if we do the others next week I've got this flu coming on and I don't really feel well.

Me: Sure, no probs, but how do you know it isn't the beer bug.

Trainer: Oh no, it can't be, I am double jabbed.

LMAO

So maybe next week I'll be telling you my personal wuflu story. Qué Sera Sera.
 
wayneL said:
Me: *arrives at property to plate two gallopers and about 3 hours worth of work with youngstock

Trainer: (after I've nearly finished the second galloper) Do you mind if we do the others next week I've got this flu coming on and I don't really feel well.

Me: Sure, no probs, but how do you know it isn't the beer bug.

Trainer: Oh no, it can't be, I am double jabbed.

LMAO

So maybe next week I'll be telling you my personal wuflu story. Qué Sera Sera.
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Surrounded by cases at the moment and I expect to pick it up soon.
 

Brad Hazzard concerned at rise of COVID-19 Omicron sub-variant BA2, flags case spike​


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Health authorities worried about Omicron sub-variant as case numbers in NSW rise

Brad Hazzard says new data shows the BA.2 sub-variant is becoming the dominant Omicron offshoot, and COVID-19 cases could "more than double" in weeks.
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"People need to understand that while the community has gone to sleep on the virus, the virus hasn't gone to sleep on the community."


One might ask that if the government was concerned that the public had 'gone to sleep on covid', why did they remove simple preventatives like the mask mandate ?
 
Well just received our 5 free RAT test packs, so I thought best to try one out to get the hang of it, it came up negative I feel as though I'm a failure.
But I did say to the wife, if I twirl the swab around my nostrils, then she does hers, we can save on tests.
Now I've lost reception again, she is all picture no sound. ?
 
NZ doctors group have a website talking about early treatments if we get Covid.

As Omicron and it's variants seem to ignore vaccines as far as catching it goes, I thought some suggestions for OTC things that claim to help may be of interest.

Folk are not ending up in ICU but many are quite ill in my circle so hopefully these suggestions might assist someone.

<<What You Can Do at Home if You Get Sick​

September 20, 2021
Here is our protocol for all strains of Covid-19, along with what you can do to prevent getting sick.>>

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What You Can Do at Home if You Get Sick - NZ Doctors Speaking Out With Science

Here is our protocol for all strains of Covid-19, along with what you can do to prevent getting sick. 220106(2) - Early TreatmentDownload Here is general advise on managing symptoms. bpacDownload
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Is this going to be never ending?

au.news.yahoo.com

Fears emerge over new hybrid Covid strain Deltacron: 'The real thing'

Cases of a hybrid variant of Covid-19 have been confirmed in Europe, the UK and the US. See what the experts think about the new Deltacron.
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The team at IHU described three patients in France infected with a version of SARS-CoV-2 that combines the spike protein from an Omicron variant with the "body" of a Delta variant.

There have also been two unrelated Deltacron infections identified in the US, according to a yet-to-be published report from genetics research company Helix, which was seen by Reuters.
 
Lets go back 6 months

Does this make any sense now?




Looking back on it, yes it does
Omicron was just a flash in the pan
Covid-19 is all over now (except in WA)
The narrative is now Ukraine, but be aware, there is still a 'stealth' BA2 stain going around




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macca said:
NZ doctors group have a website talking about early treatments if we get Covid.

As Omicron and it's variants seem to ignore vaccines as far as catching it goes, I thought some suggestions for OTC things that claim to help may be of interest.

Folk are not ending up in ICU but many are quite ill in my circle so hopefully these suggestions might assist someone.

<<What You Can Do at Home if You Get Sick​

September 20, 2021
Here is our protocol for all strains of Covid-19, along with what you can do to prevent getting sick.>>

nzdsos.com

What You Can Do at Home if You Get Sick - NZ Doctors Speaking Out With Science

Here is our protocol for all strains of Covid-19, along with what you can do to prevent getting sick. 220106(2) - Early TreatmentDownload Here is general advise on managing symptoms. bpacDownload
nzdsos.com nzdsos.com

PDF of treatments
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Perhaps you can tell us more about these NZ doctors who appear to be offside with NZ's medical association and the government.
From what I have read they are as close to anti-vaxxers as you can get without coming out and saying so.

Most people contracting covid need few if any treatments, so if they are relatively young, fit and healthy their recovery is generally smooth.
Most people vaxxed and boosted will be in the same boat irrespective of age.
Comorbidities make the big difference, especially so for those unvaxxed.
At some point we might know more about the people who fall between the cracks, ie. those relatively young and healthy but who still succumb to serious illness and occasional death.
 
Getting a second round of covid go through nsw. Was around a family that had it but didn't catch it. No booster shot.
 
Well our extended family down the SW of W.A are in 7 days isolation, the three grandkids have got it, so it will be interesting to see how it unfolds.
 
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