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IMPORTANT // Please look after your loved ones, yourself and be kind to others. If you are feeling that the world is too hard to handle there is always help - I implore you not to hesitate in contacting one of these wonderful organisations Lifeline and Beyond Blue ... and I'm sure reaching out to our PRE community we will find a way to help. T.
Coronavirus
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Tremendous result. But let's not forget the cost. There are hundreds of thousands of people whose lives have been irrevocably changed for the worse because of this second wave. Both in terms of the health impact and economic impact.
The authorities should be applauded for the response in getting us to where we are now. It is just a crying shame that we needed it in the first place.
That said we are very lucky that we live in this wonderful country. We can recognise that mistakes get made but we support the resolution no matter how much it gives us the *smile*. We are also very lucky we live on an island. Those poor people in Europe, Asia, Africa, the Americas...............
Yeh, Andrews the hero will be the narrative. He's a smart politician. He called an inquiry he knew would supply a couple of fall guys (whilst willing to sacrifice a bit of face) and he stayed the course with the lockdown despite it not necessarily being popular. He knows people have the memory of goldfish and he'll probably be able to revise history enough to make the second wave more a product of viral contagion than governing incompetence.
His China endorsement may end up being more problematic for him.
Whilst it may sound funny it's actually worth some thought. NSW has more active cases of community transmission than we do now and there is an outbreak in SW Sydney that they appear to be struggling to contain. We have been through so much to get where we are now and have paid a massive price. Just imagine a 3rd wave caused by transmission from a person who has travelled from NSW!
Our borders should remain closed until the rest of the country has results like ours. There's plenty of great places in VIC you can visit for a holiday.
To be fair I believe it is only NSW that has community transmission. Pretty sure all active cases in other states are quarantined returned overseas travellers.
Zero again, how good is that:
Averages down:
7 Day Trailing ave: 0.29
5 Day Centred average (2 Nov): 0.00
14 Day Trailing average: 1.36
I'm seeing numbers over 90,000 a day in the USA, not quite 100,000. Their 7 Day Trailing average looks to be between 85,000 and 90,000 and rising.
Europe still looking bad especially the UK and Italy.
Sweden are getting much bigger numbers.
Now all we need to do is sort the international borders, not simple.
DS
Averages down:
7 Day Trailing ave: 0.29
5 Day Centred average (2 Nov): 0.00
14 Day Trailing average: 1.36
I'm seeing numbers over 90,000 a day in the USA, not quite 100,000. Their 7 Day Trailing average looks to be between 85,000 and 90,000 and rising.
Europe still looking bad especially the UK and Italy.
Sweden are getting much bigger numbers.
Now all we need to do is sort the international borders, not simple.
DS
But Trump said it would disappear the day after the election. Is that today or tomorrow??
Yep we're gonna have to isolate ourselves from the rest of the world for a long while unfortunately
Trump is set to announce a free vaccine for all that will cure COVID "very soon".
In fairness to him, it is only the conspiracy from the medical community that meant the vaccine wasnt freely available before the election.
True, it was only because of all that clinical testing that the vaccine couldn't be released immediately. You could release the vaccine without clinical testing to treat the cases that don't exist because you didn't do any patient testing.
So we could have had a working vaccine with no covid cases. JOB DONE
But still decided it was a good idea?, is it universal, standardised system there ?
Given the amount of movement now allowed in the community now I wonder how any system could cope... An individual could go into a dozen different places in a day....exponential number of potential contacts?
