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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
- Thread starter Tigers of Old
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USA
Sep 3 1512 deaths
Sep 2 1713 deaths
Sep 1 1579 deaths
Aug 31 1519 deaths
Inured to the numbers, like the UK before them. Our future.
I'll settle for this bad boy, due to arrive Friday.
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No wonder the US are back to close to 200,000 cases a day and 1,700 deaths.
If you were to equate to the AUS population it would approx. be 15,850 cases a day and 135 deaths.
I would not look forward to that.
Matter of time until it touches you in some unpleasant way at that rate.
At some point it's opening up & those that don't get vaccinated after having the opportunity to do so will suffer.
Jesus. And I'm feeling worried going to the supermarket.
They have a lower vacc rate than us in that state. Not sure other countries are too fussed about case numbers (or even deaths).
Did they remaster it by dropping off My Friend of Misery and The Struggle Within?
At some point it just comes down to personal responsibility. That time is soon here too.
Not that I've heard. The original album is spread over four sides of vinyl.
If you see some of my earlier posts I make the point that there is no way that the public hospital system can continue normal elective surgery and also handle a major COVID outbreak.
It is simply not possible given both physical capacity and staffing. Private hospitals will be used to do some public surgeries, as they were last year, but it isn’t enough to continue as normal.
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It was only 6 weeks ago that I had elective surgery cancelled at a Private Hospital and we are in a worse position now so it won't be long.
I'd prefer that rulebreakers were made to suffer - really suffer - so that we could've got back to zero and enjoyed a semblance of normality until a superior vaccine was developed, even if it required martial law. But that ship has sailed and we're going to pay, and the same people who didn't care enough will shrug their shoulders. You don't have to be religious to recognise that this is a biblical scale event. *smile* we are dumb, dumb, DUMB.
This concept the public is being sold of the pandemic being over once x% are vaccinated is fool's gold. A chocolate-coated *smile*. Passports to sickness and death. It's *smile* depressing.
The one small glimmer of hope is that the virus doesn't do as well in the warmer months. A mitigating factor perhaps.
Some elective surgeries have already been cancelled in the public system as well.
Not sure why private hospitals were cancelling surgery 6 weeks ago but in the last couple of weeks they are increasingly being asked to be a back up for public elective cases.
I wouldn’t want to be relying on getting “non-urgent” surgery anywhere in the next 10-12 weeks. You are right that some non urgent surgeries are still pretty urgent in the minds of the people getting them. For example things like hip replacement and other orthopaedic type operations are not life saving but they are a lot about quality of life.
I have Ear Surgery at St Vincent's Private on Monday so have been basically a recluse for two weeks so as not to be caught in an exposure site and also praying anxiously that there is no snap elective surgery ban. I think with 1 day to go I should be across the line
Imagine if there was no vaccination... We forget almost half a million dead in the US alone.
There will be no better vaccine, that's a fool's paradise. The vaccines we have are already highly effective in terms of avoidance of death and hospitalisation, already much more effective than the flu vaccines for example. This is a complex virus - it's like the common cold which we be with us forever. The good news is with mRNA vaccines responses to variants can be developed and manufactured within 6 weeks.
Martial law would be a joke and would never happen in a free society, and you cannot punish your way out of a situation like this. Punishment would mean people would lie about where they went and who they saw, and lo and behold, the virus is out. Locking up Australia both internally and to the outside world is a utopia/dystopia that was never practical in the medium to long term.
Any intelligent person knows the pandemic will not be over after 80% - the way we live and deal with this then remains to be seen.
Get vaccinated, take your ivermectin and buckle up boyo
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