Quick trip to Woolies this arvo:

1) Women with 5 kids walking into Woolies with mask below chin.

2) Women walking into BWS without a mask.

3) Two grown men playing basketball at the nearby school despite school clearly closed off to public.

Any wonder we are where we are in that people just don’t give a stuff.

 

 

 

 

 

 

6 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Quick trip to Woolies this arvo:

1) Women with 5 kids walking into Woolies with mask below chin.

2) Women walking into BWS without a mask.

3) Two grown men playing basketball at the nearby school despite school clearly closed off to public.

Any wonder we are where we are in that people just don’t give a stuff.

Mate, don't turn on the news whatever you do...

Watching the protestors on the news. If I could literally run them all over with a tank, I would. 
Pathetic self indulgent cry babies. The first who will run to hospital for urgent care.

You wanna talk about human rights, go live in Kabul. FFS the selfish morons who live in this country are so sheltered they don’t know what it’s like to fight for human rights. To live in war conditions. To have no health care options. 
Halfwit losers the lot of them! 😡

16 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Quick trip to Woolies this arvo:

1) Women with 5 kids walking into Woolies with mask below chin.

2) Women walking into BWS without a mask.

3) Two grown men playing basketball at the nearby school despite school clearly closed off to public.

Any wonder we are where we are in that people just don’t give a stuff.

 

 

 

 

 

 

My area has quite good compliance. I went for a walk and not one kid in the playground (I passed around 5), everyone wearing masks in the shops. It’s probably why we are one of the very last remaining suburbs of Melbourne with no Covid exposure sites. Hopefully that doesn’t turn to [censored] by a few idiots doing the wrong thing!

12 minutes ago, Jaded said:

Watching the protestors on the news. If I could literally run them all over with a tank, I would. 
Pathetic self indulgent cry babies. The first who will run to hospital for urgent care.

You wanna talk about human rights, go live in Kabul. FFS the selfish morons who live in this country are so sheltered they don’t know what it’s like to fight for human rights. To live in war conditions. To have no health care options. 
Halfwit losers the lot of them! 😡

Certainly the events of the last fortnight hits home how sheltered we are. One of my colleagues in work is an Afghani ex-pat whose previous employment over there involved interactions with the US troops. His family members are in hiding as the Taliban will kill them.

Certainly gives us a reality check 

2 hours ago, Little Goffy said:

One person decided that their symptoms didn't warrant a test and they would go visit their frail elderly mother in a nursing home anyway.

After working to midnight last night my wife and several other staff are currently working for their full weekend to help radically reorganise a large aged care roster, identify who needs to be isolated and where needs to be deep cleaned. This process includes the awful aspect of needing to relocate people with varying levels of dementia. All this is being done in the full human condom PPE outfits. She'll be skipping lunch because it just isn't practical.

That story just keeps repeating and repeating everywhere you look in any part of the care sectors.

I'm running out of patience for the self-indulgent gits of Australia, whether it is the smug complacent establishment types like Kennett and Hazzard or the parolee social club out 'protesting' on the streets of Melbourne.

Hey Goffy

Give your wife our love. What a job. Mine's doing similar - works as a midwife in a major hospital's Emergency Dept. My god, they're doing it tough. She's asleep right now, getting ready to do a night shift - and she'll have to wake up and see on the news that a bunch of morons are out there protesting for their 'liberties'. Liberties ...jeez, what's that even mean? Their god-given right to infect and kill their own grandparents.? You could add all their IQs together and you wouldn't get Tom Scully's father (sorry, I don't think I know exactly what that means either, but you get the gist - he was just the dumbest person I could think of when I wrote that sentence)

Cheers  

9 hours ago, Pates said:

Australia did well to contain it as long as they have but I can’t see Sydney getting to COVID zero again, they need to get as many people double jabbed much the same as us in VIC. 

We’ll get to COVID zero again I think but I really don’t like the look of those numbers. 

Very slim chance of that now.  Probably Nil. 

Just get double jabbed ASAP if you haven't already subject to getting recommendation from GP where appropriate.

Soon as we hit 80% fully vaxxed the authorities need to open up (here in Vic) with some of the usual restrictions, such as masks indoors, distancing and limiting those who are indoors in workplace / events to those who are fully vaxxed.

Most likely we'll be in lockdown till then.

If we don't open up then the social / financial consequences for many will be horrific.  For some it already would be.

Anyone going indoors now needs to be wearing a N95 / P2 mask if you want to avoid catching it prior to getting fully vaxxed.  Cloth & Surgical masks only prevent about 17% of virus particles from getting through vs Approx 80% prevention with respirator masks (N95/P2).  Cloth & surgical do prevent those who have covid from exhaling particles (about 70%) but only if worn correctly and how many ppl ever wear them correctly!?  And 70% is not prevention, especially for those who might be vulnerable or compromised where even small viral loads could result in unfortunate outcomes.

 We are heading for a Sydney level outbreak now.... just lagging behind but with one advantage.  That lag will give many more a good chance of getting fully vaxxed before it gets pretty ugly.

Edited August 21, 20214 yr by Rusty Nails

8 hours ago, drysdale demon said:

Okay Albo

yes Who has actually covered themselves in glory ?

None of them!!!

70 plus cases in Victoria today and over 800 in NSW.

Add in the outbreak in NZ and it's not trending well.

What chance a case in SA this week?

 

On 8/21/2021 at 3:40 PM, Jaded said:

Watching the protestors on the news. If I could literally run them all over with a tank, I would. 
Pathetic self indulgent cry babies. The first who will run to hospital for urgent care.

You wanna talk about human rights, go live in Kabul. FFS the selfish morons who live in this country are so sheltered they don’t know what it’s like to fight for human rights. To live in war conditions. To have no health care options. 
Halfwit losers the lot of them! 😡

Possibly being a bit generous.

That final kick by Gawn may end up being more significant than we thought. In the back of my mind is the thought that there is still a risk that the finals series might be prevented from being completed because of Covid. Should that be the case, the AFL may have no choice but to award the Premiership to the team that finished on top of the ladder at the end of the Home and Away series.   

I think it's most unlikely, but not impossible. 

50 minutes ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

That final kick by Gawn may end up being more significant than we thought. In the back of my mind is the thought that there is still a risk that the finals series might be prevented from being completed because of Covid. Should that be the case, the AFL may have no choice but to award the Premiership to the team that finished on top of the ladder at the end of the Home and Away series.   

I think it's most unlikely, but not impossible. 

There will be a finals series of some sort in some time period LDC. There is too much money at stake!

2 hours ago, Diamond_Jim said:

70 plus cases in Victoria today and over 800 in NSW.

Add in the outbreak in NZ and it's not trending well.

What chance a case in SA this week?

I honestly think WA, SA, TAS and to a lesser extent QLD will be just fine over the next 5 weeks.

I'm not sure if it's geography, behavior, culture or just plain luck but it always seems to be the same states that cop it in the neck while other states provide freedom to their citizens. It's quite frankly demoralising being a Victorian IMO.

4 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

I honestly think WA, SA, TAS and to a lesser extent QLD will be just fine over the next 5 weeks.

I'm not sure if it's geography, behavior, culture or just plain luck but it always seems to be the same states that cop it in the neck while other states provide freedom to their citizens. It's quite frankly demoralising being a Victorian IMO.

Population size might be relevant, too.

18 minutes ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

Population size might be relevant, too.

more density i'd guess

32 minutes ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

Population size might be relevant, too.

Yep, and the amount of movement within those cities for work doesn't help, big cultural diversity doesn't help, the number of people who live in apartments doesn't help, our ****ty weather in Melbourne doesn't help. There are lots of factors.

There is no chance the AFL doesn't finish this season. If we need to pause the finals for 2 weeks to get everyone into a hub in WA then we will. If they need to play the grand final in Tassie they will. There are enough avenues to make it happen. 

Edited August 23, 20214 yr by Jaded

35 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

more density i'd guess

Count the Gabba, Carrara and Cairns out then.  They don't come any more dense than Queenslanders.

Edited August 23, 20214 yr by Demonstone
spolling

23 minutes ago, Demonstone said:

Count the Gabba, Carrara and Cairns out then.  They don't come any more dense than Queenslanders.

reminds me of "folks are dumb where i come frum" on colin's favourite show

Can anyone foresee the possibility of us being let out of lockdown by GF day and we can at least watch our boys at the pub or at small outside gatherings? Would be a massive step up from watching it on your own in severe lockdown.

Or are we cooked till xmas?

 

 

5 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Can anyone foresee the possibility of us being let out of lockdown by GF day and we can at least watch our boys at the pub or at small outside gatherings? Would be a massive step up from watching it on your own in severe lockdown.

Or are we cooked till xmas?

Sadly I can't see it happening.

I suspect it will be vaccination targets rather than case numbers that dictate when restrictions ease. Looking like early November at this stage.

15 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Can anyone foresee the possibility of us being let out of lockdown by GF day and we can at least watch our boys at the pub or at small outside gatherings? Would be a massive step up from watching it on your own in severe lockdown.

Or are we cooked till xmas?

 

 

It's possible, but I wouldn't be making any plans where you don't get your deposit back.

20 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Can anyone foresee the possibility of us being let out of lockdown by GF day and we can at least watch our boys at the pub or at small outside gatherings? Would be a massive step up from watching it on your own in severe lockdown.

Or are we cooked till xmas?

 

 

Dan Andrews is not one to take Victorians' mental health in account when deciding on lockdowns/restrictions.  he wants to have donut days regardless of how unlikely that is with the Delta variant

Lockdown fatigue will continue and the protests will get worse

I'm keeping my expectations low to avoid further disapointment

12 minutes ago, DubDee said:

Lockdown fatigue will continue and the protests will get worse

As will the schoolmaster lecturing on the tellie.

It looks like the losers of the qualifying finals will have to travel to Tasmania next week due to quarantine rules. If there was not incentive to win already!

"The AFL currently has a fly-in, fly-out model operating with Tasmania, but keeping teams in the state would provide greater flexibility to travel onwards to Queensland, South Australia or Western Australia with no or less restrictive quarantine protocols for week two matches".

Further finals could also be held in Tasmania in week two. “Week one of the finals, we’ve fixtured those outside of Victoria,” AFL fixturing boss Travis Auld said on Monday. “It’s highly likely we’ll keep those teams on the road and fixture week two outside of Victoria. That gives us optionality beyond that.”

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