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Had my 2nd AZ jab today.

Any more jabs and I fear I will develop a penchant for double--denim and forget where I've kept my medals. 

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    Well done, I'm  2nd AZ next week...

    and nothing wrong with the Canadian Tuxedo.
     

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    1 hour ago, roy11 said:

    Is having to quarantine for 1-2 weeks considered a restriction impeding my ability to attend a GF?

    That was the first thing that popped into my mind... let alone the cost of airfares for two to Perth (assuming they get the gig) and 2 weeks accommodation, which is pretty much out of the question when you're on next to no income.

     

    My son just text me a photo that the captain of the Newport Football Club put up today on facebook showing his kids playing at the local playground and thanking everyone as his kids had the playground to themselves today. With idiots like that around these lockdowns are going to keep going on.

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    This is how the world will end, dd.  Not with a bang nor a whimper but because of selfishness and stupidity.

    With apologies to T. S. 

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    2 hours ago, hardtack said:

    That was the first thing that popped into my mind... let alone the cost of airfares for two to Perth (assuming they get the gig) and 2 weeks accommodation, which is pretty much out of the question when you're on next to no income.

    Yeh suddenly a few hundred outlay could turn to few thousand. Not even sure I could get away due to work commitments either. 
     

    either way go Dees 

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    2 hours ago, drysdale demon said:

    My son just text me a photo that the captain of the Newport Football Club put up today on facebook showing his kids playing at the local playground and thanking everyone as his kids had the playground to themselves today. With idiots like that around these lockdowns are going to keep going on.

    nsw don't have a mortgage on stupidity, as we are starting to realise

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    2 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

    nsw don't have a mortgage on stupidity, as we are starting to realise

    Did you mean a monopoly, Daisy?

     
    10 minutes ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

    Did you mean a monopoly, Daisy?

    same difference, wcw

    ownership, mortgage, monopoly etc 

    On 8/12/2021 at 7:56 PM, I'va Worn Smith said:

    To use an analogy.  If I travelled overseas, without the appropriate visa to travel to that country, the airline which carried me to that destination would be fined.  We have a Commonwealth Department known as the Department of Home Affairs.  Under its auspices, Australian Border Force operates.  Go figure!!

    Yes the onus is on the originating airline


    50 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

    Yes the onus is on the originating airline

    yes, but in this case a state of the commonwealth can't issue visa for interstate travel

    a better example is if i visit certain countries that are hotspots for yellow fever and i return to australia uninnoculated then on arrival i am put into quarantine for 2 weeks and the airline is given a substantial fine.

    this nearly happened to me about 40 years ago. i ended up in venezuela after a business trip change and when leaving to go home from caracas, the local qantas agent (who wouldn't know australia from austria) wouldn't let me board because i hadn't had the yellow fever innoculation. the only reason i got picked up was a couple of weeks earlier some australian got back to australia uninnoculated and qantas got fined, so had sent out a strong warning worldwide to all their agents

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    12 hours ago, daisycutter said:

    yes, but in this case a state of the commonwealth can't issue visa for interstate travel

    a better example is if i visit certain countries that are hotspots for yellow fever and i return to australia uninnoculated then on arrival i am put into quarantine for 2 weeks and the airline is given a substantial fine.

    this nearly happened to me about 40 years ago. i ended up in venezuela after a business trip change and when leaving to go home from caracas, the local qantas agent (who wouldn't know australia from austria) wouldn't let me board because i hadn't had the yellow fever innoculation. the only reason i got picked up was a couple of weeks earlier some australian got back to australia uninnoculated and qantas got fined, so had sent out a strong warning worldwide to all their agents

    Absolutely 

    i had a similar situation a few years ago

    i had only booked a one way ticket into the Philippines (wasn’t sure how long I wanted to stay) but until i booked an ongoing flight, Air Asia would not deal. 
     

    learnt a good lesson that day. 

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    57 cases. Won’t be out of lockdown before GF you wouldn’t think. 
     

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    during 2020 the vic peak was on 5 august, with 725 recorded cases

    active cases did not peak until 7 august at 6768

    would expect nsw to soar past both those totals in coming days

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    33 minutes ago, DubDee said:

    57 cases. Won’t be out of lockdown before GF you wouldn’t think. 
     

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    Today is day 14 since lockdown was announced. There's a bunch of schools where every kid and their families began 14 days at home that day due to being tier 1 exposure sites. Other large tier 1 sites were announced around that time too. Many 1000's of people. Yesterday, those who have been in 14 day home quarantine from that day (like me) had our compulsory day 13 covid tests.

    It's possible that numerous asymptomatic people isolating at home have tested pos on day 13. Delta works in mysterious ways.

    My guess is that as more fully vaxxed people catch covid but display no symptoms, we might find the 'known links' that tracers go on about become sketchier and harder to find.

    But I'm no medico

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    1 hour ago, DubDee said:

    57 cases. Won’t be out of lockdown before GF you wouldn’t think. 
     

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    It’s important to read the story behind these cases mate… 44 were isolating while contagious. It’s high because of the day 13 test results from the school which started the outbreak. So let’s not chop our [censored] off in angst yeah?

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    21 minutes ago, nacnud said:

    It’s important to read the story behind these cases mate… 44 were isolating while contagious. It’s high because of the day 13 test results from the school which started the outbreak. So let’s not chop our [censored] off in angst yeah?

    I did read the story behind the cases and it's not great. I was hoping to be down in single figures.  We have no chance of getting out of lockdown on 2nd Sept.  keep your head in the sand if you like

    1 hour ago, whatwhat say what said:

    during 2020 the vic peak was on 5 august, with 725 recorded cases

    active cases did not peak until 7 august at 6768

    would expect nsw to soar past both those totals in coming days

    yep NSW will go from terrible to disastrous soon.  almost impossible for Vic to remain covid free whilst this is the case 

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    23 minutes ago, DubDee said:

    yep NSW will go from terrible to disastrous soon.  almost impossible for Vic to remain covid free whilst this is the case 

    When Victoria had its peak infection numbers last year in August, did any of it leak into NSW? I can't recall. I realise the delta strain is more transmissable than what was around in 2020, but at the same time, we now have a vaccination program which didn't exist at this time last year. In short, should we be more pessimistic or optimistic about the prospects for containment?


    51 minutes ago, DubDee said:

    I did read the story behind the cases and it's not great. I was hoping to be down in single figures.  We have no chance of getting out of lockdown on 2nd Sept.  keep your head in the sand if you like

    If you’re talking about the 13 cases infectious in the community and the 3 unlinked ones then yeah I agree it’s not great. But let’s not act like it’s the number (57) itself that’s the issue. You could get 100 cases in a day and that would still be okay if nearly all of them were isolating the whole time.

    52 minutes ago, DubDee said:

    yep NSW will go from terrible to disastrous soon.  almost impossible for Vic to remain covid free whilst this is the case 

    Well if Queensland can remain COVID free from NSW then we can do it too. There’s no excuse.

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    7 minutes ago, nacnud said:

    Well if Queensland can remain COVID free from NSW then we can do it too. There’s no excuse.

    Our track record is not good though is it?

    anyway, I’m not dealing with it well today. I’ll stop posting on this thread in case I’m dragging others down too. 
     

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    From today's Vic presser:

    "Victorian health authorities say 41 of the state’s 57 new local coronavirus cases were detected as a result of day-13 quarantine tests."

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    17 minutes ago, DubDee said:

    Our track record is not good though is it?

    anyway, I’m not dealing with it well today. I’ll stop posting on this thread in case I’m dragging others down too. 
     

    Stay well mate. Focus on the Dees success, if you can. Imagine how good we will feel when Max holds up the cup!

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