Lord Nev
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West Coast are apparently considering what they do with their ruck lineup given the short quarters. That could potentially signal for us that a secondary ruck is a lot less important meaning very little chance we see both Weid and Brown surely? We may even see Tomlinson as backup ruck and neither of Weid or Brown (and Jackson) play. IMO one of the three will be on the bench, but could we see the more versatile Jackson get a call up given the unique circumstances? -
STATEMENT ON SCHOOL CLOSURES IN VICTORIA Dr Brett Sutton MBBS MPHTM FAFPHM FRSPH FACTM MFTM Victorian Chief Health Officer Victorian Chief Human Biosecurity Officer The Australian Health Protection Principal Committee (AHPPC) met recently to consider the issue of school closures in relation to the community transmission of COVID-19. The Committee’s advice is that pre-emptive school closures are not likely to be proportionate or effective as a public health intervention to prevent community transmission of COVID-19 at this time. As Victoria’s Chief Health Officer and as a member of the AHPPC, I fully endorse this advice in relation to schools in Victoria. There is currently limited information on the contribution of children to transmission of COVID-19. The WHO-China Joint Mission noted the primary role of household transmission and observed that children tended to be infected from adults. Previous work suggests that the potential reduction in community transmission from pre-emptive school closures may be offset by the care arrangements that are in place for children who are not at school. There is a particular risk associated with the fact that children may require care from vulnerable grandparents or may continue to associate (and transmit infection) outside of school settings. Broadly, the health advice on school closures from previous respiratory epidemics shows the health costs are often underestimated and the benefits are overestimated. This may be even more so in relation to COVID-19 as unlike influenza, the impact on otherwise healthy children has been minimal to date. For pre-emptive school closures to be effective, prolonged closure is required and it would be unclear when they could be re-opened. If there were still a large pool of susceptible students when schools are re-opened, there would be likely to be re-emergence of transmission in the community. School closures may still be considered late in the outbreak in anticipation of a peak in infection rates, for a shorter period of time. Short term reactive school closures may also be warranted to allow cleaning and contact tracing to occur. Should evidence change in relation to school closures then my advice to the sector, in collaboration with AHPPC, would of course change also.
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Not sure why you're bringing up Hillsong etc. other than to try and move the goal posts. Unless you're implying all the doctors and professors providing advice are also Pentecostals and have decided to put religion above science in their jobs? I said: Medical professionals, the best ones in Australia, have recommended it's best for schools to stay open for now. You said: But I've watched BBC World for a few weeks so I know better than them. But somehow you don't see how absurd that is.
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I'm no ScoMo or religion fan, but his is where his medical advisers were the last decade or so while you were getting your 5 week intensive medical degree via BBC World...
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Yeah, why would the PM of the country need health experts with PHDs when he could have SWYL from the internet who has watched some BBC lately...
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Hopefully you've made the call to ScoMo to offer your services then.
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The UK totally misread how to handle the situation and are now having to change tact. They've handled it differently to Australia. Schools will likely close at some stage, but the unanimous advice from the actual experts (and not Demonland posters) is that we're better off with them open currently. One of the main reasons is that if 4 million school kids are sent home it will have a devastating effect on the amount of people available to work in crucially needed jobs right now, including health professionals. It will also likely mean those school kids will be cared for by vulnerable grandparents. Not everything is as simple as you like to make it out to be mate.
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Achilles soreness rather than injury. Was listed as 'test' so don't reckon he'll be out a month.
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I think it's a ban on "non-essential staff", so would think that probably includes family, sadly.
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Kozzy's in!! (And Bedford too)
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3 months seems a long time out for just kicking someone's shin. Would surely at least complicate his existing issues. We saw how much he has to go through just to train the amount he does in the 'To Hell & Back' episode, so it's hard to imagine that same foot being broken would have no impact on it or the time frame he's expected to miss.
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https://www.health.gov.au/resources/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-information-on-social-distancing Read the above post from Dr Larkins. Then read the information sheet here. I'm not sure what "elite athletes" has to do with anything, so not sure why you keep bringing that up, it's about minimizing risk (not sure how many times that needs to be said). This has been explained to you numerous times now, so I see no point in engaging with you further if you're not actually willing to engage rather than just repeat your irrelevant and ill-informed points ad nauseam. Cheers.
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“By any measure around the world whether it is World Health Organisation advising Australia or even our national health department, we think 10 to 30 per cent of Australia will contract the virus,” he said on Fox Footy’s AFL 360. “You can do the numbers, even if we go to 10 per cent when we have 2.7 million people in Australia. “So the chances of a player out in their normal environment coming in contract with somebody is extraordinarily likely.” Given AFL clubs have a large support group around them, Larkins suggested it would be hard to stop a potential infection across the playing group. “The absolute issue is that it is person to person contact, right now we’ve got no positive tests in any AFL player and there’s been many players tested,” he said. “But we’ve still got a cohort of 60-70 people support around a club, so the chances of it happening are going to be there. I think it’s a public health concern, we don’t do it from a sport point of view. I don’t want a season to be impacted but it already has been." Why it is ‘extraordinarily likely’ an AFL player will contract coronavirus
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Read my post again. I'm assuming you're being deliberately obtuse now.
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I repeat, we have to minimize the risk. Social distancing is a key factor, how exactly do they enact that in footy? I repeat, "elite athletes" can still pass on covid-19 to vulnerable people. I repeat, footy isn't an essential component of life. One of the reasons schools haven't closed (yet) is that a lot of those children would be going into the care of grandparents currently. You seem to only be thinking of the "elite athletes" and entirely missing the actual point.
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Nowhere did I say that, and frankly trying to stretch or misrepresent what people have said is a pretty pathetic way to interact. I'm about minimizing risk. I have many relatives and friends who are at high risk with covid-19 and risking their lives for something as comparatively trivial as footy is not something I'm willing to do. Playing footy isn't an essential component of life currently.
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Because those healthy players can still be carriers and pass it on to other people who are vulnerable. You can carry it without showing symptoms.
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Cancel til May, but even then don't guarantee it will actually happen. Australia is dragging it's feet on this badly.
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Sure, some stats are a bit shonky (disposal efficiency is a useless stat), but measuring the difficulty of a kick and then how many times a player nails it is a pretty handy stat. People get too carried away with having a crack at Champion Data anyway, stats don't always tell the whole story, but they just measure the numbers part of it. As they say, the game isn't played on paper.
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Last year Champion Data had a pretty good stat where they had a 'kick rating' based on degree of difficulty of every kick and then how many of each kick a player completed successfully. Jones was number 1 at the Dees.
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Mate, you've taken the argumentative tone from the start. Other people don't have to agree with you "sheesh". In 2018, Max had his season low of 30 hitouts v the Suns. We won by nearly 100 points. In 2019, TMac kicked 6 goals in our win against the Blues. Guess who didn't play that day? For mine, TMac is they key to us winning games. Not by a huge margin, but if he's in form, taking marks, kicking goals then we generally win. IMO the ruck is a fair way down the list in terms of impact on game results, we saw that when we got on a roll a few years back with Pedersen taking most of the ruck duties. Sure, it's far better to have a great ruck, and they can give you an advantage, but they're not usually the deciding factor in winning or losing, and our 2019 season clearly demonstrates that.
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I don't think you're grasping the point mate. Gawn played great, our mids won a heap of clearances and we got the ball inside 50 a ton, so all the things you think are important all happened, yet we finished second last. That tells you that Gawn can play fantastic and do all the things you want, but the team still fails in a huge way.
