daisycutter

i've given up a bit on the details at ground zero....too much fugazi etc i now prefer the view from 20,000 ft that as a country we've done pretty well comparatively

just a guess......maybe they are expecting people will need a yearly booster (like the flu) ?

well, uncle, it seems it's not respect or sympathy.........

as long as you intended to pay by a cheque that would have bounced i see no problem

will be quite cold (10c at start time), light winds and no rain (lots of rain in morning but)

we did order 10m doses of pfizer in mid 2020, then 10m more in dec 2020, then 20m more recently we also in 2020 prior to any vaccines being certified made arrangements for novovax and uoq/csl's vaccine (later cancelled). So before any vaccines were approved we had in fact a fourfold arrangement hindsight is a wonderful thing it is also disappointing that astrazeneca has unfairly been demonised as it still represents an acceptable solution and risk

the problem with this argument is that in july 2020 there was no vaccines. there was only a few proto vaccines in early trials. no vaccines approved and no guarantee there would be tested and approved vaccines in any time frame whatsoever. there were even leading medical people saying publicly it could take many years. there were no certainties, just hopes and wishes. to now say that the government could have bet the house on pfizer and pre-ordered 40M doses enough for the whole country is disingenuous. pfizer and az weren't the only trial vaccines being developed/test but were probably just 2 of the more promising but you'd still need a crystal ball at that time to differentiate.. there we advantages/disadvantages in both (e.g. cost, refrigeration, local manufacture, availability time frame etc). The government decided on a two pronged approach. If at that time they had bet the house on just either one they would have been widely criticised. when vaccines started to become available australia had problems with supply for a number of reasons, among them that australia was in less desperate needs compared to most other countries i don't remember much criticism of the government in july 2020, in fact quite the opposite, so for some to now turn around and criticise that decision smacks of politicking and blame shifting.

pinched from elsewhere "My wife and I had a wonderful time on the French Riverina." "He's loping around the wing like a giant tarantulop." "Bartlett's, he's older than he's ever been before." “The ball's in no-man's land and the loose man's come from everywhere." “Things aren't the same now there are five teams in the four." "An Essendon supporter is a Collingwood supporter who can read and write." "Bamblett made a great debut today and an even better one last week." "He's a good ordinary footballer." (about Carlton's Peter Bosustow) "A bit of bad luck for Bob." (on the death of former Carlton champ Bob Chitty) "I won't say anything in case I say something." “Diamond Creek was a long way away once."

lol.....you are making a big assumption that there is logic involved here.....however you are probably right in your conclusion

the % varies greatly depending on age quoting an overall % can be misleading

but you took watts first 4 years and compared to weids first 6 years i realise you took the first 50 games for each, but same years of development would be better as you are using averages anyway

od, according to a leading epidemioligist on the radio today IF 70 YEARS AND OVER if you get covid and are unvaccinated you have 1 chance in 100 of dying from covid if you get vaccinated with az you have 1 chance in a 1,000,000 of dying from az you made the right choice

800k for one game at the alice

and we'll probably need to take a booster injection every year for some time, just like the flu vaccine maybe they will eventually be able to combine the flu and covid vaccines into a single jab fun times

*glouftsis

how many have caught covid this year? how many have had an az jab? context please

it also comes back to this nebulous thing called a "duty of care" in this case there was a good chance of harm with a bump (instead of a tackle or something else) and therefore a duty of care to avoid a bump. The player bumped had much less momentum and was still in the process of focussing on the ball. He was very vulnerable and deserved some duty of care. this is why i thought it reckless and the bumper wears the consequences, in this case quite serious

fair enough. I thought he chose to bump.

i still think they were quite different and wouldn't use them in a comparison........jmo also for mackay, he may have started off to attack the ball ,but ultimately elected to shoulder bump at speed when he did have a choice..... imo

the difference (big) in viney's case was that viney had stopped and then braced for the contact he couldn't avoid

i thought it was dangerous and reckless he came in at speed and elected to bump and hit the head.....he had choices the afl have said repeatedly that if you elect to bump and head contact is made (deliberate or not) then you are in trouble so.....reckless, high contact, high impact.....apply the formula

our vfl side has played 5 games this season. the afl 13 this weekend was an opportunity to catch up somewhat it's inexplicable

not completely so, dazzle the vfl have many more byes in the season and the season starts weeks after afl there is a real disconnection

they've already had 2 "byes", so lets give them another bye this weekend. just because we can.....ffs i really wonder about the intelligence of some afl/vfl administrators the vfl fixturing and scheduling has been a joke for quite a few years, especially given it is the development process for the supposedly most professional (and profitable) football organisation in the country words just fail me

suppose this means there will be no mfc shop discounts this week?