Coronavirus 2020 / Worldwide (Stats live update in OP) Part 8: This Thread is for Reasonable ON TOPIC Discussion

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Vaccination seems to be doing what it is intended to do...

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volcboy said:
Vaccination seems to be doing what it is intended to do...

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Yeah the low vaccine uptake among the elderly in Hong Kong is having disastrous results
 

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I know so many more people (including myself)that have tested positive in the past 2 weeks than at any other time during the pandemic. Anecdotally I surmise that a large % of people aren’t logging positive RATs with NSW health in the hope they feel better in a few days and don’t have to isolate. It also allows negative household contacts to go about their daily lives.

I logged mine, wife and kid stuck at home too and signed myself up for a fine if I get caught skipping ISO. I do question the benefit.
 
Nice Swan Brother said:
I know so many more people (including myself)that have tested positive in the past 2 weeks than at any other time during the pandemic. Anecdotally I surmise that a large % of people aren’t logging positive RATs with NSW health in the hope they feel better in a few days and don’t have to isolate. It also allows negative household contacts to go about their daily lives.

I logged mine, wife and kid stuck at home too and signed myself up for a fine if I get caught skipping ISO. I do question the benefit.
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Have you had it before?
 
Nice Swan Brother said:
Anecdotally I surmise that a large % of people aren’t logging positive RATs with NSW health
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Join the club.

Don't forget, here in NSW, the 1st rule about the Blues Club COVID, is that to maintain confidence, you do not talk about COVID.

And here we are 11 days later, and if NSW Health has reported back to the NSW Health Minister on the level of RAT under-reporting, as publicly requested, nothing appears to have been made public on the findings.

With the NSW CHO keeping a low profile since her return from 3 weeks leave about a week ago, and the NSW Premier still on a very short paternity leave.

www.smh.com.au

NSW records 30,000 daily COVID-19 cases after ‘data processing issue’

NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard has asked health authorities to investigate whether significant numbers of people were failing to report positive tests.
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'March 16, 2022'

'On Tuesday, NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard said he had asked health authorities to investigate whether significant numbers of people were failing to report positive tests.'

He flagged there was a “mismatch” between current case numbers and prediction modelling.

“I fear they might be light on,” he said.

“I’ve asked health to double-check the numbers [to] make sure we are getting all the cases.”

Mr Hazzard said the state government could no longer be “certain” all COVID-19 cases were being reported due to the use of at-home rapid antigen tests.

“In the earlier stages we were as accurate as we could be because we had PCR tests, they were not being done at home,” he said.
 
dont bowl there said:
Fair enough. Weird you know more getting it now than when numbers exploded back in late Dec/early Jan.
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I know, hence the predicted level of under reporting. People were probably more scared in Dec/Jan so more compliant.

I guess as long as Hospital/ICU and Deaths are steady then it doesn’t overly matter, if these have remained steady with underreporting then its in a way good news.
 
dont bowl there said:
Weird you know more getting it now than when numbers exploded back in late Dec/early Jan.
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I'm in the same boat.

But this is explained by it ripping through High School kids in NSW over the last month or so.
Coinciding with the mask mandates in High Schools being removed by NSW Health/Education.
 
dont bowl there said:
Correct. Who cares about cases, as long as it’s not showing in hospitalisations they simply don’t matter.
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Long covid doesn't require you to end up in hospital
 

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dont bowl there said:
Cases can’t be stopped, so his response was pointless, much like case numbers.
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Cases can't be stopped but suggesting anyone who doesn't end up in hospital with covid doesn't count is massively missing the point
 
Poetic Justice said:
I see your point but fundamentally the reason this concept exists is because the majority of people take the piss out of their employers/jobs. It's not a distrust in a specific person (unless their specific behaviour has called for it.)
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Your second sentence contradicts your first.
 
dont bowl there said:
In terms of pandemic mitigation they really don’t. As long as hospitals are ok we move on. What about long COVID response is meaningless as it can’t be stopped at this point.
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Ignoring its a thing is a problem

What are they doing about it with their already stretched health systems
 

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