Covid 19 (OPEN DISCUSSION)

[ziad]

Antivaxx plebs comparing their 'injustice' to actual atrocities is the typical bullshit they do.

Quite infuriating.

Trying to dig u

Maybe you might want to read the numbers on the respective y-axes of those graphs before saying they look almost the same.

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[FKASC]

My whole family is booked in for boosters within the next week or 2 but it‘s late, everyone has Omicron now or is a contact. I’ve had very close contact with 2 family members who tested positive a day or 2 later. Both sisters, all the kids, hubby (he’s actually working in S. Africa, got there 2 weeks before Omicron hit) extended family, daughters BF. I was the first one to get boosted and I’m the only one who hasn’t got Omicron. Yet.
We might be open over here but we are crippled, there just arn’t any enough workers…everyone is isolating. Lots of people are pretty sick too, especially those with underlying conditions like my daughters friend with asthma really got hit hard.

Get the booster, it does help and don’t be scared of it, a day or 2 with a sore arm and life goes on. I got mine on the 5th Jan and I’m still standing while around me everyone is dropping like flies! I’m staying home and tested myself twice this week.
The rest if the family have rescheduled their booster while they recover.

Yep life for me at the moment in Melbourne is no different to lockdown except you can decide to roll the dice and go to the pub or a shop and hope your mask works. Half of my team at work got it over the Xmas break, two have had to take an addition two weeks off, all but one still haven’t recovered. My triathlete mate got it and has been hit waaaaay harder than the flu. I’m stuck working from home again for the foreseeable future.

Can understand why the WA Govt didn’t want to pull the trigger on life like this but it also seems like they are way too complacent and don’t really have a plan in place.

I see your point but I highly doubt the SA cases were that low and accurate but Israel would be highly accurate.

But I will agree on those graphs Israel is much better .

But the point remains and both graphs prove that omicron is much milder than delta

Still not too mild as to avoid overwhelming the health system and workforce though. It can’t just be reducible to cases vs deaths. From the people I know who have had omicron, the recovery is much much slower than a flu too, so it’s difficult to say what kinds of long term effects it has on your health even though the likelihood of dying from omicron is not that high. No one wants deaths, clearly, but it’s naive to think in binary.

 

[FKASC]

Feel sorry for any Western Australian that has family In a different state that they haven’t seen for a few years.

I have lived in Melbourne throughout the whole pandemic but got back to Perth to see family twice during that time - once for a few weeks over Christmas 2020-2021 and again in May 2021. My girlfriend’s parents came across in April 2021.

Way less of a window than is ideal and it’s been impossible since they introduced that extreme risk malarkey, but it’s a bit misleading when people complain they haven’t been allowed to see family since the start of the pandemic.

 

[bUCKET__]

My guess is it's mostly the "thAnKs foR keEpiNg uS saFe StaTE daDdy" crew, that think everyone's going to drop dead in the street if a dirty easterner is let in. They might be able to relax a bit now.

Panic buying has been happening all over the country. My guess is that your theory sucks and you don't care how boring it is expressing the same tedious sentiments over and over again.

 

[amazingjoshy]

Panic buying has been happening all over the country. My guess is that your theory sucks and you don't care how boring it is expressing the same tedious sentiments over and over again.

Hit a nerve?

 

[EagleEgo]

Have to say, given EEs usual content, and then MMs presser tonight, along with this post....

It is just a pure conincidence.

The outcome is what a good responsible govt should deliver and is what the majority of the WA residents want. Public Health and Safety should always be the number 1 priority. All income generating activities can only substain and survive in a healthy society.

Reopening the WA border on the 5th Feb is just like walking into a landslide and we will get hurt badly.

Australia is a self-sufficient country with about 27 million citizen. I think it was a mistake not to control our International Border properly and allow the Covid to come into Australia too easily. Blindly copying those Poorly Covid Performed countries like the UK and USA to live with the virus is a mistake.
(Note: New Zealand has also announce to delay the border reopening)

 

[ausbacker]

It is just a pure conincidence.

The outcome is what a good responsible govt should deliver and is what the majority of the WA residents want. Public Health and Safety should always be the number 1 priority. All income generating activities can only substain and survive in a healthy society.

Reopening the WA border on the 5th Feb is just like walking into a landslide and we will get hurt badly.

Australia is a self-sufficient country with about 27 million citizen. I think it was a mistake not to control our International Border properly and allow the Covid to come into Australia too easily. Blindly copying those Poorly Covid Performed countries like the UK and USA to live with the virus is a mistake.
(Note: New Zealand has also announce to delay the border reopening)

if you think isolating Western Australia from the rest of the country is what the majority of West Australians want, get out of the social media and forum bubble and go chat to people, I think you'll find the tide is turning, tremendously. McGowan is a congenital liar and people are becoming fed up with him moving the goalposts.

 

[Ambrose Burnside]

Not necessarily....could be someone in marketing or something

If they're in marketing they have the least important job in the entire West Coast organisation. Could have sacked all of them, still raked in the cash from a captive market, and spent the soft cap savings on actual football staff.

 

[Godfather32]

True. Bizarre night at a regional pub trying to watch a wet T-shirt contest as the missus starts crying because she’s opened FB and the two year wait to see her sister continues.

Needless to say, I got a few accusatory glances at being ‘that guy’ (the contest was her idea too fwiw).

I didn't expect to read that

 

[Godfather32]

if you think isolating Western Australia from the rest of the country is what the majority of West Australians want, get out of the social media and forum bubble and go chat to people, I think you'll find the tide is turning, tremendously. McGowan is a congenital liar and people are becoming fed up with him moving the goalposts.

I think you'll find it's not as popular as it was before but a majority are still good with it

 

[amazingjoshy]

It is just a pure conincidence.

Sure Mark

 

[DirtySandman]

Our border opening, freo premiership.

What’s happening first?

 

[Godfather32]

True. Bizarre night at a regional pub trying to watch a wet T-shirt contest as the missus starts crying because she’s opened FB and the two year wait to see her sister continues.

Needless to say, I got a few accusatory glances at being ‘that guy’ (the contest was her idea too fwiw).

Sorry about your Mrs though, hopefully she can see her sister soon.
Have to ask....who won the wet t-shirt contest?

 

[Godfather32]

Our border opening, freo premiership.

What’s happening first?

You know the answer to this

 

[amazingjoshy]

‘We’re f***ked’: WA teams react to border blindside

WA’s professional sports teams were left in shock and limbo on Thursday night after Premier Mark McGowan announced the February 5 border opening date would be delayed indefinitely.

thewest.com.au

No paywall on this one for me

 

[Miguel Sanchez]

Interesting position to be in, we’re still keeping the border (effectively) shut indefinitely to keep Omicron out, while the current Omicron cluster keeps growing. Will it get out in the community to the point that the Govt decides resistance is futile and re-reverses its decision?

 

[ZergMinion]

A politician in a strong position doesn't spend political capital on a decision like this unless he believes the loss of political capital will be much worse for sticking with the original decision.

While plenty of people have good reasons to be upset by this, plenty of people have equally good reasons to be happy with it. A bit of understanding from both sides wouldn't be out of place.

 

[Eagle Boy]

Well there won't be any games in WA so there goes our season and final shot at a flag. The old guys should have called it quits last season and spent the year with their families instead.

 

[kane249]

Omicron has caused a recession in Q1 for Australia due to consumer spending/confidence being low

Australians in a new type of lockdown

Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water, along comes Omicron and infects Australia’s freedoms again.

www.news.com.au

 

[DirtySandman]

A bit of understanding from both sides wouldn't be out of place.

Some peoples glee from the ‘lock us up’ crowd, is a bit over the top.

 

[ZergMinion]

Some peoples glee from the ‘lock us up’ crowd, is a bit over the top.

I find the jerks are always loudest after a win around here. Don't you?

 

[Biggie]

Big

 

[Wosh]

I genuinely don’t know how I’d feel about it if I was living in WA, I know the last 2 years in Vic have been a hell of a nightmare for many people and I’d rather have my freedoms now with the vast majority of us vaxxed, than months on end away from my family and friends.

I know it’s petty when things are so hard but geezzzzzzuzzzzzzzzzz I’ve missed going to the footy, 3 generations of us have been going now since the Eagles started either to games in Perth or here. We really miss it.

 

[Wosh]

Big

Huge, but not surprising…rumour has been going around for a while.

 

[Magnum27]

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