Resource COVID19 V - The Info Thread

[ep2018]

This was always going to happen. We were no where near our peak however I understand why they were removed, so it doesn't become an election issue in a state fed Labor need to win to form government. Fair chance restrictions and masks are back after the fed election.

 

[Forward Press]

Bit of a spike today.

The important thing though:

Hospital cases remain relatively consistent with 242 coronavirus-positive patients across the state, including 10 in intensive care.

 

[Miguel Sanchez]

Fair chance restrictions and masks are back after the fed election.

Doubt it, unless numbers go up.

The fact there’s an election on would have far less of a bearing on decisions than you’re making out.

 

[Biggie]

Fair chance restrictions and masks are back after the fed election

No chance because

Hospital cases remain relatively consistent with 242 coronavirus-positive patients across the state, including 10 in intensive care.

 

[Ambrose Burnside]

Guys, it wasn't the vaccination rate or booster rate or hospitals being able to cope that led to restrictions easing, it was Labor throwing us all under the bus for an election win after being criticised by the exact same people making this claim for keeping the borders closed and restrictions in place to allow the booster rate to reach a point that the hospitals can cope.

I mean obviously.

Once Emperor Albo is on his throne, we'll all be back in lockdown and masks will have to be worn at home.

 

[Forward Press]

Guys, it wasn't the vaccination rate or booster rate or hospitals being able to cope that led to restrictions easing, it was Labor throwing us all under the bus for an election win after being criticised by the exact same people making this claim for keeping the borders closed and restrictions in place to allow the booster rate to reach a point that the hospitals can cope.

I mean obviously.

Once Emperor Albo is on his throne, we'll all be back in lockdown and masks will have to be worn at home.

The fullness of time has proven that the delay of four weeks of the hard border being dropped was correct.

Every one of those critics have now quietly shelved that as ammunition against Mark McGowan.

 

[ZergMinion]

Found out today that the reason we have so many historical deaths is because they have to evaluate each death to consider whether they died "with Covid" or "of Covid" and that often takes time.

So the death figures are for people that almost certainly died because of Covid rather than being everyone that died after catching Covid.

 

[Hap Hapablap]

While I agree with you , 50 people a day or thereabouts are dying of covid every day in Australia.
It seems to have been swept under the carpet but it is still a high price to pay for opening up.
I get that we can't do any more re vaccinations and life has to get back to something approaching normalcy it just seems to me the people dying are being written off as collateral damage.

so by your logic we should also keep shut to ensure people dont die from influenza or other contagious diseases.

that aint going to happen. there was only so much the government could do. people were always going to die. but not bucketloads like the first wave

 

[Hap Hapablap]

This was always going to happen. We were no where near our peak however I understand why they were removed, so it doesn't become an election issue in a state fed Labor need to win to form government. Fair chance restrictions and masks are back after the fed election.

there is no logic to that unless a new strain start killing people

the point of the restrictions was not numbers itself but rather hospitalisations and death. if they can be clearer over who is in hospital from covid rather than with covid then we would know where we truly sit. reality is most that have passed were in aged care or hospices. in essence i think the government knows more than what we are lead to believe and that numbers mean **** all.

if we start having 80-100 deaths a day in wa alone then yeh maybe but not even the east coast had this in their peaks.

time to move on.

 

[Dazzler9]

We cracked the 10,000 cases mark today.

 

[DanWCE]

We cracked the 10,000 cases mark today.

Bout time. Worst. Peak. Everrrr

 

[ZergMinion]

We cracked the 10,000 cases mark today.

The last two rounds of restriction easing have been a couple of weeks too early. But we're not in bad shape hospital wise. I still wear a mask out and about though and probably will for at least another month.

 

[Ambrose Burnside]

Plenty of people in my office still wear masks. I'm not one of them, but it's more than I thought there would be.

 

[larrikin]

I'm back at work after my Covid over the last week or so. Wife and kids had it too. It's not fun but the vaccine does it's job and no one got seriously ill. Pretty much all of my wife's family (which is a big family) have had it over the last month or so too - same story.

I'm glad we got this version and not Delta, and certainly not before being vaccinated.

From a personal point of view I think the timing of removing restrictions was pretty bang on - this isn't the Covid situation which we were all scared off earlier in the pandemic.

 

[Seadog]

so by your logic we should also keep shut to ensure people dont die from influenza or other contagious diseases.

that aint going to happen. there was only so much the government could do. people were always going to die. but not bucketloads like the first wave

Please point out where I said we should keep shut, in fact I made the same point as you about there being not a lot else we can do.
I did however make the observation that our leaders are pretending everything is hunky dory when 50 people a day are dying.
Comprehension fail on your part

 

[Hap Hapablap]

Please point out where I said we should keep shut, in fact I made the same point as you about there being not a lot else we can do.
I did however make the observation that our leaders are pretending everything is hunky dory when 50 people a day are dying.
Comprehension fail on your part

i dont think they are being honky dory rather they are being realistic rather than the lunaticish fear mongering that they conducted for two years to maintain their power.

 

[Ambrose Burnside]

i dont think they are being honky dory rather they are being realistic given the fully vaccinated and boosted rate following the prudent measures that prevented Wuhan and Delta ripping through an unvaccinated population.

 

[Ambrose Burnside]

Boosted rate in WA is now over 80%

 

[Forward Press]

i dont think they are being honky dory rather they are being realistic rather than the lunaticish fear mongering that they conducted for two years to maintain their power.

Thought the fullness of time has revealed that those two years of restrictions has allowed WA to emerge relatively unscathed from the worst of the pandemic - both in terms of economic and health outcomes.

I guess I thought wrongly and people still stubbornly cling onto provably wrong opinions.

 

[Seadog]

i dont think they are being honky dory rather they are being realistic rather than the lunaticish fear mongering that they conducted for two years to maintain their power.

A couple of weeks ago Morrison said "the pandemic is over". 5,000 people have died in the first 4 months of the year and there is no sign of things slowing down. Somewhere between 10 -15000 people will die of covid this year.
It ain't over.

 

[Luuuc]

Looking like a big new peak this week. Monday is typically at the bottom of the dip and it's 10k today.
Probably a good week to mask up if you're keen on avoiding it.



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Update ... Y-axis settings getting a workout this week

 

[ZergMinion]

Over 12000 cases today. I think it's fair to say we went a little early on dropping masks.

 

[Forward Press]

Over 12000 cases today. I think it's fair to say we went a little early on dropping masks.

Unless you think the hospitalisation rate is too low and you need COVID to get through the population faster - perversely, the overall better public health outcome is to ramp up the spread more if the hospitals are coping.

 

[ZergMinion]

Unless you think the hospitalisation rate is too low and you need COVID to get through the population faster - perversely, the overall better public health outcome is to ramp up the spread more if the hospitals are coping.

Hospital numbers won't reflect this weeks cases until late next week so we'll soon know if this was a bad idea or not.

Really bad day for ambulance ramping yesterday so probably a good idea to not need an ambulance for two or three weeks.

 

[DanWCE]

Wonder if the thinking was cases weren't moving through as fast as we wanted prior to Winter so we had to give it a little kick in the bum.

The reduction of restrictions flies in the face of the conservative approach taken until this point.