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30-12-2021, 11:22 AM | #17521 | ||
HUGH JARSE
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Just home from getting the booster.
15 cases in Yap-Hoon I told the staff at the surgery that I haven't had this many needles since I had Syphilis |
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30-12-2021, 11:37 AM | #17522 | ||
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Data valid as at 00:00 GMT December 29th 2021.
18,149 new cases for Australia (a new record) and 8 deaths so the CMR is 0.647%. NZ reported 54 cases and 2 deaths for a CMR of 0.365%. The UK recorded 221,250 cases and 68 deaths for a CMR of 1.179%. 438,383 new cases in the USA yesterday (a new record) and 2,308 deaths sees CMR at 1.555%. Other notable points: Global cases pass 284M, the last 1M in 1 days; Global cases set a new daily high of 1,580,179 and we can’t blame it on catch-up as that was covered in the 1.3M cases yesterday. That’s also >500k more cases than the previous high on 23rd December; Europe sets a new daily high with 857,694 cases – 300k more than the previous high; North America sets a new daily high with 504,058 cases – surpassing the 369,085 yesterday; Europe passes 85M cases; Oceania passes 500k cases; The Faeroe Islands (287); Curaçao (554); Cabo Verde (602) – the previous high (449) on 28/4/21; Aruba (671); Montenegro (1,507); Malta (1,337); Cyprus (3,002); Bolivia (4,934) – the previous high (3,839) on 10/6/21; Zambia (5,255); Switzerland (10,661); Australia (18,149); Denmark (22,023); Greece (28,828); Argentina (42,032); Italy (58,009) based on a 4 day average; Spain (100,760); France (111,497) based on a 4-day average; the United Kingdom (221,250); and the USA (438,383) .... recorded new highs; those in blue for the second consecutive day and those in red for a third or more consecutive day. No countries move above the 90th percentile for the 10 day period and none drop below.
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30-12-2021, 11:38 AM | #17523 | |||
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But in the end it doesn't really matter. If no one has rapid antigen tests available to buy, then people entering Qld will still need to rely on government PCR tests. At the moment it solves nothing. I actually believe this test prior entry is partly a ploy to keep people out of Queensland. If you make the entry requirements so onerous or difficult to obtain then its less likely someone will attempt it. All I read in the papers after Christmas is how many people were unable to travel because they couldn't get tests in time. It's a way of partly keeping the border shut without having to actually do it. Save face and keep popular while still remaining cruel. |
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30-12-2021, 12:36 PM | #17524 | ||
BLUE OVAL INC.
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30-12-2021, 01:15 PM | #17525 | ||
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30-12-2021, 01:15 PM | #17526 | ||
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I'd say that finding them in Adel is a lot easier than finding them in Hervey Bay
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30-12-2021, 01:39 PM | #17527 | ||
BLUE OVAL INC.
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My Employer.
We had 40k kits in storage waiting for the approval to sell them, not having any trouble selling them I can tell you that, 10's of thousands more due tomorrow. We're not even part of the health industry yet on Friday i asked in a Chemist and got told early January. Terrible forward planning by some major players on this. Just did one as a follow up from my negative PCR result from Sunday, been a close contact of my Covid positive daughter for a week now and returned a negative today. |
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30-12-2021, 01:59 PM | #17528 | |||
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But I was referring to big cities like Melbourne and Sydney. Our Melbourne friends cant find any and I'm seeing in newspaper comments that people cant find any in Sydney either. Doesn't mean there aren't more coming in or its a right time, right place situation, but at the moment it seems difficult. They will probably become a premium in Adelaide too since the government has now banned PCR testing for residents wanting to leave the state. |
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30-12-2021, 02:12 PM | #17530 | ||
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This one sounds backwards to myself. So a mate of mine was deemed a close contact and got a pcr a couple days back. Yet to get a result. In said couple days he now doesnt feel well. He went to the gp today to get a RAT and they said no, not untill he has a positive pcr.
Correct me if im wrong, isnt the rat supposed to be used to, to a degree, to reduce the high demand on testing sites? |
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30-12-2021, 02:23 PM | #17531 | |||
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"If you know where to look" doesn't really help anyone who's looking and not finding. |
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30-12-2021, 02:32 PM | #17532 | |||
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30-12-2021, 02:59 PM | #17533 | ||
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30-12-2021, 03:16 PM | #17534 | ||
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With Hospital beds filling up at a rate of knots how long before the conversation turns to who gets priority in the Vaxed/unvaxed argument.
I mean I know we like to think of Australia as that place where a persons rights are respected and everyone has a right to basic health care but when push comes to shove and vaccinated people are dying in their homes whilst unvaccinated people are occupying hospital wards, surely those warm cozy feelings of equality get set aside. |
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30-12-2021, 03:21 PM | #17535 | ||
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Old Parliament House has been set on fire by Sydney based Anti-Vaccine / Freedom movement groups, with ties to right-wing extremists. They have managed to tie-up with an Aboriginal group, waving lots of Aboriginal flags. A front for the media to blame the Aboriginal community no doubt.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-12-...fire/100731444 For the last couple of weeks they have been posting this idiotic notices at various sites. |
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30-12-2021, 03:39 PM | #17536 | ||
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[QUOTE=Pooka;6665206] by Sydney based Anti-Vaccine / Freedom movement groups, with ties to right-wing extremists.
This aways makes me laugh when I hear Anti-whatever tie with extreme right wing.... Isn't right wing all about control of people and left wing about freedom ?
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30-12-2021, 03:48 PM | #17537 | |||
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Like when the protests first started in Melbourne and it was reported they were started by "extreme right wing" groups. I think even Albo said they the same thing. But were in fact started by union members (construction at that time) and followed up be Labor and Greenie lefty freedom fighters. |
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30-12-2021, 04:17 PM | #17538 | ||||
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Left = preference for gov setting rules and regulations. Right = people choose their own destiny. That's my understanding of it. Gov has just agreed to change the definition of a close contact i.e. you must have been in contact with a positive case for 4 hours. Get ready!! Might actually convince me to go get boosted now... Quote:
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30-12-2021, 04:22 PM | #17539 | |||
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30-12-2021, 04:27 PM | #17540 | ||
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No idea. I think the extreme of either side are just as dangerous as each other. A mad man (or woman) will do mad things regardless of their political compass.
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30-12-2021, 04:52 PM | #17541 | ||
I drank what?
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It doesn't have to be public, you could just pm her.
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30-12-2021, 05:14 PM | #17542 | ||
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138 cases and 253 in ACT for today and yesterday. We have hit 20k+ total in a day now.
After national cabinet today they redefined close contacts though history tells me the premiers will end up doing their own thing anything anyway . |
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30-12-2021, 05:15 PM | #17543 | ||
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30-12-2021, 05:54 PM | #17544 | ||||
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One of the key members of the protests over the last week or so in Canberra, and the burning of the OPB has been an idiot named Michael Simms. He is one of the leaders of the Sydney based MMAMV (Millions March Against Mandatory Vaccinations) group. Their Facebook page LIVE STREAMED the fire this morning. Have a look at the MMAMV Australia FB page for more evidence. Michael Simms can even be spotted in a couple of the video's doing the rounds on the socials of the OPB fire today. But this group is not the only one involved in this. There's also other far right-winged associated groups brainwashing people, including some of the Aboriginal communities to suit their agenda's. Using them as pawn.
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I haven't got the time to write essays on who, what, how and/or why the "construction workers" protest in Melbourne took place. So I'll link an article on the subject that'll explain it better than I could. Quote:
There's plenty of other evidence available if you search. Quite a few from MSM even, but I like the mob in the link I provided above (Independent Australia). I find them to be up front and straight to the point. There was also video and/or photographic evidence doing the rounds on the socials at the time showing members of Melbourne's UPF (United Patriots Front) and AP (Antipodean Resistance), and other far-right group members present at that protest. With their names published along with photo/video evidence. So yes, there were CFMEU members there. But the majority, if not all of the violent troublemakers who threw things at the CFMEU HQ, the Police, the media, etc, etc, weren't CFMEU members. The violence came from members of the anti-lockdown, anti-vaccine, anti-Daniel Andrews, anti-Labour government groups, and fuelled by members of far right extremists groups. Not from 'union members and Labor and Greenie lefty freedom fighters' as you so put it. Plain and simple facts. Last edited by Pooka; 30-12-2021 at 06:05 PM. |
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30-12-2021, 06:03 PM | #17545 | ||
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[QUOTE=CoupeKing;6665252]Hitler was a Facist which is far right
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism |
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30-12-2021, 06:32 PM | #17546 | ||
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Looks like WA is about to join the party...
WA COVID update: New exposure sites listed including Domino’s pizza in East Fremantle, Portside Boulders https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/cor...ders-c-5133103 |
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30-12-2021, 06:56 PM | #17547 | |||
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ABC is known for many lies and inaccuracies much as any other news media outlet. |
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30-12-2021, 06:57 PM | #17548 | ||||
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Being 8000+km away for a couple of years might have caused you to miss some of the finer details. The protests actually started a week or so earlier in response to unvaccinated workers not being able to share break rooms with vaccinated workers. Unvaccinated workers were seen taking breaks in chairs on the footpath, in gutters and even on tram tracks. All in protest to mandatory vaccinations and not being able to share site facilities. From there it graduated onto CFMEU HQ where it grew larger with union members and yes, it's attendance massively grew because it was gate crashed by outside protesters making their own point. Quote:
What started as a small protest with a handful of people on various sites grew to, by your own admission, a large protest numbering approximately 30,000 union members that was then crashed and taken advantage of by however many Labor and Greenie lefty freedom fighters... And it took on a life of its own from there. I consider Labor and Greenie one and the same these days given how much they work hand in hand. I agree yes, the violence was likely not perpetrated by all union members but by these gatecrashers. But in reality that round of disgraceful protests had its origins in a group of anti-vax union construction workers, that grew with attendance of more union members and went nuts from there. Problem is, it wasn't reported that way. Even that article fails to mention the origins of those protests and only kicks off at the point where the original protest was co-opted or taken advantage of. |
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30-12-2021, 07:00 PM | #17549 | ||
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A bunch of ****wits lighting up old parly has nothing to do with the Covid thread
ACT is going to buy 1m RAT from GSS in other news. |
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30-12-2021, 07:16 PM | #17550 | |||
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