COVID-19: Discussion of Impact 😷

Simply not acceptable, and I bet if the media digs further they’ll find several examples of this all over the country.

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And you bet Hazzard won’t know a single thing about it. Someone else will get thrown under the bus.

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I’m just trying to understand this but is this school currently going through an outbreak?

St Joseph’s didn’t have an outbreak.

Meanwhile, it’s been confirmed a new COVID variant arrived in Australia in April.

The heart inflammation that has been discussed seems to be happening to much younger people. To be fair, this is in countries where they are trying to roll out the vaccine to as much people as possible - compared to our gradual roll out.

It isn’t. However that article mentions that 4% of the school’s population is of Indigenous descent and 150 students are boarders.

Still doesn’t justify the decision in any form or any way considering there’s no other rationale in justifying the rollout for the 160 students. Smells like someone in NSW Health taking some good money from someone in the school to organise this.

It needs to be everyone under 40 or no one until more supplies come (Except very exceptional cases which this school isn’t).

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Although I would say if NSW Health can manage this there’s a lot of merit in schools becoming vaccination hubs for year 11 and 12 students, teachers, support staff and all families in their communities. Would he a good way to roll it out.

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I would like to know the reasoning behind it

COVID cases in Indonesia are continuing to surge despite lockdowns in Java and Bali. Yesterday it reported 29,745 new infections and 558 deaths, both daily records.

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Wow. That’s a lot of cases. Poor Bali. I miss it so much.

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It’s going to be so strange and different going back to places like Bail and Thailand. Most of the tourist spots would have long gone or closed. It will take at least a decade to regenerate these areas back to what they were.

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I know :frowning: It’s so sad. 1000 times worse than the recovery from the Bali bombings.

I’m amazed it taken this long to crush those places like Indonesia. Some of the most vulnerable countries are our neighbors and some of these pacific island nations are on borrowed time which is probably good some are donating vaccine to them.

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Borris announced a heavy reduction of restrictions today……

Hospitalisations have not increased meaning people are infected and vaccination (so showing no symptoms). The graphs and numbers we should all be looking at is the hospitalisations, not the daily case numbers.

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Mmm kay

Yep, the difference with the UK is they have 86% with 1 jab and 65% fully vaccinated, unlike the mess the Federal Government has created here with our rollout.

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I think our own PM said once everyone has been vaccinated it will be hospitalisation that is looked at as well. They are about 12 months ahead of us

27,000 cases today in the UK.

50,000 a day has been projected by July 19 (“freedom day”)

And new health minister said today we could hit 100,000 cases a day by August. (Late summer for us)

Those numbers are pretty staggering - but still testing close to 1 million a day

What I would like to know. If we did 1 million flu tests in a Normal august - how many cases would we have ? Probably well over that.

It’s uncharted territory- no country is having the case loads we are and lifting all restrictions. But also no country is vaccinated like us… will be interesting…

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