COVID-19 Health System Overload Forecaster

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Craig started the topic in Wednesday, 18 Mar 2020 at 7:44pm

I've created a spreadsheet forecast which I'll update as we go..

There's also a website with live running data.. https://sites.google.com/view/stayhomeaustralia

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I focus Friday, 24 Dec 2021 at 1:19pm
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it's like they wanted it to happen...

apparently it was a loophole in the restrictions management, before queensland was elevated to 'low risk', there is no checking for passengers being vaccinated...

that's some pretty lame-o fortress WA you're running there mr mcgowan...

yeah..that conspiracy line.

"It's like they wanted it to happen"

Who is they spykan? Was Frenchie paid by some mysterious person/persons/govt dept?

It's Rainbow Warrior Redux. Plenty of DGSE agents posing as backpackers. I watched The Bureau on SBS.

The French Military Industrial Complex is a serious player. And the French Government is in it up to its neck. It owns 70% of Naval Group. The French Intelligence services are effectively vassals of such unaccountable arms dealers.

For the French arms industry, AUKUS was a significant financial blow and an affront to its prestige, and an impediment to the state's goal of strategic autonomy. All reasons enough for revenge.

But this black-ops attack on Australia's security by a shadowy French covert operative is really a consequence of the hurt pride of the little fellow who sees himself as the equal of Biden, Putin and Xi as the leader of Europe as the fourth superpower. For a man with such ambition and hubris, the prospect of being taken for a fool by Scotty the Sharkies supporter is an untenable prospect.

Scotty picked the wrong target for his one lie too many.

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Roystein Friday, 24 Dec 2021 at 1:28pm

Just on the internal borders.
Has anyone flown from interstate into QLD since restrictions have eased? Where are they checking the border pass?
Flew internally domestic and there are desks at the exit door with officials of various types but everyone is just walking straight past. Are there checks at the plane door?

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Craig Friday, 24 Dec 2021 at 1:32pm
I focus wrote:

Page 7 reading for the unvaccinated

https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/covid-19/Documents/covid-19-sur...

Great data, very clear.

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truebluebasher Friday, 24 Dec 2021 at 1:36pm

Qld Game Park : {Feeding Times}
Rules: (Strictly VIPs Only) "Hunt down yer Hesitant then flush 'em out from under their death beds!"

Hot Doc's necessary Summer Scorcher Scoreboard 589 > 94 Hospital
(JG Ward Charts previously listed additional 50% (Soon more) of "Hospital Cases" are Home Patients)
Qld will soon join NSW / Vic in monitoring 90% of Covid "Vaxed" Patients thru Home Care Teleheath.

New Top Doc JG under the pump! : "Wot me! I'm fuckin' drooling over this Fresh Covid Surge!"
"Covid needs to become widespread, it's inevitable but necessary!"
"People either need immunity from Vax or to catch the Virus...
"So we're importing Mass Peak Covid then shutting down our Vax Hubs over Xmas!"
JG : "Much rather that it happens in Summer when we're all on Xmas Hols than Winter!"

Brutally Honest! We Qldurrz can feel the painful rot setting in & beg for more Covid bestiality.
Qld Police State CHO Job Description (Hardcore Goth with Evil Professor diploma) [Drool here........X ]
Sounds like : Vax / Tests / Masks / People ... are in the way of Qldurr'z Covid recovery Plan!
https://www.9news.com.au/national/coronavirus-updates-queesland-case-num...

Oz/Qld Health Vax Rules #1 [ Do not Vax if you 'feel unwell' ] #2 [ Do not lie on yer consent form ]
300,000 on hold Qld Outpatients do not feel well enough to vax, doing the 'right thing' by hesitating.
Premier : Outpatients have had several appointments cancelled & should be sick enough to get Covid!
JG : Be cool if you walking dead hesitant Outpatients could sniff out our interstate VIP Virus Mules.

Unvaxed Outpatient Clean Up Rate is essential to Qld Health Recovery Plan...[ Ticks all the Boxes ]
Sure it sounds heartless, but in the current climate...we're just numbers on a page > XXX!
Pre Covid XXX (Op / Denial) = X Obese > X Smoker > X Over 55 > X CPAP (Soon Add) X Unvaxed.
Hospital Staff this week informed tbb that during > Outbreaks [-] Test Hospital Entry (Is in the Mix!)
Please note your Referral has not been accepted, we appreciate your patience while we reviewed you!
Qld Health instructed tbb to return to informed GP to discuss, only they've never informed him.
Go have a yarn with yer GP is wearin' thin...Blowing out Oz Health Costs to further stall us hesitants.
None wish to complain of Qld Health Crisis...but it's clearly the #1 reason for Qld's low vax rates.

Govt knows such & that's why the New Guy is instructed to sort out Qld's #1 problem this Summer.
Introducing Qld Health new non consensual alternative sickly Outpatient bypass inoculation!
Now all are Drooling! Watch this space as yer local CHO closes the vax hubs to prescribe VIP cure!

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Craig][quote=I focus wrote:

Page 7 reading for the unvaccinated

https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/covid-19/Documents/covid-19-sur...

Very clear. It shows that out of the 282000 known cases in Australia- there’s doubtless multiples more than that - there’s been just over 400 elderly and extremely sick people die within 28 days of a positive result on a covid test who were also not vaccinated.

Vaccination is a good idea if you’re extremely old and vulnerable. Not necessarily for anyone else. As shown by the excellent clear data.

Boosters…lolol.

Prescribing a booster for a healthy thirty year old is like guitar lessons for Jimmy Hendrix.

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sypkan wrote:

it's like they wanted it to happen...

apparently it was a loophole in the restrictions management, before queensland was elevated to 'low risk', there is no checking for passengers being vaccinated...

that's some pretty lame-o fortress WA you're running there mr mcgowan...

nah sypy that's how they've been running it.

Midyear there was a 4 day window from our disease riddled hell hole to get to WA on a plane so we bundled the immunology undergrad on one ("Can't I go next week? Mates are doing something on Saturday...") and so his flight landed, and the very hour later the next landing flight was sent straight to hotel quarantine. Undergrad took isolating seriously, and did the 2 weeks at his Nanna's upstairs, and no, wasn't infectious. Didn't go to Connections haha! There's an old name, staff used to go there after the other clubs we worked in shut whether gay or not...

Is the Brass Monkey still there Perth crew? Now you are bringing memories back, 15 yo and hiding a goon bag under one of the outside tables at one of the diners watching the world pass by while getting tanked... I always liked Freo better for some reason, although in town the old Inner City Firm from the early 1990s was a favourite, still have a free entry pass for that one!

Do people still mess themselves up at the Hippy Club?

Nice surf here, just the youngest and I out on a peak, trading waves. Everyone else must've been in the covid queue at the local oval...

Merry Christmas!

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freeride76 Friday, 24 Dec 2021 at 2:06pm

To you too VJ.

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Blowin][quote=Craig wrote:
I focus wrote:

Page 7 reading for the unvaccinated

https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/covid-19/Documents/covid-19-sur...

Very clear. It shows that out of the 282000 known cases in Australia- there’s doubtless multiples more than that - there’s been just over 400 elderly and extremely sick people die within 28 days of a positive result on a covid test who were also not vaccinated.

Vaccination is a good idea if you’re extremely old and vulnerable. Not necessarily for anyone else. As shown by the excellent clear data.

Boosters…lolol.

Prescribing a booster for a healthy thirty year old is like guitar lessons for Jimmy Hendrix.

Note 0-11 years account for 4.3% of hospitalisations

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Supafreak Friday, 24 Dec 2021 at 2:33pm

Be interesting to see what the data says about chances of the vaccinated spreading omicron are . With delta the vaccine reduced it to 40% down from 60%. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-risk-of-vaccinated-covid-...

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Craig wrote:
I focus wrote:

Page 7 reading for the unvaccinated

https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/covid-19/Documents/covid-19-sur...

Very clear. It shows that out of the 282000 known cases in Australia- there’s doubtless multiples more than that - there’s been just over 400 elderly and extremely sick people die within 28 days of a positive result on a covid test who were also not vaccinated.

Vaccination is a good idea if you’re extremely old and vulnerable. Not necessarily for anyone else. As shown by the excellent clear data.

Boosters…lolol.

Prescribing a booster for a healthy thirty year old is like guitar lessons for Jimmy Hendrix.

Note 0-11 years account for 4.3% of hospitalisations

Note : The metric used to account for covid hospitalisations is a perverted and twisted distortion of the facts which skews data extremely towards higher case numbers.

Definition of covid hospitalisation in Australia: Someone who has visited a hospital within 28 days of a covid test which shows a positive result. Those who are already in hospital and later test positive are also counted as a covid hospitalisation.

Lol….what a fucken useless waste of time that is. The only disease in history whereby statistics of Ill health are counted amongst those who are not Ill with the disease.

The above information is factually correct. The covid hospitalisation metric is bullshit.

Particularly when the average omicold infection is of about two days duration …..go in for a broken leg three and a half weeks after your sniffles have disappeared and be counted as a covid hospitalisation for the chickenshits to weep over online.

Covid hospitalisation statistics are as reliable as the roadside drug testing which says you’re still driving under the influence of marijuana when you finished your joint 5 days ago.

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Distracted Friday, 24 Dec 2021 at 2:49pm
Supafreak wrote:

Be interesting to see what the data says about chances of the vaccinated spreading omicron are . With delta the vaccine reduced it to 40% down from 60%. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-risk-of-vaccinated-covid-...

Supa, a rough empirical observation from graph below would suggest vaccination doesn’t have much effect on transmission for omicron. Hopefully though it still reduces hospitalisation but will take a couple weeks for that data to become clear in Oz.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FHQm-CEVgAAETTV?format=jpg&name=large

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Distracted Friday, 24 Dec 2021 at 3:03pm

Supa, can provide some practical transmission data in a couple days…. just found out one of my kids has it.

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Supa, can provide some practical transmission data in a couple days…. just found out one of my kids has it.[/quote. Well I hope your kid recovers quickly, not the xmas gift any parent would want
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blindboy Friday, 24 Dec 2021 at 3:07pm

"Definition of covid hospitalisation in Australia: Someone who has visited a hospital within 28 days of a covid test which shows a positive result. Those who are already in hospital and later test positive are also counted as a covid hospitalisation."

Reference?

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velocityjohnno Friday, 24 Dec 2021 at 3:13pm

Good luck Distracted, hope you all have good outcomes.

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indo-dreaming Friday, 24 Dec 2021 at 3:15pm
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Oz Booster Countdown 12 > 6 > 5 >4 > 3 months by Jan 31 (Vax is still 25% good, best hurry!)
Qld is closing down all Vax Hubs to fuel the Mass Peak Xmas Booster Covid Crisis...as you'd expect!
https://www.health.gov.au/news/atagi-statement-on-the-omicron-variant-an...

"developed nations cannot boost themselves out of this pandemic" - the WHO

seems 'the authorities' are pretty selective about listening to 'the authorities'...

I hadn't read that, but googled and:

"Booster campaigns won't end the pandemic, WHO chief warns wealthy nations"

The World Health Organization chief warned Wednesday that the rush in wealthy countries to roll out additional Covid-19 vaccine doses was deepening the global inequity in access to jabs and thereby prolonging the pandemic.

The UN health agency has long warned about the glaring inequity in access to Covid vaccines, which has left many vulnerable people in poorer nations without a single jab as richer countries roll out booster programmes.

"Blanket booster programmes are likely to prolong the Covid-19 pandemic, rather than ending it, by diverting supply to countries that already have high levels of vaccination coverage, giving the virus more opportunity to spread and mutate," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters.

"No country can boost its way out of the pandemic," Tedros added.

more here https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20211222-booster-campaigns-won-t-end-...

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velocityjohnno Friday, 24 Dec 2021 at 3:19pm

Back to today's cancelled flights,

https://www.theage.com.au/business/companies/dozens-of-flights-cancelled...

this sucks majorly for people who have done all the right thing, the tests and huge waits; for people who haven't seen family going on 2 years, etc

Some of the comments on the article are warranted:

"“Living with the virus” has just as much if not more uncertainty and disruption than before. Business quickly discovering “opening up’ is not the nirvana they thought it would be."

"Not sure what is worse.. A christmas where we knew everything was going to be locked down and so we set our expectations accordingly. Or, a Christmas where we all looked forward to the new travel freedoms but are locked down at the 11th hour. My sympathy to everyone who has been split from their families and friends..."

"The foolishness of the governments, both state and federal, not to think through the enormous economic costs of "Freedumb". From an economic point of view, a quarantined bubble is clearly the best.

And that is not even thinking about the costs to health and life, and to those who need a hospital but cant go because of staff being sick or off, or because with every trip to the dentist or doctor, you likely to get a dose of omicron, or the next variant."

"The “new normal”.

Close contacts, vaccinated, unsymptomatic are forced to miss work"

Personally, when we get the chance, I was going to drive it. No biggie, I've done the Nullarbor/Roe Plain 13 times already, I like the drive although it's an endurance event.

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sypkan Friday, 24 Dec 2021 at 3:38pm
velocityjohnno wrote:
sypkan wrote:

it's like they wanted it to happen...

apparently it was a loophole in the restrictions management, before queensland was elevated to 'low risk', there is no checking for passengers being vaccinated...

that's some pretty lame-o fortress WA you're running there mr mcgowan...

nah sypy that's how they've been running it.

Midyear there was a 4 day window from our disease riddled hell hole to get to WA on a plane so we bundled the immunology undergrad on one ("Can't I go next week? Mates are doing something on Saturday...") and so his flight landed, and the very hour later the next landing flight was sent straight to hotel quarantine. Undergrad took isolating seriously, and did the 2 weeks at his Nanna's upstairs, and no, wasn't infectious. Didn't go to Connections haha! There's an old name, staff used to go there after the other clubs we worked in shut whether gay or not...

Is the Brass Monkey still there Perth crew? Now you are bringing memories back, 15 yo and hiding a goon bag under one of the outside tables at one of the diners watching the world pass by while getting tanked... I always liked Freo better for some reason, although in town the old Inner City Firm from the early 1990s was a favourite, still have a free entry pass for that one!

Do people still mess themselves up at the Hippy Club?

Nice surf here, just the youngest and I out on a peak, trading waves. Everyone else must've been in the covid queue at the local oval...

Merry Christmas!

small windows...

loose connections...

enjoyed a bit of both myself

and the dirty hippy club

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Supafreak Friday, 24 Dec 2021 at 3:41pm

@vj , and every industry will be affected , where will schools be in 6 weeks time ? Able to re-open if enough staff ? only to be closed again as more and more become close contacts , which then means some parents can’t go to work.

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sypkan Friday, 24 Dec 2021 at 3:46pm

and looking at roker's post...

I was wrong... or right... im not sure...

can't keep up, or tell if he's taking the piss...

but its not inconceivable, from little man big complex macron, and the dirty rainbow warrior bombers...

(Interesting when you raise that with frenchies... none of them have ever heard of it... must be edited in the school curriculum... china / japan style...)

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sypkan Friday, 24 Dec 2021 at 4:23pm
Supafreak wrote:

@vj , and every industry will be affected , where will schools be in 6 weeks time ? Able to re-open if enough staff ? only to be closed again as more and more become close contacts , which then means some parents can’t go to work.

its gonna be a piece by piece lockdown... and the fetishisers will get what they want again ....eventually...

as each component of the retail and public infrastructure is slowly, and excrutiatingly, extracted piece by piece.... as close contact after close contact is inevitably identified... thus shutting down another shop, another service, another street...

it's the chinese water torture of 'not lockdowns'...

somewhat fittingly...

or not... depending on your political persuasions...

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Supafreak Friday, 24 Dec 2021 at 4:30pm

@sypkan , any idea what happens if your fully vaccinated ( 3 shots ) but then get covid , fully recover , then QR check in and are notified as a close contact . Do you then not go to work and isolate at home ?

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Blowin Friday, 24 Dec 2021 at 4:45pm

Merry Christmas all.

Hope you all stay healthy and happy

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Supafreak Friday, 24 Dec 2021 at 5:10pm

Merry Xmas Blowin , wishing your mother a speedy recovery.

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Roadkill Friday, 24 Dec 2021 at 5:30pm
sypkan wrote:

sigh...

back to that shit again roadkill...

again...

you are such a fucking moron roadkill, possibly bigger and better than the vicmoron... which is some serious moron...

you really are showing your lack of ability to think broadly, ...think at all actually... so much preconceived and judgmental thought, it's hard to believe you can function in your business... a business in health I believe... massaging other MAMLs or something? ... i guess that really doesn't take much brains or analysis... hurt here, push there.... glorified monkey work, about to be replaced by robots...

anyway 'they' refers to mark mcgowan and his merry bunch of gatekeepers, who've probably had enough of the intensity of their hypervigilance...

and already well know omni-con doesn't warrant such energies and just don't know how to go about breaking it to the public...

seriously, the paranoid delusional mind of the 'everyone is a conspiracy theorist' bridgade is more paranoid, delusional, and void of reality than the conspiracy theorist bridgade...

the world is officially fucked

omni-con may prove to be no worse than a common cold... but the division, mistrust and general lack of respect left behind by corona means the world is officially fucked for decades to come

fucken grow up you moron!

or grow a brain and back of on the narrow minded 'i cannot form an argument' beyond slinging shit mentality

seriously damaged goods

I was reading on thereallyreallynobullshitawakening.com that Bill Gates jet was seen at Perth airport the same time Mcgowan’s state govt car was there. Whoa THEY have something on Mcgowan (Russian Hookers and golden showers maybe?) and are controlling him and made him let covid in.

The world is officially fucked.

You heard it here first folks.

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sypkan Friday, 24 Dec 2021 at 5:38pm

"I was reading on thereallyreallynobullshitawakening.com that Bill Gates jet was seen at Perth airport the same time Mcgowan’s state govt car was there. Whoa THEY have something on Mcgowan (Russian Hookers and golden showers maybe?) and are controlling him and made him let covid in.

The world is officially fucked.

You heard it here first folks."

or maybe...

just maybe...

its just LIKE they wanted it happen....

you know... events so inconceivably stupid, it seems like they wanted it to happen...

but you keep your fantasies going mate

go stroke another MAML

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velocityjohnno Friday, 24 Dec 2021 at 5:49pm

Perfect new year to open an online business selling full body condoms.

So you partook of the scene Sypkan. Ah, fun times.

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sypkan Friday, 24 Dec 2021 at 6:29pm

i went in...

until I couldn't...

I think they realised I wasn't connecting

perth nightclubs have a door policy as snobby and exclusive as a late 80's adelaide ambassadors... it's a time warp...

thankfully adelaide largely grew out of that shit, a bit... perth just goes harder...

to be fair though, perth does have some weird night life 'dynamics' to balance though...

(literally couldn't believe it a couple of years ago there, when me and friends needed photo id scanned just to enter a two bit almost regional shit hole club... still can't believe it! ...perth and surrounds certainly does have more than its own share of quirk...)

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truebluebasher Friday, 24 Dec 2021 at 6:54pm

WHO " You can't out boost the Pandemic ..Blanket Boosters will only prolong the Pandemic.
https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/world/china-locks-down-city-of-13-mill...

Israel : Experts warn of 4th Booster Shot will trigger "Immune System Fatigue"

4th shot would compromise the Body's ability to fight Covid.

"Took a long time for Booster immunity to take effect in the Country!"
Boosters wane significantly by 3 months
3rd Doses wane from 75% to 25% within a month in those aged 60+
Delta 60+ Wane 1 mth = 2 /100k days > 2 months = 3 > 3 mth = 3 > 4mth = 3.5 > 5mth = 5

Researchers predict Booster will be even less effective against omicron...from reasonable to nill.
Recommend 30% need 4th Booster for Omicron (Now increasing 10 fold or 10,000 in 2 weeks)
Israel voted against 4th booster for general population
3 months was deemed too early > 5mths OK with 4 months for Immuno & 60+
4th Booster Rollout starts Sunday.

To halt the spread of the virus in Israel is not feasible!
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/israel-considers-4th-vaccine-d...
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/data-showing-covid-booster-waning-am...

4th Booster EU/ Germany + UK
Germany (Hot Tip) Booster Shortage by Easter
Have ordered BionTech Omicron Deluxe Brew to rollout for 4th Booster in April / May
https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-fourth-coronavirus-vaccine-german...
https://www.india.com/news/world/omicron-germany-fourth-booster-dose-sho...

UK Study : "3rd Booster lasts 10 weeks against Omicron...Tops!"
4th Booster timed for 4 months after 3rd Booster
https://metro.co.uk/2021/12/23/uk-considers-fourth-covid-jab-after-israe...

Oz Govt fast tracked old school dusty 3rd Dose 5mths > 3 mths
That'd be timed perfectly off today's EU 4th Poll Boost
Oz Election (March - May) > Scomo can't slip further behind in Vax Race .
Note Albo is on his Shoulder > ( Scomo is Too Slow for this Race )

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velocityjohnno Friday, 24 Dec 2021 at 6:53pm

Yep Perth goes harder... when you are walking along the main drag of Freo wondering how you will get home (protip: never accept muffins anyone gives you) and your own brother is thrown out of an establishment into your arms, still throwing punches at the bouncers and mumbling that the pool table is still his and he beat the WAFL footballers fair and square and they are pissants and that's why he clubbed them... You should have seen what happened when we did London's nightlife...

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truebluebasher Saturday, 25 Dec 2021 at 12:35am

Omicron Warp Speed Boosters are undergoing Testing....
16th Dec Oz Revised "Mandatory" Testing Framework flies thru under the Radar
Very technical 29 page doc is more like a Heavy Duty Power Tool than a Test Pilot Guide.

(Important) Just like Vax > Employers can decide if Work or even yer own Home Tests are Mandatory.
tbb will come back to that...

All about Priority Groups ( These get broader with less risk > Link will describe in detail )
1. Symptomatic
2. Close Contacts
3. At Risk (Many descriptions)
* Hot Spots / Exposure Sites
* Staff > Borders / Q / ISO / Carers + (Frontline Sub set) Air/ Ship crews + Health /Age Care
* Personal Transit > Bus / Taxis + Venue Security / All access Large transient Tradie Teams.
4. Dense City / Urban Units + ATSI / Res' care / Schools / Prison / Hostel + Mines / Food processing

(From intro) Mandatory Work Place Tests. (Kinda like #5 with a bullet in yer head!)
(Possibly the most contentious to crew, bosses, workers & families) We all saw this play out with Vax.
Divisive for the very same reasons & Govt knows, because they listed heaps of nasty shit...like...

Boss appoints his Pet monitor who hates yer guts & will feed you extra tests until he gets yer job!
* Boss gets to decide on regular or Random Tests
* Boss decides who is a risk or a liability & when he replaces you!
* Boss can get the Workers to Test at home & on Holiday > (Stranding his [+] Star Worker o/s!)
* Testing[+] will Strand any / all workers with / without need of Close Contact Transit Buddy!
* Testing [+] will dock pay / Holidays but more importantly...your family.. if Home Test isn't alone!
* Boss decides what if any pay yer not entitled to... (Unsure if Past Govt Test payments get revived)
Obviously this balloons out as far as crew chooses to expand the Global nature of yer job.
It does present as low key...but Mandate is anything but a shitshow...might pay to get ahead of this!
Stop & Think on how to bypass the Work Nazi before he clocks onto eliminating the good guys!

(Important) Recommend the crew read the Work Place section as it promotes Healthy Test Mandates!
(Wotz New!) : Asymptomatic Workers won't need to isolate before returning a [-] Test (Unless! PHA.)

For sure! This is coming to a work place near you!

Read pages 6/7 "Work Place Surveillance" (Ok! That sounds more scary than tbb first thought)!
Also : pages 19/20 "Barriers and Disincentives to Testing" (Where have we heard that before?)
Gets real serious > Visas / Medicare + Full on Can of Worms for Boss & Workers. (Too heavy Man!)
https://www.health.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/2021/12/coronavi...
In short > Falls under PHSM 'Screening' > Recommended by CDNA, PHLN, AHPPC
Based off Risk / Exposure work Places but has growing interest in wide spread industry (No limit!)
Reckon it's designed to dovetail Union Delegation...just reads that way!

Any business that is COVIDSAFE compliant will get off on this Secret Agent Test Craze.
Note: Private Health / Schools / Transit / Small Business are screaming for a screening!

If crew work in a Covid safe work place then get across a first read of this 2022 Hot Doc!
Also reckon the timing is to hit 2022 Work place returns...with a working template good to go!
Exactly like ! You Know...No one will mandate Covid Tests! Nah! Guess yer right...Cough! Wot!

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truebluebasher Sunday, 26 Dec 2021 at 11:23am

Gut Instinct (vs) Having the Yarn.
100% Health Directive in all Countries : "Avoid the Jab if you're unwell."
Govts argue for healthy folk or the ill to have a Yarn with yer GP.
Qld Health Vax Hub cited Outpatient tbb & phoned to recommend a "Yarn with GP" in order to Vax.
tbb did that & some time later left with a Jab Booking Form & twice waited at Hub with zero service...

Emergency Hospitalisation...Now tbb's GP prioritized Hospital assessment in order to get the Jab.
Never once has tbb refused the Jab but it was delayed, also later by self fear of "Amplified Reaction"
Meaning tbb has rapid internal illness artificially enforced by CPAP + mixed drugz.

Since then, Qld Health refused to accept GP's "Urgent / Disability" Referral for Jab assist.
As in any Health Crisis the GP is the last to know...but reckons he can sort it...(tbb waits in limbo!)

Now December > Qld Health have thwarted & refused several attempts by tbb's GP towards jab.
Mid 2019 Iso / tbb rightly withheld Vax, wears mask + donates generously to his local Qld Hospital.
Listening to Premier relentlessly praising unmasked Vaxerz refusing to social distance spreading virus.

Same GP has advised tbb not to walk...apart from family holiday exemptions. (eg: Xmas Day)
Xmas day tbb wakes up with pain of 15year obliterated calf muscle + worsening Hip dysplasia.

Oddly tbb keeps mixed drug intake to minimum & often confesses to taking less in order to drive!
GP / Specialists are flexible but prefer that tbb takes the prescribed 'mixed' doses. (re: Bipolar!)
Doses can include paracetamol if & when required for myositis.

Xmas day tbb takes prescribed drugs + 2 paracetamol.
Only thing that has changed was tbb being prescribed an over the counter (Pfizer) reflux drug...
(Pfizer 'De-Gas' Drug) ...GP says it's only a stop gap until Qld Health specialist appointment.

Within 40 mins tbb was in the Park Walking with Mum.
tbb began spinnin' out, staggering & slurring gibberish & body was shutting down pretty fast.
Was real thirsty but now far distant from any seat or tap.
Got in Mums Car...Fair Ground ride until Mum's Place.
Mum was doin' triage for emergency comatose patient ...her son!
Body had shutdown & tbb was out like a light for 4 hrs solid & felt just as bad upon waking.
Took another 2 hrs to regain speech by late arvo was still rag dolled.
Actually thought it was a newer & faster Covid Strain...that went down well...(Oops...Sorry!)
Younger Bro is a Cop...said that his bro had Overdosed...just by adding the 2 Panadol?
New Drug Cocktail of Pfizer 'De-Gas' + Panadol was the only difference in the Mix. (re: Take care!)
Never said, but the evening dose has another Drug...this AM drug mix was the lower dosage.

Was well enough late last night to partake in a swellnet Xmas wrap.

Still woke with similar dopey Health Complaint this morning...(24hrs on!)
tbb has upped his fear factor rank > #1 Pfizer Pills- Panadol #2 The Pfizer Jab #3 Pfizer Covid Strain.

GP & tbb are more than happy to have a yarn with Qld Health...Dream on!
Just saying...can't sleep, walk, talk, hardly get outta bed or take Panadol without an Emergency Ward.
Just guessin' any Jab would need to be dosed in the Emergency Bay to save the Ambos a trip.
Yet if well, tbb would take the Jab over a "6 month exemption" that would take forever to renew!

Crew & many often debate how a simpleton knows more about the effects of a Jab than experts.
Well, now ya all know... It's called Gut Instinct.

Xmas OD could have quite easily have been "THE JAB" that flicks tbb's switch! Game Over!
tbb knows & now learnt the hard way, that he's too ill for Vax & GP is prioritising the intervention.
If Qld Health want 300,000 Outpatients to Vax then simply give us our much needed health checks.
We all know that will never happen as Mass Jab/Test Crisis dwarfs record Oz-wide Hospital Crisis.
We Hesitants are doin' the right thing...who here wants a dose of Vax escaped mutated Omicron?

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Blowin Sunday, 26 Dec 2021 at 11:32am

Shit TBB. Stay strong mate.

And Merry Christmas!

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saltyone Sunday, 26 Dec 2021 at 11:57am

Yeah tbb ditto what blowin said.
Sending lots of healing vibes and strength your way.
Gut instinct - powerful stuff! I always trust it.

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goofyfoot Sunday, 26 Dec 2021 at 12:02pm

This is a shit situation

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bluediamond Sunday, 26 Dec 2021 at 12:22pm

Good on ya TBB. Stay well mate. Hope that's the last of that trauma for you.

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Sprout Sunday, 26 Dec 2021 at 12:29pm

Personal experience of family balancing various prescriptions for various mental health condintions, I feel for you TBB. Best of luck mate, we all hope for the best.

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Supafreak Sunday, 26 Dec 2021 at 2:12pm

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Blowin Sunday, 26 Dec 2021 at 2:29pm

It’s a pandemic of bureaucracy.

Sydney Sneeze shuttering the nation.

Blindboy got his way.

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Supafreak Sunday, 26 Dec 2021 at 2:42pm

Coronavirus outbreak sidelines ship whose crew is fully immunized, Navy says https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2021/12/24/uss-milwauke...

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zenagain Sunday, 26 Dec 2021 at 3:03pm

I'm guessing there's quite a few TBB's out there that don't fit the usual mo. Usual response is to get them in and out as quickly as possible... next!

Stay staunch TB. All the best.

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Distracted Sunday, 26 Dec 2021 at 3:24pm

Re “The Plan”….. go and get tested is the constant instruction. Pity there is no testing capacity. 8hr wait being reported at Coffs Harbour. Then there is a 3 to 4 day wait for results.
The plan needs to incorporate a lot more rapid testing otherwise it will be testing grid lock.

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monkeyboy Sunday, 26 Dec 2021 at 3:41pm

Still confused why people line up outside in the rain huddling next to each other to get a PCR test on Boxing Day ? If you feel sick stay at home and isolate. A PCR test wont save you.

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seeds Sunday, 26 Dec 2021 at 4:06pm

Travel requirements not the sniffles I would have thought for the majority lining up.

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monkeyboy Sunday, 26 Dec 2021 at 4:30pm
seeds wrote:

Travel requirements not the sniffles I would have thought for the majority lining up.

ah - good point. What a hassle; I hope everyone is ok.

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indo-dreaming Sunday, 26 Dec 2021 at 5:01pm
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https://twitter.com/drcraigemerson/status/1474902562906132482?s=21

Isn't this pretty obvious?????

People with Omicron can still get sick even if just like a bout of the flue, in many workplaces you still don't want the virus hitting everyone at once as you don't want people at work sick or you don't want all your staff taking sick leave at the same time, in this case a health setting you obviously dont want all your staff sick before a wave of cases that even if milder than past strains will still see hospital numbers increase.

And obviously in a heath setting you obviously dont want staff spreading the virus to people with other health issues that even with getting Omicron (or just the flue) are at real risk of getting real sick or dying.

PS. I had no idea who this guy was until i just googled his name, obviously with past Labor links he is just playing politics, but even posting this makes him look really stupid especially with Doctor in front of his name?..surely he can't also be a doctor and be that stupid???

Common sense is the plan, but obviously some people lack it.

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Distracted Sunday, 26 Dec 2021 at 5:13pm

ID, it’s not that easy. The local ED department had 25% staff at home recently as they were close or casual contacts. So where’s the risk of injury or death, people needing emergency treatment from car crashes etc, or, a possible Covid casual contact?

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Roker Sunday, 26 Dec 2021 at 5:31pm