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IMPORTANT // Please look after your loved ones, yourself and be kind to others. If you are feeling that the world is too hard to handle there is always help - I implore you not to hesitate in contacting one of these wonderful organisations Lifeline and Beyond Blue ... and I'm sure reaching out to our PRE community we will find a way to help. T.
Coronavirus
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Heh, loonies will be loonies. Anti-vaxxers will claim we were susceptible to corona because of the increased mercury in our systems from vaccinations. Jim Carey will make a doco on it.
Though one can hope Anti-vaxxers are true enough to their belief that they refuse to vaccinate against corona, that will thin them out soon enough.
There might be stats out there but I don't have them. A rough definition is "not requiring hospital care". At one end of the "mild" spectrum, some may even be diagnosed with slight pneumonia and sent home with medication to recover; at the other end is someone who tests positive while not displaying any symptoms.
This video defines mild as "anything less than requiring oxygen". Worth a look.
What coronavirus symptoms look like, day by day
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Have sought the counsel of several wise people who hold positions of responsibility in the finance world, for my own reassurance as much as anything. They were all more or less aligned in saying that anyone who says they know what the markets will do is lying (one admitted to purchasing a few shares in major companies). Another said he didn't feel it would be much better or worse than previous financial crises, with the worst case being "the government is forced to take over the banks and we're all socialists"; all said the big companies will survive and the world will keep turning since the disease focused on a specific age demographic and wasn't going to kill e.g. 10% of the population, while acknowledging there was a chance we could lose loved ones and that looking after them should be our focus. They acknowledged issues regarding the effect of isolation on mental health and potential social discord/violence etc. However they're currently watching football, having a bet, or working on home projects and basically enjoying a normal weekend at home.
Coronaviruses need a host to spread. The idea is that if there is enough isolation in the community the spread will stop, or at least reduce.
It's been reported that China's recovering and starting to ease these draconian laws with kids back at school, people back at work etc.. Can we say the whole period was ~ 2 months? Surely, this would be the mean average for most countries (maybe bar Italy).
97K test kits. First half arrived Tuesday night. Up to Wednesday we'd performed 81K tests with a strike rate of 0.5%. (Edit: 115K tests conducted up to today.)
There is a new test which we don't yet have that returns a result in 15 minutes. It will need to be approved by authorities here once it is available.
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considering the calls for isolation and closed borders started from some before we had any cases here, i cant see it can stop until there are no cases worldwide, or there is an effective treatment.
China forced people to self isolate by locking the suspected up or welding their doors shut. The west enjoy their freedoms too much for the spread to slow down like that.
Numbers climbing rapidly. Incompetence on cruise boats, slow to move..
About now I'm starting to think this Government is handling this about as well as the bushfires..
About now I'm starting to think this Government is handling this about as well as the bushfires..
That’s a question for people who know a lot more about this than I do.
I think negligence in the legal sense may the word you’re looking for?
It would be good to find more accurate stats as I've read somewhere that the 7 deaths in Australia were people in the age bracket of 77 - 95.
Might have been a good idea to isolate the virus itself when they were first advised of it by medical professionals well before Christmas; rather than engage in denial, subterfuge and cover up.
Just saying......
The cruise ship left Sydney, went around New Zealand and came back to Sydney. Hence their thinking of low risk.
If you were in the US two weeks ago then I'd be avoiding you at all costs for a couple of weeks.
Correct. Scroll down to "People affected".
Coronavirus (COVID-19) in Australia | Data
Data visualisations tracking the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in Australia. Updated frequently. Embeddable infographics. A volunteer-run, fact-checked project tracking the outbreak.
www.covid19data.com.au
