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No and I’m not one to think our government is great. But I think context is hard and rear view mirror is easy. It is hard to put yourself back in a pre-omicron timeframe.
Potentially modelling at the time showed there would be way less need for RAT based on delta transmissibility. It is a seriously significant change in transmissibility. Then once you make that decision then the ability to pivot is impossible.
I’ve been involved in supply chains and it’s much easier to criticise it than to work it.
With that said if you war gamed it and said the transmissibility could go up and we want to let it rip so we need to start some local manufacture as insurance then that would have been pretty wise gamble that we clearly didn’t make.
Same mistake we made with vaccine procurement. So clearly our government is incapable of learning because it is too focused on spin doctoring.
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I assume that we're hearing a lot less from them as the COVID death toll gets higher
Actually they were told in August last year, I posted and article on it. Slow on the vaccine, slow on getting enough rapid tests, they are allergic to planning ahead.
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Any truth that the RATs produced in Qld were sold overseas because we 'didn't need them"?
yep - the company came out recently and also last year frustrated that the Feds wouldn’t talk to them during 2021 so they were forced to find markets overseas - which they did and have been exporting to the US for at least 4 - 5 months now.
regardless of her lack of colds, here's why it's still not a good idea
Urine Therapy Is a Terrible Idea
Why you should not drink your own pee (yes, really) for Covid-19 or anything else
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When I was a youngster just out of school, working on a farm. The older blokes insisted that the best way to help toughen my soft kiddie hands was to pee on them first thing every morning n they'd be tough n leathery enough to cope with the various jobs within a couple of weeks. Was fairly certain they were bull shittin me n never bothered to test their theory.regardless of her lack of colds, here's why it's still not a good idea
Urine Therapy Is a Terrible Idea
Why you should not drink your own pee (yes, really) for Covid-19 or anything else
Not a chance in hell I'd ever be tempted to even consider trying the old bubbler n drinking my own urine, but I guess some people are weird or desperate enough to try just about anything.
The epidemiological version of copping a wet football fair in the nuts.
I was there yesterday. 50% of crowds meant there was plenty of room. Only vaxxed allowed on site. Most people were wearing masks.
Not that it will prove much but let's see if I come down with covid in a few days.
I reckon (hope) you’ll be ok ToOts. Been a while since I’ve been to the AO but unlike the Boxing Day Test, which I’m sure was a massive superspreader event, people aren’t ploughing into condensed pubs pre and post the event, you’ve got 50% whereas the cricket was just a ridiculous free for all with crammed sections, and you’ve got the outdoor lawn areas with spacing etc. at the tennis. And many more people are wearing masks now too.
Just Slip, slop slap, make sure your big long white socks are pulled up, your Dunlop Volleys are clean, and you’ve got your best voice for “Aussie Aussie Aussie…”
What are the symptoms of omicron?
Omicron is continuing the trend set by delta, causing symptoms that resemble the common cold.
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Great read.
