aquascoot wrote on May 6^th, 2021 at 12:46pm:


As I said, only if and when my GP tells me it is safe for me to do so. Same goes for my aunt.

Coronavirus WA: UWA academic warns mask fatigue setting in as Perth rides out COVID storm

https://thewest.com.au/news/coronavirus/coronavirus-wa-uwa-academic-warns-mask-f...

(Subscriber only article but the 'headline' tells the story anyway).

Mask wearing still doesn't bother me or my elderly aunt but I was reading the other day where a lot of small businesses in Perth are still experiencing up to a 50% downturn in business which some of them attribute to the ongoing mandatory wearing of masks.

Perhaps a lot of people (especially the elderly) are preferring to stay home instead of having to wear a mask outside?

Calm down

Astrazeneca and now making over a million vaccines a week here in Australia
This vaccine reduces the risk of hospitalization by 95%
Meaning that once we have vaccinated the population
It will actually be impossible for the hospital system to be overrun

Any coward that does not wish to get the vaccine
Can then be ignored as a fool

With that rate of vaccine production and assuming the population are not reprehensible idiots who refused to be vaccinated
We will have the whole problem solved by the end of the year

Airports back at maximum capacity
People coming in going at will

It just relies on everyone getting the vaccine

If people don't want to get the vaccine they are obviously just lazy no hopers who never want lockdown to end
There is one word for such people
Disgusting chodes

Five more people are being treated for serious blood clots linked to the AstraZeneca vaccine, the Therapeutic Goods Administration has said.
The cases are in a 74-year-old man and a 51-year-old woman from Victoria, a 66-year-old man from Queensland, a 64-year-old woman from Western Australia and a 70-year-old man from Tasmania.
Queensland Chief Health Officer Jeanette Young said the 66-year-old is in intensive care as a "direct result" of receiving the COVID jab on March 30.

West Australian Premier Mark McGowan has flagged a permanent reduction to the maximum number of returned international travellers Perth will take each week in an effort to reduce the risk of another hotel quarantine breach.

Prior to the Anzac Day long weekend lockdown, the state was receiving up to 1025 returned travellers a week, temporarily reduced to 512 in the wake of the breach.

Mr McGowan indicated the cap would remain at 530, with three of WA’s hotels considered ‘high risk’ due to ventilation issues in the process of being taken offline.

........  Venous thrombosis, comprising deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE), occurs with an incidence of approximately 1 per 1000 annually in adult populations (1).
Rates are slightly higher in men than women.
About two-thirds of episodes manifest as DVT and one-third as PE with or without DVT.
The major outcomes of venous thrombosis are death, recurrence, post-thrombotic syndrome and major bleeding due to anticoagulation.
Thrombosis is also associated with impaired quality of life, particularly when post-thrombotic syndrome develops (2, 3).
Death occurs within one month of an episode in about 6% of those with DVT and 10% of those with PE (4).
The mortality rate for PE has been estimated to be high as 30% in studies that included autopsy-based PE diagnosis (5), pointing out the fact that many PE are not recognized clinically before death.
Mortality rates are lower among patients with idiopathic venous thrombosis and highest among those whose thrombosis occurs in the setting of cancer.

Venous thrombosis is a disease of aging, with a low rate of about 1 per 10,000 annually before the fourth decade of life, rising rapidly after age 45 years, and approaching 5–6 per 1000 annually by age 80       .........