aquascoot wrote on Dec 21
st, 2021 at 4:01pm:
Carl D wrote on Dec 21
st, 2021 at 3:15pm:
I believe the case numbers in New South Wales and Victoria (soon to be followed by all other States except WA) will only stop increasing when they reach the limit of how many tests can be done in a single day.
Probably getting close to that already since I've been hearing that NSW (and no doubt Victoria as well) have started to close down testing places.
Good plan - no testing places = no tests = no Covid cases.
Sounds like something the 'Noble Donald" would come up with.
incorrect,
why waste 80 dollars a pop on a test which is meaningless.
we are learning to live with covid.
thank god , for the time being it is very very mild and not getting into lungs.
catch it whilst it is in this mild forma more deadly variant may strike the virgins of WA and they will regret not getting this mild disease
You are irresponsible peddling that line of BS.
There is no proof its milder ... in fact evidence coming from study data is suggesting otherwise.
Quote:These real-world findings corroborate what we already know about Omicron from laboratory findings – that it is able to evade part of the immune response triggered by vaccines.
Quote:a study carried out by Imperial College London casts doubts on the cautious optimism shown by South African doctors. The paper, which is yet to be peer reviewed, looked at 333,000 cases, including 122,062 of Delta and 1,846 confirmed cases of the Omicron variant, through genome sequencing between November 29 and December 11, and found no evidence of a difference in the severity of symptoms or hospitalisations when compared with Delta. However, the data included only 24 hospitalisations of patients suspected of having the Omicron variant, with researchers acknowledging that “hospitalisation data remains very limited at this time”. Worryingly, Omicron was associated with a 5.4 times higher risk of reinfection compared with Delta. The study put the protection offered by a previous infection at around 19 percent and with a booster jab at between 55 and 80 percent.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2021/12/20/omicron-is-more-transmissible-but-...