Australian Politics Forum - Cases high in Victoria and NSW.

Carl D

Gold Member

Offline

Australian Politics

Posts: 10837
Rivervale, Perth
Gender: male

Re: Cases high in Victoria and NSW.
Reply #120 - Dec 23^rd, 2021 at 10:45am

Back across to Adelaide again.

COVID patients left waiting for hours as Adelaide hospitals overwhelmed and ambulances ramped

Quote:

COVID-positive patients spent hours ramped and waiting in ambulances last night, as demand for Adelaide's ambulance service exhausted capacity.

Ambulances in metropolitan Adelaide entered a critical "status white" overnight, with 100 per cent of available crews in use, leading to a backlog of cases and lengthy delays.

According to the latest SA Health data, the number of active coronavirus cases in SA stands at 742, with the caseload surging since border restrictions were repealed a month ago.

Just imagine what it will be like when they have thousands of cases a day like NSW and Victoria. Shocked

But, I'm sure Steven Marshall will be along shortly to tell everyone there's nothing to worry about.

Back to top

** Repeat Covid infections exercise our immune system in the same way that repeat concussions exercise our brain **

IP Logged

Gnads Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 33258 Gender:	Re: Cases high in Victoria and NSW. Reply #121 - Dec 23^rd, 2021 at 11:15am There are nearly double the number of active cases in QLD than those in Lisas diagrammatic. 447 today. Hotspots popping up all over the state. Thanks sthn lepers. Stay home for Christmas for once.
Back to top	"When you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It's only painful and difficult for others. The same applies when you are stupid." ~ Ricky Gervais IP Logged

Carl D

Gold Member

Offline

Australian Politics

Posts: 10837
Rivervale, Perth
Gender: male

Re: Cases high in Victoria and NSW.
Reply #122 - Dec 23^rd, 2021 at 11:28am

Gnads wrote on Dec 23^rd, 2021 at 11:15am:

There are nearly double the number of active cases in QLD than those in Lisas diagrammatic.

447 today. Hotspots popping up all over the state.

Thanks sthn lepers. Stay home for Christmas for once.

2 days in a row now where Queensland Health are delaying releasing the daily cases. Probably more bad news?

Annastacia Palaszczuk - Twitter

Queensland Health -Twitter

Lots of other 'distractions' posted by Annastacia's social media team about swimming between the flags at beaches, Christmas lights, an elf visiting Annastacia's office, parklands, Santa and seafood, of course.

Back to top

« Last Edit: Dec 23^rd, 2021 at 11:34am by Carl D »

** Repeat Covid infections exercise our immune system in the same way that repeat concussions exercise our brain **

IP Logged

Frank

Gold Member

Offline

Australian Politics

Posts: 57693
Gender: male

Re: Cases high in Victoria and NSW.
Reply #123 - Dec 23^rd, 2021 at 11:55am

If the media is obsessing about case count, it means that Covid deaths have been a terrible disappointment. Covid death rates have plunged over the last year and are barely budging in the post-Omicron era. But case counts are a particularly deceptive measure of pandemic severity, when so many of the new cases are mild to asymptomatic. And despite the concerted effort to generate hospital horror stories, hospitalisation rates in New York City, the leading wedge of Omicron, remain comparatively low. Covid hospitalisation numbers are themselves deceptive, for the same reason as Covid death counts: being admitted to a hospital with Covid is treated as being admitted for Covid.

Monday’s winning entry in the fear-generation sweepstakes went again to the New York Times. A front-page article outlined the anxiety felt by New Yorkers with what once were considered ordinary attributes of a winter cold. “The symptoms of the common cold are typically a stuffy head, the sniffles and body aches,” opened the story. “Now, this season, there’s a new one: panic.”

The usual female sources detailed their terror at the possibility that their runny nose may be Covid. But their illness is equally innocuous either way; labelling it as Covid does not make it any more serious. In fact, they should be delighted if their mild discomfort proves to be Covid (as I was when I tested positive for a breakthrough infection): it means that their immune system has been greatly bolstered against potentially more dangerous future variants, via a sickness that in many cases, such as my own, is far less taxing than a cold.

Nevertheless, the fear-mongering is paying big dividends. Like clockwork, events and businesses in New York City are shutting down, extending the demand for and dependency on government hand-outs.
HEATHER MAC DONALD

Back to top

Estragon: I can’t go on like this.
Vladimir: That’s what you think.

IP Logged

Frank

Gold Member

Offline

Australian Politics

Posts: 57693
Gender: male

Re: Cases high in Victoria and NSW.
Reply #124 - Dec 23^rd, 2021 at 11:57am

The only public health experts whom the media quote are those determined to put the most dire spin on Omicron. They stress worst-case hypothetical scenarios and dismiss actual good-case evidence. At best, they may grudgingly admit that Omicron symptoms are disproportionately mild, but rush to assert that there are still many as-yet unrealised grounds for worry. “Even if Omicron causes less severe cases, the sheer number of cases could once again overwhelm unprepared health systems,” the director-general of the World Health Organisation said. “I’m not counting [Omicron’s lack of severity] as good news just yet,” a disease ecologist at Georgetown University said. “Even if infection is mild in many individuals, it’s not going to be mild in everyone.”

But that 100 per cent mildness standard is unrealistic. There are outliers in any disease and any treatment; the question is: what is the predominant reality? The zero-risk, zero-harm standard for public policy adopted for the first time with Covid has proven a social, economic and public health disaster. At worst, the favoured experts do not even pay lip service to the evidence militating against panic. An epidemiologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill told the New York Times: “I think we need to be prepared for the possibility that this could be at least as bad as any previous wave that we’ve seen.” There are apparently no circumstances which would warrant a less-than-totalitarian response in advance of any actual disaster. The yearning for more draconian lockdowns and more control over the private sector is palpable.

Back to top

Estragon: I can’t go on like this.
Vladimir: That’s what you think.

IP Logged

aquascoot

Gold Member

Offline

Australian Politics

Posts: 37641
Gender: male

Re: Cases high in Victoria and NSW.
Reply #125 - Dec 23^rd, 2021 at 12:38pm

Bobby. wrote on Dec 23^rd, 2021 at 8:59am:

NSW is doomed:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-12-23/nsw-records-5715-cases-and-1-death-covid-...

NSW records 5,715 COVID-19 cases and one death,
number of people in hospital rises

Posted 43m ago
43 minutes ago
, updated 1m ago

https://media.gab.com/system/preview_cards/images/020/394/574/original/8d927c59d...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-12-23/victoria-records-new-covid-cases-deaths/1...

Victoria records 2,005 COVID-19 cases and 10 deaths

Posted 46m ago
46 minutes ago
, updated 5m ago

https://media.gab.com/system/preview_cards/images/020/394/587/original/51567aadf...

as you can see bobby, despite having 1/2 the cases, you victorians have 10 x the deaths.

thats delta

you need to import the much more friendly omicron asap

lives are at stake

Back to top

IP Logged

Big Donger

Gold Member

Offline

Australian Politics

Posts: 101831

Re: Cases high in Victoria and NSW.
Reply #126 - Dec 23^rd, 2021 at 1:13pm

aquascoot wrote on Dec 23^rd, 2021 at 5:17am:

ah, thanks for that carl.

i must shoot an email off to mr perrotet and tell him to immediately close all testing facilities.

since this only cause sniffles (not one person is in icu with it and when they had similar delta surge 60 people were), it is now insane to test for such a mild thing and it is insane to make people quaratine when omicron will be literally everywhere

omicron is a delightful christmas present

you should make love to it carl befpre the omega variant arises and kills half of perth

Ditch the vaccines, dear. Or, better still, send them off to noble Pakistan, where they feed their kids a bowl of dirt a day.

The leftards aren't doing that, now are they?

You've been consistent on this all along. The Superior Man does what he can to catch the virus, and pass it along. The quicker we can reach herd mentality the better.

Consider the "noble Donald". He caught covid. Did he cry and moan? No.

He met with journalists, then staffers, then his family. He debated Sleepy Joe.

No mask. His kids took theirs off. They wouldn't be caught dead in such unfashionable attire, and Ivanka would know.

She's written books on accessorising.

When he went to hospital, the big fella made sure to drive around in the Beast, waving at his fans and wishing everybody well. He even gave them pizza.

His staff caught covid. One lost a kidney. But that didn't shake the big fella. He gave rallies and threw free caps out to his fans, like Oprah.

The Don was onto it before anyone else, dear: spread it round. The good old evolutionary blowtorch, like a friend. The Don, not so much a man as a force.

He came back from hospital, still infected, and he strode across the White House lawn to the White House balcony, magnanimous. He faced his audience, silent, powerful, speechless. He looked out, and he knew, we all knew. He normally owned a room, but here he was owning the world. God.

The noble Don for 24, eh?

5 years is the minimum.

Back to top

IP Logged

Bobby. Gold Member Online Australian Politics Posts: 118617 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Cases high in Victoria and NSW. Reply #127 - Dec 23^rd, 2021 at 1:15pm aquascoot wrote on Dec 23^rd, 2021 at 12:38pm: as you can see bobby, despite having 1/2 the cases, you victorians have 10 x the deaths. thats delta you need to import the much more friendly omicron asap lives are at stake Omicron will develop into a mega epidemic here in Victoria without any wishful thinking.
Back to top	IP Logged

Big Donger

Gold Member

Offline

Australian Politics

Posts: 101831

Re: Cases high in Victoria and NSW.
Reply #128 - Dec 23^rd, 2021 at 1:21pm

Bobby. wrote on Dec 23^rd, 2021 at 1:15pm:

aquascoot wrote on Dec 23^rd, 2021 at 12:38pm:

as you can see bobby, despite having 1/2 the cases, you victorians have 10 x the deaths.

thats delta

you need to import the much more friendly omicron asap

lives are at stake

Omicron will develop into a mega epidemic here
in Victoria without any wishful thinking.

Catch it while you can, Bobby. What's the worst that could happen?

A few sniffles. Aquascoot's been studying this from day one. He's been "paying attention."

Worst comes to worse, you can go to a top military hospital and demand the Presidential ward.

Back to top

IP Logged

Bobby.

Gold Member

Online

Australian Politics

Posts: 118617
Melbourne
Gender: male

Re: Cases high in Victoria and NSW.
Reply #129 - Dec 23^rd, 2021 at 1:33pm

Big Donger wrote on Dec 23^rd, 2021 at 1:21pm:

Bobby. wrote on Dec 23^rd, 2021 at 1:15pm:

aquascoot wrote on Dec 23^rd, 2021 at 12:38pm:

as you can see bobby, despite having 1/2 the cases, you victorians have 10 x the deaths.

thats delta

you need to import the much more friendly omicron asap

lives are at stake

Omicron will develop into a mega epidemic here
in Victoria without any wishful thinking.

Catch it while you can, Bobby. What's the worst that could happen?

A few sniffles. Aquascoot's been studying this from day one. He's been "paying attention."

Worst comes to worse, you can go to a top military hospital and demand the Presidential ward.

Good ideas -
it's a bit like those measles parties they put on for kids.

Bobby always gets celebrity treatment.

Back to top

IP Logged

Carl D

Gold Member

Offline

Australian Politics

Posts: 10837
Rivervale, Perth
Gender: male

Re: Cases high in Victoria and NSW.
Reply #130 - Dec 23^rd, 2021 at 1:58pm

369 more Covid cases for Queensland reported today.

Their number of cases has doubled in just ONE DAY. Shocked

Still no word from South Australia yet but I'm suspecting their cases will have also gone up.

Tasmania also has an increase in cases.

Tasmania records highest daily number of COVID-19 cases since the start of the pandemic

I said a few weeks back that most of Australia would probably be in lockdown by Christmas and it would be if $$$ didn't come before peoples' health and lives. As usual.

Back to top

** Repeat Covid infections exercise our immune system in the same way that repeat concussions exercise our brain **

IP Logged

aquascoot

Gold Member

Offline

Australian Politics

Posts: 37641
Gender: male

Re: Cases high in Victoria and NSW.
Reply #131 - Dec 23^rd, 2021 at 2:14pm

Carl D wrote on Dec 23^rd, 2021 at 1:58pm:

369 more Covid cases for Queensland reported today.

Their number of cases has doubled in just ONE DAY. Shocked

Still no word from South Australia yet but I'm suspecting their cases will have also gone up.

Tasmania also has an increase in cases.

Tasmania records highest daily number of COVID-19 cases since the start of the pandemic

I said a few weeks back that most of Australia would probably be in lockdown by Christmas and it would be if $$$ didn't come before peoples' health and lives. As usual.

incorrect.

no more lockdowns

scomo has read my email and agreed with my wise words. please refer to the excellent video i posted.

very informative

Back to top

IP Logged

Carl D

Gold Member

Offline

Australian Politics

Posts: 10837
Rivervale, Perth
Gender: male

Re: Cases high in Victoria and NSW.
Reply #132 - Dec 23^rd, 2021 at 3:06pm

And.... we have today's third place winner (after NSW and Victoria).

Take a bow, South Australia.

484 new cases... up from 198 yesterday.

The only good thing to come out of all this is when cases reach 10,000 or even 20,000 a day for all the other States before February 5th I'm almost certain Mark McGowan won't be opening everything up here in WA.

At least I hope not.

Back to top

** Repeat Covid infections exercise our immune system in the same way that repeat concussions exercise our brain **

IP Logged

Johnnie

Gold Member

Offline

Australian Politics

Posts: 12485
Gender: male

Re: Cases high in Victoria and NSW.
Reply #133 - Dec 23^rd, 2021 at 5:03pm

Carl D wrote on Dec 23^rd, 2021 at 3:06pm:

And.... we have today's third place winner (after NSW and Victoria).

Take a bow, South Australia.

484 new cases... up from 198 yesterday.

The only good thing to come out of all this is when cases reach 10,000 or even 20,000 a day for all the other States before February 5th I'm almost certain Mark McGowan won't be opening everything up here in WA.

At least I hope not.

I hope they are of the omicron China virus variant coming into SA, McGowan is taking a gamble on future variants being less severe because he surely doesn't think he will be able to keep this virus out forever.

WA and Mexico are the only two countries in the world with a mandate on the booster jab so that might help.

Back to top

IP Logged

Big Donger

Gold Member

Offline

Australian Politics

Posts: 101831

Re: Cases high in Victoria and NSW.
Reply #134 - Dec 23^rd, 2021 at 5:25pm

Bobby. wrote on Dec 23^rd, 2021 at 1:33pm:

Big Donger wrote on Dec 23^rd, 2021 at 1:21pm:

Bobby. wrote on Dec 23^rd, 2021 at 1:15pm:

aquascoot wrote on Dec 23^rd, 2021 at 12:38pm:

as you can see bobby, despite having 1/2 the cases, you victorians have 10 x the deaths.

thats delta

you need to import the much more friendly omicron asap

lives are at stake

Omicron will develop into a mega epidemic here
in Victoria without any wishful thinking.

Catch it while you can, Bobby. What's the worst that could happen?

A few sniffles. Aquascoot's been studying this from day one. He's been "paying attention."

Worst comes to worse, you can go to a top military hospital and demand the Presidential ward.

Good ideas -
it's a bit like those measles parties they put on for kids.

Bobby always gets celebrity treatment.

It may not happen overnight, Bobby, but it will happen, you'll see.

Read your Paretto. Manifest it. Play the game the rules of the game itself. Utilise positive visualisation. Be here now. Practice "wish service". Act "as if". Put in the mental investment and you'll reap dividends, you'll see.

Learn from the big fella, the "noble Don". Just think, he turned a gig on Fox and Friends into a presidential erection. He "paid attention." You'll never make it, they said.

Now look at him.

Back to top

IP Logged