Carl D wrote on Oct 20^th, 2022 at 4:29pm:


Firstly it's been over an almost 3 year period(not 2). But lets look at these accumulated totals and put them into their proper perspective. As of 25th Jan. 2020-20th Oct.2022(999 days), there have been 10.3M cases and 15.5K Australians dying from/with Covid-19. If we assume that everyone died ONLY because of the virus(no other comorbidities), that would still be a mortality rate of 0.15%. Or, a 99.85% survival rate.

This also means that on average, 15.5 people have died in Australia each day since the beginning of this pandemic. This represents only 0.00006% of the Australian population each day. At the end of March(2020) there were only 34 deaths(5,687 cases). Before vaccines were available(Feb22, 2021), there were 999 deaths(28,930 cases). So what do these stats tell me?

Between Jan 2020 and the end of March(before lockdowns and mandates), there were fewer cases and deaths. Between the end of March until Feb 2021(before vaccines), there was 29 times more people dying, and 5 times more cases. After vaccines were introduced(and up to today), there was 15.5 times more people dying, and 356 times more cases.

Conclusion? We were better off sticking to education and treatment of the disease. Just like we've been doing for all other viruses. Oh, and man can't stop anyone from being infected by a virus.   

In 2016, 90,000 people died from the Measles worldwide. And, in 2017, over 110K people died from the measles worldwide. In the US, 2-3M people are infected annually, and around 400-500 people die from this disease. I doubt if you will see this level of mortality in Australia. But the mortality rate of a disease, is NOT based on the number of deaths it causes in Australia, right? Covid-19 is still less lethal than the Measles.

Remember, NO vaccine can prevent any virus from entering your body. Vaccines can only help the body to attack the pathogen sooner. And hopefully, prevent it from becoming the disease.

Unfortunately, ALL Covid-19 deaths are coded on the death certificate as the primary underlying cause of death. All codes are listed as, "U07.1"(virus identified), "U07.2"(virus NOT identified), "U09"(any chronic condition from the virus), and "U10"(suspected case of Covid-19). They are all then tabulated in the Covid-19 mortality stats, as the cause of death.

Oh, thank you for your welcome. I may be posting this twice, since I couldn't see my post. Sorry.

I'm having trouble responding to you. I can't see my posts. And I can't message for help.

If you go back and look at the top of previous pages in this and other large threads you'll see what I mean.

I get a similar thing when I login with Mozilla Firefox.

That's been happening for a long time too.

I just ignore it (one day my curiosity might get the better of me and I'll click on the Learn More link).

Cases and hospitalisations appear to be on the rise in Victoria, the only State still giving daily numbers.

https://covidlive.com.au/

And, another 11 deaths.

A lot of people (myself included) are wondering when our 5th Covid vaccination will become available?

Our 4th doses are already waning - I read somewhere earlier that only about 25% of Australians have had a Covid vaccination in the past 4 months.

If Australia must continue with this "vaccines only" plan then you'd at least expect the government would provide us with the vaccines.

"Vaccines only but without the vaccines".

Insane.

This week's mild Covid death and disability report.

More Australian families grieving the loss of loved ones just before Christmas.

https://covidlive.com.au/

104

deaths for the week including another

19

for here in WA.

Last week Australia had 85 deaths so that's an increase of 19 deaths. Cases also up by about 3,000 this week as well (you could probably multiply this by about 10 to get a more accurate number since hardly anyone is reporting their tests anymore - assuming they even bother to test themselves).

But remember - it's mild, OK?

A lot of people (myself included) had such high hopes that something would be done about all of the Covid cases and deaths when the ALP won the Federal election and Anthony Albanese became Prime Minister in late May.

We have been very disappointed (to put it 'mildly'). Over 7,000 Covid deaths since the Federal election and NOT A SINGLE WORD OF CONDOLENCE for the families of all of these people (now getting close to 16,000 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic) from the Prime Minister or any of the State Premiers.

But, to do that would mean that they would have to admit the pandemic is not over. Far from it, in fact.

In fact, it looks like it's about to get a whole lot worse in the coming months.

Paywalled as usual but you get the idea.

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That's probably the XBB variant from Singapore and a few others will no doubt be here soon as well.

(Yes it is - see attached image from a Google search).

Edit: another link here.

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And, with rising cases will also come rising hospitalisations and deaths.

The only thing that seems to be worrying Anthony Albanese at the moment is if his phone battery goes flat before he has a chance to take another stupid 'selfie' and post it on Twitter and Facebook.