Coronavirus Info & Helpful Direction

[Bulldog Joe]

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Black and white? Do we have enough Pfizer? Answer is no, therefore we can't vaccinate the population under 60.

We certainly have availability issues, but given the comparative low numbers we are not an international priority.

[Bornadog]

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We certainly have availability issues, but given the comparative low numbers we are not an international priority.

But if we were vaccinated we wouldn't have lockdowns.

[azabob]

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We certainly have availability issues, but given the comparative low numbers we are not an international priority.

Due to our “low numbers” wasn’t Australia due to be a case study on how Pfizer could successfully role out a program and vaccinate an entire nation? The decision makers baulked at that option (reported due to cost) and decided to put all their eggs in the AZ basket.
The federal government chose to make Australia a non priority.

[Bornadog]

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Due to our “low numbers” wasn’t Australia due to be a case study on how Pfizer could successfully role out a program and vaccinate an entire nation? The decision makers baulked at that option (reported due to cost) and decided to put all their eggs in the AZ basket.
The federal government chose to make Australia a non priority.

Excatly.

[chef]

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Mildura. Shit.

[jeemak]

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Mildura. Shit.

Sorry man. Reckon this one's going to be pretty tricky.

[Bornadog]

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Mildura. Shit.

I think he attended the carlton match

[anfo27]

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But if we were vaccinated we wouldn't have lockdowns.

Not sure how you come up with that. Fully vaccinated people are in lockdown now & still have to wear masks & social distance.

[Grantysghost]

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UK probably a decent crystal ball.

67 percent fully vaxxed. (leaves around 20 mill).

50k cases per day around 50 deaths. Pretty much open and without restrictions. (still some).

That might be the future.

[Bornadog]

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Not sure how you come up with that. Fully vaccinated people are in lockdown now & still have to wear masks & social distance.

I am talking 80/90% of population

[anfo27]

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I am talking 80/90% of population

If your vaccinated now you still have to wear a mask because you can still get the virus & still pass it on. That means we will still have cases & we will still have lockdowns.

[Bornadog]

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If your vaccinated now you still have to wear a mask because you can still get the virus & still pass it on. That means we will still have cases & we will still have lockdowns.

So based on that forever

[Dancin' Douggy]

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Some advice. I recently got the AZ first jab. It was right in the middle of the recent sudden uptake, I went via the official government site and of course phone calls just rang and rang and rang, or I got an automated message blah blah etc. So I scoured the waiting times for all the various local vaccination points, saw how short the waiting time was for what happened to be my closest option, and I walked into the West melbourne co health centre. I was the only person in the queue. Got the jab, no side effects. So keep west Melbourne cohealth in mind.

Also. I recently had a very close shave with a TIER 1 exposure site. I must have been 15 minutes to half an hour outside of the tier one exposure timeframe. I had scanned in via the official app and didn't get any alert from them which put me into tier 2 ( I was told that by the staff at the local covid testing clinic). MASSIVE difference. If you are tier 1. It is compulsory 14 days isolation, even if you test negative. So my advice is keep all your receipts which will give you an exact time of purchase, so you can be confident of knowing exactly when you arrived AND LEFT. Scan in as well. And really limit your movements. The more places you go to, the more you expose yourself to possible transmission. I felt compelled to be tested because being that close to a tier one situation made me fell very worried about being a non symptomatic carrier and passing it on to my 78 year old mother in law who lives next door.

Also. Bont is a GOD!!!

[The bulldog tragician]

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If your vaccinated now you still have to wear a mask because you can still get the virus & still pass it on. That means we will still have cases & we will still have lockdowns.

At some point serious illness becomes the measure, not the number of cases. The vaccine doesn’t completely eliminate it, but in the main prevents hospitalisation and deaths. So it’s a different conversation we’ll need to have as a community; if our vaccination rate ever gets to that 70-80% rate, and serious illness is virtually eliminated, I guess the goal is for a normal life with COVID just another nuisance value virus circulating. I just wish we could begin having thoughtful discussions on that and build consensus on how that could look, and a more inspired approach to how vaccination could transform the options.

I read this morning that in the US there are pop up vaccination clinics at events like the baseball, with giveaways if you sign up. In France they have ads where they show each vaccine administered turning on a light, or a restaurant opening its shutters, or a theatre reopening. They paint a positive picture of a new future that could be opened up by vaccination, and that’s the area where we are so sadly lacking.

[EasternWest]

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Also. Bont is a GOD!!!

Finally some rationality in this thread.