@CollignonPeter a short lockdown helps contact tracers get ahead.
Yes, these two clusters in Sydney are “new introductions” thanks to very poor infection control guidelines.
Predictable responses are useless in a fast moving pandemic... you need to be flexible. Yes it’s exhausted people, but we are just going to have to toughen up a bit.
You can’t go to a meeting, make a bunch of rules and expect covid to play fair until the next meeting.
@abcnews thank you for an awesome program... it’s given me indigestion... but important nonetheless. Prof Collignon spends all his time undermining the state efforts, unless it’s NSW, and he doesn’t care what it might cost.
Please don’t read this thread if you have a mindset that vaccinations are dangerous. This thread is for Aussies that are curious about the vaccine debate.
Firstly, and most importantly, the vaccines are all safe enough when compared to other vaccines. Yes they have happened faster that usual, but this is mainly because researchers didn’t have to write hundreds of applications for funding, and volunteers were ready to try...
What don’t we know about the vaccines?
The things we don’t have data on yet are what might happen to you ten years after a vaccine (because no time travel machine). This is highly unlikely to be something major or common (& compared to COVID19 long effects prob ok.)
We have a situation where we are using vast quantities of resources, creating tonnes and tonnes of garbage (masks, swab sticks, other PPE) and also not winning....
We have out of control COVID19, deaths and new disabilities every day...
COVID19 has made it onto every continent on Earth.
It’s mutating faster than we can adapt and variants that are close to escaping cover are being found.
There is however hope, and believe it or not, it has been under our noses the whole time.
We need to dust off our old measles and SARS Airborne disease control plans. We need to aim for human elimination of COVID19....
WHAT?! This is impossible you say? Maybe, read on.
Round 1 Hong Kong research.... very detailed. Sars1 was strongly suspected of having aerosol spread. Plumbing, toilets, indoor situations all cropped up. Hong Kong have redone the research for sars2 but did not ignore their findings for sars1->
and why should they?There particle size weight and composition of sars1 and sars2 are not very different,and sars2 is more infectious not less. Proper scientific extrapolation indicates that similar precautions required,and last time only airborne worked.I know.I was wearing it.
@ScottMorrisonMP I have done a reality check today, and decided that reality sucks. Covid positive elderly patients alone, sedated and dying, abandoned in their own faeces, while others are being crawled over by ants is well below “excellent standards” demanded by Aussie’s.
@apsmunro@kerrysmith654 Teachers in Aus stayed in minimum weekly contact with all families during lockdown. Phone and if available, video calling. Anything similar in UK?
@apsmunro@kerrysmith654 They did virtual schooling, initially with just work sent in email, easy things children could do by themselves, followed by video lessons either once a day or all day, depending on stage of schooling. On top of that teacher phoned and asked how we were going. It helped.