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Pies4shaw 
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| Total deaths reported over the last week in Australia: 544. That's now comfortably the highest figure since the late January/early February peak - and cases are not expected to peak until next month, so we may actually be about 5 or 6 weeks from the peak period for fatalities. |
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Pies4shaw
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671 COVID deaths in Australia in the last 7 days. That's a new record for our country and it will be followed, certainly, by a new monthly record.
Pity there's a State election coming up, else the government might take some action. |
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eddiesmith 
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| Yet the governments who don’t have an election coming up also aren’t doing anything! The federal government who just got elected are doing even less!!! |
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Pies4shaw
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| I'm sure you think you have a point - but you're the master of irrelevance. |
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eddiesmith
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| Says the bloke with the most minority opinion going around.., |
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think positive 
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| Pies4shaw wrote: | 671 COVID deaths in Australia in the last 7 days. That's a new record for our country and it will be followed, certainly, by a new monthly record.
Pity there's a State election coming up, else the government might take some action. |
my thought exactly,
Not looking forward to home tomorrow, clearly it’s rampant.
I know several people on their second shot with it.
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stui magpie 
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
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Although apparently we're past the peak.
Pretty much everyone has got something. Cold, flu or Covid.
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watt price tully 
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| Pies4shaw wrote: | | I'm sure you think you have a point - but you're the master of irrelevance. |
It took you this long 😉
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Pies4shaw
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| So, at least 1,949 Australians died of COVID in July. That's up by almost 30% over the previous monthly high (in January 2022). Moreover, that number probably makes COVID the leading cause of death in Australia, right now ( I can't be bothered looking up more recent numbers but about 1,375 people per month died of coronary heart disease in 2020). |
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stui magpie
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| eddiesmith wrote: | | Yet the governments who don’t have an election coming up also aren’t doing anything! The federal government who just got elected are doing even less!!! |
Despite the irrelevant peanut gallery, you do actually make a good point.
No state, even those with recently elected Premiers are doing anything to limit exposure. PCR testing has been wound right back, we are in full on "live with the virus" mode.
NSW has over 2200 people in hospital with it, 3 times more than Victoria. Strangely their health system can cope while ours is on it's knees.
All except 9 of WA's 502 deaths have been in 2022, but ole marky mark seems happy with open borders and letting it rip when not that long ago he was jailing people for sneaking into the state.
The feds, granted, can't do a lot and never have been able to except close borders and order vaccines. They're more concerned with Foot and Mouth getting in than Covid, which is pretty much justified.
In reality, this was inevitable. 2 years of fear campaigns and hard lockdowns comes with a price. When 99% of the population has either had Covid or knows someone who has and the experience was mild or no symptoms and the median age of people dying from Covid is 83, there is just no appetite for restrictions for the general population.
I would like to see at least some efforts being made to better protect the cohort most likely to get seriously ill or die, but overall I get it.
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Pies4shaw
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| No, he doesn't. Your logic is as flawed as eddiesmith's. Did you guys even go to school? It's like having a conversation with 3 year-olds. |
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stui magpie
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OK Boomer, care to take a moment to explain?
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eddiesmith
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| That'll be the day, his entire contribution is posting stats and saying the government needs to do more, but has never once named anything they should be doing... |
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stui magpie
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The point though is, it's easy to claim that Andrews lack of action is due to being in an election year.
No doubt that is a contributor, but you can't point to any other state or territory doing anything more and say, "See, if we weren't in an election year Dan would do that".
No one is doing anything.
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Pies4shaw
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| eddiesmith wrote: | | That'll be the day, his entire contribution is posting stats and saying the government needs to do more, but has never once named anything they should be doing... |
The basic answer is obvious, of course - about 2 or 3 weeks ago, the CHO recommended re-introducing compulsory mask-wearing in certain settings and Cabinet rejected the recommendation. My view, as I said, is that the decision to reject the CHO's advice was a political one.
Otherwise, why would I engage in a public policy debate about healthcare arrangements in Victoria with people on Nick's? I mean, seriously. |
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