rockmoose
his flabber is totally gastered
I await the 'please pray for me tweet' before the obituary.
COVID-19: who’s going full doomsday prep on this?
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CHEWY
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rockmoose
his flabber is totally gastered
SummitFever
Eats Squid
If only the virus was influenced by political rhetoric and bullshit. Unfortunately it isn't. This "living with it" approach is going to be a disaster based on the overseas experience both through lives lost and economically.
moorey
call me Mia
Yep. Honestly, the current modeling is frightening the fuck out of me.
Feels like Vic has done the hard yards, and it will all be wasted now.
SlowManiac
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Those numbers do not make sense to me. 4400 cases in December per day and 2200 daily deaths implies a mortality rate of 50%.
I'm not saying things are rosy by any stretch but that seems overly pessimistic
I'm not saying things are rosy by any stretch but that seems overly pessimistic
moorey
call me Mia
Agreed. Assuming that’s the worse case scenarios, but it was still upsetting to read (in The Age, not a clickbait rag)
caad9
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It feels like the 'open up' camp still believe it won't touch them.
At 4400 cases a day it's bound to be very close to everyone, if not in them.
Asininedrivel
caviar connoisseur
Lol, she's taking azithromycin for it which while obviously having zero proven effects for mitigating COVID can cause gastrointestinal side effects. So not only is she suffering through a disease she claimed was fake, she's making it worse by taking medication touted by Trump. Schadenfreude level 9,000,000
Asininedrivel
caviar connoisseur
A vaccine hesitant mate of mine got his first shot on the weekend. Seems that mandate for construction workers to get vaccinated might be having an effect but whatever, stoked he's done it.
dazz
Downhill Dazz
Thing is, it probably won't. Vic has a pop of 6.7 mil, it would take over 4 years to infect everyone if you averaged 4400 cases per day. (note, I'm NOT in the 'open up' or 'let it rip' camp)
Mr Crudley
Glock in your sock
It is Darwinian. There is nothing you can do to stop it.
I know I shouldn't laugh, but you just can't script that sort of comedy gold.
dazz
Downhill Dazz
Seems to be an awful lot of people in the "I'm not against the vaccine, but I don't want to be forced to have it". Particularly the younger crowd, I get a strong anti authority vibe about it.
moorey
call me Mia
Same. It's a petulance pandemic, to an extent.
ozzybmx
taking a shit with my boobs out
My workforce is 50% horse punchers, 30% fence sitters, 20% vaxxed.
Will see how long that lasts when vid arrives in SA.
Squidfayce
Eats Squid
youre making the assumption that 4400 is the cap. at 4400 average per day, without mitigants (which is pretty much where we expect to be in dec pe rplan), has a seriously high possibility of an exponential ramp to well over that. The govt is basically preparing us for the covid apocalypse. Get vaccinated and hope your enot a serious case when you get it is the current approach.
Jpez
Down on the left!
I’ve got a trip fully booked for November. My hopes aren’t high.Not convinced Tassie will let me in by January at this rate...
dazz
Downhill Dazz
I'm not making any assumptions. I was simply pointing out that a peak of 4400 cases per day, while a scary number, is still an incredibly small portion of the pop in Vic. Only a tiny percentage of people in the 'open up' camp will have close or direct contact with the virus.
Basically, I was trying to say that I don't think that number of cases is high enough to sway opinion in the way that caad9 described, ie though close or direct contact. I'll be stoked if I'm proven wrong though!
moorey
call me Mia
Nope. I’m no more confident of end of Jan TransTas postponement