COVID-19: who’s going full doomsday prep on this?

Kerplunk

Likes Bikes and Dirt
Nah. I've seen this attitude quite a lot over the last couple of lockdowns and I think there's a fair bit of inherent snobbery behind it. People who work in white-collar or 'respectable' jobs having a sook because they've got to stay at home whilst the neck-tatted, hi-viz wearing knuckle-draggers get to come and go as they please! ;)
Ain’t snobbery, I work in landscaping and with domestic builders..
So yeah nah, lets agree to disagree..
 

beeb

Dr. Beebenson, PhD HA, ST, Offset (hons)
I'm driving past a large multistory industrial jobsite each day on the way to work. I think about a third of them are wearing masks. And that only seems to be while they're walking from the car to the site...

I'm not offended by the fact they're tradies, most people I know are or were (myself included).
 

PINT of Stella. mate!

Many, many Scotches
*For the record, this is who is actually permitted to work under current VIC lockdown guidelines:


Any person who performs work that is essential for the continued operation of:

  • an Authorised Provider; or
  • authorised health services; or
  • funerary or mortuary services or related activities; or
  • marriage celebrant only if one or both of the two persons being married are at the end of life (that's gotta make the 'til death us do part bit of the speech a bit awkward), or will be deported from Australia unless the marriage takes place; or
  • emergency services, including both volunteers and paid workers in:
    • the State Emergency Services; and
    • firefighting services; and
    • paramedical services; and
    • ambulance and paramedics services; and
    • air ambulance and medical retrieval services (including Royal Flying Doctor Service); and
    • Victoria Police employees, Protective Services Officers and police custody officers; and
    • military and defence services deployed for activities in Victoria; or
    • state security or national security; or
  • essential infrastructure and essential services that are required to maintain or protect human health, safety and wellbeing (whether provided by a public or private undertaking), and including construction, maintenance and repair of such infrastructure; or
  • critical repairs to any premises where required for emergency or safety; or
  • faith leaders broadcasting services and ceremonies at places of worship; (I'm not really sure about that one but I suppose some folk are fond of religiousy stuff)
  • retail goods workers supporting the operation of click and collect or click and deliver orders; or
  • health practitioners, including medical, nursing, midwifery and allied health students on placement, when undertaking critical training and examinations; or
  • allied health professionals working in private or public community services, whether clinic-based or home-based, providing essential clinical care where telehealth services are not clinically appropriate;
    • Example: orthotists and prosthetists providing services such as fitting a brace post-surgery.
  • maternal and child health workers providing essential care to newborns or at-risk babies and children; or
  • a person who is critical to, and involved in, the State’s COVID-19 response (including in hotel quarantine and vaccination services); or
  • immunisation and vaccination providers including pharmacy immunisers and Aboriginal Healthcare Workers
  • roadside assistance services; or
  • local government specific services such as:
    • essential environmental health functions that protect the health and wellbeing of the community, and high-risk local law enforcement; or
  • a member of Parliament or anyone required to ensure the functioning (GOTTASTOPTHEBOATS!!) of the Victorian or Commonwealth of Australia Parliaments; or
  • domestic and commercial waste and resource recovery services (including collection, treatment and disposal services and transfer stations), including:
    • electricity services; and
    • operation of energy systems; and
    • gas services; and
    • water supply, sewerage and drainage services; and
    • liquid fuels and refinery services; or
  • services to support ongoing provision and regulation of electricity, gas, water, sewage and waste and recycling services and their maintenance; or
  • Commonwealth agency services, including Australian Border Force and Commonwealth law enforcement and intelligence agency services; or
  • services related to the administration of justice, including prison transfers; or
  • essential legal services that are not able to be provided electronically, including urgent legal matters such as executing a will in-person; or
  • journalist and media services; or
  • feature film, television and documentary (excluding television commercials, student and corporate productions) that is already in physical production and operating as a closed set and post-production relating to it (Everybody needs good Neighbours...); or
  • specialist services at telecommunications stores to support telecommunications as a critical service during the COVID-19 pandemic; or
  • professional or high-performance sportsperson, workers that support the safe running of that person’s professional sport, and public broadcast personnel necessary for broadcasting the professional sport; or
  • thoroughbred, harness and greyhound racing, with necessary participants only (ahhh Victoria...) ; or
  • a factory or facility that is not able to be shut down without causing damage or loss to plant and equipment, but only those operations that are necessary in order to prevent that damage or loss; or
  • mining services including coal mining, oil and gas extraction, metal ore mining, non-metallic mineral mining and quarrying petroleum production; or
  • building and construction services; or
  • administrative services provided by an employer to enable its employees to work from home; or
    • Example: Payroll and IT services.
  • organisations that provide urgent services necessary for the health and safety of any person, animal or premises; or
    • Example: the performance of emergency plumbing services, Centrelink services and foodbanks.
  • public transport, including taxis, rideshare services, and other public passenger services; or
  • air transport (including the operation of airports); or
  • port operations; or
  • freight services (including postal and courier services); or
  • a transport, freight or logistics driver; or
  • National Heavy Vehicle Regulator compliance activities; or
  • a blood bank or other bank services for the collection, storage and provision of donated biological material (as if anyone is actually eligible to give blood in this country! :rolleyes:); or
  • care services for people with particular needs because of homelessness, family violence, age, infirmity, disability, illness or a chronic health condition or other essential support services;
    • Example: Family violence and sexual assault services, Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations, Agencies carrying out essential relief activities, including Neighbourhood Houses.
  • truck stops and roadhouses, but not the provision of seated dining or shower facilities to persons who are not transport, freight or logistics drivers; or
  • production and distribution of;
    • disability and health equipment, mobility devices, including products for health patients; or
    • food and groceries for sale by a supermarket, butcher, fruit and vegetable store, market or fishmonger (including for sale by operators of such premises at an indoor or outdoor market); or
    • liquor for sale at a bottle shop (Should be top of the list); or
    • medical and pharmaceutical products; or
    • animal food and care products; or
  • commercial operations that supply goods or service necessary:
    • for the implementation of measures to limit the spread of COVID-19; or
    • to support any business activity that may be carried out in accordance with these directions; or
    • to support the export of goods and services from Victoria; or Example: manufacturing of personal protective equipment or hand sanitiser.
  • the maintenance of other essential research activities for:
    • management and care of critical living resources, and the equipment and materials they depend upon (e.g. feeding, husbandry, hydrating, routine care and checks of animals, plants, microbes and cell lines in controlled environment); or
    • the storage and management of existing samples and data research infrastructure that are temperature and environmentally sensitive (e.g. biobank); or
    • long-term experiments or studies that otherwise would be prohibitive to restart (e.g. commenced clinical trials); or
    • research addressing the impact of COVID-19 and research in support of the hospital and broader health system; or
  • the conduct of essential adult education services pertaining to the following occupations and activities for:
    • training and assessment for infection control, high-risk work licenses and high-risk work credentials and construction induction (white card), that ensure workplace and public safety in permitted work premises or for permitted workers; or
    • study for final year pre-service early childhood and school teachers (including placements); or
    • final-year higher education students (i.e. in TEQSA-regulated courses), who do not have alternative options to complete their study by end of year; or
    • first aid training where required for COVID response; or
    • study for health care workers (including clinical placements); or
    • apprentices training with an Authorised Provider or Authorised Worker; or
    • clinical health and biomedical science (if required to be on site for the maintenance of essential research activities); or
    • aged and disability care (including clinical placements); or
    • mandatory assessments for VCE and VCAL students; or
    • police Academy; Fucken oath! It's been way too long since we had one of those films! or
    • defence and national security agencies;
  • primary industries only to the extent necessary to ensure animal rescue, adequate supply of food to, and care of, animals and maintenance of crops; or
  • a hotel, motel or other accommodation facility to the extent that they provide accommodation services, including on a temporary basis for work purposes; or
  • services related to property settlement or commencement/end-of-lease (including removalists); or
  • forestry activity for the purposes of or relating to:
    • production of firewood for heating of premises; or
    • production of pallets; or
    • production of building supplies for construction; or
    • production of other goods required for other permitted activities (e.g. paper, packaging, caskets and coffins); or
  • all manufacturing; or
  • ancillary and support businesses are able to open on-site where necessary for the operations of an Authorised Provider, or for Closed Work Premises where there are safety or environmental obligations. The business cannot operate on-site for any other purpose:
    • Examples: production, supply, manufacture, repair, maintenance, cleaning, security, wholesale, distribution, transportation or sale of equipment, goods or services essential to the operation of the Authorised Provider.
  • union/peak body/employer organisation officials attending a worksite as permitted by law or for Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) advice
  • a person who is:
    • critical to, and involved in, the State’s COVID-19 response (including in hotel quarantine); or
    • a fly in fly out worker or a drive in drive out worker who is required for industry or business continuity and maintenance of a competitive operation where the service is time-critical, who is responsible for critical maintenance or repair of infrastructure critical to a region of, or to, Victoria; or
    • maritime crew; or
    • a necessary individual for the purposes of the major event where that event has an exemption from CHO allowing it to proceed, including any workers and public broadcast personnel that support the safe running of the major event.
  • Farm, animal and bloodstock leasing activities, including:
    • farming activities and other operations relating to agriculture, horticulture, viticulture, irrigation, permaculture, apiculture, grains, fibre production, dairy, flower industry, commercial fishing, aquaculture and livestock; or
    • intensive agricultural production including; greenhouses and animal production; or
    • agricultural, veterinary chemicals and vaccine production, transportation and distribution (including the Pig Services Centre); or
    • laboratory and diagnostic services; or
    • animal feed production, transportation, packaging, sale, and feeding (including livestock and pets); or
    • animal pounds and shelters (no public access).
  • a business or undertaking providing essential support services to permitted agriculture, forestry and fishing activities, such as food safety and verification, inspection or associated laboratory services and biosecurity functions.
Anyone feeling left out?
 

ozzybmx

taking a shit with my boobs out
Been going to see a Periodontist/Hygienist every 3 months for a deep clean on my back teeth (getting old)

We were sent a text yesterday to wear masks, social distance, check in and to rebook if we had been in Vic in the past 3 weeks.

Today she was telling me she is over 50 and has a history of DVT in her family, so was not getting the AZ, instead wanted the Pfizer.

She was told she could not have it as its for under 50's only... here is a woman working in the medical/dental field, getting right up close with peoples mouths, breathing all over her, slabbers being flung out mouths by spinning tools, air and water in her face and she has been told she cannot have the Pfizer vaccine.

Surely they can make exceptions for at risk people :mad:
 

PINT of Stella. mate!

Many, many Scotches
Been going to see a Periodontist/Hygienist every 3 months for a deep clean on my back teeth (getting old)

We were sent a text yesterday to wear masks, social distance, check in and to rebook if we had been in Vic in the past 3 weeks.

Today she was telling me she is over 50 and has a history of DVT in her family, so was not getting the AZ, instead wanted the Pfizer.

She was told she could not have it as its for under 50's only... here is a woman working in the medical/dental field, getting right up close with peoples mouths, breathing all over her, slabbers being flung out mouths by spinning tools, air and water in her face and she has been told she cannot have the Pfizer vaccine.

Surely they can make exceptions for at risk people :mad:
Oi South Australia! Stop trying to steal our vaccines!
 

clockworked

Like an orange


New variant then new variant then new variant then vaccine no longer effective then another vaccine on top of the previous vaccine then what?
Yeah. Thats how the influenza pattern has worked for ages. Seems pretty likely that will be the covid pattern too. The virus only became a human variant 18 months ago
 

clockworked

Like an orange
Been going to see a Periodontist/Hygienist every 3 months for a deep clean on my back teeth (getting old)

We were sent a text yesterday to wear masks, social distance, check in and to rebook if we had been in Vic in the past 3 weeks.

Today she was telling me she is over 50 and has a history of DVT in her family, so was not getting the AZ, instead wanted the Pfizer.

She was told she could not have it as its for under 50's only... here is a woman working in the medical/dental field, getting right up close with peoples mouths, breathing all over her, slabbers being flung out mouths by spinning tools, air and water in her face and she has been told she cannot have the Pfizer vaccine.

Surely they can make exceptions for at risk people :mad:
Shes in 1b. She's eligible for pfizer. Sounds like she isn't paying much attention. Especially as her whole job (minus implant placement) could be completed without using aerosol generating procedures
 

ozzybmx

taking a shit with my boobs out
Shes in 1b. She's eligible for pfizer. Sounds like she isn't paying much attention. Especially as her whole job (minus implant placement) could be completed without using aerosol generating procedures
Not sure what is going on here in SA, she's appox 55yr and being in the profession that she is in, plus given the fact she has enquired with a possible hereditary issue and came away with nothing is ridiculous. She works for Health Partners which is a private medical company here in SA, you would think they would have some clout in making sure all their dental staff got the vaccine.

She spends about 40 minutes with a whizzing implement deep cleaning my teeth. Plenty of water flushing in and being sucked out, with the occasional air blow.

I can tell you the bib and safety glasses she puts on me are definitely needed :)
 

wkkie

It's Not Easy Being Green
Second Pfizer the other day and again, no issues. The pain from the injection site wasn't even as bad this time around.
 

PINT of Stella. mate!

Many, many Scotches

Dales Cannon

lightbrain about 4pm
Staff member
You must have been given the placebo.
He is afterall a 20th century boy with a body temp over 36 degrees. Probably not allergic though he will ask for answers if he it makes him blind. The vaccine could come undone with exit wounds of haemoglobin and he would need meds to purify his fear, that he is scared of girls. Something rotten would ruin his bowl of special K and make it hard to swallow and in fact result in a bitter end. If then he falls over he faces the crawl while asking where is my mind.
 

PINT of Stella. mate!

Many, many Scotches
He is afterall a 20th century boy with a body temp over 36 degrees. Probably not allergic though he will ask for answers if he it makes him blind. The vaccine could come undone with exit wounds of haemoglobin and he would need meds to purify his fear, that he is scared of girls. Something rotten would ruin his bowl of special K and make it hard to swallow and in fact result in a bitter end. If then he falls over he faces the crawl while asking where is my mind.
I'd give you a golf clap but I'm going to have to deduct marks because 20th Century Boy is simply a cover of the much-more-famous T-Rex classic.

I mean, you could have used Nancy Boy in that sentence FFS. It was like their biggest hit!!!!
 
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