The whole of Sydney is now in lockdown....

Rob Driver · Guru

The whole of Sydney is now in lockdown....

Whenarewethere · Guru

Via Stuart Highway.

Whenarewethere · Guru

Rob Driver wrote:
I am surprised that Anna hasn't closed the Qld border. She must be preoccupied with packing for Tokyo.

Going with her jet?

dorian · Guru

NSW has lost control.

NSW records 77 new COVID-19 cases, one death with 33 in community while infectious:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-11/nsw-records-77-new-covid19-case/100284316

DMaxer · Guru

Just think, NSW had the initial carrier of this virus when they found the unvaccinated, unmasked driver. They had the contact right there and yet this hideous spread continues.

That genius Brad Hazzard can doff the cap and raise the bat towards the dressing room tomorrow when he brings up the hundred.

Craig1 · Guru

Hard lockdown into Vic now

Whenarewethere · Guru

The driver who everyone says was unmasked, was masked, was a very thorough driver & cleaned the car after each trip.

I haven't heard of an apology from the government.

oldbloke · Guru

Well, Sydneyites are about to understand what Melbournians were grizzling about.
Some how I think the Gladys B is about to regret not going hard early. Perhaps someone should give her Dans mobile.

Trevor 57 · Senior Member

Dicko1 wrote:
I think the new Delta strain has been a wake up call for many. It is far mor deadly than the corona virus. Young or old can be affected and in many cases it requires hospitalisation.
As Sydney grapples with its growing outbreak of the Delta variant intensive care doctors are treating seven covid-19 patients, including a person aged in their 30s.

How can you say it is more deadly, there has been ONE death and she was in her 90's - come on!!!!

More contagious yes, but there is no stats to prove it is more deadly, that is just Government speak

-- Edited by Trevor 57 on Monday 12th of July 2021 05:52:48 AM

Trevor 57 · Senior Member

oldbloke wrote:
Well, Sydneyites are about to understand what Melbournians were grizzling about.
Some how I think the Gladys B is about to regret not going hard early. Perhaps someone should give her Dans mobile.

she has learnt nothing since the Ruby Princess disaster or the Victorian disaster - she must live in a different universe

dorian · Guru

Trevor 57 wrote:
Dicko1 wrote:
I think the new Delta strain has been a wake up call for many. It is far mor deadly than the corona virus. Young or old can be affected and in many cases it requires hospitalisation.
As Sydney grapples with its growing outbreak of the Delta variant intensive care doctors are treating seven covid-19 patients, including a person aged in their 30s.

How can you say it is more deadly, there has been ONE death and she was in her 90's - come on!!!!
More contagious yes, but there is no stats to prove it is more deadly, that is just Government speak

That depends on your interpretation. If it's more contagious, then it has the potential to infect more people. If the infection rate is 10 ten times higher, and the death rate 10 times lower, then the number of deaths is the same, but the number of sick people is far higher.

At the very least, the virus has the potential to overwhelm our hospital systems, which may they put non-COVID patients at risk. The other big downside is that there is a greater risk of even more variants developing.

dorian · Guru

Whenarewethere wrote:
The driver who everyone says was unmasked, was masked, was a very thorough driver & cleaned the car after each trip.
I haven't heard of an apology from the government.

https://au.news.yahoo.com/limo-driver-centre-of-covid-outbreak-believes-hes-not-patient-zero-114648889.html

The driver's protestations and "theories" don't sound convincing to me.

"He wants to look after his own family," Golman said.

"He has a wife, he has daughters, he has three grandchildren and he wants to keep everybody safe, not to mention the wider community."

If he really wanted to keep his family safe, he should have taken an AZ jab, even with his "family history of blood clots". I would think that someone who was transporting international travellers or air crew should be more fearful of infection rather than vaccination.

Whenarewethere · Guru

The problem is the government. People transporting passengers had to do XYZ & people transporting non passengers were not require to do much.

We both intend to get the vaccine like everyone in our building, but none of us are traveling across Sydney to getit. Every person we know is waiting till there is a more convenient location.

In the meantime we do our very best to avoid everyone.

Whenarewethere · Guru

The extra 300k vaccines arriving, will be this week & next week. 150k AZ & 150k PZ which are A & B injections. There is already plenty of AZ according to the army whipping boy.

So in total 75k PZ by end of next week, hopefully. Not exactly much of a dent in the scheme of things.

Trevor 57 · Senior Member

Vaccine does not stop you getting the virus or stop you from spreading the virus if you get it - it is NOT the be all and end all they are telling us

Buzz Lightbulb · Guru

Trevor 57 wrote:
Vaccine does not stop you getting the virus or stop you from spreading the virus if you get it - it is NOT the be all and end all they are telling us

The vaccine builds up ones immune system to prevent the SARS-CoV2 from multiplying in one's cells.

Yes. An inoculated person can get SARS-CoV2 but virus doesn't multiply as much and that prevents the Covid-19 disease.

If the virus is not being produced in one's cells then it is less likely that the virus can spread from that person because there are less SARS-CoV2 cells and because the infected person is coughing.

You're right in a sense but you are misleading people into thinking that one should not be vaccinated.

There are many more stupid people who will take social media information as gospel rather than the truth from epidemiologists and other experts. In my opinion that is irresponsible.

-- Edited by Buzz Lightbulb on Monday 12th of July 2021 11:07:14 AM

Are We Lost · Guru

Trevor 57 wrote:
Vaccine does not stop you getting the virus or stop you from spreading the virus if you get it - it is NOT the be all and end all they are telling us

Seatbelts in cars don't stop you from being killed, nor do helmets prevent cyclists from being killed. Would you recommend people not to wear them?

In the most vaccinated countries, the death rate per case has fallen by over 90% and that continues to fall as the numbers vaccinated grows and community immunity builds.

Trevor 57 · Senior Member

Are We Lost wrote:
Trevor 57 wrote:
Vaccine does not stop you getting the virus or stop you from spreading the virus if you get it - it is NOT the be all and end all they are telling us
Seatbelts in cars don't stop you from being killed, nor do helmets prevent cyclists from being killed. Would you recommend people not to wear them?
In the most vaccinated countries, the death rate per case has fallen by over 90% and that continues to fall as the numbers vaccinated grows and community immunity builds.

I have had my first AZ shot, gotta wait for the 2nd in early August evileye

GovCo raves on about "inoculation", "vaccination", but the fact is it won't stop you getting it or passing it on and that is the tune they are playing

People need to be told the truth - no bull-**** spin doctoring

-- Edited by Trevor 57 on Monday 12th of July 2021 03:34:45 PM

Clarky 1 · Senior Member

I recon / bet, that the Qld / NSW border will close on Wednesday.

This will get all the NRL players all tucked up in bed in Qld in their respective bubbles so that Anna P wont cop as much flack as she would if she shut the border and then allowed the NRL to come to Qld.

I am a bit disappointed that, if this had to happen, then, I would have thought that some of them might have been relocated in more regional areas.
My thoughts would be that might be better for the economy in those outer areas.
Thinking out loud!!

Trevor 57 · Senior Member

So nice of NSW to share their dreaded pox with us Victorians

Why can't people just stay home like they are supposed to

dorian · Guru

Gladys, watch and learn:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-13/covid-live-updates-coronavirus-sydney-lockdown-press-conference/100287504

Residents of an apartment building in Melbourne's north-west have been told to quarantine for two weeks after a removalist who later tested positive to COVID-19 worked there.

Dicko1 · Senior Member

Trevor 57 wrote:
Dicko1 wrote:
I think the new Delta strain has been a wake up call for many. It is far mor deadly than the corona virus. Young or old can be affected and in many cases it requires hospitalisation.
As Sydney grapples with its growing outbreak of the Delta variant intensive care doctors are treating seven covid-19 patients, including a person aged in their 30s.

How can you say it is more deadly, there has been ONE death and she was in her 90's - come on!!!!

More contagious yes, but there is no stats to prove it is more deadly, that is just Government speak

-- Edited by Trevor 57 on Monday 12th of July 2021 05:52:48 AM

Yes...sorry I meant more contagious...Just said deadlier meaning it is a hell of a lot more easy to contract.

-- Edited by Dicko1 on Tuesday 13th of July 2021 04:24:05 PM

Mike Harding · Guru

It always amuses me when commentators/experts on the news refer to the Delta variant as "more deadly" - do they mean it kills you twice? :)

Whenarewethere · Guru

It's 'more deadly' so we are 'importing from overseas' more vaccine.

The waste we will be 'exporting overseas'.

Trevor 57 · Senior Member

Thanks to the NSW removalists who didn't give a **** and lie

Thanks to the returning Victorians who DIDN"T isolate when the should have

and no thanks to Dan who should have slammed the border shut 3 weeks ago - NSW didn't it to us in a heartbeat last year

dorian · Guru

First a fashion designer (Zampatti) gets a NSW state funeral, now ...

Luxury brands Gucci and Louis Vuitton are 'essential' under NSW COVID restrictions:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-16/sydney-covid-lockdown-retailers-open-jbhifi-gucci-lv/100296684

There are very few reasons why residents of Greater Sydney, the Blue Mountains, Central Coast, Wollongong and Shellharbour are allowed to leave their homes under the state's COVID-19 restrictions.

One of them is to shop for food or other "essential" goods and services.

But the meaning of that word is being stretched to include designer handbags, luxury watches, $10,000 dresses, trendy sneakers, plush toys, cosmetics, fancy stationery and the latest video games.

Trevor 57 · Senior Member

there has always been 2 sets of rules, particularly under the control of the Right side of politics

yobarr · Guru

Trevor 57 wrote:
there has always been 2 sets of rules, particularly under the control of the Right side of politics

Right is right,with the other side being what's Left! Cheers

dogbox · Guru

Trevor 57 wrote:

Thanks to the NSW removalists who didn't give a **** and lie

Thanks to the returning Victorians who DIDN"T isolate when the should have

and no thanks to Dan who should have slammed the border shut 3 weeks ago - NSW didn't it to us in a heartbeat last year

removalists who have a problem with English ,an not very cooperative with the contact tracers as to their movements . i would have thought with the number of traffic cameras on that road they would have a very accurate record of their movments. i read that $45000 worth of fines are in the pipeline , i wonder if the company( which hasn't been named yet) will be for the chopping block ,as someone would have had to organize their permits

Whenarewethere · Guru

Sounds like musical chairs with hemp furniture and no idea where the seats are.