BrigadierSensible posted:

Weekend at Bernies II is the best movie ever made and the only one that should be referenced in political speeches.

This is a hill I will die on.

Senor Tron posted:

No way that WA/TAS/SA open our borders to NSW until we're either overrun with cases ourselves or have kids vaccinated.

See y'all next year I guess.

Eediot Jedi posted:

Your avatar owns. It's like being judged and found wanting by two very uninterested gods.

Go banana!

NSW relaxed restrictions for the maxvaxed:

People in NSW who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 will be given more freedoms from 12:01am on Monday, September 13.

For those who live outside the LGAs of concern, outdoor gatherings of up to five people (including children, all adults must be vaccinated) will be allowed in a person’s LGA or within 5km from home.

For those who live in the LGAs of concern, households with all adults vaccinated will be able to gather outdoors for recreation (including picnics) within the existing rules (for one hour only, outside curfew hours and within 5km of home). This is in addition to the one hour allowed for exercise.

hooman posted:

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Gentleman Baller posted:

I didn't watch the press conference, but this easing of restrictions for fully vaccinated people thing, did they say how police were going to confirm people's vaccination status?

perepelki posted:

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Senor Tron posted:

Sounds like a threat.

Also this is a quality feel good thread (about ten long, very worth it)

https://twitter.com/gregmlarsen/status/1430418818514309120?s=20

go_banana posted:

1029 cases in NSW, 3 deaths.... we won!

bell jar posted:

https://twitter.com/NITV/status/1430689262748397573

this poo poo is insanely hosed

Budzilla posted:

What is the next milestone? 10k?

Senor Tron posted:

Sounds like a threat.

Also this is a quality feel good thread (about ten long, very worth it)

https://twitter.com/gregmlarsen/status/1430418818514309120?s=20

bowmore posted:

probably 5K

Amoeba102 posted:

Twitter wasn't worth much of a click before, but now it wants you to log in or sign up to view content in full. IE can't click through to see individual images, can't see threads. It's for the best, really.

PalaNIN posted:

NSW's "couch to 5k" is progressing at amazing speed!

quote:

The Senate report tabled in Parliament last night recommends the Federal Government “establishes an independent body” to “set universal, binding standards” in road transport. Regulation of this sort would eliminate gig economy models of exploitation at the likes of AmazonFlex and Uber.

TWU National Secretary Michael Kaine welcomed the recommendations, adding that for an independent body to succeed, it must be genuinely industry-led and dedicated to addressing the economic, social and contracting pressures that make transport Australia’s deadliest industry.

“This comprehensive report is emphatic in its portrayal of the transport industry and the regulatory requirements to fix deep-rooted, deadly pressures in transport supply chains. The Prime Minister only needs to look at the thousands of transport workers forced to pursue strikes over an assault on good, safe jobs across Australia’s major operators to see that implementing the recommendations of the Senate report is a national priority,” he said.

Periphery posted:

There was an article on the ABC website the other day that the vaccination proof on the medicare app was able to be easily forged.

New page edit: https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2021-08-23/covid-19-vaccine-certificates-forged-in-10-minutes/100390578

Megillah Gorilla posted:

I literally just set it up less than half an hour ago.

The "proof" is just a link to a pdf file which has a line saying you've been vaccinated.

Anyone with a pdf editor could change it in minutes.


EDIT: Just spent a minute using an online pdf editor.

PalaNIN posted:

NSW's "couch to 5k" is progressing at amazing speed!

Budzilla posted:

What is the next milestone? 10k?

Megillah Gorilla posted:

I literally just set it up less than half an hour ago.

The "proof" is just a link to a pdf file which has a line saying you've been vaccinated.

Anyone with a pdf editor could change it in minutes.


EDIT: Just spent a minute using an online pdf editor.

Synthbuttrange posted:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-26/covid-peak-in-nsw-still-six-weeks-away-modelling-shows/100411220

6k peak at this rate

Janitor Ludwich IV posted:

do not go to queensland its full of racists and idiots and also i am one of the idiots and i dont want to get coronavirus

The Peccadillo posted:

We'll all, at some point in the next couple years, be infected with COVID-19. That blows

The Peccadillo posted:

We'll all, at some point in the next couple years, be infected with COVID-19. That blows

freebooter posted:

Really loving blows that China demonstrated it was possible to contain and eliminate it by the time it started cropping up in other parts of the world, but the laziness and fatalism of Americans and Europeans means we all have to live with it forever

The Peccadillo posted:

We'll all, at some point in the next couple years, be infected with COVID-19. That blows

https://www.salon.com/2021/08/20/long-covid-breakthrough-cases-vaccinated/ posted:

Doctors' current understanding of long Covid stems from pre-vaccine days. However, experts say it's likely a concern among the vaccinated who fear contracting COVID-19.

"I don't think we know that it does happen yet because we're still so early in the process of understanding what happens when people are infected despite vaccination," said Dr. Dave O'Connor, a professor of virology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. "But biologically it's hard to think of reasons why it won't happen."

O'Connor said that's because in breakthrough infections — or what some infectious disease experts are now suggesting we call "infection despite vaccination" — high levels of viral genetic material appear in the upper respiratory tract. In fact, according to a study by scientists at the University of Oxford scientists, people who contract the delta variant after being fully vaccinated carry a similar amount of the coronavirus as those who are unvaccinated and get infected. What's a little less clear, O'Connor said, "is what's happening in the lower respiratory tract, or the lungs, and where most of the damage is being done by the virus."

Hashy posted:

https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1418669720874721283

https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1425813424752275457?s=20

Literally just crossing our fingers that long covid is not as prevalent in breakthrough cases. There is no real reason to think it isn't.

Eediot Jedi posted:

There was an article about research that suggested long-covid is caused by a reactivation of a dormant virus present in 95% of the population the other day. The virus was Epstein-Bsomething?

But hoooboy (no relation to hooman) what a gamble letting rip will be. Thanks Gladys, Scott.

realbez posted:

Epstein Barr? It’s a herpes virus that most of us have/have had that causes glandular fever among other unpleasant things.