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JBP
Feb 16, 2017

You've got to know, to understand,
Baby, take me by my hand,
I'll lead you to the promised land.

Centusin posted:

How do you even find a tweet like that from a random old person when it only has 6 likes

Resident idiot

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SonnyVasquez
Oct 17, 2012

El riesgo siempre vive!

Well done @fifimurray2. You've cracked the case. Got to hand it to you, the evil socialists were laughing - or so I hear - that they almost had you fooled. But you saw right through them. Top job.

Now that you have a moment, I'm very interested to hear what you make of the doctored video footage that was broadcast on the news back in late 2019/early 2020 that depicted our hero Scott Morrison apparently forcibly grabbing and shaking the hands of citizens whose towns were actively burning to the ground.

What are your reckons on those "Chinese whispers" @fifimurray2?

*licks thumb and forefinger to turn page of legal pad, pen and face eagerly pensive*

freebooter
Jul 7, 2009

Senor Tron posted:

103,685 confirmed cases today, fun to think that this was the response only three weeks ago to modelling showing a worst case of 200k a day by the end of Jan:

In my defence I may yet turn out to be right and we'll peak under 200,000 because people are indeed acting as though there's a lockdown; both consumer spending and movement across Sydney and Melbourne are back to lockdown levels, at any rate.

Except the lack of testing and insanely high positivity rate means we probably already have hit 200k and just don't know it

Helith
Nov 5, 2009

Basket of Adorables


lol spicy numbers today in NSW

https://twitter.com/covidbaseau/status/1481395448338616323

Of the RAT's reported yesterday 50,729 were from the last 7 days and the rest from the week before that

SMILLENNIALSMILLEN
Jun 26, 2009



i just want to say as the only person itt to get absolutely everything right about the pandemic right from the very beginning ive never once tooted my own horn about it and i never will

Eediot Jedi
Dec 25, 2007

This is where I begin to speculate what being a
man of my word costs me

Not sure how vics new exempt close contacts are supposed to work when they have snort unicorn horn powder every day. At least their employer is responsible for sourcing the unicorns.

Megillah Gorilla
Sep 22, 2003

If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.



Bread Liar
It's pretty much going to mean that every supermarket is now going to have to keep all their RATs for themselves.

The Lord Bude
May 23, 2007

ASK ME ABOUT MY SHITTY, BOUGIE INTERIOR DECORATING ADVICE

Megillah Gorilla posted:

It's pretty much going to mean that every supermarket is now going to have to keep all their RATs for themselves.

Lol we haven't seen a RAT since before Christmas.

EoinCannon
Aug 29, 2008

Grimey Drawer
I'm hoarding one RAT for myself and one for my wife
Not going anywhere crowded indoor unless necessary, until I can get some more
Can't find any N95 masks either ffs

NPR Journalizard
Feb 14, 2008

EoinCannon posted:

I'm hoarding one RAT for myself and one for my wife
Not going anywhere crowded indoor unless necessary, until I can get some more
Can't find any N95 masks either ffs

I got an RZ reusable mask thats supposedly better than N95, maybe try looking for them?

You can wash them, and replace the filters as well.

JBP
Feb 16, 2017

You've got to know, to understand,
Baby, take me by my hand,
I'll lead you to the promised land.
Got 100 N95s and 10 RATs in the mail today :hehe:

EoinCannon
Aug 29, 2008

Grimey Drawer

NPR Journalizard posted:

I got an RZ reusable mask thats supposedly better than N95, maybe try looking for them?

You can wash them, and replace the filters as well.

Thanks for that! Just looked these up and they seem like a good solution, and they're in stock :cheers:

NPR Journalizard
Feb 14, 2008

EoinCannon posted:

Thanks for that! Just looked these up and they seem like a good solution, and they're in stock :cheers:

Awesome, glad to hear you found some.

The Artificial Kid
Feb 22, 2002
Plibble

Illuminti posted:

https://theconversation.com/heres-where-and-how-you-are-most-likely-to-catch-covid-new-study-174473

Important takeaways are in the graph about half way down. Basically, if you're outside or indoors in a well ventilated place, your chance of catching Covid is miniscule. Put the full face respirator down and go have fun outside. If you need to go inside, put on a good mask and make sure it ain't to busy.
Are they basing this off data specifically for omicron, which is thought to be possibly the most infectious respiratory virus in human history?

Phigs
Jan 23, 2019

At this point I have zero faith in any authority, institution, or publication in regards to COVID information.

abigserve
Sep 13, 2009

this is a better avatar than what I had before
Im interested to know what "well ventilated" means because I haven't been inside a building since the pandemic started where I thought "gee, this is well ventilated"

freebooter
Jul 7, 2009

abigserve posted:

Im interested to know what "well ventilated" means because I haven't been inside a building since the pandemic started where I thought "gee, this is well ventilated"

When for example I go get takeway coffee from the nearby cafe which has huge glass windows that they always keep open in summer, resulting in a nice breeze circulating through the cafe, I feel more comfortable than if I go to the other local cafe which has every door and window shut and the air con on.

Bad luck for offices, shopping centres and probably most schools I guess.

Senor Tron
May 26, 2006


Gotta love Morrison coming right out and saying that kids need to go back to school so their parents can go to work.

JBP
Feb 16, 2017

You've got to know, to understand,
Baby, take me by my hand,
I'll lead you to the promised land.
I think big industrial aircon counts as well ventilated

Cpt Soban
Jul 23, 2011

Senor Tron posted:

Gotta love Morrison coming right out and saying that kids need to go back to school so their parents can go to work.

Yet the parents aren't at work because they have covid. Scovid is on another planet at this rate.

NPR Journalizard
Feb 14, 2008

JBP posted:

I think big industrial aircon counts as well ventilated

Depends on how the room's airflow is designed. You can have a massive fuckoff air con unit, but if the outlets are put in the wrong place, it wont circulate much air at all.

Animal Friend
Sep 7, 2011

I'm quite fit and on 2 doses of Pfizer and covid hosed me pretty bad for at least 3 days.

I could not imagine doing any kind of work like that.

Its insane to say you might have the virus but you can still work. Totally disconnected from reality.

Yolo Swaggins Esq
Jan 29, 2015

oOoOoh 👀 a dapper little mouse🎩 🐀🕺🏻🕺🏻 a dAppER MoUSe🧐🐀 🚶🏿‍♂️🚶🏿‍♂️it’s a 🎩DAPPER mouse 👀✔️🐀🥾🏃🏽‍♂️🕺🏻🕺🏻🕺🏻🏃🏽‍♂️🐀💥
Yeah COVID fully knocked my rear end out for like 4 or so days and then I spent a week not symptomatic but like... relearning how to complete basic tasks over 5 minutes without needing a lay down halfway through or after?
Just lol that I was considered able to work during that time.

I'm still bloody exhausted and go straight to bed after a 5 hr shift.... But to be fair, that may just be because working at a GP right now is P rough, idk

E: typos and stuff

Yolo Swaggins Esq fucked around with this message at 09:41 on Jan 13, 2022

Eediot Jedi
Dec 25, 2007

This is where I begin to speculate what being a
man of my word costs me

Animal Friend posted:

I'm quite fit and on 2 doses of Pfizer and covid hosed me pretty bad for at least 3 days.

I could not imagine doing any kind of work like that.

Its insane to say you might have the virus but you can still work. Totally disconnected from reality.

What are you reading from?

The exemptions are for people who are close contacts but not yet testing positive to covid. They can leave isolation for work if they're getting tested each day.

The vic press conference said close contacts were getting covid at about 50% rate though, so exempt workers are pretty much going to be in perma isolation while their coworkers pop off until they themselves do.

Yolo Swaggins Esq
Jan 29, 2015

oOoOoh 👀 a dapper little mouse🎩 🐀🕺🏻🕺🏻 a dAppER MoUSe🧐🐀 🚶🏿‍♂️🚶🏿‍♂️it’s a 🎩DAPPER mouse 👀✔️🐀🥾🏃🏽‍♂️🕺🏻🕺🏻🕺🏻🏃🏽‍♂️🐀💥
Also petition for everyone with a positive RAT or PCR to be given some vouchers for free delivery pho. That saved my rear end after I got sick of the traditional chicken soup.

dr_rat
Jun 4, 2001
I grew up watchin a lot of 1920's gangster films, and well ventilated, well that was just getting all shot up. So when I think of a well ventilated, that just an abode that's been well raked by a tommy gun.

You see this is what happens when scientific disciplines steal terms from one another. All sorts of confusion about the actual meaning of the term.

Just make up your own new terms drat it! Up and down quarks, they ain't up and down of a drat thing, and none of them serve brews on a space station bar. its all confusing as hell.

twotimer
Jul 19, 2013

i guess im one of the few in this thread that is just completely over all the covid hysteria.
looking at the numbers, its pretty clear to me that there is no 'path to zero'. we are ALL going to get covid at some point, and its about time we come to terms with that. lockdowns/masks isnt going to change that. maybe i am optimistic, but i reckon 99.8% of us are going to be just fine.
so im not sure how so many people see two years of lockdowns and vax mandates as such an electoral win for the ALP. anecdotally, its seems like most people i talk to in meat space cant wait to see the end of dan andrews. scomo is a complete nonfactor.

iajanus
Aug 17, 2004

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twotimer posted:

i guess im one of the few in this thread that is just completely over all the covid hysteria.
looking at the numbers, its pretty clear to me that there is no 'path to zero'. we are ALL going to get covid at some point, and its about time we come to terms with that. lockdowns/masks isnt going to change that. maybe i am optimistic, but i reckon 99.8% of us are going to be just fine.
so im not sure how so many people see two years of lockdowns and vax mandates as such an electoral win for the ALP. anecdotally, its seems like most people i talk to in meat space cant wait to see the end of dan andrews. scomo is a complete nonfactor.

Source your quotes

dr_rat
Jun 4, 2001

twotimer posted:

i guess im one of the few in this thread that is just completely over all the covid hysteria.
looking at the numbers, its pretty clear to me that there is no 'path to zero'. we are ALL going to get covid at some point, and its about time we come to terms with that. lockdowns/masks isnt going to change that. maybe i am optimistic, but i reckon 99.8% of us are going to be just fine.

So at the moment it's not path to zero, it's making sure our health system don't overload. A lot of them are very close to and very ugly things happen when they do. I know I'm almost 100% likely to get covid at some stage, and due to my demographics and comorbidity factors, it's pretty likely to be asymptomatic, or at not quite worst, maybe not great but nothing to bad. But hospital systems in most states are straining like hell.

It's not about not get it now, it's about spreading it out so our health system can deal. So yeah at the moment, I'm masking up, my household is going out to crowded places minimally, basically, work, shop, exercise, and still treating it as a thing. I'm up in Queensland in places with low vax rates, and pretty bad healthcare, so yeah. Just trying to slow down the spread.

dr_rat fucked around with this message at 09:55 on Jan 13, 2022

JBP
Feb 16, 2017

You've got to know, to understand,
Baby, take me by my hand,
I'll lead you to the promised land.
This custom text cost someone the value of a rat rip

Pleasant Friend
Dec 30, 2008

twotimer posted:

i guess im one of the few in this thread that is just completely over all the covid hysteria.
looking at the numbers, its pretty clear to me that there is no 'path to zero'. we are ALL going to get covid at some point, and its about time we come to terms with that. lockdowns/masks isnt going to change that. maybe i am optimistic, but i reckon 99.8% of us are going to be just fine.
so im not sure how so many people see two years of lockdowns and vax mandates as such an electoral win for the ALP. anecdotally, its seems like most people i talk to in meat space cant wait to see the end of dan andrews. scomo is a complete nonfactor.

The only reason there is no "path to zero" is because of fuckers like you ruining it for everyone.

freebooter
Jul 7, 2009

JBP posted:

This custom text cost someone the value of a rat rip

If someone has money to burn I feel like I've surely stepped on enough toes here and in the COVID thread to get rid of Malcolm Turnbull's smug loving face, it's been like four years now

Vladimir Poutine
Aug 13, 2012
:madmax:

twotimer posted:

i guess im one of the few in this thread that is just completely over all the covid hysteria.
looking at the numbers, its pretty clear to me that there is no 'path to zero'. we are ALL going to get covid at some point, and its about time we come to terms with that. lockdowns/masks isnt going to change that. maybe i am optimistic, but i reckon 99.8% of us are going to be just fine.
so im not sure how so many people see two years of lockdowns and vax mandates as such an electoral win for the ALP. anecdotally, its seems like most people i talk to in meat space cant wait to see the end of dan andrews. scomo is a complete nonfactor.

We’re only two years in so you might want to adjust your expectations a bit

Also, what do you mean by hysteria? Both the media and this thread have a culture of actively downplaying it

Eediot Jedi
Dec 25, 2007

This is where I begin to speculate what being a
man of my word costs me

JBP posted:

This custom text cost someone the value of a rat rip

lmao someone needs a break from the internet.

JBP
Feb 16, 2017

You've got to know, to understand,
Baby, take me by my hand,
I'll lead you to the promised land.

freebooter posted:

If someone has money to burn I feel like I've surely stepped on enough toes here and in the COVID thread to get rid of Malcolm Turnbull's smug loving face, it's been like four years now

I thought you chose that for yourself, it's a joke?

birdstrike
Oct 30, 2008

i;m gay
there’ll be a rapid test in hobart tomorrow if anyone wants it

freebooter
Jul 7, 2009

JBP posted:

I thought you chose that for yourself, it's a joke?

No I think quite a few of us copped it around the 2016 election but I'm the only one who still has it

GoldStandardConure
Jun 11, 2010

I have to kill fast
and mayflies too slow

Pillbug

twotimer posted:

i guess im one of the few in this thread that is just completely over all the covid hysteria.
looking at the numbers, its pretty clear to me that there is no 'path to zero'. we are ALL going to get covid at some point, and its about time we come to terms with that. lockdowns/masks isnt going to change that. maybe i am optimistic, but i reckon 99.8% of us are going to be just fine.
so im not sure how so many people see two years of lockdowns and vax mandates as such an electoral win for the ALP. anecdotally, its seems like most people i talk to in meat space cant wait to see the end of dan andrews. scomo is a complete nonfactor.

i'm going to loving haunt you

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
How many RATs can i trade a PS5 for?

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Animal Friend
Sep 7, 2011

twotimer posted:

i guess im one of the few in this thread that is just completely over all the covid hysteria.
looking at the numbers, its pretty clear to me that there is no 'path to zero'. we are ALL going to get covid at some point, and its about time we come to terms with that. lockdowns/masks isnt going to change that. maybe i am optimistic, but i reckon 99.8% of us are going to be just fine.
so im not sure how so many people see two years of lockdowns and vax mandates as such an electoral win for the ALP. anecdotally, its seems like most people i talk to in meat space cant wait to see the end of dan andrews. scomo is a complete nonfactor.

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