UnfortunateSexFart posted:

Trying to figure out how only one person is supposed to transport at least a week's worth of groceries now without a car. Gonna have to go more often I guess.

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

A bloke down in Tasmania reckons he's got trailcam photos of live thylacines

https://twitter.com/seananmcguire/status/1363891132157947911

He's previously uncovered video "evidence" from SA in 2016 and Perth in 2017 that wasn't very convincing so we'll have to wait and see

Infinitum posted:

Shout out to old mate this morning

https://i.imgur.com/3QIjSOP.mp4

bee posted:

Nice sticky lizard you got there. I haven't seen many geckos around here but there are a fuckton of skinks living in my backyard and seeing them sunning themselves on the retaining wall brings me joy.

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Kinda hoping Adelaide locks down, I've got some mandatory jobseeker bullshit training I'd like to get out of. Though I'd also like to see if I can finally loving get a ADHD diagnosis. Either works.

Infinitum posted:

So we're up to 4 pages worth of alerts now! Fun!

quote:

"I didn't realise he was going to attack me...punch me in my face. [He] broke my nose... blood fell on the floor, smashed my knees and [he] just ran away."

The woman, 27, tried to jump the restaurant counter before allegedly biting a 44-year-old customer who was attempting to intervene.

The couple then ran away and Mr Jamalifard said he saw them go to another restaurant but police found them a short time later.

Lolie posted:

31 new covid cases in NSW. 13 were in the community while infectious.

Neddy Seagoon posted:

Is that the sound of a helicopter coming in to land I hear?

No, wait, it's loving Scummo trying to spin what's going on as "oh well, this is just going to happen every now and then until we're all vaccinated . It'll be better later in Phase 3, this is still Phase 1!!"

The Underpants Gnomes have a better strategy than him.

Lolie posted:

Didn't the pathway out get announced some time last year? And then quietly abandoned a few months later.

Lolie posted:

If we're still in Phase 1 at the end of the year he will need to pull something spectacular out of the hat before May rolls around.

Neddy Seagoon posted:

The plan the premiers put to him was almost certainly predicated on Gladys not loving the entire country over this past week, and now Scotty's going to be caught with his pants down again when things are not back to relatively-normal in another week. NSW is not coming out of lockdown for months at this point and if they try they'll just make it much, much worse for themselves.

So of course you just know they're going to do it at the first sign of cases easing.

Neddy Seagoon posted:

I mean technically he was correct; It's a steady increase in cases .

Laserface posted:

the saddest, most frustrating about this whole gently caress up of a federal government and the mismanagement of the pandemic response at the federal level is that those who are the least affected (boomers) are the ones who are going to keep voting for the fuckheads and they will win in yet another undeserved victory of no policies and no long term future planning.

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

Last Saturday & Sunday there were 29 and 30 cases reported and there were 31 cases reported today, seems pretty level to me. (please ignore every day in between tyvm)

quote:

Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant said she was "forever an optimist" about being able to advise the lockdown could end on Friday, but she would need to see sustained high levels of testing as well as a reduction in the number of people who had been in the community before testing positive.

spaceblancmange posted:

I was pretty surprised they lifted the Brisbane lockdown, there are at least 5 separate clusters.

Neddy Seagoon posted:

I like how he gets to the right answer the completely wrong way. "We'd be doing a lot better if fewer people were walking around before testing positive", you say? Well maybe, just maybe, you should've told people awaiting a test to stay home and isolate instead of letting them roam free you idiot.

Strong Convections posted:

Your friend's idea of "being allowed" to go out is likely that they were told to isolate.

quote:

Any person (including Essential travellers, returning South Australian residents and people genuinely relocating, and people escaping Domestic Violence) arriving from Victoria (other than those who have been at a Tier 1 or Tier 2 exposure site at a relevant time) is permitted to enter South Australia but subject to modified Level 3 requirements:

- COVID-19 test on day 1
- Self-quarantine until undertaken the first COVID-19 test (do not need to wait for the result).
- No entry into high risk setting for 14 days after arrival, unless clause 9 applies.
- No entry to COVID Management Plan events >1000 for 14 days after arrival

Victorian Cross Border Community Members are permitted unrestricted entry into South Australia as long as they have not left the cross border corridor (70 km from the SA/Vic border) in the 14 days prior to their arrival in South Australia.

Lolie posted:

When your football team plays My Boomerang Won't Come Back at half-time during a NAIDOC week match.

well why not posted:

NSW Health says 33 linked, out of 35.

Lolie posted:

One of the new Baulkham Hills residents is unvaccinated.

well why not posted:

quote:

A woman in quarantine after returning from Sydney allegedly scaled fourth-storey balconies to access an outside staircase of the Pacific Hotel in Cairns to escape quarantine, Queensland police say.

Deputy Police Commissioner Steve Gollschewski said the woman, who lived in Cairns, was arrested and charged.

"A 22-year-old female who had come from Sydney on July 1, placed in hotel quarantine in Cairns, was found to be missing yesterday," he told reporters in Brisbane.

He said police reviewed security camera footage to work out how she fled the hotel.

“It appears this person has scaled two balconies, gone down an outside staircase, then has damaged a door to escape," he said.

"We believe she has kicked it in, so she was fairly motivated."

"Upon being discovered, police have conducted inquiries and that 22-year-old was located last night in Cairns," Deputy Commissioner Gollschewski said.

The woman was found at her mother's house.

She faced Cairns Magistrates Court this morning on charges of contravening public health directions, unregulated high-risk activity and wilful damage and was fined $2,500.

Convictions were recorded on all three charges

Lolie posted:

Looks like NSW lockdown is about to be extended for another week.

quote:

NSW may never control its current COVID-19 outbreak, and be forced to live with the virus for good, Health Minister Brad Hazzard says.

The admission came towards the end of a long press conference and signalled, the possibility at least, of a major pandemic policy shift in Australia's most populous state.

NSW is grappling with an outbreak of the ultra-infectious Delta COVID-19 variant, which has been spreading through the community — albeit at low levels — since last month.

While it started in Sydney's eastern suburbs, the main areas of concern are now in the city's south west, in the local government areas of Liverpool, Fairfield and Canterbury-Bankstown.

The state's chief health officer, Kerry Chant, implored people to reduce their movements around the Harbour City.

On the same day the lockdown affecting Greater Sydney and its surrounds was extended for a week, Mr Hazzard was asked if the state would ever gain control of the Delta COVID-19 variant.

It was put to him that, perhaps, the state should just "give up" — something that would put NSW's strategy at odds with management blueprints in other states and territories.

"If the individuals that we need don't hear Dr Chant's message and don't respond, then at some point we're going to move to a stage where we're going to have to accept that the virus has a life which will continue in the community," he said.

"Particularly for the community in south-west Sydney; Canterbury, Bankstown, Fairfield and Liverpool, [you need] to understand that your individual actions may well determine the future of this virus in our community."

Laserface posted:

i was going to the snow with my brother for his birthday this weekend which is not happening (cancelled that last week) and now im worried about a concert I wanted to see next weekend being cancelled, a cairns bucks party in mid august and every other weekend + a week in august at the snow being cancelled too.

also heaps stoked I spent $500 on new snowboard boots and about $1500 in car maintenance in preparation for the ski season that is now very likely not happening.

just stoked.

Lolie posted:

I don't think there's any chance of us getting down to multiple days of zero this month, which is what other states will require before opening their borders to people from NSW.

Aware posted:

Agree they should. Only thing that would impact me is if I can't visit my intimate partner who is a 7 minute drive away. I'd probably just end up moving their for the remaining lockdown though anyway.

Lolie posted:

I get the intent of the "don't leave your home unless you absolutely have to" messaging, but it's probably making the wrong people feel guilty. I have a surveillance CT scan booked for Monday and it would be a very bad idea to delay it until after lockdown (which could be months away), but I almost feel like I should.

quote:

NSW Premier 'can't see restrictions easing next Friday' without a dramatic turnaround

Ms Berejiklian:

"I appreciate the message I'm delivering today is quite shocking for a lot of people," she said.

"But I need everybody to be shocked.

"Because when I said just a few days before we had to go into lockdown that this was a scariest period for NSW during the pandemic.

"NSW is facing the biggest challenge we have faced since the pandemic started. And I don't say that lightly. I don't say that lightly.

"Unless there is a dramatic change, unless there is a dramatic turnaround in the numbers, I can't see how we would be in a position to ease restrictions by next Friday."

well why not posted:

A few people I've spoken to are seeing their romantic partners at each other's places and it's honestly kind of ticking me off. Last weekend it wouldn't have bothered me at all, I would've done the same, but now it just seems so much more serious.

Maximum Sexy Pigeon posted:

High profile?

Warney?

Neddy Seagoon posted:

Unfortunately they're all old fuckers and undoubtedly vaccinated due to being A: Rich and/or B: mates with the LNP so they can jump the queues. Why do you think they prioritized vaccination for over-60's?

Infinitum posted:

Ah yes, Ikea. Essential.

Lolie posted:

From what I can piece together, we're just getting some of our doses sooner than was expected. Good news but certainly not a game-changer.

quote:

Since mid-June the Pfizer vaccine has been recommended for Australians aged under 60, putting pressure on the limited supply of doses.

Currently, Australia has between 300,000 and 350,000 doses of Pfizer per week to administer, but demand outstrips that.

But from July 19 Pfizer has confirmed Australia can expect 1 million doses a week.

That means 4.5 million doses of Pfizer will be delivered in August, when such a number initially was not expected until September.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison said that would prop up the government's existing plans to offer every willing Australian a first vaccine dose by the end of the year.

"If we keep these rates up we'll hit that," he said.

The acceleration means more doses about one month sooner than expected, but …

These aren't new or 'extra' doses of Pfizer

Australia has contracted Pfizer for 40 million doses to be delivered by the end of the year, and the doses announced today come from that pool.

Pfizer released a statement saying the changes were "in line with our weekly delivery schedule", but hours later changed its language to say "we continue to update our weekly schedule in line with the ramp-up".

"The total number of 40 million doses we are contracted to deliver to Australia over 2021 has not changed. We continue to work closely with the government to support the ramp up of their rollout program," the updated statement said.

"While the details of our agreement with the Government are confidential, we can confirm that deliveries to Australia  remain on track."

Lolie posted:

They may have accepted "it's not a race" before, but now it couldn't be clearer that it is a race and it's one we're losing at the moment.

tithin posted:

Is he really crowing about the fact that they're coming out marginally more quickly?

christ alive.

Raged posted:

So how many cases is NSW going to have today? My guess is 56.

Lolie posted:

I'm guessing that it will be over 50.

Lolie posted:

We've got 20,000 close contacts in isolation. Some of them are going to test positive.

Infinitum posted:

26 cases out in the community.

lol all of July

Infinitum posted:

Lets go for 69 today!

Keep things fun and fresh.

Lolie posted:

489 people have been infected during this outbreak so far. We're hitting 500 for sure today.

Laserface posted:

How do they still not understand that they problem isn't wanting to get the Jab, it's the availability?

Advertise all you fuckin like, give us free schooners to bribe us - it's not the convincing we need it's the supply.