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Anidav posted:Scott Morrison listens to Death Grips it goes it goes it goes it goes
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Jul 5, 2021 06:46
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freebooter posted:Yes, but given the supply constraints I guess a lot of people worry that getting AZ now means they'll go to the back of the queue for a Pfizer booster later, and be walking around with AZ only while Australia opens up and floods itself with Delta. Or at least that's my personal concern. Anecdotally I know a lot of boomers are worried about the blood clots. Even if we get to 90% vaxxed we aren't gonna drop all restrictions completely because of the people who can't get vaxxed and you can still shed and spread virus even when fully vaxxed.
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Jul 5, 2021 06:54
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Spookydonut posted:Even if we get to 90% vaxxed we aren't gonna drop all restrictions completely because of the people who can't get vaxxed and you can still shed and spread virus even when fully vaxxed. The federal government is absolutely going to say gently caress you let er rip to anyone who permanently can’t get vaccinated. States might be a bit less death culty but I wouldn’t put money on it
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Jul 5, 2021 07:02
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Solemn Sloth posted:The federal government is absolutely going to say gently caress you let er rip to anyone who permanently can’t get vaccinated. States might be a bit less death culty but I wouldn’t put money on it and then just like that, in a few months, australia was 100% vaccinated!
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Jul 5, 2021 07:21
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Spookydonut posted:Even if we get to 90% vaxxed we aren't gonna drop all restrictions completely because of the people who can't get vaxxed and you can still shed and spread virus even when fully vaxxed. The government has said the final phase of the plan will be "everything back to normal," COVID gets treated like any other disease. They haven't put a vaccination threshhold number on that but I highly doubt it will be 100%.
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Jul 5, 2021 09:06
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The problem with the Scott Morrison Spotify story is that even his "surprising" picks are not that surprising. Oh no, he put a song from 1992 in a playlist for songs from the seventies, drat, call a spill right now. It would have been more entertaining if we found out he listens to Death in June.
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Jul 5, 2021 09:21
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Sierra Madre posted:The problem with the Scott Morrison Spotify story is that even his "surprising" picks are not that surprising. Oh no, he put a song from 1992 in a playlist for songs from the seventies, drat, call a spill right now. It would have been more entertaining if we found out he listens to Death in June. It was more funny to me that he listens to Midnight Oil also country chill and 'how good is oz rock by scomo' and seeing all the fuckin hillsong youth artists that dress like they just walked off the set of a Target catalog shoot.
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Jul 5, 2021 09:27
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Wheezle posted:Who could possibly give a gently caress what Scott Morrison listens to?
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Jul 5, 2021 09:33
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Spookydonut posted:Even if we get to 90% vaxxed we aren't gonna drop all restrictions completely because of the people who can't get vaxxed and you can still shed and spread virus even when fully vaxxed. Give it a year or two and covid will be like the flu, sweeping the world killing 300,000-600,000 people annually. Health experts will implore people to get the yearly vaccine and to stay home from work, wash their hands, yada yada yada. But most people will forget to get the vaccine, or outright refuse, or be too poor (time or moneywise) to get it. They'll sneeze right in your face on the bus, or go to work dripping with sweat and with a fever because they don't have any sick days left. And just like that, it'll be 1 million people annually dying from what we have proven are containable, treatable, possibly eradicable diseases, people whose cause of death will be an afterthought. My granddad died from complications due to the flu a few years before covid, because an acquaintance visited him whilst ill, because he didn't think it was such a big deal. And I think he would have said that humans aren't evil, or stupid, just lazy and boorish, and whilst his death was entirely preventable, in a fallible human world it was entirely predictable and inevitable. Or maybe we'll get lucky/unlucky and some other SARS strain, or another ebola will mutate and start rapidly jumping around, and like portions of SEA we'll actually take health seriously, mask up when sick and stay home from work.
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Jul 5, 2021 11:24
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Konomex posted:Give it a year or two and covid will be like the flu, sweeping the world killing 300,000-600,000 people annually. Health experts will implore people to get the yearly vaccine and to stay home from work, wash their hands, yada yada yada. But most people will forget to get the vaccine, or outright refuse, or be too poor (time or moneywise) to get it. They'll sneeze right in your face on the bus, or go to work dripping with sweat and with a fever because they don't have any sick days left. Yeah it never quite hit home just how preventable flu deaths are until last year's basically non-existent flu season. Imagine if every winter we didn't go to work when sick, wore masks out when sick or even just in crowded environments like public transport, washed our hands properly and didn't stand right up close to strangers unnecessarily.
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Jul 5, 2021 12:06
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My favourite flu fact is that zoonotic transmition of viral infection was discovered when a ferret who had the flu sneezed in a scientists mouth while he was moving it between cages in like the twenties
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Jul 5, 2021 12:46
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Konomex posted:Give it a year or two and covid will be like the flu, sweeping the world killing 300,000-600,000 people annually. Health experts will implore people to get the yearly vaccine and to stay home from work, wash their hands, yada yada yada. But most people will forget to get the vaccine, or outright refuse, or be too poor (time or moneywise) to get it. They'll sneeze right in your face on the bus, or go to work dripping with sweat and with a fever because they don't have any sick days left. That really sucks about your grandad, Konomex. Organza Quiz posted:Yeah it never quite hit home just how preventable flu deaths are until last year's basically non-existent flu season. Imagine if every winter we didn't go to work when sick, wore masks out when sick or even just in crowded environments like public transport, washed our hands properly and didn't stand right up close to strangers unnecessarily. ... And getting your seasonal flu shot was a cultural norm that was supported and encouraged by your friends, family, employer, etc. I personally reckon the majority of vaccinations should be free for everyone (right now flu shots are $15-$20, you can get them for free if you meet certain criteria but I'm not sure what those are besides being over a certain age). That and people should get an extra paid day or two of annual leave for getting a vaccination as a way of encouraging uptake. Public health is important! Seriously, folks, something almost everyone can do right now (finances/lockdown situation permitting, of course) is get their flu shot. Getting your COVID shot is no barrier - you can get a flu shot 7 days before, or 7 days after getting either COVID dose. While I'm on a roll: The shot you get for tetanus also protects against whooping cough and diphtheria, and it wears off, so you need to get it re-done every ~10-ish years. Whooping cough is bloody frightening, and getting the shot is worth doing even if you personally hate kids and have no plans on being near them. Adults can and do get whooping cough, and from what I gather they either get super mild symptoms or the experience leaves them with a deep understanding of how it kills off children and old people. I was going to share a link here of what it's like to get a bad case of whooping cough as an adult and... It's distressing and I don't think now is a good time to share that sort of thing, so look it up yourself if you're curious. Don't look it up if you find that sort of thing upsetting. (Note: I paid $50 for the tetanus booster, obviously that's not affordable for everyone, but hey it's worth mentioning and it's good to mention to anyone here who's either a rich gently caress or lives/works with babies/olds). Disclaimer: I'm not a doctor, I'm some random on the internet, I just read up on this stuff recently coz I got a flu shot and the tetanus booster at the same time coz hey if in the middle of a pandemic isn't a good time, when is? froglet fucked around with this message at 12:57 on Jul 5, 2021 |
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Jul 5, 2021 12:52
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froglet posted:
I paid $50 for mine, however I got mine on a Sunday at an after hours clinic after stepping on a rusty nail. Not all tetanus boosters have the whooping cough vaccine, they would have given me the standard one for free but then I would have needed the whooping cough vaccine shortly after for my impending child. Apparently that one does *not* come separately and it's not recommended to get two tetanus shots in 6mo. I later found out that the tetanus vaccine does not work prophylactically, and the whole "step on a nail and get your booster" thing is just a trick to get people to actually bother getting a booster.
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Jul 5, 2021 14:32
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The Peccadillo posted:My favourite flu fact is that zoonotic transmition of viral infection was discovered when a ferret who had the flu sneezed in a scientists mouth while he was moving it between cages in like the twenties Wow, rude!
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Jul 6, 2021 00:10
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I’m sorry, but the playlist articles is the click bait I engage in most! I’d say it has a lot to do with Obama, like he still makes playlists that get some notoriety. Difference was Obama had cool bands play his campaign tour willingly. Not your old presidents who probably listen to yacht rock or Trump who playing Born in the USA with Springsteen then threatening to push charges for improper use. It doesn’t work with Scotty because his relatability is your typical Triple M/WSFM programming, with Midnight Oil as his left field. Even his classical playlist doesn’t really do much with variations. I guess this never meant to be public. Make me think Albo should get back into DJing for his campaign trail instead of showing face every record store day.
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Jul 6, 2021 00:26
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Spookydonut posted:Even if we get to 90% vaxxed we aren't gonna drop all restrictions completely because of the people who can't get vaxxed and you can still shed and spread virus even when fully vaxxed. We absolutely will. There's loads of immuno-comprimised people living in a society with influenza, measles, HIV, etc etc. They'll shield and protect themselves as best they can, and the community will move on with life as normal.
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Jul 6, 2021 00:39
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woofbro posted:I’m sorry, but the playlist articles is the click bait I engage in most! Dont you dare speak another bad word of yacht rock
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Jul 6, 2021 02:22
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Organza Quiz posted:Imagine if every winter we didn't go to work when sick There's no such thing as a sick day for an office job anymore, which has been kinda hosed/funny to see
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Jul 6, 2021 05:43
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The Peccadillo posted:There's no such thing as a sick day for an office job anymore, which has been kinda hosed/funny to see can you explain further for a rough hands like me? Like surely you still need time off work to see a doctor or sometimes you'll just be actually too sick to do any work surely?
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Jul 6, 2021 05:53
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If you're well enough to write the message to say you can't come in you're well enough to read and reply to emails and go to meetings or do nerd poo poo, you ain't swinging a tool I should specify that that I believe that is hosed, and it should gently caress off The Peccadillo fucked around with this message at 06:10 on Jul 6, 2021 |
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Jul 6, 2021 05:58
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I literally just text my boss and say 'not comin in today' and he says "OK" as long as its not a friday, monday, or two days in a row, he doesnt ask for a docs cert I have a reasonably good relationship with my boss.
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Jul 6, 2021 06:20
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I got my mum to ring my boss and tell them i was going in for surgery and wasnt sure when i would be back, work was pretty cool with that
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Jul 6, 2021 06:26
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Jul 6, 2021 06:27
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Malcolm Turnbeug posted:can you explain further for a rough hands like me? Like surely you still need time off work to see a doctor or sometimes you'll just be actually too sick to do any work surely? I'm in Sydney, and we're in lockdown. Both my kids and my wife have coughs/colds so are at home, and I've been mainly looking after a 3yo and a 6yo, and my wife is mostly in bed sick. She's still working even though she's sick, and I'm still working even though I have two young children to look after, and a wife to partially take care of as well. In a past life I would be taking carer's leave or unpaid leave to look after my family, but now I'm still working because as long as I have an internet connection and can access a computer, I'm expected to be doing my job. It's pretty hosed
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Jul 6, 2021 06:35
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Most of our sick days at work the last two years have been migraine or RSI related -- too much computer, need day off. I don't think anyone here has actually had a cold or flu in that time.
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Jul 6, 2021 06:39
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The Peccadillo posted:If you're well enough to write the message to say you can't come in you're well enough to read and reply to emails and go to meetings or do nerd poo poo, you ain't swinging a tool My employer is supportive of me being able to make the call between "can work, don't want to risk infecting anyone else" and "can't work". Unfortunately this definitely seems to be the exception and theres a fuckton of middle manager syndrome out there.
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Jul 6, 2021 07:08
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My workplace is awful about working while sick. We pretty much all work remote and people basically never take sick leave and will instead take a morning off and then work midday to midnight or something mental like that "to make up for it" despite clearly being really unwell or in a lot of pain.
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Jul 6, 2021 07:16
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My fave is getting sent home for coughing too much and then getting in trouble for not having a doctors certificate to make that a valid sick day.
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Jul 6, 2021 07:21
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One of my first workplaces would shuffle staff to cover you for a sick day, so we didn't actually need to take sick days half the time. My last workplace demanded a full on doctors note for a sick day, gently caress resting up, go spread those germs. My current workplace, after COVID, is a lot happier to just wave their hands and accept me at my word that I'm sick. Meanwhile in work-labor relations policy, Iceland has moved 86% of their workforce to either actively working 4 days a week, or eligible to work 4 days a week. Happiness and productivity are up. How do we make this a reality in Australia? ABC news article.
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Jul 6, 2021 07:25
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Pwnstar posted:My fave is getting sent home for coughing too much and then getting in trouble for not having a doctors certificate to make that a valid sick day. Sick days need to loving change. Either make a doctor's certificate available online or via phone consultation or, preferably, if your staff say they're sick, believe them.
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Jul 6, 2021 07:33
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My experience has been bosses not believing I'm well and telling me to take another couple of days off.
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Jul 6, 2021 07:51
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Pwnstar posted:My fave is getting sent home for coughing too much and then getting in trouble for not having a doctors certificate to make that a valid sick day. When I worked as a croupier at the casino 15 years ago, they had rules requiring a doctors certificate for taking a shift off sick if it was either side of a weekend. I was working night shift at the time, work up in the afternoon and was feeling really rough, including needing to sneeze every minute or two. gently caress finding a clinic to go to late in the day and spreading my germs everywhere just for them to confirm I had a cold and then having to pay for it. I just went into work instead, and once on the table informed the supervisor I needed the box of tissues left next to my table. After about half an hour and half a box of tissues they decided I actually didn't need the certificate to have the night off. Cost me less time than going to the doctor. Konomex posted:One of my first workplaces would shuffle staff to cover you for a sick day, so we didn't actually need to take sick days half the time. My last workplace demanded a full on doctors note for a sick day, gently caress resting up, go spread those germs. My current workplace, after COVID, is a lot happier to just wave their hands and accept me at my word that I'm sick. My workplace moved to 4 day weeks and they are amazing. Do recommend.
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Jul 6, 2021 08:00
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Senor Tron posted:My workplace moved to 4 day weeks and they are amazing. Do recommend. I've been doing 9½ hour/4 day weeks for the last couple years now and it still feels like a holiday every week. I literally cannot overstate the benefit to my mental wellbeing from having three days in a row.
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Jul 6, 2021 08:15
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Megillah Gorilla posted:I've been doing 9½ hour/4 day weeks for the last couple years now and it still feels like a holiday every week. Now imagine just having to do 8 hours days instead Bring it on imo
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Jul 6, 2021 09:31
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Guardian posted:The New South Wales health department says “an error” resulted in 163 year 12 students at one of Sydney’s most expensive private schools being given the Pfizer vaccine. lol wtf
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Jul 6, 2021 09:35
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I've done 10-hour days 4 days a week for a while and honestly preferred 8 hours a day for five days a week, though if you have a long commute I can see the 10/4 mix being preferable. But yes bring on the 4-day 8-hour week (except for people like me who get paid by the hour)
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Jul 6, 2021 09:35
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Animal Friend posted:lol wtf lmao, sure, an "error"
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Jul 6, 2021 09:39
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The error is that the media found out about it
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Jul 6, 2021 09:55
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The error was the indigenous kids got it
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Jul 6, 2021 11:19
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lmaoing remembering when the pm said “it’s not a race” regarding the vaccine rollout
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