Posted on 11/21/2022 2:41:22 PM PST by lightman
Deakin University associate professor in epidemiology Hassan Vally is warning about a COVID-19 “variant soup” consisting of five new strains leading the latest wave in Australia.
“We never get too confident when we talk about the virus,” Vally told AAP.
“Every time we think we’ve got a handle on it, there’s always a surprise around the corner.”
Australia officially reported 75,590 cases of COVID-19 COVID-19 last week, an average of 10,800 per day and a 38 percent surge in cases.
Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly announced earlier in the month that all evidence suggests that a new COVID-19 wave has arrived in Australia, driven by variants imported from overseas such as Omicron subvariants BQ.1, XBB, and BA.5.
“The experience to date with these variants overseas is that they do not appear to pose a greater risk of severe illness and death—and that the COVID-19 vaccines provide good protection against these outcomes,” he said in a statement.
Kelly said that the best ways to reduce the spread of these variants are to be vaccinated, wear a mask, and stay at home.
The Australian Medical Association (AMA) was among other experts calling for more onerous restrictions, such as lockdowns, to be implemented again to avoid a new surge of cases.
Radio host of 2GB Ben Fordham retorted that we have only been starting to get back into the office.
“Seriously, some people haven’t been to work for the best part of three years,” he said on his show.
“We’re only starting to see some of them back in the office, and the AMA wants to send them home again. This attitude has had a devastating impact on small businesses that rely on foot traffic, and the AMA wants it to happen all over again.”
“We know the risks. We are protecting the most vulnerable. But we’re not prepared to curl up in a ball and suck our thumb every time this happens.” MRNA Vaccine Approved for Children Aged Six Months
The Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) approved the Pfizer COVID-19 mRNA vaccine for children aged six months to four years on November 15.
Each 0.2mL dose contains three micrograms of mRNA.
“Results of a recent clinical trial demonstrate the Pfizer six-month to four years vaccine is effective at protecting against COVID-19 disease in children who have not yet been infected with SARS-CoV-2, and most side effects are short-term,” ATAGI stated.
“However, there are little data available regarding the impact of COVID-19 vaccines on routine immunisations recommended in this age group.”
Ping
“Turn on, tune in, drop out.” Timothy Leary, Doper
Yeah that’s right...Play alone all day on your devices. Don’t have any human contact whatsoever. Sit in your basement and collect your government checks.
Covid will make you a better person.
...warning about a COVID-19 “variant soup” consisting of five new strains
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Just in time for the holidays, the Whitman’s Sampler Covid variety pack.
I hope Thor kills all of these scumbag tyrants.
Hey leftists, your fear porn quota is way low. Get working. We’re gonna need lots and lots more fear porn if you even think of imagine that we’re gonna put up with your proven worthless crap. But keep trying, so that we can lower our bottomless limit perceptions of your ability to do anything correctly.
I know a guy that used to hang with Leary.
He looks like Saruman from LotR.
Good gravy they just won’t stop! I think the people of Australia need to fire their whole government!
At this point there are probably at least 3 to 5000 variance of Covid out there may be more there’s no way to avoid them there’s no way to get rid of them and there’s no vaccine that’s going to protect you you just Gotta live with it now
Well, on the bright side, I’m a hermit who hates being around people, so this order wouldn’t bother me much if I was an Australian.
Peripherally related: I’m called for Jury Duty over December and January.. Was just informed that we are required to wear TWO masks while in the courthouse: “one KN95 and one KF 94 mask”.
Didn’t say what order they must be in. Guess I’ll find out when / if I actually get to the courthouse.
The whole worldwide Spanish flu lasted, what, a year and a half?
Australia has officially lost its collective mind
SMH
RE: “Turn on, tune in, drop out.” Timothy Leary, Doper
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He, of course, was a terrible influence on many people. I saw him lecture once in person (not as a fan) at my university.
Hunter S Thompson loathed him and said he knew Leary was an informant for the FBI and CIA, including framing people.
Excellent and well written book The Most Dangerous Man in America: Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon and the Hunt for the Fugitive King of LSD
by Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis (2018) details the battle between the two, each of whom was quoted as saying the title phrase against the other. I doubt Leary will have one fan left after this book. One passage: At a minimum security prison Leary worked out for weeks and practiced and then escaped using a high cable over the yard, pulling himself hand over hand. In the middle he changed his mind and wondered why he had started, but the fall would have killed him. He got away and was free. Cops lost track of him.
Thompson quote on Leary:
“But their loss and failure is ours too. What Leary took down with him was the central illusion of a whole life-style that he helped create... a generation of permanent cripples, failed seekers, who never understood the essential old-mystic fallacy of the Acid Culture: the desperate assumption that somebody... or at least some force - is tending the light at the end of the tunnel.”
I had to look up Saruman. He’d make a good Merlin.
Just think what Leary would look like if he was still kickin’.
Christopher Lee, an actual SpecOps Nazi hunter.
When a director was attempting to tell him how to imagine what killing a man is like, he said I don’t have to imagine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Lee#Military_service
Australians were at one time among the most friendly people on earth.
Avoiding people is generally a good idea.
I guess those so-called “vaccines” aren’t working as advertised.
“Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.”
H. L. Mencken
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