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Is that like a virtual reality brothel?

I would have thought that they'd be classified as sensual workers!

This issue about pressures on the health system has me intrigued. We are constantly hearing reports that our health systems are under pressure and that the situation is only going to get worse. If I understand the recent statements from the Doherty Institute, they are saying that the blowout in...

Only if you're sure they can win 3 games in a row.

I can only assume that in the absence of vaccination the numbers hospitalised would be higher. Using simple made up figures, it might look like this. 10% of unvaccinated people will be hospitalised. 4 % of vaccinated people will be hospitalised. 100 people all unvaccinated. 10 hospitalised =...

As things stand at the moment, I agree with you. If that unvaccinated person contracted Covid 19, all their fellow workers would have to quarantine, the business would shut, be named as a tier 1 site (well in Vic anyway) and have to undergo a deep clean - I'm not sure at whose expense. Why...

I really hate calculating people.

I was a little bit crook after my first AZ shot, but absolutely nothing after the second. Enjoy...you too can be 6 ft tall and bulletproof.

Wow!. His form or our form?

Haha. Sounds like a normal Saturday morning to me

Yum - crab. Park royal on Beach Rd Singapore used to have a crab buffet every Sunday night. As much as you can eat for about $S60++. Chilli crab, pepper crab, black bean crab etc...about 6 or 7 different dishes. Can't wait to go back there

Yep sorry, I shouldn't have quoted your response. Used it as a segue, because my post was also in relation to the Doherty report. Just creates confusion. I won't do that again.

I haven't read the Doherty report, only extracts from it and commentaries on it, but I understand that it doesn't recommend a way forward. It models certain scenarios, but it will be the various governments that translate that modelling into policy outcomes. That's entirely what I would expect...

Too true. I've said previously that I think Australians will respond well to the call to be vaccinated. I have my doubts whether we will get to 90% at this stage (maybe in the longer term) but I'm hopeful that we will be at least close to 80%. Statistics aside, I hope that we can soon reach...

Probably a bit less than that. The latest available figures are from 2019 which show that children aged 0 to 14 account for 19.28% of our population. So the proportion younger than 16 years of age will be a bit higher. If we **assume** that it will be 1/7th higher that would equate to children...

To put some context around that, 112 of the 494 active cases in Victoria (as at 23/8/21) are children under the age of 10 years. the Delta variant seems to affect children to a greater extent than earlier variants We don't know, at this stage, whether children become more, less, or equally as...

Can I debate assumptions? Because that was the very basis of the article that I posted this morning. The internationally accepted range of reproduction for the Delta variant is 5 to 9. The R factor used in the Doherty report is 3.6. So it would have to be considered as an outlier. Now, the...

Ok. from now on we just accept scientific reports without any form of debate. Whatever.

The spin is not coming from the Doherty report. The spin comes from the politicians. You can spin things by not telling the whole story. I haven't heard our prime minister tell us that opening up along the lines inferred by the Doherty report will result in a couple of thousand deaths. It's...

This is an interesting article from the Financial Review. It's not a difficult read. It does raise some questions around a critical assumption that underpins the Doherty Report. The most interesting aspect for me is the response from the Doherty Institute that the very low R factor (by...