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We'll get to a point where everyone who can have the vaccination will have been offered it. At that stage, I believe, lockdowns and other restrictions will cease. The trigger for that is more likely to be vaccine availability than vaccine take up. Most people will have the vaccine. Some will...

I wouldn't normally quote someone like Ayn Rand, but your comments about Scomo reminded of this statement which has been attributed to her: "You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality." And just to keep it on topic, that statement can probably be applied...

I'd be happy for Bunnings to stay open. During our long lockdown in Victoria (#3, I think) my local Bunnings ran a very efficient click and collect service out of its carpark. Pull up, stay in your car and goods were delivered in to your boot. I stayed sane (relatively) catching up on...

Showing good taste there mate

If you get a virtual event happening, will it be accessible by anyone? I would love to get to one of these events (and a game) but that's just not a practical option with interstate travel being the way it is at the moment. So a virtual event would be great.

Do you think it's coincidence that this "change of mind" comes following USA re-engagement with WHO? I feel that the problem with walking away from global institutions is that you forfeit the ability to influence views and outcomes. I'll bet that the Chinese were using every diplomatic option...

Good post (only partially quoted here). The proposal from the statement was that the "Council" would be recognised in the constitution. The reason for this is that previous advisory groups have been dismissed or defunded by incoming governments. A constitutionally created council would not be...

it's almost impossible to make comparisons between different health systems in my opinion. In India, the Delta variant has run rampant with a huge death toll. But that death toll has been exacerbated by the size of the population and the inability of the health system to respond to the surge in...

I posted this BBC article a few days ago. It addresses the issue that you raised about increased infection levels. https://www.bbc.com/news/health-57678942

I saw this article on the BBC news today and thought that some here might be interested in it. It's not a particularly difficult read. Off the back of wide-spread vaccinations, the UK government have decided to return to more normal settings and to accept that Covid 19 will be a part of life...

It might actually be good for us. Maybe it will shine a light on some problems. That might be a bit embarrassing but it might also be the catalyst for addressing some of those problems. it's not like everything's so rosy that we should just want to keep on going the way we are.

Nathan Cleary hosted a dance party didn't he? He didn't get sacked.

Noted. Thanks for the edit. If you ever find out what the errors in the methodology were, I would be interested in knowing. (I'll also try to find out). With something like vaccines, I suspect that it might be about attempting to quantify the absence of something and the impact that the thing...

I'm not sure that is true. The study uses data from the Nederlands as a proxy for European data generally. The paper justifies this because the Dutch data has been cross-checked against CDC data and has been found to arrive at similar outcomes. But you and I have already discussed the fact that...

Even if you accept the veracity of that study, an effective vaccine program will achieve more than just saving lives from Covid. An effective vaccine program gives society the confidence to revert to normal pre-covid activities. It may allow us to avoid shutdowns and to reopen our national...

Spot on mate. I'm the same age as you. Played juniors in the Newtown area but didn't have enough talent to carry on much beyond school age.

Real hookers and real props. The game has devolved to turnovers coming from errors. It really pisses me off to hear crowds cheering because someone has dropped the ball, or to see teams high-fiving because an opponent failed to play the ball properly (whoopee) . Apart from the strip, there is...

Haha. Mate that's great news. I got my first vaccination last month, so it looks like I'm all set to join Joey and Big Mal as an immortal!

I disagree with you at this point T5150. I'm sure you didn't intend to provide disinformation, but posting that graph of deaths following vaccination, without explaining that there is actually no causal links between those deaths and the vaccinations, might lead the casual reader to assume that...

Thanks for your response to my earlier posts T5150. I went onto the CDC website, but I couldn't replicate the report you presented. I felt, however that, if the number of deaths were as high as indicated in the report you posted, there would be other references to it. There were a number of...