All borders to reopen.
Originally Posted by morno
We administer drugs and vaccines all the time that have risks attached to them, much higher than these new vaccines. The contraceptive pill for example, a ****load higher risk of developing blood clots than the AZ vaccine.
Under 50 can still get the AZ vaccine. Just have to sign a disclaimer. Get the jab open the world.
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Covid cases are surging in quarantine across the country, numbers are higher than ever before.....and also covid transmissions occurring in hotels.....
I personally think we need to pause Indian arrivals as NZ has done.
I personally think we need to pause Indian arrivals as NZ has done.
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I think we need to pause ALL arrivals. Cases in HQ are rising and spread is happening. If we are not careful borders will be shutting again.
Fortunately, my employer - a multi-billion $$, multi-national, has come out and told their staff they will not be forced to choose between a vaccine and a job. They have said it should be up to the individual to decide, so barring McGoose mandating it as a condition of entry to the Democratic Peoples Republic of Westralia I can continue to let others field-test the vaccines.
True that, but, by and large, with existing vaccines & drugs they are known risks, assessed and identified over many years, if not decades. The Covid vaccines, all of them, carry the threat of unknown risks and that is the problem. Blood clotting was not considered a risk of the vaccine until it was. There was no risk of giving the AZ vaccine to <50's, until there was! And now, even if I wanted to, I can't get the AZ vaccine as I'm under 50, so the risk of blood clots is presumably higher than the risk of contracting Covid & dying from it.
True that, but, by and large, with existing vaccines & drugs they are known risks, assessed and identified over many years, if not decades. The Covid vaccines, all of them, carry the threat of unknown risks and that is the problem. Blood clotting was not considered a risk of the vaccine until it was. There was no risk of giving the AZ vaccine to <50's, until there was! And now, even if I wanted to, I can't get the AZ vaccine as I'm under 50, so the risk of blood clots is presumably higher than the risk of contracting Covid & dying from it.
Another words, ScoMo wanted to be seen to be doing the right thing because if even 1 person died, he’d cop an earful from all the misinformed and anti vaxxers saying they should have stopped it. Whereas (I don’t have the info nor could I be arsed looking), ordinarily on a day to day basis people are probably getting reactions to many other vaccines that we’ve used for years. Why do you think you have to sit around for 15 minutes after a vaccine and the nursing staff are trained in things like advanced life support etc.?
It’s turning out to be the biggest unnecessary media driven misinformation vaccine rollout in history
Just get the f***ing jab so we can carry on with life
Fortunately, my employer - a multi-billion $$, multi-national, has come out and told their staff they will not be forced to choose between a vaccine and a job. They have said it should be up to the individual to decide, so barring McGoose mandating it as a condition of entry to the Democratic Peoples Republic of Westralia I can continue to let others field-test the vaccines.
True that, but, by and large, with existing vaccines & drugs they are known risks, assessed and identified over many years, if not decades. The Covid vaccines, all of them, carry the threat of unknown risks and that is the problem. Blood clotting was not considered a risk of the vaccine until it was. There was no risk of giving the AZ vaccine to <50's, until there was! And now, even if I wanted to, I can't get the AZ vaccine as I'm under 50, so the risk of blood clots is presumably higher than the risk of contracting Covid & dying from it.
True that, but, by and large, with existing vaccines & drugs they are known risks, assessed and identified over many years, if not decades. The Covid vaccines, all of them, carry the threat of unknown risks and that is the problem. Blood clotting was not considered a risk of the vaccine until it was. There was no risk of giving the AZ vaccine to <50's, until there was! And now, even if I wanted to, I can't get the AZ vaccine as I'm under 50, so the risk of blood clots is presumably higher than the risk of contracting Covid & dying from it.
I think we need to pause ALL arrivals. Cases in HQ are rising and spread is happening
If you can get to Australia by your own means, they have to let you in. Boat, private aircraft etc.
If AZ was the only Vaccine available I highly doubt any Governments would be making a fuss over the extremely rare side effects... however, AZ has been highly politicised in EU AND there are (arguably better) alternatives so here we are. It's easy for a Politician to score brownie points with the masses when there's another Vaccine to fall back on.
Purely from a numbers perspective, you're more likely to suffer career ending complications from the Virus than you are from the Vaccine. People love to quote the survival rate of COVID, but always conveniently leave out the numbers of people suffering long term complications which would prevent them from holding a Class 1 Medical. Ironically, (or not) one of those long term effects from COVID is Blood clots.
Someone (possibly in another thread) mentioned they've lost their medical due to Vaccine complications... which if true, is a ****ty thing to have happen to an individual. (Also, if true, I expect IFALPA and other Industry bodies will be issuing a warning shortly) But the exact same scenario could of played out if that person caught COVID and developed lung damage from it, or became a suffer of "Long COVID" which appears to similar to Chronic fatigue syndrome.
Finally:
How do you think these Risks are discovered and assessed over many years, or decades? Short answer is, not by leaving the phial sitting on a shelf. Phase 3 Trials have their limits... most phase 3 trials have a few thousand subjects. The rate of blood clots with AZ is around 1:200,000
This is, and always has been, the reality of medical testing. The extremely rare side effects don't become apparent until mass adoption because you simply cannot get a large enough sample size from clinical trials. This might give cause for some to be hesitant, as an old friend of mine used to say (Retired Surgeon) "You never want to be to the first or the last to prescribe a certain drug", but the reality is, we don't know what we don't know. So yes, in effect, we're all guinea pigs (those who have been Vaccinated) but for a Drug that's successfully passed Phase 3 trials, you're more likely yo get hit by a bus stumbling back to your layover hotel at 2am than you are dying from the Vaccine. You're also far more likely to experience life long complications (or death) from the Virus than you are for the Vaccine.
Small comfort to those negatively impacted by the Vaccine I know... but there was never going to be a version of any Vaccine (or Medication) that didn't cause some form of side effects in someone when you're distributing it world wide.
Purely from a numbers perspective, you're more likely to suffer career ending complications from the Virus than you are from the Vaccine. People love to quote the survival rate of COVID, but always conveniently leave out the numbers of people suffering long term complications which would prevent them from holding a Class 1 Medical. Ironically, (or not) one of those long term effects from COVID is Blood clots.
Someone (possibly in another thread) mentioned they've lost their medical due to Vaccine complications... which if true, is a ****ty thing to have happen to an individual. (Also, if true, I expect IFALPA and other Industry bodies will be issuing a warning shortly) But the exact same scenario could of played out if that person caught COVID and developed lung damage from it, or became a suffer of "Long COVID" which appears to similar to Chronic fatigue syndrome.
Finally:
True that, but, by and large, with existing vaccines & drugs they are known risks, assessed and identified over many years, if not decades. The Covid vaccines, all of them, carry the threat of unknown risks and that is the problem. Blood clotting was not considered a risk of the vaccine until it was. There was no risk of giving the AZ vaccine to <50's, until there was! And now, even if I wanted to, I can't get the AZ vaccine as I'm under 50, so the risk of blood clots is presumably higher than the risk of contracting Covid & dying from it.
This is, and always has been, the reality of medical testing. The extremely rare side effects don't become apparent until mass adoption because you simply cannot get a large enough sample size from clinical trials. This might give cause for some to be hesitant, as an old friend of mine used to say (Retired Surgeon) "You never want to be to the first or the last to prescribe a certain drug", but the reality is, we don't know what we don't know. So yes, in effect, we're all guinea pigs (those who have been Vaccinated) but for a Drug that's successfully passed Phase 3 trials, you're more likely yo get hit by a bus stumbling back to your layover hotel at 2am than you are dying from the Vaccine. You're also far more likely to experience life long complications (or death) from the Virus than you are for the Vaccine.
Small comfort to those negatively impacted by the Vaccine I know... but there was never going to be a version of any Vaccine (or Medication) that didn't cause some form of side effects in someone when you're distributing it world wide.
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https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/300284846/australian-man-from-victoria-catches-covid19-in-perth-quarantine-hotel
A Victorian man contracted Covid-19 in a Perth quarantine hotel before travelling to Melbourne this week.
The man arrived in Melbourne on April 21 and was advised immediately upon his arrival that he was deemed a close contact of a positive case because the virus was transmitting on the man’s hotel floor.
As a result, he travelled directly home and has been isolating ever since, Victoria’s Health Minister Martin Foley said.
The man received his positive test result on Friday morning in Victoria.
A Victorian man contracted Covid-19 in a Perth quarantine hotel before travelling to Melbourne this week.
The man arrived in Melbourne on April 21 and was advised immediately upon his arrival that he was deemed a close contact of a positive case because the virus was transmitting on the man’s hotel floor.
As a result, he travelled directly home and has been isolating ever since, Victoria’s Health Minister Martin Foley said.
The man received his positive test result on Friday morning in Victoria.
From the ABC News site: All passengers on Qantas flight QF778 are being considered close contacts and will need to isolate for 14 days.
Just goes to show how changeable this whole thing can be in a very short time.
Things could well get a lot worse but let's hope not!!!
Just goes to show how changeable this whole thing can be in a very short time.
Things could well get a lot worse but let's hope not!!!
Lets now see the media who have no hesitation in sticking it into the victorian govt whenever they have an opportunity do exactly the same to Mcgowan & friends.
The hotel that this happened in(mercure) was recently identified as possibly the worst hotel in the quarantine system & should not be used.
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Yes,lets hope not.
Lets now see the media who have no hesitation in sticking it into the victorian govt whenever they have an opportunity do exactly the same to Mcgowan & friends.
The hotel that this happened in(mercure) was recently identified as possibly the worst hotel in the quarantine system & should not be used.
Lets now see the media who have no hesitation in sticking it into the victorian govt whenever they have an opportunity do exactly the same to Mcgowan & friends.
The hotel that this happened in(mercure) was recently identified as possibly the worst hotel in the quarantine system & should not be used.
It again comes back to the wider issue of HQ, with leaks in both NSW and WA over the last week.....but lets just keep patching up the holes instead of coming up with a better solution
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And everyone knows what the best solution is, but they just keep kicking the can down the road.
Dedicated quarantine facilities should have been constructed 1 year ago by the Feds, Hotels are totally
inadequate for quarantining people with a highly transmissible via aerosol virus. This is going to blow up in
our face if we aren’t careful.......9 identified in HQ in Adelaide yesterday, 13 in Darwin today (with dozens of close contacts on same flight)
The cost of building dedicated facilities in most states last year will dwarf 2 years of lockdowns...
Dedicated quarantine facilities should have been constructed 1 year ago by the Feds, Hotels are totally
inadequate for quarantining people with a highly transmissible via aerosol virus. This is going to blow up in
our face if we aren’t careful.......9 identified in HQ in Adelaide yesterday, 13 in Darwin today (with dozens of close contacts on same flight)
The cost of building dedicated facilities in most states last year will dwarf 2 years of lockdowns...
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Indeed, how long would it take to build a Howard Springs type facility with individual cabins with their own AC units located on the outskirts of our major cities. 6 weeks?
short flights long nights
Standby at 1.30 WST for press conference from Mark McGowan. Rumours here of lock down and border closure.
short flights long nights
McGowans going to be walking a economic tight-rope if he wants to keep going down the lock-down route
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shortage of truck and train drivers is playing havoc with wheat exports out of Western Australia as the nation’s farmers look to regain lost ground in key markets.
CBH, consistently Australia’s biggest grain exporter from four ports on the WA coast, has fallen well behind on its shipping schedule – to the growing frustration of overseas customers.
The supply chain disruption comes with Australian wheat in demand in south-east Asia and other markets where Russian farmers had seized market share.
Russia opened the door for Australia by putting an export tax on its wheat at the start of the year in a bid to rein in domestic inflation.
CBH chief operations manager Ben Macnamara said the co-operative, controlled by 3700 WA farmers, had been hit by a shortage of truck drivers and train drivers were also in short supply.
Diversified mining services company Mineral Resources cited truck driver shortages in WA last week after missing guidance on iron ore exports.
Rio Tinto and gold miner Northern Star have also put the spotlight on labour and skill shortages in WA in handing down quarterly results in the past few days.
CBH targets a four-day turnaround for vessels calling into its ports but that has blown out to more than 10 days, although the delays vary across its vast grain storage and handling network.
‘‘The trucking issue has been exacerbated by not being able to get access to trucks from the east coast, which we have probably been assisted by over the last few years,’’ Mr Macnamara said.
‘‘The big crop over there means there is a lot of demand for truck drivers on the east coast as well. Obviously the COVID restrictions have stopped people coming into the state.’’
Premier Mark McGowan has shut down WA borders and imposed mandatory 14-day quarantine conditions for interstate visitors in response to any level of community spread in the rest of Australia.
Mr Macnamara said WA’s trucking capacity had been sucked into the buoyant resources sector.
As well as demand from the resources giants, two small iron ore producers have started trucking ore into Geraldton, the northern most port used by CBH, for export. CBH only resumed exports from Geraldton on Tuesday after a seven-day shutdown caused by Cyclone Seroja that added to its shipment backlog.
The co-operative carts a lot of grain to ports via rail but is also facing a shortage of train drivers, on top of the scarcity in truckers.
CBH’s rail operations were hit by bushfires in February, followed by floods and then a Pacific National freight train derailment on the line leading into its main port of Kwinana.
The delays getting grain from farms and upcountry storage sites to port have had a cumulative effect at a time when CBH ports are booked solid by customers.
GrainCorp’s seven east coast port terminals are also near fully booked until the end of September on the back of a bumper harvest and strong overseas demand, but its haulage task hasn’t been as challenging as in the west.
The driver shortage is not just limited to the country’s west, said Roger Fletcher, who operates one of WA’s biggest abattoirs and also runs a diversified meat processing, wool, cotton and grain businesses from headquarters at Dubbo in NSW.
‘‘We are short of truck drivers. I have got three trucks down at my grain terminals and I can’t get drivers,’’ he said.
CBH, consistently Australia’s biggest grain exporter from four ports on the WA coast, has fallen well behind on its shipping schedule – to the growing frustration of overseas customers.
The supply chain disruption comes with Australian wheat in demand in south-east Asia and other markets where Russian farmers had seized market share.
Russia opened the door for Australia by putting an export tax on its wheat at the start of the year in a bid to rein in domestic inflation.
CBH chief operations manager Ben Macnamara said the co-operative, controlled by 3700 WA farmers, had been hit by a shortage of truck drivers and train drivers were also in short supply.
Diversified mining services company Mineral Resources cited truck driver shortages in WA last week after missing guidance on iron ore exports.
Rio Tinto and gold miner Northern Star have also put the spotlight on labour and skill shortages in WA in handing down quarterly results in the past few days.
CBH targets a four-day turnaround for vessels calling into its ports but that has blown out to more than 10 days, although the delays vary across its vast grain storage and handling network.
‘‘The trucking issue has been exacerbated by not being able to get access to trucks from the east coast, which we have probably been assisted by over the last few years,’’ Mr Macnamara said.
‘‘The big crop over there means there is a lot of demand for truck drivers on the east coast as well. Obviously the COVID restrictions have stopped people coming into the state.’’
Premier Mark McGowan has shut down WA borders and imposed mandatory 14-day quarantine conditions for interstate visitors in response to any level of community spread in the rest of Australia.
Mr Macnamara said WA’s trucking capacity had been sucked into the buoyant resources sector.
As well as demand from the resources giants, two small iron ore producers have started trucking ore into Geraldton, the northern most port used by CBH, for export. CBH only resumed exports from Geraldton on Tuesday after a seven-day shutdown caused by Cyclone Seroja that added to its shipment backlog.
The co-operative carts a lot of grain to ports via rail but is also facing a shortage of train drivers, on top of the scarcity in truckers.
CBH’s rail operations were hit by bushfires in February, followed by floods and then a Pacific National freight train derailment on the line leading into its main port of Kwinana.
The delays getting grain from farms and upcountry storage sites to port have had a cumulative effect at a time when CBH ports are booked solid by customers.
GrainCorp’s seven east coast port terminals are also near fully booked until the end of September on the back of a bumper harvest and strong overseas demand, but its haulage task hasn’t been as challenging as in the west.
The driver shortage is not just limited to the country’s west, said Roger Fletcher, who operates one of WA’s biggest abattoirs and also runs a diversified meat processing, wool, cotton and grain businesses from headquarters at Dubbo in NSW.
‘‘We are short of truck drivers. I have got three trucks down at my grain terminals and I can’t get drivers,’’ he said.