Amazingly, they might have dodged a bullet given that he travelled on 12 July, 13 days ago and there don’t appear to have been any cases
linked to him apart from the F/A. Fingers crossed for a positive outcome for everyone’s sake.

Thats good news.

Thats a new way of describing it! Clearly masks are pointless when being infected with the Delta strain.

Amazing that one person (the F/A in question) can bring so much fear to so many, such an outcome the generals of past wars would loved to have had!

And I see the Tik Tok moron who was ‘predicting’ case numbers was at the protests. There really is no hope for NSW.. and aviation .

I thought you explained you were living remotely, hence your reluctance to rush vaccination?

Can we please change the title of the thread to Borders never to open . With the requirement for 3 monthly jabs, looking likely the novelty will wear off for most people leading to this groundhog day we are stuck in .
There is no solution only a delay in the inevitable. China will take over the world without destroying any infrastructure .

Because it's not a real lockdown.

For example
"It is also considered a reasonable excuse to leave your home if you need to ... move ... between your different places of residence"
Which means if you live in Epping and have a holiday home in Yamba, it's OK to move between them: you don't have to choose and stick with one or the other.

Also
"Businesses providing essential products and services that can be open include grocery stores including butchers, bakeries, fruit and vegetable, seafood
other food or drink retailers that predominantly sell or display food or drinks
kiosks and other small food and drink premises
banks and financial institutions
hardware, building supplies
landscaping material supplies
agricultural and rural supplies
shops that, in the normal course of business, operate as or sell and display
pet supplies
newsagents
office supplies
liquor stores
post offices
garden centres and plant nurseries
vehicle hire premises, not including the premises at which vehicles are sold;
shops that predominantly carry out repairs of mobile phones
laundromats and drycleaners."

For contrast, none of those retail businesses were open in NZ during our "Level 4" lockdown. The only ones allowed to open were supermarkets, pharmacies and service stations. If you wanted meat or vegetables, you had to buy what the supermarket was offering, the specialty shops were shut.

And IMO, that's the problem with NSW at the moment,

"It is also considered a reasonable excuse to leave your home if you need to ...
move ... between your different places of residence"
"It is also considered a reasonable excuse to leave your home if you need to ...
move ... between your different places of residence"

ummm.. not me. I’m fully vaxed. Think you are confusing me with someone else.

And that is the reason that the NSW Govt tried to keep the economy ticking over in previous breakouts, unlike Vic with a full lockdown.
That worked with the earlier strains of Covid as in the Northern Beaches.
Everyone was lauding the "Gold Standard" of NSW, localised containment while keeping the State open.

But the Delta strain has a different play book.
We are ALL learning as time goes on.

We just need the Richard Craniums out there to follow the advice of the CMOs.



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Errr! No, The only people that was lauding NSW as the Gold Standard was NSW. Our states medical professionals which were helping out in Vic at the time thought NSW was reckless and predicted to fall, it just took a bit longer than expected that's all.

The personification of COVID-19 has gone to hysterical levels. I did not know viruses had playbooks. But then you learn all kinds of stuff on this site. I thought 'Platinum' was the highest standard.

Perhaps when the CHO's themselves can come to some sort of agreement about what constitutes a hotspot, or a lockdown, people will begin to listen. But right now, the only message that seems to be getting out there is either: "Don't take the AZ vaccine if you want to live!" or "If you're rich enough, you're not as much of a risk as a pauper, so come to Queensland and spend your money here!"

There's absolutely zero consensus among these so-called 'experts' that we're being implored to listen to, and that's a massive problem, not only for the Government and their vaccination message, but Australia as a whole, because apart from having a marketing guru swan off to Hawaii in the middle of a crisis, we're now a half-dozen individual nations each with their own definitions, rules, standards and procedures to gain entry.

Consider Gladys' request for some states to give up a portion of their vaccines to allow NSW to get more vaccinations going - which state said "Sure, here's some of ours!" McGowan said "Get stuffed, it's allocated on aper capita basis and you're not having ours", Anna-Stayaway said similar. Guess NSW should have been enforcing international arrivals and air-freight throughput as a function of their percentage of Australian's too, rather than taking, at times, 2/3rds of international arrivals and (I think I read - happy to be corrected) 75% of all incoming airfreight.

My Apologies. Struggling to keep up with so many protagonists.

Someone did say get stuffed to a vaccine request, it was.......

Speaking to radio hosts Kyle Sandilands and Jackie O, Berejiklian was asked about the idea that Victoria – at that point in a lockdown with both Kappa and Delta variants circulating – might want some of “our” doses. “No, they can’t,” she says.
“Why does everyone look to us to save their own stupid decisions?” Sandilands asks. “I can’t comment on that,” Berejiklian sighs, as if she would very much like to.

And just so everyone can see it for real, the relevant footage starts at 2:30 in. Also great to hear is the smuggest talk right after about how NSW people “are doing the right thing”......:yuk:


At times, but overall NSW and WA have been the states with the highest proportion of arrivals per capita with roughly similar figures. Both eclipsed per capita by the NT arrivals into Howard Springs however.

NSW and WA are about 50% higher than SA and Qld, with Victoria in 6th.

Which state is that Xeptu? Not WA I hope (“swan downunder”). Their health system is in a complete shambles and should not be throwing stones across the borders

She says "I can't" not "they can't". A subtle and possibly significant difference. And then points out the federal government was already sending more AZ to Victoria. But she did herself no favours in the rest of the interview. If the federal government is distributing the vaccines then surely they can decide how they're allocated to each state.

The problem is a lack of Pfizer and yet…

The Health Ministry will destroy at least 800,000 expiring coronavirus vaccine doses if no buyers are found for them in the next two weeks, according to a report Monday.

The doses of the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccines, set to expire at the end of July, are worth hundreds of millions of dollars, according to the Kan public broadcaster.

Israel’s search for a taker for the shots come as many countries are expanding their vaccination drives to combat the fast-spreading Delta variant of the coronavirus, which has sent case numbers in some places soaring.

Israel has some 1.4 million shots that will expire at the end of July, but hopes to use 600,000 of them to vaccinate 300,000 teens ages 12 to 15 by then, Kan reported, without attributing the information to a source.

Israel is reportedly in talks with several countries to either purchase the vaccines, or take them in exchange for vaccines they had been set to receive later, which will instead go to Israel. The report did not name the countries.


https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel...ovid-vaccines/

NT government is now telling any Territorian that is currently in NSW to come home now. I can hear a full border closure coming.

In other news, I see that some experts are saying the Sydney lockdown might have to go on until Christmas. When are people going to realise that.. stay at home… means STAY AT HOME!!!

PM is doing no favors either he said on the 23rd that lockdowns will be the primary means of controlling covid even with high vaccination rates. Premiers May control the states, he still controls the international border.