Covid in Australia

[dt79]

@unreal24278

What did I tell you?

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/australia-covid-19-vaccinated-more-freedom-sydney-melbourne-2184161

^Isn’t this exactly what I said would happen? Next they will blame the unvaccinated for spreading the virus and fear mongering will be dialled up to 11 with regards to deaths amongst the unvaccinated in the media and parliament. The wave of cases seems to have peaked but deaths will take 2-4 weeks to.

Typical carrot and stick strategy. Vaccine passports vs becoming potential pariahs who can’t do lots of shit. Can’t mandate vaccines. Can make life miserable for the unvaccinated.

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/australia-sydney-covid-19-home-quarantine-vaccinated-travellers-2184736

Don’t listen to fear mongers. This is the only logical way forward for Australia. You’re already vaccinated. Move on and do more constructive shit while waiting for measures to relax. NO ONE can be bothered to maintain a real police state. Stop thinking about all this political bullshit. It’s fucking predictable.

Public servants are generally lazy ass bums in democratic, First World countries with a history of relatively low crime rates and a relatively compliant population. They don’t want the extra workload. The population is already compliant. Why push it further and piss off even your own staff?

I’m sticking with the >50% fully vaccinated KPI for major changes even though they’re still saying they want 70-80%.

And to show that I’m not just talking out of my ass to provide people with some kind of false comfort with sunshine and rainbows and shit, this is what I predicted would happen with Delta on May 5:

@dt79

My spidey senses are tingling. I don’t like this new strain.

May 6:

@dt79

With the speed in which it’s spreading and it’s ability to infect vaccinated individuals and make them contagious to others, I think it may render our current vaccines worthless when it comes to creating herd immunity. This is just a feeling from the limited amount of information I have atm.

EDIT:

I get part of the booster shots and all. The UK scientists have even stated that our current vaccines haven’t been proven to be able to completely prevent people from getting infected, just limiting the severity of symptoms. But goal should still be to eventually eradicate the virus through enough people being immune, or at least reducing it’s contagiousness to the point where vaccinated people who have it can be easily quarantined without spreading it as easily.

What I think we’re seeing is the inability of our top minds to keep up with the mutations this virus can go through and the speed in which it can do so. India is just one country with a large population and poor standards of living which allow the virus to incubate and mutate more easily. There’re also countries like Indonesia and the African continent. A vaccinated individual from Vietnam is part of a new cluster over here although the virus strain and chain of causation are unclear.

To be perfectly honest without intending to scare anyone since I could be, and am likely, completely wrong , I’m smelling another lockdown here in the near future despite vaccines being rolled out at a pretty fast pace so I’m currently making plans in anticipation of it. The government here has already banned all travellers from India and Bangladesh from entry. This is how seriously they’re taking it.

Again, these are all just opinions since I’m not a scientist nor am I educated in anything related to this don’t take this too seriously, guys. I could easily be dead wrong. I’m just answering the question I was asked honestly.

@dt79

I agree. My real fear is that governments are going to keep on disrupting normal activities even if new strains evolve to something as mild as the flu.

The most recent report from India claims a new strain is “up to 15x more contagious” than existing ones. The earliest ones were supposed to be up to “5 times more contagious than H1N1”. Even if this causes much milder symptoms, it’s still way more contagious than the flu and will naturally lead to a rising and immense death toll even if the mortality rate is the same as the flu.

May 10:

@dt79

Governments do. People also end up getting scared, which prompts more government action. In some places, the government uses these figures in the news to scare people into compliance. It’s all a big shitshow.

If I expect bad shit to happen, you can bet I’ll fucking say it without sugar coating it.

I’ll even admit that my views about what vaccines are really supposed to do were wrong after being properly informed about what “immunity” really means and the difference between “immunity” and “sterile immunity”. But the WHO still hasn’t even updated their site about the goal being “herd immunity though vaccinations” so no one can blame people for getting the wrong idea.

The only thing I’ve been genuinely afraid of is the advancement of Big Data because I’ve been dealing with a lot of tech these last 2 years.