239 cases, not great not terrible
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Virus traces detected in Armidale wastewater
Dr Chant was asked about the detection of traces of COVID-19 in Armidale wastewater ā thatās a good (or bad, depending on your playlist) six hourās drive north of Sydney.
She called on the community in that regional city to go out and get tested:
"We are aware of someone who is there. That person is no longer infectious.
"We have and we are following up a close contact thatā¦ is also residing in Armidale who had previously tested negative but we are testing them again.
"We will repeat that sewage [testing].
"We have some plausible source for that positive detection in Armidale but we need to be very sure because that person was residing there for a little period of time and hadnāt previously detected.
"For the abundance of caution, thank you for raising that, a call out to the Armidale community.
"We want you to come out and get tested.
āAs you have seen, we have seen some testing positive in the sewerage and then we respond. Thank you to the community for that.ā
Unknown transmission + Under Investigation is trending up sharply over the last three days. This is a terrible sign.
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So many important things to noteā¦
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Trying hard to stay on messageā¦ completely losing any point of the message.
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In this analogy, is the big dosimeter Vicās contact tracing team?
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NSW might need those lights. Reckon SCOMO is about to formally invite Jacinda Ardern to annex NSW.
Honestly, the under investigation number is way worse than just that. What it means is that we donāt have them, or their close contacts, or their secondary close contacts in isolation - and these figures are already 4-5 days behind.
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It is very soothing to see Steve Smith rock back and punch a rising ball through the cover region.
Will the rules relax in places where there only a few cases?
Reporter: People of your Federal Liberal MP colleagues, Dave Sharma, for instance, have said why those areas in the Sydney area that have only a few cases are still in lock down. Is there any prospect that they will come out of lock down before August 26?
Berejiklian: That will depend on the advice. We are looking at areas like the Central Coast and Shellharbour and Wollongong and other places, but it is important to note that when you have so many cases lurking in the community, but also when you have critical workers going into communities, you have to accept the risk is everywhere. That is why all of us have to be vigilant, no matter where we live. We canāt cut corners no matter where we live. We have to abide by the health orders that we are under because that risk is there and, as Dr Chant has said repeatedly, it only takes one or two people doing the wrong thing to have this spread enormously. Whilst your community may not have any cases today, you could very well do tomorrow. Whilst I appreciate people want to be let off if there are no cases in their community, that is the situation today, it may not be the situation tomorrow. We need to stay vigilant and we need to make sure everybody is following the health orders, everybody is subject in Greater Sydney, Blue Mountains, Central Coast, Shellharbour and Wollongong to the health orders but, as the weeks go by, if we get health advice that says some area, particularly those on the edge of greater metropolitan Sydney are virus-free and the risk is low, we can take those measures. The central west ā Orange is a good example where we were able to have a short period and release that community. If there are other examples where the health advice suggests we can, we will. But everyone accepts that, at this stage, given the case numbers are increasing, Greater Metropolitan Sydney strictly is in a very, very serious situation with the Delta strain. The health advice would not be recommending to me any time soon that those areas of Greater Metropolitan Sydney should be taken out of those restrictions.
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āItās not 3 roentgen, itās 15000ā
āPlease escort Gladys Berejiklian to the local party headquarters, thank you for your serviceā
āScotty was in charge, SCOTTY WAS IN CHARGEā
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Journo - if vax the way out, what are you doing about the vax hesitant - working with community leaders ( ethnics the problem?ā
Gladys repeats again, because it is important - no one with double dose vax in ICU etcetera etcetera.
Donāt listen to me, listen to Kerry she says
Anyone who is asking you to pay for vax is doing the wrong thing
- she does not say she will hunt them down
Descends to total bs - the harshest measures ever in Oz.
There is absolutely no joy of any description that is possible to be found or should be found in the NSW situation by any Australian.
The catastrophe there affects us all. Itās pitiful and bleak.
I have no idea how we have gotten ourselves here and it is a national disgrace that it has if you ask me. Lessons should have been learned from Victoria. Itās a failure of our country to let petty squabbling politics get in the way of that.
State leaders should be hanging their heads in shame.
Canāt wait for these fkwits to get nuked so we can start on a clean slate. Post covid all their political careers are absolutely cooked.
They had an opportunity to stand up and be united and work together to address a nation wide pandemic and just succeeded in isolating us all from one and other, causing divides and damaging the quality of life for us all.
Fk em all. All grubs.
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One for Dubbo from Brad - our school kids have been through awful times, deserve vax priority in the declining years of their school lives
Bye for now,
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I would have thought a bit differently to that.
It is likely they have (or will) interviewed the case and have close contacts. Albeit, they may be a bit behind the case load.
I trust them to be doing that at the very least.
It should be that they cannot find the direct infection link between them and the current clusters, cases and the under investigation cases arenāt easily tied to exposure sites.
I wish this was true.
Deep down we know it wonāt happen.
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Ffs Gladimir! What a bloody mess.
I really feel for our NSW friends. You now have a very, very long road in front of you. Dig deep and do the best you can to keep yourselves safe.
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Hazzard was pretty terrible with messaging.
Started getting into āpeople unvaccinatedā are wasting tax payer money by being treated in hospital.
Whilst I agree this is the case with anti-vaxxers, I donāt think you can extrapolate that across people who donāt have access to the vaccine or wish to wait for Pfizer after speaking with a GP.
Maybe i misinterpreted what he was trying to say.
He really shouldnāt be anywhere near a press briefing. Heās just a very rude person in general and doesnāt have the right temperament to be speaking publicly in such a high pressure situation.
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Heās a classic text book condescending superior liberal
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Itās the Sydney cultural divide - people like Gladys and Brad strong on civic duty, guilt built in to their moral upbringing
- sin not so much
Please pretty please Gladys, when you say you have saved thousands, how many have you not saved ?