COVID-19 Round 18 - Dan Dictates you must get back to doing the things you love

Two friends of mine have just got positive results from Boxing Day at the cricket. They were tested on 31st, results just now.

Pretend you’re at a drive-in movie watching “Contagion”.

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watching “Falling Down” would not be good

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No responsibility for the info but…

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Yes! I love an online petition. They’re as useful as using cooked spaghetti for toilet paper.

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That is a suspiciously specific analogy.

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Uncooked spaghetti isn’t great either

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Another NSW variant on how to report deaths…

Sadly, NSW Health is reporting the deaths of four people with COVID-19, two men and two women. Two people were aged in their 70s, one in their 80s, and one in their 90s.
Three people had received two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine, and one person had received three doses.
This includes a woman in her 90s from western Sydney who died at Bolton Clarke Cabrini Aged Care Facility in Westmead. It is the first death linked to an outbreak at this facility.
NSW Health expresses its sincere condolences to their loved ones.

Apparently…
These are still all Delta and we’re bound to have less deaths when Omicron finally kicks in.
They’ve now had at least 1 death every day for the past 8 days running. That hasn’t happened since November 12.
But this is Delta. Definitely Delta.

I was thinking oh great! Another one already?

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ACL has closed 28 of its testing sites in NSW indefinitely.
That’s going to put a massive dent in their testing numbers going forward

I was making dinner.

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lasagne sheets go well in a pinch

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Never accept a dinner invite from the klawdys

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With over 1200 in hospital in NSW, it’s time for a panic investment.

Over 100 cases in Dubbo yesterday, 9 in hospital

NSW is cooked.

No end in sight.

C’mon Humble, buck up - at least give us your patented sign off !

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There was a lot of trial and error during the great toilet paper shortage of 2020.

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We’re all vaccinated. Let it rip. :tired_face:

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Your bolognese is so… brown.

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I wouldn’t say we’d have less overall deaths from Omicron, because case numbers are so high, but less deaths per case from Omicron. And those who are attributing all current deaths to Omicron are jumping the gun, because we still have background deaths from Delta, which are at a greater rate per case.

All of this is to say, I think many people were looking at low Omicron numbers and attributing Delta deaths to those numbers when we hadn’t had enough time to see those yet.

I think from the UK’s latest reports, it’s likely Omicron deaths start off low while cases are in the younger cohort, then climb as they make their way into the older population.

The best news is that vaccines seem to be reducing deaths by a lot, even if they’re not stopping the spread. Small mercies perhaps, but you have to look for the positives when you’re facing a mountain of cases on the way.

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fixed

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