78k repatriated ( i.e. with government assistance) or 78k Australian passport holders?
With those numbers and according to mcdav 6k were added from yesterday. That means 8k tests processed yesterday. Pretty poor.
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How can you be categoric about describing testing numbers as poor when you couldnât possibly really know how many people were experiencing cold and flu symptoms at any given point. It is in the middle of summer now after all.
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wow big news that
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Paul Kidd saying that at this stage AHPPC not recommending mandatory vax for Aged Care workers or residents. If the government holds all the stocks, does this mean stocks can be purchased by the private sector? Or is it that Pfizer and AZ separately have supplies available for private purchase?
Fark. I know in the scheme of things the Olympics is not all that important but I feel for Tokyo as a city.
Living there up until a couple of years ago, âTokyo 2020â was such a source of pride and would have been a huge drawcard for the city. They would do such an extraordinary job of the Olympics. Giving them 2032 seems a no brainer.
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Why 2032 and not 2024, canât they just push everyone back?
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Theyâd definitely down on what authorities would want. But not that far off what weâd be getting in the community either if you removed surveillance, hotel quarantine, tennis and last remaining travellers from Queensland that are/were required to test upon arrival.
PM talking down the Feds holding the hose on remote quarantine. .NSW has taken 3 times as many into HQ as Qld - it has been so successful - and Annastacia has not put up a formal proposal.
Nothing much said about seasonal workers and Dan saying Feds should share the hose on that.
Presser cut after he gets questioned on Australia Day and convicts - he says something like people drawing false equivalence from his factual comments
Fair tweet this one:
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Given COVID it is now all a bit obscure, but in past years there were means of roughly estimating this (such as Flutracking, which crowdsourced prevalence of influenza like illness symptoms across Australia).
That farks up more than you think.
The government would have spent up big on the stadium upgrades, etc.
And yes, the Olympics do put money towards it.
By the time 2032 comes around, theyâll need to spend more money on stadiums that have already been upgraded.
Financially, thatâll be a terrible situation to try and manoeuvre around.
Itâs the right decision though for where they are.
NSW publishes testing by postcode (last 14 days and total)
Anyone familiar with postcodes in Berala cluster could compare testing rates there. Cumberland shire is the issue
Nope.
Imagine Iâve setup up all this infrastructure expecting an event to occur and I have to wait another 4 years before using it for the purpose it needs.
By then, standards will change and theyâll need to be upgraded.
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Some of the built stadium get transformed into another use post the Olympics (and usually never return back to a sporting event). For memory London did that with some of their buildings. It is built into the original design and financially they need that revenue from the transformed building. Deferring it screws up the balance sheet.
Itâs not quite as simple as pushing everyone back.
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Who is he talking about?
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Thatâs interesting actually Chris.
But yeah like you referenced Iâd imagine the health measures in place as well as an increased community vigilance (from most people anyhow) has seen influenza itself almost disappear or be at very low levels, let alone covid being almost non-existent in the community at present (touch wood) and that would distort such estimations.
And like I said, middle of summer now too. People canât just be expected to get tested for the heck of it. You can only have as many tests as there are people feeling like theyâve got symptoms.
Obviously thereâs always going to be a % of people who have symptoms but donât get tested but itâs impossible to know from one day to the next if that category of people is higher than the previous day surely.
There was some talk that her regional counterparts have said no and have plenty of concerns. What are her powers to make it happen or can the LGAâs block it?
Presumably Margaret Court
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Margaret Court
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