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I’m sure further research will be done to see what role the different demographics and dosage intervals might have played here, however to me this looks like tantalising evidence that the extended interval between doses may lead to a marked imporovement in vaccine performance. |
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The notion that the majority of the public, supports “masks” in public spaces is a pile of doggies doo doo .
Three times in last week been to Tesco’s and there was more people not wearing masks, than there was wearing them. |
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Went to Costco Friday (I have executive membership so get in with trade early).
Maybe 70% staff on floor had masks. During the trade/executive period say 80% customers had masks. When opened to general members this dropped to 60% or less and observed some customers grouping. In Waitrose most customers had masks (probably over 90%). I will wear a mask in these situations because I'm asked nicely to and because it's helpful. At church we have areas for those more nervous and wanting to keep more separate and other areas for those wanting to be more free, meet up, etc. We sing and for those that want to hug that's allowed to. Nice to be together after 16 months but from Friday it's isolation for us as wife is going into have op on Monday and the rules say isolation after Covid test. |
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Lockdowns only work if a solution is available but it takes time to implement (eg vaccine distribution). Australia appears to be in no hurry to vaccinate its population. |
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There are some, even today, who think lockdowns will actually get rid of the virus. They don’t. My position on this changed when, to everyone’s astonishment, the scientists actually came up with a vaccine, and that changed everything. So I went along with the lockdown idea for a while, until the immunisation programme was well under way. However, I was of the strong opinion that all measures needed to be relaxed by 1 April, given that all the vulnerable groups had been vaccinated by then and further restrictions would continue to cripple the economy. Even now, people are unwilling to cast aside their masks and want nightclubs shut down again despite falling numbers and the school summer holidays getting underway. Some are still arguing for another lockdown and think there will be a winter Covid crisis despite all common sense dictating that the opposite will happen. ---------- Post added at 13:28 ---------- Previous post was at 13:27 ---------- Quote:
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Agree that Australia needs to vaccinate its population. |
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It's called chains of transmission. |
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OB is absolutely right in his explanation of the early days.
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the belief that the same amount of people would be infected & that we would experience the same levels of hospitalizations & deaths regardless of iwe locked down or not, is at best dumb ignorance and at worst a deliberate attempt to spread misinformation. |
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There was no point, at the outset of the first lockdown, when it was reasonable to assume a decade-long wait for a vaccine, quite regardless of how long any other vaccine in history has taken to design. If you want to know how the Oxford-AsraZeneca vaccine was made and just how it was able to be formulated so quickly, read here: https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n86 Or here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55041371 |
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