Search results

This may be true but there’s the small matter of an election to get through. An election that has to be won in WA and QLD. I can’t believe there won’t be some restrictions on travel, we to appease exactly the mentality you describe. Also never underestimate the capability of this mob to be...

it’s Dune at the IMAX I’m wanting to see.

Airlines still not being given enough (any?) information. Hopefully this changes after national cabinet. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/sep/29/cool-your-jets-international-tourism-for-australians-by-christmas-unlikely-airlines-say

If you believe that then it looks like the feds, once again, are going to absolve themselves of all responsibility and cast it down on the states to sort out, which would be true to form. This, of course, may just be a negotiating position, vain hope or just bollocks. I’ll wait till it gets...

I’m not even sure that ‘EVER’ even referred to QR codes. However we should learn something from this and we absolutely shouldn’t go back to exactly how we were before. Better, ventilation, staying (working or otherwise) home when you are sick, Westin g masks if you do have to interact with...

Or it just shows a lack of significant outbreaks. We’ve seen hesitancy drop every time there is an outbreak. All we need to do is sneak in a few house hunters, reality show crews and moving trucks and that hesitancy will just melt away.

Yes, it’s working it’s way round my family and friendship group. Generally making them miserable for a few days but no worse than a bad cold. Much better than those who got it last year pre-vax and some took months to recover fully. Given we’re all going to get it, I’d much rather get it...

At least 50% of them stop to vote several thousand times on their way home from the troll farm to their family in their Moscow apartment.

Can we fire Queensland from the federation? Or possibly tow the rest of the continent a few hundred km away without leaving a forwarding address?

Still not open to visitors but moving to home quarantine for the fully vaxxed (Pfizer, Moderna or Astra Zeneca) is a good sign for Japan. I'm getting a good feeling about ski season. https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14446222

We had fire, flooding, plague, mice and now an earthquake, it’s locusts next, right?

100% agree that this is a vocal minority of selfish wankers. Only yesterday I was talking with our deployment manager about verifying compliance across all our sites (not just VIC). No one is working for us without boots, hard hat hi-viz, mask or vax.

Giving the construction industry the day off so they could attend protest seems to be working out well.

Lateral flow tests have indeed been one of the great successes of the the pandemic response in the UK; so naturally free provisions of them on the NHS on the chopping block for next year. of course that can be reversed along with the recent decision to abandon the use of vaccine passports...

With travel, hopefully opening up soon, it’s time for a for a little tea-leaf reading about what the COVID situation is likely to be in the northern hemisphere as it passes into winter. I probably care most about the UK, followed by Japan. A friend sent me this which lays out 3 scenarios for...

Well worth reading this ‘“In the roadmap to freedom, I hear nothing about people like me, other than as a qualifying postscript to the Covid deaths: ‘But they had an underlying health condition’,” says Racquel Sherry.’...

It just astounds me how selfish people are, especially about the minor inconvenience of having to show a green tick on their phone. There are still plenty of people for whom even a breakthrough infection post vaccination would be bad news. I might be one of them, history of pneumonia...

<off topic discussion removed> Anyway back on topic. Freedom is not absolute, freedom is a negotiation within society and should benefit the most people. Vaccination is imperfect (for some more than others), not everyone can be vaccinated (children, some medical conditions); so for the greatest...

To be honest i am mostly offended by your use of the term ‘Apartheid’, this is not discriminating and persecuting people based on their race or ethnicity. This is preventing people from buying a pint because they are too selfish to take a safe, cheap and effective step to protect themselves and...

Don't be so hyperbolic, this is a public health measure akin to forcing smokers into the cage of shame when they want to engage in practices that are harmful to those around them. Unvaxxed people will still be able to engage in activities that don't put everyone else at risk - employees...