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I'm in a similar position so interested to see the brains trust's advice here. In my case I'd like all status benefits to come from the QR platinum, but to credit the flights to Velocity where possible. Never had Oneworld status before so will be a novelty, tempted to fly via Syd to visit the...

For those with QR status, how easy is it to credit QR flights to Velocity while making use of the QR status benefits? And would it be possible to credit some legs to Velocity and some to QR or even QFF?

Not sure, but there's a double Avios promotion: https://www.qatarairways.com/en/Privilege-Club/Virgin-Australia-Offer.html

I ran into the booking error on the passenger page, turned out the problem lay in using an email address with a dot in it: using one without (and for gmail users, that means just deleting it), it worked.

This plot is a good summary:

A small survey on the Gold Coast would suggest this is indeed the case: COVID ‘more widespread than thought’ as Qld records 9 more deaths "The study, an Australian first, saw 117 homes randomly tested on January 22. Of those, 20 people returned positive PCR tests, but only four were displaying...

Then you'll be pleased to know that the QLD govt is saying this daily, people are getting vaccinated (blah blah slow start but they'll get there), borders will open.

Niche cases aside. (Sorry for your difficulties, public health measures are always coarse.)

It is interesting to speculate on whether the various health and economic outcomes you mentioned will be better in Vic and NSW vs all the other states. Perhaps it is difficult for many Vic and NSW (or Sydney) residents to understand just how normal life has been outside those states for the vast...

With the appropriate carrots and sticks I suspect the same end result can be reached. Large outbreaks are a large and effective stick but there would be many other possibilities that are cheaper and less disruptive. So no, I don't buy that anyone 'needs' an outbreak to get high vaccination rates.

Can't be large numbers of cases 'for a long time' or some would have inevitably ended up needing hospitalization. The latter haven't appeared, so the former didn't happen (yet).

If the people don't comply, it's not a lockdown.

https://www.nsw.gov.au/sites/default/files/2021-09/Intensive_Care_Capacity.pdf

Less armchair blah blah and more models please.

A critique of the Doherty report: Australian public fed nonsense as country heads to “irreversible” decision.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.18.21262252v1 Modelling on the topic of interactions between vaccine rollout and the potential for weaker restrictions in NSW. Their take-home message is:

So irrelevant nonsense then.

The Doherty modelling informed the current plan. Even Treasury supports lockdowns over whatever alternatives they considered. Is there any credible publicly available modelling supporting any alternatives for this interim period until vaccination levels are "high enough"? It's hard to take...

Hospital in the home was mentioned briefly in the press conference (at about the 25 min mark):

Really shows that it's the regions where the health officials are going to have to work the hardest, right around the country. EDIT: except maybe in Victoria where the regions are ahead of Melbourne.