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 Return to top of page · Post #: 76 · Written at 11:42:41 AM on 25 October 2021.
Tallar Carl's avatar
 Location: Latham, ACT
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Wow I noticed this weekend since lockdown has been eased that this site, facebook and ebay have gone very quite.
I hope this is a sign of things to come and we start being able to get back to some sort of normal.


 
 Return to top of page · Post #: 77 · Written at 3:54:11 PM on 25 October 2021.
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Posting here has always been cyclical. Activity didn't increase that much when the virus hit so it's probably down to people just not having that much to say at the moment.

Traffic on the roads has increased though and quite a lot. On River Road at Lane Cove, a well known rat run in the area, traffic ran into the new obstacle course being constructed at the intersection of River Road, Northwood Road and Longueville Road. Either Lane Cove Council wants to discourage the amount of traffic that has been using this road for about thirty years now or they are just doing what councils usually spend a lot of money on - making navigating Sydney's narrow colonial-era roads even harder than it needs to be.


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A valve a day keeps the transistor away...

 
 Return to top of page · Post #: 78 · Written at 10:08:24 PM on 25 October 2021.
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Yes Brad, and have you noticed how dumb the traffic light programming has become?


 
 Return to top of page · Post #: 79 · Written at 11:37:28 PM on 25 October 2021.
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On the subject of traffic light programming, I am hoping that in 2022 they get rid of the covered call buttons for the walk signals, brought in so people don't have to touch the buttons to get a green light. I don't see much point, now that the vaccination rates are so high, that we need to waste fuel waiting at red lights because crossings are green with no people using them.


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A valve a day keeps the transistor away...

 
 Return to top of page · Post #: 80 · Written at 8:02:27 AM on 26 October 2021.
Tallar Carl's avatar
 Location: Latham, ACT
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The pedestrian lights here in the ACT are programed to work via the switches between 7pm and 7am but change to a timer during the day.
One thing I have always been interested in is human nature. As a taxi driver in the ACT I noticed that if the roads were very busy on a friday night then we knew we were going to have a very quite weekend as everyone was heading to the coast or at least out of Canberra.
The lockdown has had a tremendous effect on my ebay sales ( embarrassingly big sales ) and I have noticed whenever lockdown is eased so does my sales. Believe me I'm happy to have quite times. It really is about time things started to get back to "NORMAL ".


 
 Return to top of page · Post #: 81 · Written at 9:55:53 AM on 8 November 2021.
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 Location: Toongabbie, NSW
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Now is the time to get the "booster" covid shot.
I saw my GP last week to get my "brittle bone" shot in the gut and Tetnus booster in the arm and while she was at it popped in a Phiser booster shot in the other arm.
So now I am "triple jabbed".

Still hear muppets whining about blood clots and fear of needles.
People should harden up.
Wait until they have a hospital visit that includes canulas up the arms and tubes up the you-know-what to save their life!


No jab, no job should be the rule.
I am tired of whining nellies crapping on about "rights".
Antivaxers seem to change their minds after a trip through the pox ward at Westmead.

Get your booster jab and tick off the goverment web site so we can all get on with life.

Fred.


 
 Return to top of page · Post #: 82 · Written at 10:07:40 AM on 8 November 2021.
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I am double jabbed astra zenica. Do I need astra zenica booster or will Pfizer do?


 
 Return to top of page · Post #: 83 · Written at 3:52:41 PM on 8 November 2021.
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Do I need astra zenica booster or will Pfizer do?

Best ask your doctor. Here we diagnose electronics.


 
 Return to top of page · Post #: 84 · Written at 4:13:21 PM on 8 November 2021.
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 GTC
 Location: Sydney, NSW
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"One of the saddest things I've seen over the last few weeks is people wanting the vaccination just before we put them on a life support machine," she said.

"That is the absolute truth. I've seen it myself. They're begging for the vaccination.

"They're very young. And once we get to that, we're about to put them on life support, it is really too late."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-03/covid-patients-begging-for-vaccines-victorian-nurse-says/100510672

Have read similar stories from America -- where just before they draw their terminal breath they tell the medical staff that it can't be happening because COVID is a hoax.


 
 Return to top of page · Post #: 85 · Written at 5:54:22 PM on 8 November 2021.
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I can't get a third jab until early January - unless they change the rules which they might do if there is another big increase in infection rate.

My sister told an an antivax acquaintance of hers that there were worse things in the cup o soup that he was preparing than there is in a Covid vax.

Crowded civilisation is not a natural state of life for mankind, whether you believe in evolution or the Garden of Eden. So unnatural means are needed for civilisation to continue. Modern technology is one need, vaccines like that for Covid another.


 
 Return to top of page · Post #: 86 · Written at 12:53:52 AM on 9 November 2021.
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I have to wait until April for my booster jab. At least it's available.

After all my criticisms of the authorities over the handling of this disease, it looks like it's turned out for the best that could be expected in the end. One thing's for sure - the health departments know to make an immediate response when an outbreak happens in future.

Now at least in NSW we have 90% fully vaccinated, but it looks like it won't proceed much beyond that. I suppose if only the remaining 10% of the population dies by their own hand it's not so bad.


 
 Return to top of page · Post #: 87 · Written at 2:07:05 AM on 9 November 2021.
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it looks like it won't proceed much beyond that

I don't think the government ever expected to get much more. You can't hold people down and jab them -- maybe in Russia and China.

(I was going to add North Korea, but they'd probably use bullets not syringes.)


 
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