It seems to me that people have been stretching or breaking the rules - like Marcc and Pete I see it every time I go out, especially social distancing and careless mask wearing. We got away with it with the old versions of Covid, but not with Delta. So the contact tracing strategy is now just about defeated, and we are now depending on getting vaccinations up.

It amazes me the sort op people refusing vaccination. A mid eighties asthmatic lady of my acquaintance reckons she doesn't need it. People in the medical industry are refusing it. I wonder if the black death returned and we had a vaccination for it, they would refuse that too.

My concern is that the shots we have been given for COVID version whatever are going to be effective for the next version.

As we know, there's a new mutation of the flu virus every season, hence a new version of the flu vaccine every season.

There was about 2% masks on at the Sydney and Melbourne protests a few weeks ago. Anthony Mundine showed up to the first Sydney one which goes to show the mentality of the people trying to attend. No-one had hand gel, everyone was either bunched together or throwing pot plants at the police, again, it shows the mentality of those attending - none of them are dux prize winners, just a bunch of hicktown deadbeats and I'd say a fair portion of these people are also perpetual dole bludgers too.

The MSM always keep quiet about the chances of the virus being spread by these idiots (the rest of us know it is happening) because they want illegal protests to go ahead so they have something to splash all over the next front page.

As for future virus protection, it has been said that future versions of booster vaccines will incorporate 'updates' to allow for newer strains, as per the flu vaccine. Fluvax usually protects against the four or five most prevalent strains, including H1N1.

Hi to all above ,
It's Rock or a hard place either way with lockdowns or without them.!!
But yes , people are breaking the rules and going out and about etc.
etc. But I can see that lockdowns are harder for some people, particularly those who need to get money in the door ,that may live day to day.
I know 2 people who have ended their life during lockdown.
One lost his job and then he could not pay the rent for the family house etc , They then lost the house and couldn't rent another and things just keep getting worse for him .
So I'm bit concerned because they say covid is not going to go away for years ,well if that's the case then people need to earn money and get on with life ,so I feel if you are fully vaccinated and wear your musk, you should be free to go where ever you want ..
Unfortunately this world runs on money and just can't live without it,many people probably owe huge amounts of money too.
It's a shame all this happened in the first place!
Pete...

Anthony Mundine showed up

Must have been a meeting of the Inverse Mensa Society.

Now be nice & realise that most in contact sports like rugby are hired for their Braun not any risk of brain damage.

That's why he went from footy into boxing. His opponents knew they were clouting a bloke with the IQ of a sack of spanners.

His bloody dangerous that guy , because he has a following of people who don't know any better.
The things he says are just off the planet....

What makes me laugh , cringe and cry at the same time is when I hear " we are easing restrictions and soon you will be able to dance and sing" omg that sounds like a line from your typical " Big Brother" futuristic doom movie. Yet the sadness is that its true.

Things were much worse 100 years ago...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YmOnJim5wU&t=748s

Well worth watching all the way through

It's also on ABC IView

https://iview.abc.net.au/video/NC2002Q033S00

The current pandemic has a familiar ring to it. Back during the Spanish Flu and the handful of bubonic plague epidemics that Sydney went through in early colonial times involved the same lockdowns, isolations, mask-wearing and in the case of the Spanish Flu, state border closures.

Material that masks are made of these days is far superior to what was available back then. A lot of people don't understand how easily the air carries germs and I explain it this way: If you walk past someone who is smoking and you can smell the smoke, if they also have coronavirus, you'll get it too. Any quack will most likely confirm it. Airborne droplets carry whatever mystery virus that causes the common cold as well as influenza too.

I haven't had a cold or the flu for more than two years - I'd be nuts not to put it down to being home-gaoled. Lockdowns have been a bit of a pain but I can't say that I am disappointed for missing out on two colds per year which is what I got before the virus came along.

I'd be nuts not to put it down to being home-gaoled

As well as keeping away from people as much as possible (especially avoiding public transport), frequent hand sanitising would be a major contributor, IMO.

QUOTE: “We’ve been ruled and regulated for months,” [NSW Police Minister] Mr Elliott told The Daily Telegraph.

“We are conscious of the anxiety these Public Health Orders have created in the community. People feel they have been governed within an inch of their life.

Yes I believe during the Spanish flu, most masks were made out of gauze. Certainly not N95 rated!

It definitely has been nice not having flu outbreaks. Numbers have dropped like a rock.
Mind you it has also prevented a lot of old people from dying because they haven't been exposed to any bugs.

I would note that that the way the current problem has been handled by all of the wrong people, with little knowledge of how to handle any form of biosecurity. As a result they, and the over use of disinfection along with the lack of sunlight exposure has actually weakened peoples immune system.

So in defiance of the wisdom of millennia, they herd people into grossly unsuitable accommodation to help spread it and further weaken immune systems, whilst ignoring rural people most of whom deal with biosecurity daily.

It actually comes as no surprise that with people living on top of one another and the privileged, that they have wasted years of our life on an exercise in futility as it's now running amok as it would have, had they done nothing.

The reality not faced with the "so called" global warming, with its proven faulty modelling, the rapid spread of disease and loss of habitat & species extinctions is wholly due to the factor of the Human Mouse Plague: The population & it growth is unsustainable.

Marc