Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

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navidson said:
Remember when everybody thought Australia and New Zealand were ace?
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Can't comment much on how the kiwis are going, but Australia have made a total pigs ear of the whole vaccination thing...not all their own fault but neither are they blameless.
Then you have to factor in the 5G nano vaxx deniers
 
peteblue said:
Just been looking again at the stats for the whole of our area of 103,000 people… 9/10 adults have had 1 jab, 3/4 adults have had 2 jabs. There has been 1 death in the last 4 months. This thing is over If you get the vaccinations……
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It's not just about deaths Pete, it's not over while people are getting sick. Some seriously with long term effects.
 
No hospital figures reported today, last Saturday’s late revealed total was 70

All settings - for the 28 day cut off, 71 deaths were announced today, up 3 on yesterday and down 15 on last Saturday. The 7 day rolling average falls to 74.86

For the 60 day cut off, 81 deaths were announced today, up 7 on yesterday’s late revealed total of 74 and down 8 on last Saturday. The 7 day rolling average falls to 81.71
 
LinekersLegs said:


www.cnn.com

Disney and Walmart mandate vaccines for employees

Walmart is requiring all US-based corporate employees to be vaccinated by October 4.
www.cnn.com www.cnn.com
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I think that those companies are setting themselves up to get nailed to the wall by the ACLU, based on what I read.

Walmart is creating two classes of employees: the office workers, and the store employees. They aren't mandating that the latter class get vaccinated, even though they're the ones that desperately need to, because they know the demographics of those employees and their likely stance on vaccination.

That policy smacks of the top brass wanting to get middle management back in the office and under their thumbs again, and to protect their own health when they do it. I think it's a loser in court. Obviously, their general counsel does not agree with me.

I'm not seeing an exception for the immunocompromised, either. I'm guessing that's just shoddy reporting, but the ACLU will almost certainly win on those grounds if there isn't that exception in those policies.

If there is that exception, then Disney has a shot at winning with their policy. It has to be across the board otherwise, so they can argue that they have an obligation to their park guests and that they'll get crucified in civil suits later if they don't mandate vaccination.

It could be that Disney has decided that it's cheaper to pay off their immunocompromised employees in settlements than it is to get destroyed by those civil suits later. The mental math on that adds up.
 
spectateur said:
It's not just about deaths Pete, it's not over while people are getting sick. Some seriously with long term effects.
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Ultimately it is going to have to be over while people are getting sick because COVID isn't going anywhere.

So people are going to get sick from it. It's a horrid thing. But so are a lot of illnesses.

Once we've negated the impact for enough people - through vaccination - then that's how it's going to have to be.
 
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