Australia's Deadliest Day

13 deaths? Adorable!

Light a fire. That'll focus them.

Winter pandemic resurgence; imagine what the U.S. has coming in October - April ....

Clearly cooking their numbers. That death toll is much higher.

I hope this doesn’t affect koalas, wallabies or other cute animals.

[quote]or other cute animals.

I hope we qualify as cute

Don’t worry, we’re literally losing a person a minute over here.

R3 It is not a winter resurgence. Basically Australia had eliminated the virus until out sourced security guards who were supposed to be watching over returned travellers in hotels in Melbourne stared mixing with the guests, caught COVID and then spread it to other security guards and their families. It took off from there.

Basically the Victorian state Government botched it up by hiring a security firm to administer this until New South Wales which had the local police and army (which they requested from the Federal Government) to watch over the returnees in 14 forced quarantine.

All the cases in Sydney over the last three weeks of community transmission all relate to the Melbourne outbreak - the borders between Victoria and the rest of the country are closed.

New South Wales so far has a handle on the cases emerging through contact tracing and quarantine but it could easily spiral out of control.

Queensland is know at risk thanks to these three slags. There are photos of two of them and they look like drag queens:

It is without a doubt that the state of Victoria will go to level 4 lockdown within the next fews days. New South Wales will go to level 3 lockdown depending if the number of new infections rise (so far they have been stable average about 10 community transmissions per day).

Last week the Australian Federal Government announced its plan to go for eliminate though using the term 'zero community transmission'. The deadline for that is 31 December. It can be done but it will be hard - note that COVID has somehow found its way back in into Vietnam.

In the Northern Territory they are Covid free

[quote]recorded more than 720 new infections and 13 deaths in the past 24 hours

Fucking armatures.

And they were so careful. I’m sorry to hear that.

Honestly, I don’t think there will be anywhere that remains untouched. Everyone’s going to have their turn, so no one should be smug.

[quote]Honestly, I don’t think there will be anywhere that remains untouched.

Wrong

Even Iceland had a flare-up but it is so mild, guys.

In VA. we have 550 deaths for 7,500,000 in population ages 0 through 69 years old?????

It's winter in Australia.

[quote] Everyone’s going to have their turn, so no one should be smug.

Oh fuck right the fuck off.

[quote] In VA. we have 550 deaths for 7,500,000 in population ages 0 through 69 years old?????

Are you asking us?

I honestly don't think that makes any difference, R15. What R8 said is right: if the Victorian government had used the police and the army to police returning traveller quarantine, there almost certainly would not have been a second flare-up. Because nobody realised there was a problem for some time, by the time they started addressing it seriously it had already spread to places like aged care homes which are tinderboxes for the virus.

Until those duplicitous, idiot girls landed in Queensland, NSW and Victoria were the only parts of Australia with any new cases for a long time (?since May), so it's quite untrue to say Australia is out of control. Even with the influx of infections from Victoria, NSW is only in double-digit new cases per day: fingers crossed it stays that way.

In Victoria and NSW not that much has reopened. Certainly there are cafes and restaurants, who are meant to obey strict rules (and mostly don't, so it's not surprising a lot of the clusters are occurring round them). Kids are back at school, but despite winter there has been little or no transmission inside schools. At least 90% of office workers are still on Zoom, and public transport is still pretty sparsely populated, so the main sources of flu transmission still aren't available.

Big congrats to Taiwan, though. Similar population to Australia, and it's had 465 cases and 7 deaths altogether. They shut the borders very early, and before anyone had heard of Covid 19 they had a plan in place that included quarantining, contact tracing and a healthy supply of PPE. (Their response to having deaths from SARS.)

This same thing happened in Israel, Netanyahu was continually boasting about how they had the virus under control until it came right back at them.

With Victoria surging ahead with 410 new cases, and NSW on a knife-edge - COVID free Northern Territory has raised the possibility of keeping its borders closed to some states for the next 18 months.

With one recent new case of community transmission in Tasmania, and two in South Australia, Queensland looks like may have dodged a bullet in Brisbane with no new community transmissions, and it's also seeking to strengthen its border until Christmas.

Western Australia which has had no community transmission since mid-April has stated that its borders may stay closed "for months, and months, and months".

Meanwhile, that absolute balloon of a billionaire Clive Palmer is taking the WA government to court to force them to open up its borders so as not to jeopardise his $30m stake in mining royalties.

The legal action was launched before the current outbreak in the eastern states, and PM Scott Morrison who initially backed Palmer is now backing the state borders staying closed indefinitely.

At least you can't just blame Americans for this.

Clive Palmer modeled his own campaign to become the Prime Minister of Australia a few years ago on Donald Trump. Thank God he never got in. He is pushing Hydroxychloroquine as a cure and suing the WA state government for 30 billion to open up the borders.

Fuck that fat cunt Clive Palmer.

[quote] suing the WA state government for 30 billion to open up the borders.

Please forgive my ignorance about Australia, but what is the WA state government?

WA Western Australia

SA South Australia

NT Northern Territory

QLD Queensland

ACT Australian Capital Territory

VIC Victoria

NSW New South Wales

13 deaths how quaint

R24 The heads of Australian state governments, the "Premiers" are the executive leaders of the six states and two self-governing territories of Australia. They perform the same function at the state and territory level as the Prime Minister of Australia performs at the national level.

It was 19 deaths today 12.08.2020.

Then no one should go outside until we find the cure for death.

[quote]Please forgive my ignorance about Australia, but what is the WA state government?

It goes back to colonial times, and the Westminster system. Each state has an elected legislature headed by a Premier. Following a General Election, the State Governor appoints as Premier the Member of the lower house of the State legislature who can command a simple majority of votes on the floor of the house. The Governor is the head of Government, but in practice acts only on the advice of the Premier.

The Governors are the Queens' representaives and the nominal chief executives of the states, performing the same constitutional and ceremonial functions at the state level as does the Governor-General of Australia. The state governors are not subject to the constitutional authority of the governor-general, but are directly responsible to the monarch.

How one Hollywood actress found herself trapped behind Australia's hard border lockdown - and decided to stay.

Fingers crossed that you drop dead on the spot R29.

R20 Nobody cares if NT keep their borders shut forever. Frankly the are a financial drain on NSW & Victoria the two economic powerhouses of Australia. The NT is not economically viable. Same with Tasmania & South Australia.

Whilst I agree with borders being shut to Victoria, NSW & QLD until such times at the virus has been eliminated I don't understand why WA, SA, NT & Tasmania don't open up to each other.

Ozzies, Muricans, Brits can never get rid of this virus - something in their filthy modus vivendi that keep them getting infected again and again. The Chinese are filthy too, but their brutal communist regime can force them to be cleaner.

Thanks to all who explained that to me.

What else can be expected from the state that gave us Eddie McGuire

372 new Victorian cases tested positive this Friday, plus another 278 on Thursday, bringing the state total to 15,863.

Now I'm back in New Zealand too! Teehee....