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Re: The Coronavirus Thread

Post by Hermit » Mon Nov 23, 2020 10:38 am

pErvinalia wrote:
Mon Nov 23, 2020 10:25 am
It wasn't worth the wait.
Agreed.

I'm just terminally curious.

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Post by rainbow » Mon Nov 23, 2020 11:11 am

Daily life:

Stay at home as much as possible, including during the festive season.
Avoid non-essential travel.
Work from home, unless it is absolutely necessary that you go to work.
Everyone aged 13 and over must wear a face mask in indoor public spaces and on public transport.
In secondary schools, MBO schools, and institutions for higher education (HBO and universities) everyone must wear a face mask except during lessons/lectures.
https://www.government.nl/latest/news/2 ... l-lockdown
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Re: The Coronavirus Thread

Post by rainbow » Mon Nov 23, 2020 11:13 am

pErvinalia wrote:
Mon Nov 23, 2020 10:25 am
It wasn't worth the wait.
Well excuse me!
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Re: The Coronavirus Thread

Post by Scot Dutchy » Mon Nov 23, 2020 11:44 am

rainbow wrote:
Mon Nov 23, 2020 11:11 am
Daily life:

Stay at home as much as possible, including during the festive season.
Avoid non-essential travel.
Work from home, unless it is absolutely necessary that you go to work.
Everyone aged 13 and over must wear a face mask in indoor public spaces and on public transport.
In secondary schools, MBO schools, and institutions for higher education (HBO and universities) everyone must wear a face mask except during lessons/lectures.
https://www.government.nl/latest/news/2 ... l-lockdown
Those measures get debated in de Tweedekamer tomorrow. Still not approved and probably wont be. Wilders has put in an amendment. People going to church and places of prayer cant be compelled to wear them. Just the same that numbers cant be restricted. The constitution guarantees freedom of worship. So Wilders argues what is good for church is good for everywhere. This a big stumbling block as changing the constitution is a long detailed process of more than a year but also there is no two-thirds majority for such a change.
So even if they get approval nobody can enforce them. Shop owners could make them compulsory but they can do that now but dont. It is a typical Dutch solution like the way deals with soft drugs.

These are proposals only but you forgot that bit. We are not a dictatorship and the general elections are next March.
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Re: The Coronavirus Thread

Post by rainbow » Mon Nov 23, 2020 12:07 pm

Scot Dutchy wrote:
Mon Nov 23, 2020 11:44 am
These are proposals only but you forgot that bit.
Stop making excuses for your Fascist Regime.
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Post by Tero » Mon Nov 23, 2020 4:03 pm

Oxford Astra Z vaccine has weird dose effects:

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The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine does not use mRNA technology and instead involves an inactivated common cold virus isolated from chimpanzees, altered with genes to express the spike protein of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

While the Oxford-AstraZeneca team works to better understand the data, the Monday announcement disclosed that full results from the interim analysis were submitted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal.

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Post by Brian Peacock » Mon Nov 23, 2020 5:44 pm

Oxford Astra Z vaccine can be stored a regular fridge temperatures. Good news for storage and transport.
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Re: The Coronavirus Thread

Post by JimC » Mon Nov 23, 2020 7:49 pm

...an inactivated common cold virus isolated from chimpanzees...
This, of course, is a pathway to Planet of the Apes! :shock:
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Re: The Coronavirus Thread

Post by laklak » Mon Nov 23, 2020 10:10 pm

They's tryin' to turn us into monkeys!
Yeah well that's just, like, your opinion, man.

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Re: The Coronavirus Thread

Post by Brian Peacock » Tue Nov 24, 2020 2:44 am

Oo, oo oo ahh ahh oo oo ahh ahh ahhhhhhh!
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Re: The Coronavirus Thread

Post by laklak » Tue Nov 24, 2020 3:00 am

I knewed them atheist Dummykrats would try an' deevolution us. Well jokes on them, yeah buddy, cuz my momma wern't no monkey.
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Re: The Coronavirus Thread

Post by JimC » Tue Nov 24, 2020 3:02 am

24 days straight of no new cases in Victoria, with no active cases either. The trick will be later in December, when we start to allow Australians returning from overseas to land at Melbourne. Our hotel quarantine program will need to be a fuck of a lot better than the one that started our second wave...
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Post by laklak » Tue Nov 24, 2020 3:07 am

So if you're Australian you can't come home? Is that just because no one is flying?
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Re: The Coronavirus Thread

Post by JimC » Tue Nov 24, 2020 3:19 am

laklak wrote:
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So if you're Australian you can't come home? Is that just because no one is flying?
No, there have been hundreds returning per day for months now, but all going to other State capitals while Melbourne was in the grip of our second wave. Now we've beaten that, Melbourne will soon be another destination for returning Aussies, increasing the weekly number allowed (the Federal Government set a cap so that quarantine facilities would not be overwhelmed)
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Re: The Coronavirus Thread

Post by Hermit » Tue Nov 24, 2020 4:56 am

JimC wrote:
Tue Nov 24, 2020 3:19 am
laklak wrote:
Tue Nov 24, 2020 3:07 am
So if you're Australian you can't come home? Is that just because no one is flying?
No, there have been hundreds returning per day for months now, but all going to other State capitals while Melbourne was in the grip of our second wave. Now we've beaten that, Melbourne will soon be another destination for returning Aussies, increasing the weekly number allowed (the Federal Government set a cap so that quarantine facilities would not be overwhelmed)
Shouldn't be a problem as long as private enterprise is kept well clear of quarantining the returnees. Last time it literally fucked the job up in a way no government agency could.
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