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Videodrome
Senior Member
Meanwhile in California....
AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
afransen
Senior Member
A lot of regional public health teams forcing workplaces to get 100% tested due to declared outbreaks. My employer has been dealing with several in the past few weeks (been keeping us busy).
afransen
Senior Member
Well, anything that gets COVID-19 under control and a return to normal is an excellent use of funds. I would wait until vaccination plateaus and use this to pry the hesitant off the couch and get it done.What a terrible use of public funds.
AoD
W. K. Lis
Superstar
In the US, those "prizes" are taxable. Same as on the game shows, the "winners" have to pay income tax on the "prizes".What a terrible use of public funds.
AoD
Videodrome
Senior Member
A kid in Ohio just got a full ride college scholarship because he was vaccinated. Maryland is also paying people to get the jab. It makes sense given the amount of vaccine hesitancy.
Bayer
Senior Member
All I care about now that my husband is fully vaccinated is that I can send him to the grocery store and ask pick up the mail after doing those things myself for 14 months.
Huh. All I got was a bandaid
lenaitch
Senior Member
Huh. All I got was a bandaid
At least when I donate blood I get snacks.
Richard White
Senior Member
When this is all over I'll buy everyone here a drink.
innsertnamehere
Superstar
Anecdotally I got moderna at a walk-in clinic and there was someone standing outside yelling about it being Moderna to make sure nobody waited in line to turn around when they got to the sign in booth. I didn't see anyone turn around when I was there but they must have been doing it for a reason.
tayser
Active Member
Hi from lockdown 4.0 currently scheduled to only last 7 days (here's hoping) after we've had 30 cases of the Indian VoC spread in Melbourne. The guy who brought it here had completed hotel quarantine in Adelaide and tested negative over each time he was tested in 14 days and when he got to Melbourne he tested positive a few days later.
Report from SA authorities shows the guy getting it on the day he left quarantine from another positive case who was in a hotel room opposite this guys (yes, aerosol transmission is f*cked).
Anyhow, lockdown was announced yesterday for all of Victoria (as some cases had travelled out of the metro area) at 26 cases, 4 new today - all of them are epidemiologically linked but there have community jumps in the chains - two distinct clusters in the north and south of the city but yeah now a confirmed case from a nightclub a positive case was at.
Biggest benefit to the lockdown has been it's been the wakeup call we've needed for vaccines. AZ has been available to anyone over 50 for a while now but many appeared to be treating it like a restaurant buffet "waiting" for pfizer (which is only available to people in high-risk occupations or environments - like Aged Car or people under 50).
Mass vax centres that have had few people going through them prior to this week are now chockas. And 40-49 year olds can now get pfizer. I'm 39 and a half, I can't believe I'm saying this but I wish I was 40
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Report from SA authorities shows the guy getting it on the day he left quarantine from another positive case who was in a hotel room opposite this guys (yes, aerosol transmission is f*cked).
Anyhow, lockdown was announced yesterday for all of Victoria (as some cases had travelled out of the metro area) at 26 cases, 4 new today - all of them are epidemiologically linked but there have community jumps in the chains - two distinct clusters in the north and south of the city but yeah now a confirmed case from a nightclub a positive case was at.
Biggest benefit to the lockdown has been it's been the wakeup call we've needed for vaccines. AZ has been available to anyone over 50 for a while now but many appeared to be treating it like a restaurant buffet "waiting" for pfizer (which is only available to people in high-risk occupations or environments - like Aged Car or people under 50).
Mass vax centres that have had few people going through them prior to this week are now chockas. And 40-49 year olds can now get pfizer. I'm 39 and a half, I can't believe I'm saying this but I wish I was 40
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AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
Hi from lockdown 4.0 currently scheduled to only last 7 days (here's hoping) after we've had 30 cases of the Indian VoC spread in Melbourne. The guy who brought it here had completed hotel quarantine in Adelaide and tested negative over each time he was tested in 14 days and when he got to Melbourne he tested positive a few days later.
Report from SA authorities shows the guy getting it on the day he left quarantine from another positive case who was in a hotel room opposite this guys (yes, aerosol transmission is f*cked).
Anyhow, lockdown was announced yesterday for all of Victoria (as some cases had travelled out of the metro area) at 26 cases, 4 new today - all of them are epidemiologically linked but there have community jumps in the chains - two distinct clusters in the north and south of the city but yeah now a confirmed case from a nightclub a positive case was at.
Biggest benefit to the lockdown has been it's been the wakeup call we've needed for vaccines. AZ has been available to anyone over 50 for a while now but many appeared to be treating it like a restaurant buffet "waiting" for pfizer (which is only available to people in high-risk occupations or environments - like Aged Car or people under 50).
Mass vax centres that have had few people going through them prior to this week are now chockas. And 40-49 year olds can now get pfizer. I'm 39 and a half, I can't believe I'm saying this but I wish I was 40
Hotels are always dicey - recall Metropole in Hong Kong during SARS. It was literally where the mother of superspreader seeding infections around the world happened. We also had outbreaks at our quarantine hotels here as well during the current round as well. It's also becoming pretty undeniable that the thing is airborne - ventilation matters!
Good luck with the shot!
AoD
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APTA-2048
Senior Member
We’re catching up to the US in another way. I wonder if we could see the Canada-US border open sooner rather than later.
