The Mysterious Coronavirus Spreading Worldwide

[hatcheckgirl]

My daughter is unvaccinated and has caught covid twice. Each time she said it wasn’t easy or nice, but being 32 and a health conscious person, her immune system did fight off the worst of it. Had she been vaccinated, perhaps her immune system would have been primed to react even quicker. But we'll never know. There is risk in being unvaccinated and each person takes that responsibility upon themselves.

 

As for the general figures, in our state, as I’ve mentioned before, we had no covid cases at all for most of the pandemic, so the only community immunity we have is solely from vaccinations. Around 95% second dose and 72% third dose and recently vaccinated. Now that covid is circulating in our community we can really see the effects on a purely vaccinated population, which is a pretty unique situation to be in.

 

All the hospital cases - including in ICU - are lower than what happened in the rest of Australia, that opened up their borders and international travel when omicron first hit. Cases are higher than modelling showed, but we are still wearing masks and have social distancing restrictions-which is going to affect how many can meet at our halls. But very low deaths and low serious illness is telling. The vaccinations have worked, in tandem with the other restrictions.

 

So as far as his experiment has been, WA has fared very well simply by following simple hygiene, distancing, border closures and high vaccinations. Our economy grew as the main industries were not impacted by covid running rampant through the workforce. And the people here have recognised that he restrictions have worked when we could see the chaos of the Eastern states. They call this a “soft landing” - lifting restrictions when safe to do so while compromising the economy as little as possible. Inevitably and regrettably some businesses did fail due to the border closure over the last 2 years, but hundred of lives were saved, which has to be the greater priority.

 

And it is in this climate of rising cases that we are heading back to meetings. In the end, living with covid does mean that we have to manage our risks (whether we are vaccinated or not). We couldn’t have stayed behind the border forever.

 

And just as an aside: can we please refrain from commenting on this post about the perils of vaccination please? I’ve posted this comment to show what’s happened here in my state, which is unique in being a highly vaccinated society which is also still under restrictions, all of which are working to slow the death rate, even with the highly transmissible Ba2 variant. No need to defend any antivax stance as it’s a given we each respect each other’s personal choices. 
 

https://news.google.com/covid19/map?hl=en-AU&mid=%2Fm%2F0847q&gl=AU&ceid=AU%3Aen

Stats from 9-22 March 2022, but you can see the comparison:

 

[Hugh O'D]

24 minutes ago, hatcheckgirl said:

There is risk in being unvaccinated and each person takes that responsibility upon themselves.

Risks in every choice. Your information is interesting and useful. Thank you Lucy. 

[AH173]

Looking forward to that 2nd Moderna booster in a few days. 

[Precision]

Don't you have to be 65 to qualify?

[AH173]

From various sites it states 50+ and 4 months from last booster. 

[Precision]

I have a unique situation, a couple of weeks ago, went in for the 3rd shot.

However the pharmacist could not administer the vaccine, regulatory procedures.

He explained that the 1st dose (J and J) administered in 2000 actually counts as 2 doses.

And last fall qualified for the Pfizer booster, however 6 months have passed, the pharmacist explained that even though i only received 2 shots,  I would have to wait until the 4th vaccine is available. And am a ways off from turning 65.

 

I’m in a bit of a pickle, I’ve had a bronchial type lung infection for the past month, caused by allergies. The physician prescribed 4 injections and 10 days of anti-inflammatories, doesn’t seem to be getting any better.

 

I going to have to explain to the Bros. tonight, as to if they would rather us stay home/ zoom during the memorial, or attend in person and help out during the Conmemoración. I’m concerned about hacking and coughing , and not making anyone feel uncomfortable.

[Lee49]

11 minutes ago, Precision said:

I’m concerned about hacking and coughing

If it were me I would zoom, which I'm leaning toward anyway as I've had issues going on non related to covid, coughing, sniffling. I wouldn't want to be near anyone with the same issues mask or no mask!

[Precision]

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/29/fda-authorizes-fourth-pfizer-covid-vaccine-dose-for-people-age-50-and-older-.html 

 

The FDA just approved 4th vaccines for those 50 and older.

[vern]

You could try sucking on garlic.....  Doing ginger tea\instant packs at trader joes.

Elder berry....  Tea tree essense on your chest.

 

Anyways... Hope you get better.

[Shawnster]

1 hour ago, vern said:

You could try sucking on garlic

Um, no? 

 

1 hour ago, vern said:

Doing ginger tea ... Elder berry....  Tea tree essense on your chest

Now that 👍

[coolbrz731]

2 hours ago, vern said:

You could try sucking on garlic.....

 

6 minutes ago, Shawnster said:

Um, no? 

[hatcheckgirl]

It's not for me either  But my Italian dad ate raw garlic, saying it killed "the worms" and cured cold/flu.  Yeah, pass.  It's old school but it does work - (try garlic tablets/capsules instead).

[Hotteok]

7 minutes ago, hatcheckgirl said:

It's not for me either  But my Italian dad ate raw garlic, saying it killed "the worms" and cured cold/flu.  Yeah, pass.  It's old school but it does work - (try garlic tablets/capsules instead).

When baked, garlics have 50 times more antioxidants,

but its sterilizing effect is said to be weakened. 

Edited March 30, 2022 by VisualizeUrParadise

[vern]

Garlic helps with social distancing......

[Dustparticle]

Garlic also keeps vampires way too.

[➕👇 ꓤꓱꓷꓠꓵ🎵Tone]

Garlic must work really good against Vampires.
I only have some Garlic now & then,
but I have never seen a Vampire. 🧄

Old (Downunder) Tone

[Ludwika]

2 minutes ago, ➕👇 ꓤꓱꓷꓠꓵ🎵Tone said:

Garlic must work really good against Vampires.
I only have some Garlic now & then,
but I have never seen a Vampire. 🧄

Old (Downunder) Tone
 

My understanding is that it requires a combination of garlic and onions to repel vampires 🤣

[➕👇 ꓤꓱꓷꓠꓵ🎵Tone]

My understanding is that it requires a combination of garlic and onions to repel vampires

Good to know!
I generally have one or two onions in the bottom shelf of the pantry, so this may have contributed to my success.
I wasn't actually sure that what you said was accurate, but Google confirms what you say.
Onions are just as effective as Garlic against vampires
I love this forum
So much deep and useful information
(Slightly OT)

Old (Downunder) Tone

[Ludwika]

5 minutes ago, ➕👇 ꓤꓱꓷꓠꓵ🎵Tone said:

 

 

Good to know!
I generally have one or two onions in the bottom shelf of the pantry, so this may have contributed to my success.
I wasn't actually sure that what you said was accurate, but Google confirms what you say.
Onions are just as effective as Garlic against vampires
I love this forum
So much deep and useful information
(Slightly OT)

Old (Downunder) Tone
 

 

My husband often says my head is full of useless information 😂😂😂

[Hugh O'D]

21 minutes ago, Ludwika said:

My husband often says my head is full of useless information 😂😂😂

Get him into a game of Trivial Pursuits...

 

My dad once played a game of Trivial Pursuits with the next door neighbors, he had to start pretending to get answers wrong so others could get a go.

[AH173]

It's a 4th dose of Moderna today! 

 

More 5G for me! 

[Hope]

On 3/29/2022 at 12:44 PM, Precision said:

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/29/fda-authorizes-fourth-pfizer-covid-vaccine-dose-for-people-age-50-and-older-.html 

 

The FDA just approved 4th vaccines for those 50 and older.

My body is ready..

[hatcheckgirl]

These are the daily covid cases as of yesterday still increasing towards the expected peak of 10,000 per day. Notice how very low hospitalisations are. This is because the population is 70% recently 3rd boosters. Very very few of us here had immunity due to having had covid. 
 

So vaccination and restrictions and mask wearing has worked for out state so far. And they’ve found that a third of the cases were children under 18, who were the last cohort to get vaccinated and are around 60-70% second vaccinated. Happily, they aren’t the ones in hospital in the main. 
 

[vern]

I been reading vaccines are doing less for covid now? Aka boosters..... 

[Luisabola]

I tested positive two days ago. 😫 Other than the sniffles I have no real symptoms, or anything to stop my day to day life yet. 
 

I’m just glad I got it now, as by the memorial hopefully I’ll be clear of it.