Interesting, quirky clip.
1126*/365 = 3/day, so today's Covid deaths represented 25 times that figure. What would Australia's car crash rate (or anywhere for that matter) be like without mandatory speed limits, seat belts, roadworthiness/WOF checks etc. etc.? *https://www....
74 deaths in a single day is equivalent to 27,000 deaths from Covid-19 a year (365 x 74). That's 9 times the influenza rate you just quoted. There is no way of knowing what the current fatality rate would have been without vaccination at all, but probably ...
74 deaths so far today in 3 Australian states. Daily case numbers, despite the imprecise accounting method, do seem to have peaked or flattened off, but hospitalisation pressure, ICU rates and deaths still increasing. Glad to know that the current outbreak...
Interesting series of Qs and As about Omicron (link below). The real life data about this variant's severity is hard to nail down because most people in countries where data is being collected have been vaccinated, if it is compared to previous variant ...
99% of the world's population got poorer during the last 2 years of the pandemic, but the world's billionaires doubled their wealth.....these statistics are shocking if not entirely unexpected. Perhaps the right wing trolls that come to frequent this site ...
The whole Djokovic saga has been far more entertaining than either the tennis or the cricket, but then I can't stand spectator sport! Hope it doesn't tip the balance of public opinion towards Scomo's scummy lot.
The undersea cable between Nuku'alofa and Suva shut down supposedly because of the power outage. Think NZ has been in touch via satellite phone with the NZ High Commission in Tongatapu. Random pics coming through from the nearest islands to the volcano on ...
Interesting account in the Northern Advocate about the May 24th, 1960 tsunami (all the way from Chile). A friend of ours was holidaying at Whangaruru harbour just up from Tutukaka when the tsunami struck and remembers the sudden retreat of water as the ...
Doubt if anyone could have done anything about their boats, tbh. It happened at night and there was a big swell from Cyclone Cody outside. Tutukaka's entrance is hairy enough at the best of times let alone try and get out toescape a tsunami wave in the ...
Not sure how the eruption and subsequent tsunami affected the low lying Ha'apai group in Tonga opposite the undersea volcano but it sure had an effect on my old 'home' of 15 years, Tutukaka marina. My wife and I lived on our boat just behind the breakwater...
Texas doesn't have the most enlightened reputation when it comes to the Covid response, but maybe it's not all bad news...scientists there have come up with a new vaccine which will be "cheaper, easier to make and patent-free". https://www.theguardian.com/...
Sailed past Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha-apai 4 years ago on passage from NZ. It had only erupted and appeared above sea the year before and wasn't on the charts. Tongatapu and the Ha-apais are low lying islands with no hills to speak of so must be pretty scary ...
The reason why RATs are needed in Australia is because there are so many people who are developing Covid symptoms, or who have been close contacts of those with Covid, that the PCR testing regime cannot cope. There aren't enough RATs available even though ...
John Crace, not Grace - mild, but sometimes biting Guardian political satirist.
Anthropogenic, not anthropomorphic! Otherwise, I agree with you.
Scomo is an idiot. Djokovic got an exemption based on his supposed Covid infection in early December. The exemption was validated by the Oz equivalent of MedSafe (ATAGI) which allows anyone who has had a Covid infection 6 months before they need to be ...
Read the link or just watch the TV news update! Not the state government, or Tennis Australia's fault. Scomo hoping to distract attention from his government's disastrous Covid response and Dept of Home Affairs ballsing it up.
Looks like Djokovic's Aussie visa will be reinstated after the federal court judge this afternoon demolished the government's case for visa cancellation. I don't like Djokovic, his anti-vaccine opinions, arrogance and whacky ideas but in this instance, he ...
The tropical low that Scud mentioned near Darwin on 24th December (9.1.1), eventually drifted south east, developed into Cyclone Seth on the Queensland coast and then passed right over our boat (where we live) as a low in Sandy Strait 200 km north of ...
I guess Trump reversed the limited easing of sanctions of the Obama administration. Cuba still remains an odd one out in Latin America, pursuing policies independent of Uncle Sam. Not exactly a perfect example of socialism, but certainly different! Its ...
Adam's point (above) about Cuba's vaccine success is valid. Cuba couldn't depend on buying vaccines from outside and couldn't afford it anyway so developed its own vaccine which seems to have been highly effective so far, or at least until Omicron arrived ...
Kiwi epidemiologist based at Melbourne University, Tony Blakely, has a keen interest in what NZ can learn about the Omicron outbreak in Australia. A summary of his advice is on this RNZ link. Perhaps most importantly is that NZ shouldn't waste any precious...
Double jabs together with other public health measures plus TTIQ protect against infection by Delta and severe Omicron effects, but Omicron's surge means an all round ramped up approach - more pro-active public health measures (distancing, masks, ...
NSW nursing staff who are Covid positive are working alongside those who are still not infected and their patients because of staff shortages. This is the result of the effects of the surge in Omicron infection that has overwhelmed NSW Health. The article ...
"It's shambolic, I tell you!" No, not the Natz in NZ this time, but Dr. Kerryn Phelps, Australia's first female AMA President, letting rip about the Australian Federal government's handling of the current Omicron outbreak (i.e. "let it rip"). Phelps is not...
My partner and I bought 2 bikes in Walmart in 2013 in Salt Lake City and cycled 2,000 km with them across the U.S. When we arrived in San Francisco, a few months later, the bikes were still quite rideable, but when we contacted charities about taking them ...
I predict that within a few days time, two impossibly glamorous scientists will discover that a huge comet, nicknamed COVID-22, will collide with the Earth in exactly six months, 12 days, 3 hours and 10 minutes (approximately), potentially obliterating the...
Think I would always listen to health experts rather than the reckons of a right wing libertarian journalist working for a Murdoch newspaper. Hildebrand's article in news.com.au is all over the place. He comes to the conclusion that a high vaccination has ...
"We are all going to die". So what? Most of us want to postpone the inevitable for as long as possible. Getting whatever vaccines are available is only like looking out for traffic when crossing a busy road: it doesn't guarantee not being knocked down by a...
https://www.healthpoint.co.nz/covid-19-vaccination/lakes/rotorua/ Plenty of places to get vaccinated in Rotorua it seems.
Cats, with their independent spirit and beguiling purrs, have captured the hearts of humans for millennia. In New Zealand, felines are no exception, boasting the highest national cat ownership rate globally [definition cat nz cat foundation]. An estimated 1.134 million pet cats grace Kiwi households, compared to 683,000 dogs ...
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