Covid 19 -

[zilo]

Originally Posted by MercuryT

Yeah I don't know what the answer is but to think so many won't take the test is truly baffling to me.

They don't want to take the test because they know they have it.

But you do have the ocassional wacko who won't accept a blood transfusion if one of their kids is bleeding out on a hospital bed...

Originally Posted by MercuryT

I'd certainly like to think harsh(er) measures will be implemented if Melb/Vics position does not improve rapidly.

I reckon ...drain the swamp and build the wall...

Welcome to multiculturalism...you're standing in it...

take a deep breath Vics...face masks are overrated...ask any politician.

[MercuryT]

Originally Posted by zilo

They don't want to take the test because they know they have it.

But you do have the ocassional wacko who won't accept a blood transfusion if one of their kids is bleeding out on a hospital

Yeah maybe you are right.

I think fear of having it certainly impacts the decision but for mine it's unacceptable.

It's not about you (not you Zilo) as a person being responsible and accountable to the Community.

[cheap]

On an outback tour and stopped at Quilpie to get some fuel. Little old lady at the counter, took my money and told me to get out of town as they don’t want people like me bringing in Rona as they have no medical facilities ... literally get out of my shop, no you can not use the toilet now **** off out of here!

I should have started sneezing but she’d have gotten out the 12 gauge ... 😂

[GasoLane]

Originally Posted by cheap

On an outback tour and stopped at Quilpie to get some fuel. Little old lady at the counter, took my money and told me to get out of town as they don’t want people like me bringing in Rona as they have no medical facilities ... literally get out of my shop, no you can not use the toilet now **** off out of here!

I should have started sneezing but she’d have gotten out the 12 gauge ... 😂

It's been a while since I've been to Quilpie, but calling it a Town is stretching things a bit

[Bossxr8]

Originally Posted by zilo

They don't want to take the test because they know they have it.

But you do have the ocassional wacko who won't accept a blood transfusion if one of their kids is bleeding out on a hospital bed...





I reckon ...drain the swamp and build the wall...

Welcome to multiculturalism...you're standing in it...

take a deep breath Vics...face masks are overrated...ask any politician.

I think a few of them are freaked out by the thought of having a swap shoved up your nose, till it just about touches your brain. Wouldn't be pleasant, but it's only a few seconds of discomfort. Could be worse.

[FTE217]

Originally Posted by Bossxr8

I think a few of them are freaked out by the thought of having a swap shoved up your nose, till it just about touches your brain. Wouldn't be pleasant, but it's only a few seconds of discomfort. Could be worse.

On the test procedure I feel this has changed quite a bit since the early times.
My 2 boys have had tests done the last few weeks.
The first one I took to the drive through facility, I noticed all they did was move the cotton bud style aparatus around his nostril area more than going deep down the nasal passage.
He didn't react one bit, easy as and over in under a minute.
The eldest son I took him up to one of our nearby hospitals, I didn't go in with him but again, no prob at all when I asked how it felt.
So its typically the noise made of it originally, can't believe its that bad now Unless ofcourse Vic Health direct their testers go DEEEPER and TBH I don't blame them down there lol.........
Commondant Klink I mean Andrews probably needs a honing more so you know where than anything else for his actions from a while back and to date.
Cop it right up the A*&e......

[Bossxr8]

Originally Posted by FTE217

On the test procedure I feel this has changed quite a bit since the early times.
My 2 boys have had tests done the last few weeks.
The first one I took to the drive through facility, I noticed all they did was move the cotton bud style aparatus around his nostril area more than going deep down the nasal passage.
He didn't react one bit, easy as and over in under a minute.
The eldest son I took him up to one of our nearby hospitals, I didn't go in with him but again, no prob at all when I asked how it felt.
So its typically the noise made of it originally, can't believe its that bad now Unless ofcourse Vic Health direct their testers go DEEEPER and TBH I don't blame them down there lol.........
Commondant Klink I mean Andrews probably needs a honing more so you know where than anything else for his actions from a while back and to date.
Cop it right up the A*&e......

I did hear they are using saliva tests now for kids. Just spit in a little plastic jar.

[blueoval]

Originally Posted by Bossxr8

I did hear they are using saliva tests now for kids. Just spit in a little plastic jar.

Is there any reason why adults cant do that type of test too?

[DJR-351]

.....toilet paper and now.....

US buys up global supply of COVID-19 drug

https://www.9news.com.au/world/coron...19-drug_010720

The US government appears to have finally taken strong action on the coronavirus pandemic raging within its borders - but in doing so has left the rest of the world hanging.

The federal Health and Human Services Department announced the US had bought up what amounts to the entire global supply of remdesivir, the only drug so far shown to help recovering patients.

"(President Donald Trump) has struck an amazing deal to ensure Americans have access to the first authorised therapeutic for COVID-19," HHS Secretary Alex Azar said in a press release.

"To the extent possible, we want to ensure that any American patient who needs remdesivir can get it."

US hospitals will be permitted to purchase the drug in allocations from the HHS.

However, other Western countries in particular worry about the consequences.

Gilead is the only company allowed to manufacture remdesivir, and the US purchase amounted to 100 per cent of Gilead's projected production for July, 90 per cent of production in August, and 90 per cent of production in September.

In all it adds up to more than half a million treatment courses of the drug, for which hospitals will pay $US3200 apiece ($4641).

While focus in the US has been on whether the drug will be equally available to richer and poorer patients, the rest of the world is left with a a different problem.

"They've got access to most of the drug supply, so there's nothing for Europe,' Dr Andrew Hill of Liverpool University told The Guardian.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has also spoken about the dangers of the US outbidding other Western countries on COVID-19 treatments.

The wholesale cornering of remdesivir has also raised fears about what will happen when a vaccine is finally developed.

Remdesivir is an intravenous antiviral medication studied to treat Ebola but now used on hospitalised COVID-19 patients.

While not a blockbuster drug, a study shows it can reduce a hospital stay by up to four days.

The US has recorded about 2.68 million COVID-19 cases, with more than 129,000 deaths.

[Cav]

The case against lockdown - look at Sweden







Is testing identifying a problem of itself?

Surely the measure should be the death rate which is declining?



And what about masks?

[Bossxr8]

Originally Posted by blueoval

Is there any reason why adults cant do that type of test too?

I would say it's due to supply. I think it's just new to the market so they only have small stocks. I think it future it might become the norm when they can get decent supplies of it.