Australia / New Zealand

[Pushka]

On 7/12/2021 at 12:04 PM, Heidi13 said:

 

Thanks Pushka - hoping your Govt can get the latest outbreak under control and the country reaches the vaccination goals.

 

Still hoping to arrive on Neptune in 2023.

 

Hoping Little Monty joins us in one of the ports, so you are most welcome to join us as well, if you are close to any of the ports.

Thankyou and what a great meeting that would be. In reality Australia needs to accept that we need to vaccinate and accept that once this is done then we can afford to treat covid as the flu. To be honest we were lulled into a false sense of security seeming to have beaten covid so people didn't bother being vaccinated. That's come back to bite us back. Now we are in a hurry. 

[onlyslightlymad]

On 7/15/2021 at 9:48 PM, Pushka said:

Thankyou and what a great meeting that would be. In reality Australia needs to accept that we need to vaccinate and accept that once this is done then we can afford to treat covid as the flu. To be honest we were lulled into a false sense of security seeming to have beaten covid so people didn't bother being vaccinated. That's come back to bite us back. Now we are in a hurry. 

I think it is a mistake to call Covid the same as the flu.  It has a much higher infection rate and a greater proportion who catch it get seriously ill.  I do agree that vaccination is the first weapon in the strategy to control the pandemic though. Contact tracing is probably the second.  

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/05/why-living-with-covid-would-not-be-the-same-as-flu