COVID-19 updates comments and concerns

[griffin]

Lockdowns do impact on everyone, especially businesses, students and many workers... and agreeing with an earlier sentiment they are necessary to insulate the hospitals from being swamped until vaccination rates are high enough, like childhood vaccines need to be to reduce or eliminate things like whooping cough and measles. We already have states unable to do elective and non-urgent surgeries, blowing out already long waiting lists, and states like QLD had all this time to increase resources at hospitals ready for borders to be opened in the next few months and they know that living with covid means a certain amount of daily cases, which will result in people in hospital.

[Ode to a Grasshopper]

Tassie's had a breach. 1x exposure site (some 15-year-old breaking quarantine to go to an IGA with his older mate/brother, I forget which) in Newnham, Launceston. 2.20-2.45pm yesterday. The kid had come from Victoria and was confirmed positive.
So far most of the contacts are returning negative, which is good, but it's early days. Fingers crossed we get lucky with this one.

[Ode to a Grasshopper]

Jab #2 today. So far so good, sore arm again with a little heat around the injection site, slightly tired but have been that way all day so it's likely due to being slightly busy lately/a little run-down, possible slight fever but very slight.
Fingers crossed for the next few days.

Day #2 - slight fever, very mild pain in the arm around the injection site, yesterday's heat in the arm has gone. :-)

[G1Optimal]

Has anyone heard any updates of the omicron variant as in how severe the sickness is?

[DELTAprime]

I wouldn't get too worked up over Omicron yet. The WHO's labelled other strains as Variant of Concern before and they haven't caused the massive death tolls.

[G1Optimal]

Thanks for that info

[Autocon]

More infectious but not more deadly. What is alarming over omicron is the great change in the virus. Something like 30 differences to the spike protein.