COVID-19 updates comments and concerns

[1AZRAEL1]

It's easy to forget sometimes to replace the mask. Some people do care. But wearing it under your chin to read your phone is just mind boggling. And the concept of having to wear it on public transport and waiting areas like platforms, is lost on most people. Doesn't matter, in a month's time let it rip

[Handsprime]

So after the weekend I tested myself and found out I have COVID. I don't know where I got it, but other people I have talked to have mentioned they got it.
Been coughing, having a runny nose and experience fatigue. It's not good, but at least I'm vaxxed so I know I should be out and about by next week, otherwise I might need to see a doctor.

[GoktimusPrime]

Got a positive COVID test result on Saturday arvo. I was asymptomatic, but now the symptoms have kicked in; was coughing yesterday, and today I've been fatigued and had a runny nose. I'm tripled vaxxed and so far it's like having a cold. I'm isolated in the master bedroom to keep myself away from my family; grabbed some TF toys in on the way, but unlike having free access to my TF room where I can grab any toy as my play narrative demands, I'm just stuck with the ones I've taken. Reminds me of when I started collected TFs in the mid 80s; when I didn't have a toy but wanted that character in my play, I'd have to make up some excuse for their absence.
e.g. until September of 1985, Huffer was the leader of my Autobots. I don't remember what excuse I used, but Optimus Prime was always elsewhere until then
And "Shackwave" was always leader of my Decepticons since I didn't have Megatron as a kid.

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

e.g. until September of 1985, Huffer was the leader of my Autobots. I don't remember what excuse I used, but Optimus Prime was always elsewhere until then
And "Shackwave" was always leader of my Decepticons since I didn't have Megatron as a kid.

I bet Huffer was because he was a fellow Truck bot. I had Optimus as a kid (it was the first thing I actually saved up for), but I never had Megatron, Starsceam or another "Leader" type character for my Deceptions, so I recruited Needlenose to be the leader. He was the closest large Jet toy I had to a Starscream. Oddly I did have SOundwave and I think he would've been a fairly good Decepticon leader, I still just had him as a support guy of Needlenose. (I really love Needlenose even now!)

Damn that Sucks. I got my triple shot on Saturday. In Japan they advocate mixing the shots, and I hear it works fine elsewhere s well. Add to that Pfizer seems to be the favoured shot around here, all the seniors (there's A LOT of them) have nabbed all the appointments. I ended up getting a different one this time, Moderna. The first two I had no problem with, but the moderna one, well, aching body all over, headache, felt tired and had a fever. Luckily it only lasted half the following day, but it certainly wasn't pleasant.
Annoyingly in Japan, getting the vaccine shots is full of bureaucracy. You can't get an appointment without a ticket. Once you have a ticket you have to go online and book. If you dont want to go online, then you have to look at certain places (local clinics, but from a main website) to see if they have spots available. Many of the smaller local places will have a message saying they don't (can't) accept bookings through the website so you have to call them. When you call the they are so busy with those phone calls, you can't get through or they just don't answer any more. Going through a mass vacc place is a total crap shoot as to whether or not you get lucky with a booking.
The entire experience is terribly frustrating. I got lucky in that the timing was right. Bagged my ticket, sister in law had a connection through Rakuten (of all places) that set up a place open for three days, I navigated through the horrible website and bagged a booking.

The covid experience has revealed some serious flaws in Japan's "wonderful" health care system. IN that so many places are privately run, coordinating for a pandemic type situation is frustrating for almost everybody. The govt. the medical system itself and the public.

Oh and now the only "protocol" in place against covid is wear a mask and sanitise your hands.

Whew, thats all for now. I'll probably rant about other issues later. Like why are GPs so hard to find here? How am I supposed to know whether my ache is a bone ache or a muscle ache? Why do I have to go and wait for 3 hours to see a doctor? Are Japanese people allergic to appointments? They're always banging on about being punctual so they shouldn't be.

More ranting slowly fades away

[SharkyMcShark]

Got a positive COVID test result on Saturday arvo. I was asymptomatic, but now the symptoms have kicked in; was coughing yesterday, and today I've been fatigued and had a runny nose. I'm tripled vaxxed and so far it's like having a cold. I'm isolated in the master bedroom to keep myself away from my family; grabbed some TF toys in on the way, but unlike having free access to my TF room where I can grab any toy as my play narrative demands, I'm just stuck with the ones I've taken. Reminds me of when I started collected TFs in the mid 80s; when I didn't have a toy but wanted that character in my play, I'd have to make up some excuse for their absence.
e.g. until September of 1985, Huffer was the leader of my Autobots. I don't remember what excuse I used, but Optimus Prime was always elsewhere until then
And "Shackwave" was always leader of my Decepticons since I didn't have Megatron as a kid.

When I was a small child my G2 Hooligan stood in for both Starscream and GoBots Leader-1 as needs be.

[griffin]

One of Network 7's channels is having a back-to-back session of virus movies tonight - Contagion and Outbreak.
Way to go, cashing in on a current negative theme.

[Tha_Phantom]

The results of an independent review into Australia's handling of the covid-19 pandemic:
https://www.smh.com.au/national/frac...18-p5bqso.html

I am surprised to see lockdowns given such disdain here. Intuitively, they seemed like the right move, but according to the panel it should only ever have been an initial response and not something we kept relying on.

[griffin]

Reviews are going to be flawed if they are prioritising the wrong things as being most important. Saving lives should be the most important factor, and if there were economical issues that impacted on the citizens of a particular country, it is not the fault of the current government, but the fault of decades of previous governments for prioritising resources to just 4 largest capital cities to create a petrie-dish of concentrated virus transmission, and a more significant hit to the economy when just one of those 4 cities has to lockdown to save lives. Instead of having over 5 million people all condensed into one location, driving up the cost of housing and the cost of living, there should have been a long-term period of developing infrastructure and business incentives to five other cities in the state, so that living there is more affordable, and shutting down one or two cities because of a virus (or natural disaster) doesn't impact on the rest of the country and economy (and it is a lot cheaper to fund through welfare payments).
People got upset over the lockdowns, but they were stuck having to live in cities that shouldn't be this big, because of crises like this and other natural disasters. It's like the expression - don't put all of your eggs in one basket... and this is why.

I think Australia was one of the few countries that put aside politics long enough to do the right thing... to stall long enough until a vaccine was available and covering 90% of the population so that the virus didn't crash our hospitals, businesses and welfare systems. And if the review was focussing more on the economy, lockdowns helped protect businesses by limiting the number of people infected before there was a vaccine, which would have shut down businesses due to lack of available staff (a lot worse than what we saw when the variants hit at the end of last year).

[Autocon]

The results of an independent review into Australia's handling of the covid-19 pandemic:
https://www.smh.com.au/national/frac...18-p5bqso.html

I am surprised to see lockdowns given such disdain here. Intuitively, they seemed like the right move, but according to the panel it should only ever have been an initial response and not something we kept relying on.

There were no medical people on the board.