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Yup, says right there, âHorse Ownersâ - not âHorsesâ Patootsâ.
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Controlling Covid is difficult when a substantial proportion of the ruling class in your largest city are actively advocating for the spread of the virus.
On the extremely-grim-bright-side, the Sydney outbreak is now beginning to spread from the working class suburbs back into the wealthy coastal enclaves that it came from. Which may eventually prompt some action once the rich begin to feel threatened.
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There were two AFL finals in Launceston this weekend. Crowds were limited to 10,000 (despite there being enough demand to sell out the stadium several times over; Mr & Mrs First Dog drove up from the Huon Valley) and masks were required.
Again, this is in the context of zero-Covid Tasmania.
Meanwhile, in the UK:
And remember the Youtube farmer with the cute cows?
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Fifteen more cases in Orange since the initial six.
Mumâs on Byng Street.
At the beginning of Covid, I called her and asked her to assure me that she was taking it seriously. I thought she would; both her and her partner Jim are highly educated people who spent much of their lives working in fields related to healthcare. And she assured me that they would.
Since then, theyâve travelled to Queensland to babysit Jimâs grandkids every school holidays. And Sydney a few times. And they went on a multi-state tour for my Mumâs 75th birthday.
I called them the day the Orange outbreak was discovered. Mum talked about how glad she was that theyâd taken the chance to visit lots of their local friends before the lockdown began. Jim wasnât there, as heâd ducked out to the shops to get some fresh ingredients for dinner. As he does pretty much every day.
Aaaargh.
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A friend told me about how he seemed to be immune to COVID-19 (which everyone in his family had but him) because he is O-. He is not a flat earther type, but you never know around here, so I looked it up andâŚapparently it is a thing?
Most of the articles reference this study and then I canât find more recent info.
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But the first thing I found was thisâŚ
then thisâŚ
Both from last year, the latter came out before the former.
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a couple of my sisters thought that blood type had something to do with it early on. one might still, i donât know, but i havenât heard them mention it in a long time. anyway, they are both vaccinated now, so thatâs something.
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My son and I havenât been tested, though weâve both been vaxxed. They donât seem to get how neuro-atyps donât like things shoved up their noses (I just shivered typing that).
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Itâs unclear why the hospital didnât mount any defense under a new law passed in the state budget this summer that grants health care providers the âfreedom to decline to performâ any service which violates their âconscience,â as informed by moral, ethical or religious beliefs.
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fwiw, they donât do that deep swab anymore, from what i know. when i got tested over a year ago, it was just gently right on the inside a bit. no brain tickle!
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The nose extraction (swab) is very ⌠got-a-snoot-full-of-pool-water kind of thing. I learned for sure what it feels like to get a cotton swab shoved near to oneâs brain.
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I got a test back in November, and it does feel weird and tickly, but they didnât poke it all the way in. It wasnât painful, just strange, and itâs over pretty quickly. (Of course, it probably varies with the skill of the practitioner.)
It was negative, I just had a sinus infection. The relief of the result was worth it.
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I had one back in Jan, due to a potential exposure⌠thankfully brief, not horribly invasive, and negative. Iâm sure that how invasive it is depends on the provider, so I definitely sympathize.
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