Leading scientists: dump Covid mandates "...governments overplayed effectiveness of vaccines, underplayed risks, ignored natural immunity, and mislead populations by not following through with promises to ease restrictions once targets reached.."
DEATH IN REGIONAL WA: A woman in her 80s has become the third West Australian to die with COVID after contracting the virus in the community, lifting the State’s total death toll to 11.
#wanews
BREAKING:
Facebook is an enemy of democracy. By deliberately suppressing free speech and the truth on the mRNA product Mark Zuckerberg is an enemy of democracy and everyone should refer to him that way.
“The problem with Australians is not that so many of them are descended from convicts, but that so many of them are descended from prison officers.”
Clive James
Most COVID in Perth ICU being treated for other conditions, department head reveals "... had not yet treated a patient presenting with severe COVID-related lung disease." Facts not fear narrative
@ClayGolledge
@antlet1
@nick_coatsworth
@ranjitrao1
State loses bid to keep texts between WA Premier and Attorney-General about Palmer case secret Forced transparency. Let’s have much more of that - starting with every piece of health advice.
WA has not been kept “ safe”. It has not “crushed and eliminated” the virus. It kicked the can down the road and will go through the same experience as everywhere else - but when the rest of the world moves on.
“The road ahead is about to get very difficult, and so in many ways, the worst is still to come, and we are at the start of the pandemic now.”
The new isolation rules will come into effect from Tuesday, February 8.
ABC presenter ‘takes a break’ after accusations of bias Funny how this never happens to all the other presenters who are biased in the other direction.
I’ve spend 9 months on this paper and today it’s finally published after rigorous and long peer review process. It’s perhaps the most important work of my career so far and it has implications for every human being on the planet.
Allegedly, healthcare workers are “relieved” the can is kicked down the road. Those who understand omicron are not. The best time to have opened was December. The second best is now.
Gutted…. Seems WA Premier
@MarkMcGowanMP
is a one trick pony when it comes to
#COVID19
. Hard border with the rest of the country and world remains despite almost 90% vacced. Many of us both shocked/disappointed and relieved at the same time.
WA cafes close dine-in services to avoid segregating the unvaccinated Also, staff time cost for doing the govt's work is huge. Those who did as asked are "rewarded" by needing to show their papers to drink coffee. A truly "unique lifestyle".
Dr Chalmers said households should brace themselves for “a spike in power prices that will make it harder for Australian families to make ends meet”. Billionaires profit as citizens pay for teal virtue signalling “real action”
Anyone else old enough to remember when a certain premier described 25,000 daily positive tests in NSW (population 3.5 times larger than WA) as a disaster.
“More than a war on the virus, lockdowns proved to be a war on the poor to protect the laptop class. The loudest calls for lockdowns have come from those with secure incomes in lockdown-proof jobs”.
WA records 1770 new COVID-19 positive tests 6979, total 16 (0.22%) in hospital(half for other reasons), none in ICU. Thus 0.11% in hospital because of covid. Restrictions totally disproportionate to risk.
@ClayGolledge
@nick_coatsworth
@ranjitrao1
Why Americans( and Australians) Should Adopt the Sweden Model on Covid-19 | Gilbert Berdine, MD "Covid-19 is not going to be defeated; we will have to coexist with it. The data suggest that lockdowns have not prevented any deaths from covid-19"
"We have, in all but name, lockdowns over east": WA Health Minister Amber-Jade Sanderson has defended the delayed border reopening, saying supply chains and the health sector are being 'crippled' in other states.
#auspol
EDITORIAL: If WA can’t open after two years, an economic boom, a relatively healthy population living in mostly hot weather and an urban sprawl that prevents congestion . . . then who the hell can be prepared?
WA COVID update: Health Minister Amber-Jade Sanderson says State won’t scrap close contact rule yet As I predicted. WA remains in the past as the rest of the country moves on.
Well done, Western Australia! 👏
Our state has reached the milestone of having 90% of its population aged over 12 double vaccinated against
#COVID19
.
#9News
Omicron ‘clearly not’ as threatening as flu, says
@nick_coatsworth
via
@newscomauHQ
And based on data and real ( as against "the") science he is 100% correct
@therealrukshan
It would have been simple to have less stock, assuming demand is dropping and say nothing. But these woke corporate clowns have to virtue signal
Sydney’s COVID-19 lockdown was ‘last straw’ for late Home and Away heart-throb Dieter Brummer Annual suicide toll more than treble the TOTAL of covid in 18 months. Lockdowns have harmful adverse effects on mental and physical health.
Mark McGowan urges families on east coast to move to WA for a ‘better life’ Abuse for two years. Totally heartless re families. Still a state of emergency. Borders can close on a whim. But hey, come to WA. Yeah, right.
WA Premier announces toughest proof-of-vaccination rules in Australia “I guarantee once you are vaccinated, life goes back to normal,” he said. Really- so once you are vaccinated you can visit family outside WA? Seems like a massive porkie
“What is truly frightening is that all this was so obvious, even articulated by some, early in the pandemic. But our political, bureaucratic and media class careered on with a hysterical, illiberal, harmful and unnecessary response all the same”.
Premier Mark McGowan has blamed coronavirus and mental health presentations for record levels of ambulance ramping — but Opposition Leader Zak Kirkup says it points to a ‘much bigger crisis’. 🔒
@Gary_Hardgrave
In Perth the highly infectious strain was not transmitted to one single solitary human being despite the positive test person being all over town.
Breaking: National cabinet has agreed to transition to no longer requiring quarantine for all close contacts "as soon as possible", with AHPPC to provide urgent advice to premiers and the PM on the change
@FinancialReview
“It’s as preposterous as it reads. We in the real world know what the standard is. We’re not buying Labor’s Sergeant Schultz routine”. Well said
@GemmaTognini
South African data suggests Omicron patients are avoiding hospitalisation Oh dear, real world evidence contradicting the fear narrative - again!
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@CaroDiRusso
@GemmaTognini
NSW Health has just told me, there has not been a single confirmed recorded case of Covid transmission outdoors in the state throughout the entire pandemic.
@9NewsAUS
Mark McGowan says he has no concerns about WA's standing among tourists after a two year border closure, saying the state has a reputation for "having handled COVID the best in the world".
COVID in WA: Pressure eased on hospitals as virus admissions fall but AMA warns ‘worst still to come’ Our last 50,000 predictions of doom haven't come to pass. But hey, lets keep promoting doom and upping the fear porn
@GemmaTognini
Despite nine months to prepare , WA clearly lacks capacity to test , track or trace. Thus the lazy option of roller shutter door is used. And criticism of those who have learned how to live with the virus!! Hubris on steroids
The blunt truth on why stopping COVID is impossible via
@kevinmd
"...any authority figure who claims that this virus can be completely contained or eliminated is either unfamiliar with how respiratory viruses operate, or worse, is lying to you".
WA’s current regime of vaccine mandates makes no sense, especially at this stage of the pandemic. ... “Gosh, the science it’s just so sciencey”. Indeed it is
@GemmaTognini
Mark McGowan reveals Covid-19 plan while in Sydney "...says his “main aim” is to avoid contracting COVID-19 while in NSW". Today WA 2847 positive tests 0.11% of population. NSW 13018 pos tests 0.14% of population.
WA Premier Mark McGowan backtracks on keeping border controls beyond pandemic Power corrupts! WA is a state of the Commonwealth of Australia. It is NOT and I repeat NOT a sovereign nation
“Let’s have an immediate wrong-speak audit of every person’s family going back at least one generation to ensure 100% alignment with what the players think is acceptable on a range of subjects. Can’t be too careful”. Nailed it
@GemmaTognini
Mark McGowan backflip: WAGs, sports stars and reality TV personalities slam decision to keep WA border shut Forget celebs. For every one of them there are thousands without fame whose mental health has been torched.