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I find myself really missing the days when WA was the Independent Sovereign Nation of Westralia and we were being accused of being cave people and a hermit kingdom and we could give the filthy eastern plague states the middle finger as we pointed to our status as a COVID zero hermit kingdom where we were living it up like it was 2019 and the science boffins were only warning us that we were overdue a pandemic, and not living through one.

My father passed away last year and his funeral service was standing room only. I'll never not be grateful to Supreme Leader for Life Mark McGowan that I didn't have to navigate the trauma and grief of that loss and organise a funeral during a lockdown. We didn't even need to wear masks on the day we said goodbye.

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Sorry to hear it Elana. We had the same thing with my father in law but because we are talking us in NSW and him in QLD it was navigating trips up in between various state lockdowns. It was horrendous. Then two days after he passed away QLD went into a hard lock down and we only just had his memorial at the beginning of June nearly a year after he passed. First time we could be certain and have everyone there and get them home again. Too many older relatives that had to travel.

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Oh Simon I'm so sorry. That's just awful, your poor family 😭

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Ive seen an article that has titled it The Forever Plague, partially how it seems to fu#k over your T and B cells.

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I've never stopped wearing the mask, and it shits me that people won't/can't wear one for whatever pathetic reason they can come up with. Don't get me started on the dicknose peeps or those people desperately trying not to catch chin covid.

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I'd say the reluctance on the part of govt mandating masks allies with that whole 'we have to open up the economy' thing that is beloved of sections of our legislators, and their donors. As a habitual mask wearer I can't understand the reluctance of some folks to wearing the things, particularly in light of the virulence of both the Spicy Cough and/or the latest flu variants.

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Just came back from a lovely vacation and half the fam are wiped out with it.

Including me.

I cannot, in any way, recommond this fucking thing.

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Yeah, really not looking forward to it.

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As you say, people are over it, but I’m a little surprised how resistant the gubbermint is to bringing back the mask mandate, at least during peak viral season.

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I think it's a state level responsibility, and they're probably reluctant to piss everyone off. But eventually the infections and case fatalities are gonna force their hands.

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Read the other day that the latest strain (BA.4/5) is more contagious than measles, the previous record holder. R0 something in the 18-19 range.

I'm going to stay in my bunker, at least until the sun comes out again.

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Apparently it presents not as a cold but as meningitis adjacent - stiff neck, fever, tingling and numbness in the extremities down one side etc. I'm sure the "mild meningitis" narrative will start up shortly 🙄

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Damn guess I won't be able to tell then ;)

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Nothing says mismanagement like emergency triage in the hospital car park, sending citizens home to die on their own dime. Death rate might be low, while we've got emergency beds to deal with them, but that won't hold when enough catch it that we don't.

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