I think the anti-lockdown types had a naive and incorrect belief that if they could blow up Covid-0, Governments would have little choice but to allow life to go back to normal. In reality, the only hope of living a life that approximates the old normal is to stay at Covid-0. Once that's impossible, we'll be in permanent lockdown. Just to keep new infections at around 100 a day requires hard restrictions. And when spikes take it above that figure, hard lockdowns are needed. The only other way out is high vaccination rates, but I suspect there's a big overlap between anti-Lockdowns, anti-Maskers & anti-Vaxxers. If so, the anti-Lockdowners will ensure both that we won't stay at Covid-0 & we'll be unable to open up safely.
I had a good laugh at your misguided certitude.
I'd love to see some data to support your assertion that hard lock downs are necessary to keep cases down....other NPIs have ben shown to be just as effective.
and quite frankly, there is ample data out of the UK to suggest hospitalisation rates are being driven by the vaxxed. Go figure.
Is the NSW hospital system really overwhelmed by 140 cases in ICU?
I want to know how/why we trash new recruit when they come to Princes Park...
Dees - lever and May playing like solid A graders.
Port - Aliir. Gun (even if Weiters was beaten and robbed)
Brisvegas - Neale, Daniher, Lyons even Robbo years back went to a new level. Important contributors.
We have Brackets, Williams, Martin (arguably Saad at times this year and throw in Marchy) - if not side lined, playing on 1 leg or struggling for form.
Have any of them (Saad aside) had a decent injury free run at it?
That group's output alone is enough to determine the outcome of many a close game....
Yes, we didn't have lockdown for Influenza and look how bad things got, and that is for a disease with an R0 that is only a fraction of Sars-CoV-2!
Luckily the lockdown and vaccines are working at slowing Sars-CoV-2, and now it looks like we will get an effective early treatment with several new drugs proving useful, the TGA has already approved Sotrovimab. But vaccines will remain the cheapest and safest option, and Sotrovimab can't be used for patients under 12 or under 40kg.
Sotrovimab is very expensive; A single course which is 10 x 0.8ml intravenous doses costs about US$2200, the vaccines cost between $8 and $50 per dose.
Yes, we didn't have lockdown for Influenza and look how bad things got, and that is for a disease with an R0 that is only a fraction of Sars-CoV-2!
Luckily the lockdown and vaccines are working at slowing Sars-CoV-2, and now it looks like we will get an effective early treatment with several new drugs proving useful, the TGA has already approved Sotrovimab. But vaccines will remain the cheapest and safest option, and Sotrovimab can't be used for patients under 12 or under 40kg.
Sotrovimab is very expensive; A single course which is 10 x 0.8ml intravenous doses costs about US$2200, the vaccines cost between $8 and $50 per dose.
And again, you dismiss Ivermectin (or HCQ for that matter).
You can only make a rash assessment of a coach after 50 games in 2 interrupted seasons. Neither Clarkson nor Hardwick etc. looked like flag coaches after 50 games. I disagree that the Saints and Freo lists were lesser than ours. And Harry McKay will probably start looking for a new home.
We can all see how many flags, GF's, coaches have in their past, but that's irrelevant to us. We need to know how many flags they have in their future. We've been seduced by coaches with previous success before, and got burnt, twice. The model that gives the best chance for success is right before our eyes - stability, unity and build from within, but for whatever reason, we can't see it, or refuse to embrace it.
Rash?
Hardly? Will Teague improve? Maybe, maybe not. No certainty at all.
Should he be given the largesse Hardwick was afforded? Maybe, maybe not.
Comparing his track record with other coaches is fraught with danger.....
Lost a bit of interest in this game...all this Teague business is depressing and with nothing riding on the game apart from saluting Eddie and Levi it went to script. Ed Curnow played a very nice game and I liked Stocker and Kemps work as well. LOB hit some nice passes early and TDK did well vs the new Mummy in Briggs,but again we dont get enough return for our efforts and having them level at half time meant they would get momentum at some stage which they did and the result was a forgone conclusion.
Another what could have been - missed a series of very easy shots in the first half. LOB, Brackets are two that come to mind.
Charlie could have done a lot better on two occasions but rushed his play and resulted in a turnover. Just needed some composure - at least he's finding the pill - and getting through games.
All that said, we weren't that far off them.
Glad some of the kids got a run.
Losing faith in Newnes. Appears to have acquired the Carlton malaise....
The Ivermectin push does seem to be just a figleaf for antivaxxers. The big tell is that those who push it also claim vaccines are dangerous and ineffective. I could understand if proponents of Ivermectin argued that vaccines are a great first-line of defence but when infections occur more treatments are needed.
I have no problems with existing medications being trialled to see if they might give doctors another option. I don’t have a “vaccine or nothing” mentality. Steroids have proved of some use in about a third of cases. If it works, great. But one of the attractions of using pre-existing drugs at their usual dosage is that their contraindications and side-effects are known. But if the dosage is substantially increased in order to work against Covid, new safety trials are required and can only be justified if there is enough evidence that the drug will work at reasonably safe levels. Claims Ivermectin kills Covid in Petri dishes seems to be a long way from proving this. And it seems the initial testing involved high doses: https://www1.racgp.org.au/newsgp/clinical/what-now-for-ivermectin
And the above article suggests later studies have concluded it’s not effective.
In any event, the University of Oxford was to start a trial in June, so we’ll have some decent data at the end of it.
Far better studied, tested and understood than any of the current vaccines. Terrific safety profile too.
Oh, haven't heard of Professor Borody?
Another conspiracy nutter?
The world knew in March 2020 (earlier actually), Ivermectin kills 99.98% of SARS-COV2 in vitro....after that crickets from the regulatory authorities. I wonder why.
Can't see the AFL creating a 19th side (and bye complications), the AFL would need to go to 20 (with maybe NT the other team) if a Tassie Team is to get up. Which then dilutes the talent pool across the league too.
Or relocate/joint venture a Melb team further south...
Is it something worth contemplating that the Blues might take up a handful of games in Tassie? I'd suspect not, no issues with us pulling a crowd, good membership already, etc.
Hawks and Norf better positioned in anycase?
Discuss
(Searched and couldn't find a designated Tassie thread, hence this new one).
Always thought 20 teams, two conferences....whether that's A and B or equalised not sure....
Everyone plays each other twice then finals.
Perhaps finals within each conference then take the best two from each conference - in a final four format.
