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Will you get the Vaccine?

  • Yes, I plan too

    Votes: 13 8.4%

  • Yes, already 1st dose

    Votes: 18 11.6%

  • Yes, I am 100% vaxxed

    Votes: 93 60.0%

  • No

    Votes: 21 13.5%

  • Indecisive

    Votes: 10 6.5%
  • Total voters
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Bluewhiteangel said:
Apparently coming here next year and will be used as a booster . Not sure how true this is but if it was available here right now it would be the 1st choice vaccine for many.
Anybody else get zero symptoms other than a sore arm from the Pfizer jab?
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Exactly my experience with 1st and 2nd , however I went for a long walk after 1st and boxed for 60 mins after second …. Zero side effects
 
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The Sydney Morning Herald
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Morning Edition​
Thursday, September 9, 2021​
James Manning​
Good morning. Emails reveal delays arranging vaccine meetings with Pfizer last year. A record number of workers are holding down multiple jobs. ALP senator Kristina Keneally may move to the lower house. And first up, pubs, gyms and hairdressers are set to reopen in Sydney next month.​
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Pubs, gyms set to reopen next month
At last, good news. Fully vaccinated Sydneysiders will be able to enjoy a drink in a pub, a workout in the gym and a much-needed trim at the hairdresser by the end of October. Premier Gladys Berejiklian will today lay out the long-awaited plan to ease lockdown once 70 per cent of the eligible population is fully vaccinated. It’s currently at 42 per cent and is expected to pass 70 per cent less than six weeks from now.
The plan will also allow cafes and restaurants to reopen, although all venues will run at reduced capacities. A trial reopening of venues is expected to take place early next month in areas with high vaccination rates and low cases numbers, possibly the Northern Beaches or the Hills Shire. Some parts of the state, including the Riverina, New England and North Coast, are set to have all restrictions eased as early as tomorrow.
However, the regional lockdown is expected to be extended in areas where cases are still high, such as Dubbo and Wilcannia. In Sydney, health authorities are concerned about a surge in cases in inner-city suburbs including Glebe, Waterloo, Redfern, Elizabeth Bay and Marrickville. The vaccination rate in some of these areas is significantly lower than in other parts of Sydney.
In better news, transmission of the Delta variant between children in schools and early childhood centres has been low, a study shows, and most children who tested positive had mild or no symptoms. While 2 per cent of children were hospitalised, in most cases this was either for monitoring or for social care because their parents tested positive and were too ill to look after them.
Cases: NSW recorded nine deaths, including a third Indigenous person in western NSW, taking the toll since the start of the pandemic to 204. There were 1480 local cases after 130,341 tests. There are 1136 patients in hospital, including 194 in ICU and 78 on ventilation. Victoria recorded 221 cases, while. the ACT had 20 and New Zealand had 15.
HSC student survey: Forty per cent want exams cancelled and 90 per cent say delays have affected their mental health.
Plastic COVID screens: Ventilation experts say dividers in shops and supermarkets may be doing more harm than good.
NRL grand final: The game will be played at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane, leaving Sydney for the first time.
Pfizer offered ‘millions of doses’
Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt did not accept an invitation for a formal meeting with top Pfizer executives about COVID-19 vaccines, documents released under freedom-of-information laws show. The company said it had “the potential to supply millions of vaccine doses by the end of 2020” in an email dated June 30 last year. The Department of Health responded days later offering a meeting with a first assistant secretary instead.
The company eventually met representatives from Mr Hunt’s office on August 4, two weeks after the US and UK had already signed deals for a combined 130 million doses. The minister’s office did not respond to questions about why he did not attend himself, but a spokesperson denied the government was slow to act and said an agreement was signed “as soon as possible”

Meanwhile, Trade Minister Dan Tehan insisted the federal travel ban that forces Australians to seek permission to leave the country will be dropped when the vaccination rate hits 80 per cent, which could be by November. It comes as the Prime Minister, in a pre-recorded message at an awards ceremony last night, defended his policy of locking Australians overseas out of the country but acknowledged they “carried a very heavy burden”.
Vaccine numbers: 294,651 doses were administered on September 7, the latest reporting period. 13,313,703 people have had their first dose (51.98% of the total population or 64.57% of 16+) and 8,186,949 are fully vaccinated (31.87% of all Australians, 39.7% of 16+). Another 500,000 Pfizer doses have left the UK bound for Australia.
Meanwhile, Trade Minister Dan Tehan insisted the federal travel ban that forces Australians to seek permission to leave the country will be dropped when the vaccination rate hits 80 per cent, which could be by November. It comes as the Prime Minister, in a pre-recorded message at an awards ceremony last night, defended his policy of locking Australians overseas out of the country but acknowledged they “carried a very heavy burden”.
Vaccine numbers: 294,651 doses were administered on September 7, the latest reporting period. 13,313,703 people have had their first dose (51.98% of the total population or 64.57% of 16+) and 8,186,949 are fully vaccinated (31.87% of all Australians, 39.7% of 16+). Another 500,000 Pfizer doses have left the UK bound for Australia.
 
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Oi vey!

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Ultra-Orthodox worshippers at Ripponlea synagogue fined $5452 each | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site

The lengths that community members, politicians and police went to in order to prevent ultra-Orthodox worshippers gathering for Jewish New Year celebrations in Melbourne’s east has been revealed. And it was all for nothing.

Police have handed out more than 100 fines — each totalling $5452 — to those who gathered on Tuesday for Rosh Hashanah services in violation of the Victorian Government’s lockdown rules.

Tensions spilled over at the synagogue in Ripponlea where worshippers clashed with members of the media and police worked to calm the situation.

A cameraman, who did not wish to be named, said he would pursue charges after he was allegedly assaulted while filming outside the Addas Israel Synagogue on Glen Eira Road.

As news of the breach makes news around the country — and overseas — it has emerged the group was begged not to go ahead with the gathering.

Local rabbis gave lengthy instructions about how to mark the reflective season in a safe manner, state Liberal MP David Southwick wrote letters directly to worshippers for months and the Prime Minister even urged the community not to congregate together in shule.

Mr Southwick said the group had been holding gatherings for “months” and were untouchable because “they were operating under an (Alcoholics Anonymous)-type meeting and mental health group that allows you to have 10 people congregate at a time”.

He said the Victorian Department of Health could not enforce powers “because the group was operating in a certain guise”.
 
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KambahOne said:
Ultra-Orthodox worshippers at Ripponlea synagogue fined $5452 each | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site

The lengths that community members, politicians and police went to in order to prevent ultra-Orthodox worshippers gathering for Jewish New Year celebrations in Melbourne’s east has been revealed. And it was all for nothing.

Police have handed out more than 100 fines — each totalling $5452 — to those who gathered on Tuesday for Rosh Hashanah services in violation of the Victorian Government’s lockdown rules.

Tensions spilled over at the synagogue in Ripponlea where worshippers clashed with members of the media and police worked to calm the situation.

A cameraman, who did not wish to be named, said he would pursue charges after he was allegedly assaulted while filming outside the Addas Israel Synagogue on Glen Eira Road.

As news of the breach makes news around the country — and overseas — it has emerged the group was begged not to go ahead with the gathering.

Local rabbis gave lengthy instructions about how to mark the reflective season in a safe manner, state Liberal MP David Southwick wrote letters directly to worshippers for months and the Prime Minister even urged the community not to congregate together in shule.

Mr Southwick said the group had been holding gatherings for “months” and were untouchable because “they were operating under an (Alcoholics Anonymous)-type meeting and mental health group that allows you to have 10 people congregate at a time”.

He said the Victorian Department of Health could not enforce powers “because the group was operating in a certain guise”.
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Lucky they are good savers to pay the fines
 
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How to make lock down worse...

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Six beer limit for homes in hard lockdown

Residents in apartment blocks locked-down by NSW Health are having their alcohol deliveries policed as part of a policy to limit the number of drinks being consumed each day.
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I would definitely protest over that!!! .................(safely of course with a mask on marching up and down my unit balcony) and then I would get some stuff flown in on a drone.
 
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How to make lock down worse...

www.news.com.au

Six beer limit for homes in hard lockdown

Residents in apartment blocks locked-down by NSW Health are having their alcohol deliveries policed as part of a policy to limit the number of drinks being consumed each day.
www.news.com.au www.news.com.au
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So Adam Elliott supporters living in those buildings won't even be allowed to get drunk to dull the pain if he is sacked? That's inhumane. I plan on downing at least 3 bottles if he gets the boot today.
 
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