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20-01-2022, 11:56 AM | #18061 | ||
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hi all
can anyone on here tell me if Pitlane Performance (Ratter) is close due to Covid ? got a call from them last week canceling my dyno, been trying to call but every phone it turned of. Cheers |
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20-01-2022, 12:30 PM | #18062 | ||
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Data valid as at 00:00 GMT January 19th 2022.
79,365 new cases for Australia and 67 deaths so the CMR is 0.145%. NZ recorded 79 cases and 0 deaths for a CMR of 0.341%. The UK recorded 107,450 cases and 379 deaths for a CMR of 0.986%. 971,072 new cases in the USA yesterday and 2,563 deaths sees CMR at 1.272%. Other notable points: Global cases pass 338M; Europe sets a new daily record with 1,505,274 cases; Asia sets a new daily high with 614,308 cases; South America sets a new daily high with 396,412 cases; Europe passes 108M cases; Asia passes 92M cases; North America passes 81M cases; South America passes 44M cases and 1.2M deaths; India passes 38M cases; The USA passes 69M cases; Barbados (652); Uzbekistan (1.214); Venezuela (2,090) – the previous high (1,786) on 4/4/21; Luxembourg (2,552); Estonia (3,159); Moldova (3,275); Bahrain (3,455) – the previous high (3,273) on 29/5/21; Latvia (5,082); Saudi Arabia (5,928); Lithuania (6,234); Paraguay (6,760); Georgia (8,728); Nepal (9,502) – the previous high (9,317) on 11/5/21; Chile (9,542); Croatia (10,427); Slovenia (12,285); Tunisia (12,346) – the previous high (9,823) on 7/7/21; Kazakhstan (13,874); Hungary (14,890); Norway (15,987); Czechia (26,811); Austria (27,677); Japan (28,862); Denmark (36,474); Sweden (37,886) on 18/1; Portugal (52,549); Mexico (69,343); Israel (71,884) on 18/1; Germany (121,952); and Brazil (205,310) ... all recorded new highs; those in blue for the second consecutive day and those in red for a third or more consecutive day. Libya moves above the 90th percentile for the 10 day period and no countries drop below.
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20-01-2022, 12:35 PM | #18063 | |||
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20-01-2022, 01:40 PM | #18064 | ||
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In a small Israeli study of 1,928 health care workers of whom 1,650 received a booster shot, 44 subsequently tested positive for Omicron, only 5 of which were amongst those who received the booster. That's an incident rate of 12.8 for boosted against 116 per 100k person/days for un-boosted.
A longer term Israeli study of long-COVID patients which included 951 long-COVID patients and 2,437 infected individuals without long-COVID symptoms as a control group. Key findings: 637 (67%) of the long-COVID patients were vaccinated. The most commonly reported symptoms were; fatigue (22%), headache (20%), weakness (13%), and persistent muscle pain (10%). Those who received two vaccine doses were less likely than unvaccinated individuals to report any of these symptoms by 64%, 54%, 57%, and 68% respectively (risk ratios 0.36, 0.46, 0.43 & 0.32 in the listed sequence). They concluded that vaccination with at least two doses of COVID-19 vaccine was associated with a substantial decrease in reporting the most common post-acute COVID-19 symptoms and, in addition to reducing the risk of acute illness, COVID-19 vaccination may have a protective effect against long COVID. It's worth knowing as the incidence of long-COVID (up to 6 months) in the unvaccinated ranges from ~50% at age 40 through to ~65% at age 65.
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20-01-2022, 04:38 PM | #18065 | ||
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To think that he thought it was a good idea in the first place??
https://www.news.com.au/finance/busi...7f4875bbb9b69b |
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20-01-2022, 04:41 PM | #18066 | |||
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20-01-2022, 04:44 PM | #18067 | |||
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Having spent the majority of my working life in transport and logistics it would be hard to see how they can be any worse than the "mature" employees. |
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20-01-2022, 04:49 PM | #18068 | |||
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https://www.theguardian.com/australi...es-by-surprise https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/ad...043421983.html I'm sure a lot of 16 year olds could do the job sensibly. Just like a lot of 12 year olds could probably drive a car, learning on the farms, but still deemed too dangerous on our roads.
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20-01-2022, 04:51 PM | #18069 | |||
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https://www.reuters.com/article/heal...-idINL4N2U011S https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/sco...TZUT3TPLSFYH4/ https://www.canberratimes.com.au/sto...-in-forklifts/ https://www.theguardian.com/australi...es-by-surprise https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...oots-down.html https://sydneynewstoday.com/scott-mo...hdrawn/506666/ https://www.businessinsider.com.au/f...staff-shortage And from the idiot himself... https://www.pm.gov.au/media/press-co...anberra-act-38 All fake news I suppose? |
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20-01-2022, 04:56 PM | #18070 | ||
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20-01-2022, 05:03 PM | #18071 | |||
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What's your answer to the shortage? bring in more immigrants to fill the gap. |
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20-01-2022, 05:23 PM | #18072 | |||
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20-01-2022, 05:30 PM | #18073 | |||
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If you grew up on a farm, and when you could reach the peddles and levers, you were old enough.... But i digress, this has f-all to do with Covid 19
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20-01-2022, 05:57 PM | #18074 | ||||
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20-01-2022, 06:35 PM | #18075 | ||
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20-01-2022, 06:43 PM | #18076 | |||
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but not saying its not doable https://youtu.be/yHbE3w4GWCs and yes a few of us grew up in farming environments learning things at a young age (but not only) like driving and operating machinery
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yes still (as money n time permit) doing the rebuilding the zh fairlane with a clevo 400m 4v heads injected whipple blown with aode 4 speed trans to a 9" ....... we'll get there eventually just remember don't be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the Ark...Professionals built the Titanic! I have taken up meditation... at least it's better than sitting around doing nothing !! |
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20-01-2022, 07:14 PM | #18077 | |||
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SA gov has also accused NSW and Vic gov of taking their shipments lol. ACCC has been asked to look into that also.
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20-01-2022, 08:06 PM | #18078 | |||
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20-01-2022, 10:22 PM | #18079 | ||||
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No surprises here.....
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20-01-2022, 10:49 PM | #18081 | ||
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I'd say only an idiot would have believed he was going to stick to his date. Everyone saw this a mile off...
EDIT - Called it on here on the 4/1. Last edited by arm79; 20-01-2022 at 11:11 PM. |
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21-01-2022, 06:51 AM | #18082 | |||
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LOL "you might get more serious reporting from any Women's mag" just fess up... you're an oestrogen fan of the gayBC.
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21-01-2022, 11:24 AM | #18083 | |||
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21-01-2022, 12:02 PM | #18084 | ||
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NSW records 25,168 cases in the current period and the 10-day average growth rate decreases to 1.0256 (from 1.0715) while the actual line remains below the predictive trend line.
VIC records 18,167 cases in the current period and the 10-day average growth rate decreases to 0.9365 (from 0.9630) while the actual line remains below the predictive trend. No States set new daily highs yesterday (19/1). Here is the predictive trend graph for three States based on cases since Omicron was identified which, for our purposes, will be taken as December 1st. Note that Queensland numbers are a day behind the other two States.
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21-01-2022, 12:39 PM | #18085 | ||
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Data valid as at 00:00 GMT January 20th 2022.
67,181 new cases for Australia and 47 deaths so the CMR is 0.143%. NZ recorded 85 cases and 0 deaths for a CMR of 0.339%. The UK recorded 106,533 cases and 330 deaths for a CMR of 0.981%. 791,065 new cases in the USA yesterday and 3,120 deaths sees CMR at 1.262%. Other notable points: Global cases pass 342M; Global cases set a new daily record of 3,595,136 on 19/1; Europe sets a new daily record with 1,563,954 cases on 19/1; Asia sets a new daily high with 705,559 cases; South America sets a new daily high with 460,442 cases on 19/1; Europe passes 109M cases; North America passes 82M cases; Australia passes 2M cases; The USA passes 70M cases; Uzbekistan (1.307); Venezuela (2,328) on 19/1; Andorra (2,313); Luxembourg (3,070); Estonia (3,845); Moldova (3,907); Costa Rica (6,016); Paraguay (6,770); Lithuania (7,057); Nepal (10,052); Croatia (11,343); Tunisia (12,698); Uruguay (12,997); Chile (13,865); Hungary (15,526); Kazakhstan (15,872); Norway (16,877); Romania (19,105); Guadeloupe (20,806); Denmark (37,987); Japan (39,841); Sweden (39,928) on 19/1; Portugal (56,426); Belgium (53,851); Peru (54,942) on 19/1; and Germany (134,930) ... all recorded new highs; those in blue for the second consecutive day and those in red for a third or more consecutive day. Ukraine moves above the 90th percentile for the 10 day period and Ghana drops below.
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21-01-2022, 06:53 PM | #18086 | ||
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Here's hoping that the downward trend is genuine because part of me is thinking is it could be people just can't be ****ed getting tested these days
If we can overlay testing numbers vs cases it might clear that up a bit. |
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21-01-2022, 08:25 PM | #18087 | |||
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22-01-2022, 08:57 AM | #18088 | ||
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Nationally, test numbers are about 80k/day down on the late December peak but DIY RAT tests are probably more than making up the gap so I think case numbers are starting to fall although hospitalisation numbers are still high.
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Australia
NSW records 20,148 cases in the current period and the 10-day average growth rate decreases to 0.9713 (from 1.0256) while the actual line remains below the predictive trend line. VIC records 16,016 cases in the current period and the 10-day average growth rate decreases to 0.9191 (from 0.9365) while the actual line remains below the predictive trend. No States set new daily highs yesterday (19/1). Here is the predictive trend graph for three States based on cases since Omicron was identified which, for our purposes, will be taken as December 1st. Note that Queensland numbers are a day behind the other two States.
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Well two FIFO workers here in WA tested positive at Perth airport on Thursday, it was pick up using Rapid Antigen Testing, they were on the way to the Pilbara, lucky they dident get there, Perth has a 140 reported exposure sites, and the South West has 30 sites!
CHO Andy Robertson is of the opinion the autumn is the best time to reopen our border, he said the added protection of booster shots would start to wane from the end of March! He said the elderly and healthcare workers who were the first to get booster shot would be affected first. THE WEST AUSTRALIAN. |
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