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Reply #150 - May 28^th, 2021 at 2:42pm

Highly infectious Melbourne strain
'could become uncontrollable'

By Tom Livingstone • Producer
12:24pm May 27, 2021

https://www.9news.com.au/national/melbourne-coronavirus-update-over-10000-contac...

Health authorities are pleading for Victorians to adhere to the state's circuit-breaker lockdown, with more than 10,000 close contacts already linked to the current outbreak.
Acting Premier James Merlino said there are now 34 active cases of coronavirus in Victoria, 26 of which are directly linked to the hotel quarantine leak in South Australia.
One of those cases is currently in intensive care.
LIVE UPDATES: All the latest breaking news on Melbourne's growing coronavirus outbreak

Mr Merlino said the strain spreading throughout Melbourne is highly infectious and the rate it is spreading has never been seen before.
"In the last day, we've seen more evidence we're dealing with a highly infectious strain of the virus, a variant of concern, which is running faster than we have ever recorded," Mr Merlino said.
"We have identified in excess of 10,000 primary and secondary contacts who will need to either quarantine, or test and isolate, and that number will continue to grow and change.
"Our public health experts' primary concern is how fast this variant is moving.
"We've seen overseas how difficult that movement can be to control.
"Here in Victoria, we're seeing not only how quick it is, but how contagious it is as well."

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Bobby. Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 107309 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Melbourne has the killer Indian variant. Reply #151 - May 28^th, 2021 at 2:43pm Laugh till you cry wrote on May 28^th, 2021 at 2:41pm: Bobby. wrote on May 28^th, 2021 at 2:33pm: Toilet roll section at Woolies today. Halfwits had cleaned it out in less than 12 hours: Bobby was slower than a half-wit? I found a pack of 4 on another shelf.
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Reply #152 - May 28^th, 2021 at 2:44pm

Carl D wrote on May 28^th, 2021 at 2:41pm:

Nothing's changed in well over a year, Bobby.

This was the toilet roll section in Woolworths at The Square, Mirrabooka over a year ago. I believe I posted this picture on this forum at the time - I took it myself.

The date and time 'stamp' is the name of the image:

20200310_131116

10th March, 2020, 1:11pm (and 16 seconds).

Thanks yes - we all remember it.
The idiots are still with us.

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Re: Melbourne has the killer Indian variant.
Reply #153 - May 28^th, 2021 at 2:54pm

Bobby. wrote on May 28^th, 2021 at 2:43pm:

Laugh till you cry wrote on May 28^th, 2021 at 2:41pm:

Bobby. wrote on May 28^th, 2021 at 2:33pm:

Toilet roll section at Woolies today.
Halfwits had cleaned it out in less than 12 hours:

Bobby was slower than a half-wit?

I found a pack of 4 on another shelf.

Valkie was behind you wearing lipstick.

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Bobby. Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 107309 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Melbourne has the killer Indian variant. Reply #154 - May 28^th, 2021 at 3:03pm Laugh till you cry wrote on May 28^th, 2021 at 2:54pm: Valkie was behind you wearing lipstick. Not that there's ....
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Re: Melbourne has the killer Indian variant.
Reply #155 - May 28^th, 2021 at 3:38pm

Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on May 28^th, 2021 at 12:00pm:

rhino wrote on May 28^th, 2021 at 10:54am:

Redmond Neck wrote on May 28^th, 2021 at 8:49am:

Carl D wrote on May 28^th, 2021 at 8:41am:

Bobby. wrote on May 28^th, 2021 at 8:19am:

All my friends are here in Melbourne.

Unfortunately Melbourne suffers from huge
numbers of low IQ people.
Example:
Once again - in only 12 hours the supermarkets
are stripped of toilet paper.
I am frightened to be living next to such
mentally retarded people.

Not just Melbourne, Bobby.

Same thing happened with toilet paper here in Perth during our 3 day ANZAC Day long weekend lockdown and the 5 day one at the beginning of February.

In fact, its happened with every lockdown we've had not just in Australia but overseas as well since the start of the pandemic.

Conclusion: the whole world is full of stupid people these days.

Especially those who wont get the jab! Wink

yeah, the Russian roulette AZ jab. Are those people who died of blood clots the smart ones?

Getting the AZ is not russian roulette.

9 more cases of blood clots today.

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Re: Melbourne has the killer Indian variant.
Reply #156 - May 28^th, 2021 at 4:53pm

I recall a year ago when the first stages of the coronavirus in Australia emerged, we Rockhamptonites had a bit of a laugh at the city folk acting all entitled to hoarding toilet paper in the larger cities. It started in Sydney and Melbourne. The concept of hoarding toilet paper made its way up to Brisbane and the Gold Coast. But by about March, Rockhampton started to see toilet paper rolls disappearing from the supermarket shelves.

I was down to about 2 rolls of toilet paper at home for myself (seeing that I live by myself). I knew that the 2 rolls would last me 2 months. After about 3 weeks (including 2 grocery shopping trips) of not seeing toilet paper on the shelves, the hoarding seemed to die down to a level where I could see stock coming in and toilet rolls were being shelved in the evening. I recall seeing a twenty-something years old woman smugly (ie, eyes half-closed, lips wide expression) ask the attendant stocking the shelves "'scuse me, can I get a roll for myself". It was not like she could not reach and grab a packet from the already stacked shelf. She needed an attendant to hand her one. I felt her entitlement attitude was all for show.

I bought myself an 8-pack of toilet rolls to take home and store. The last roll of toilet paper (from last year's purchase) was about to be used. I kept the packet handy until I started to use the new toilet rolls by May. Since then, I purchased another 8-pack of toilet rolls in March of this year. I still have not used all my toilet rolls from last year's purchase.

It amazes me that people need to use up more than 1 roll of toilet paper per month per person. Back when I lived with my parents, it was a matter of going through one roll of toilet paper per week (seeing that we were a family of 5). Why do people need to go through more than 5 toilet rolls per month (for a family of 5) and have to get 48 rolls of toilet paper? Are they buying up toilet paper for a school? I could understand if the family has people who have bowel conditions where they need to go to the toilet 5 times a day. But, why do people need to purchase so much toilet paper when a lockdown does not necessarily mean that there is going to be no access to shopping?

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Re: Melbourne has the killer Indian variant.
Reply #157 - May 29^th, 2021 at 7:13am

Thousands flee Victoria ahead of lockdown to be met
with restrictions in other states.

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As soon as Victoria’s lockdown was announced yesterday people hopped on earlier flights to flee the state and the Hume Highway out of Melbourne was packed with cars and caravans as thousands left.

However, Victorians will be met with harsh measures if they made it interstate before the seven-day lockdown came into effect with other states imposing various restrictions on travellers.

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Ajax Gold Member Offline CO2 has never controlled temperature on Earth Posts: 10982 Australia Gender:	Re: Melbourne has the killer Indian variant. Reply #158 - May 29^th, 2021 at 8:07am How do the authorities know its the Indian variant...?? Have they isolated the virus in a petri dish from one of the hosts and made a positive ID to the virus in India. Has any variant been isolated and identified as a variant. Quote: Melbourne has the killer Indian variant.
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Re: Melbourne has the killer Indian variant.
Reply #159 - May 29^th, 2021 at 8:21am

Ajax wrote on May 29^th, 2021 at 8:07am:

How do the authorities know its the Indian variant...??

Have they isolated the virus in a petri dish from one of the hosts and made a positive ID to the virus in India.

Has any variant been isolated and identified as a variant.

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Melbourne has the killer Indian variant.

Try here:
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Lineage B.1.617

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Total number of B.1.617 sequences by country as of 21 April 2021[1]
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Lineage B.1.617, also known as G/452R.V3,[2] is one of the known variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.[3] It was first identified in Maharashtra, India on 5 October 2020.[4][5] It has also been referred to as a double mutation variant,[1][6][7] which has been considered 'misleading'.[8]

As of May 2021, three sublineages have been found. Despite its name, B.1.617.3 was the first sublineage of this variant to be detected, in October 2020 in India. This sublineage has remained relatively uncommon compared to the two other sublineages, B.1.617.1 and B.1.617.2, both of which were first detected in December 2020.[9] There were few known cases of B.1.617 (of all sublineages) until early February 2021 when there was a significant increase.[1]

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Ajax Gold Member Offline CO2 has never controlled temperature on Earth Posts: 10982 Australia Gender:	Re: Melbourne has the killer Indian variant. Reply #160 - May 29^th, 2021 at 8:25am Quote: Have they isolated the virus in a petri dish from one of the hosts and made a positive ID to the virus in India. Sounds like covid is here to stay, vaccine or no vaccine.
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Re: Melbourne has the killer Indian variant.
Reply #161 - May 29^th, 2021 at 8:43am

Bobby. wrote on May 29^th, 2021 at 7:13am:

Thousands flee Victoria ahead of lockdown to be met
with restrictions in other states.

21,483 views
•May 27, 2021

As soon as Victoria’s lockdown was announced yesterday people hopped on earlier flights to flee the state and the Hume Highway out of Melbourne was packed with cars and caravans as thousands left.

However, Victorians will be met with harsh measures if they made it interstate before the seven-day lockdown came into effect with other states imposing various restrictions on travellers.

While I have to firstly admit that some of those attempting to flee Victoria before the lockdown might have had a genuine reason to leave the State the majority of them were just trying to "escape" so they wouldn't have to abide by the lockdown rules that everyone left behind has to do.

We've seen this selfish side of people time and time again with previous lockdowns around Australia during the past 12 months - "I don't want to stay here and be locked down, even if its just for 3 or 5 or 7 days and I don't care if I take Covid with me and spread it interstate".

Same applies to the majority of these "stranded Aussies" overseas who have pulled out their Australian passports that have no doubt been gathering dust in a drawer somewhere so they can now attempt to flee "home" to the safe haven of Australia to ride out the rest of the pandemic with no concern whatsoever that they might cause a major Covid outbreak here.

A large percentage of people these days only think about themselves as we've seen with the toilet paper panic buying every time there's a lockdown announced anywhere in Australia.

As someone wrote in our West Australian newspaper after our last 3 day lockdown over the ANZAC Day long weekend at the end of April:

"We're all in this together? If you saw the queues at the supermarkets just after the lockdown was announced it would have been obvious that it was all about looking after number one"

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Bobby. Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 107309 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Melbourne has the killer Indian variant. Reply #162 - May 29^th, 2021 at 8:48am Quote: it was all about looking after number one Melbourne is the big city - it's dog eat dog - it's a concrete jungle - it's always about looking after number 1.
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Re: Melbourne has the killer Indian variant.
Reply #163 - May 29^th, 2021 at 9:00am

Bobby. wrote on May 29^th, 2021 at 8:48am:

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it was all about looking after number one

Melbourne is the big city -
it's dog eat dog -
it's a concrete jungle -
it's always about looking after number 1.

The economic system we have adopted makes people like that.

Until the day comes when we trash the current economic system things will only get worse.

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Re: Melbourne has the killer Indian variant.
Reply #164 - May 29^th, 2021 at 12:46pm

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-05-29/covid-live-updates-coronavirus-victoria-l...

45 active cases in total.

All five new cases today of deadly Indian mutant.

have been linked to previous clusters

Health Minister Martin Foley is live, and updating us on today's latest case information.

Yesterday we recorded five new locally acquired cases, four at the City of Whittlesea and a further one to the Port Melbourne workplace outbreak.

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