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The Fourth Wave of Covid Just in Time for Christmas. Premier says 'say hello to my little friend' · The Slippery Slope

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  Hi. I'm Jay Fallon, and thank you
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  for listening to the slippery slope.
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  So here in the state of Queensland, which is where I
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  live, it's called the Sunshine State.
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  We have a vast vast Coastline, we have lots of islands, we have
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  great tourist destination alas. We're in the midst of the fourth
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  covid-19 wave. It has been declared by our Mere
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  Anastasia Palace Che. Okay?
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  It's this headline here from ABC News.
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  So you have to, you have to believe me.
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  You have to believe them. It's written.
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  It says the Highlight, the headline says fourth covid-19,
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  wave has arrived in Queensland says the premier masks, advised
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  from Friday, that's today. Actually, if you're listening to
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  this today I'm doing this today. Anyway so Queensland has
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  entered, its fourth covid-19 wave with Ortiz, recommending
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  Masters in certain settings from Friday, Premier Anastasia Palace
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  Shay. She's told State Parliament.
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  There had been an increase in Active, cases in the past week
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  and the doubling. In the number of covid-19
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  patients in hospitals. It's very surprising.
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  Considering the high rate, the high rate of vaccination, uptake
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  in the state in this nation. Now you're going on.
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  So she has told Old thou, she has said, rather that the chief
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  Health officer Jean. John.
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  Gerard had advised, the state's traffic, light covid-19 advisory
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  system should switch from green to Amber.
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  Wow, scary stuff. It says goes on to say.
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  It means that it is recommended that we should wear a mask in
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  healthcare settings on public transport.
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  And rideshares indoors where you cannot socially distance.
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  If you are around people who are vulnerable to covid, Ms, Palace,
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  she said on Thursday, which yesterday, this applies,
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  especially to older members of community and those at risk.
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  She said, so dr. Girard said there was a soup of
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  variance. I'm not sure.
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  I would describe it as that. But anyway, it's what he says,
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  he's a doctor so spreading around the state with no clear
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  dominant, strain yet, it's no clear winner.
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  Huh. So we are seeing growth in xbb
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  and bqi and BQ sorry. Be q1 My Bad be q1.
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  Does seem to be growing particularly quickly in
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  Queensland at the moment. He said it is the same strain
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  that is growing very rapidly in the United States and has spread
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  widely across Europe. The peak of this wave is
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  expected to occur prior to Christmas.
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  Well, that's very good, very kind.
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  It, but its shape remains unknown dr.
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  Girard said the previous three weeks wave.
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  Sorry. The previous three waves had
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  peaked between five and six weeks from the onset.
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  That would put a peak somewhere around the 12th or 19th of
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  December. He said, however information
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  from overseas suggest this wave could be shorter and sharper
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  with a peak closer to the beginning of December Ms, pal.
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  Ashay said there were 105 covid-19 patients in the state's
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  hospitals. Last Thursday compared to 203
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  today with 58% increase in the number of active cases in the
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  past week. So the last week there were 3919
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  Active cases in on Thursday. There were 6,000. 199 the fourth
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  way that we have been expecting now.
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  We believe has arrived Ms. Palace shape Said no one should
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  be alarmed. So I'm very kind of her to tell
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  me, not to be alarmed. We have been living with this
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  virus for a long time and queenslanders know what to do.
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  So the health Minister Yvette Darth, she said the change in
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  covid-19, Risk alert did not mean that any possible
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  directions were being issued by the chief Health officer, it's
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  very kind of them. So instead, it means the chief
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  Health officer is. Indicating to the public that we
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  need to raise our level of alertness and be prepared to
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  take measures to protect ourselves from a higher rate of
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  community transmission. She said, Miss Darcy the see
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  hecho the chief Health officer had also advised that people
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  should take a rapid antigen test or a rat if they were
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  experiencing any symptoms. Of course, the rat tests, don't
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  mean anything. Because if they fit, If they
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  test positive with the rat taste, you still have to go and
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  get the other test and you can no longer.
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  I believe it is. You can no longer send in the
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  Raptors test for work, you know, as proof that you are, positive
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  know. So, I'm not sure why.
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  Anyway, she goes goes on to say, I encourage all queenslanders to
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  take this advice. And what else, what else is
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  being encouraged? Of course, you guessed it.
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  Lucky prize for whoever guesses. It the fourth wave.
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  Set to be less severe. However, however yes you all
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  must go out and get boosted dr. Girard said, his biggest concern
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  ahead of the peak of the fourth Omicron.
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  Wave in Queensland was the number of people older than 50
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  who were not up to date with their covid vaccinations.
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  Exactly. So they've been vaccinated that
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  they may even be boosted but they're not double boosted or
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  not double double double Loop. To go to get up-to-date, go to
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  get all your boosters in, you know why you have to get all
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  your boosters in because a new year is about to start and then
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  we have to start the whole vaccination prostitute with a
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  pro process all over again and you can't be lacking boosters.
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  No wait. He says we know that being
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  up-to-date with vaccinations protects you from
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  hospitalization and death. He said and I know that that is
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  the biggest load of crock I've ever heard.
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  Goes on to say there are significant numbers of people
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  who are still not up to date. Oh no, dr.
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  Girard, it began at this as the state's Chief Health officer.
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  Last December had covid himself last month, it's drama.
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  He said with a high degree of hybrid immunity in the community
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  based on the number of people who have been vaccinated and
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  recovered from covid. He hoped the latest Omicron way
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  would be less severe than past ones.
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  So there you go. Are you fearful Both, are you
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  fearful yet? Because the fourth wife has hit
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  Queensland. However, before, before sawing
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  off, just something else I want to read to you.
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  And this actually comes from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
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  So the federal, the federal government's own webpage.
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  The Australian Bureau of Statistics and I'll put a link
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  up for this page and specifically this section here
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  which is titled provisional mortality.
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  Statistics. So some key statistics in this
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  is in 2022, there were one hundred and eleven thousand and
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  eight deaths that occurred by the 31st of July and were
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  registered by the 30th of September, which is sixteen
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  thousand three hundred and seventy-five more than the
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  average than the historical average.
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  This is 17.3 percent more Hi, it's higher than the historical.
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  Average in July of 2022, there were seventeen thousand nine
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  hundred and thirty six deaths. This is in Australia as a whole,
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  which is two thousand five hundred and three deaths above
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  the historical, average 16.2% above the historical average.
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  There were also three hundred fewer deaths due to covid-19 in.
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  Just than July which is 22.5% fewer deaths now yes you heard
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  me right you heard me right mortality.
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  So deaths, death rates okay has gone up but deaths due to covid
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  have gone down very interesting. Now further down in this page it
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  shows the the graph with the Baseline and it shows very Very,
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  very clearly very clearly in this nation, where we have
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  approximately 96 percent of adults have had covid
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  vaccinations and approximately 72 round that of Center being
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  boosted and then obviously boosted upon boosters and you
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  get the picture. But with all of that and
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  mortality rate is going up. Bots, the interesting thing is
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  we got this rise in all-cause mortality for this year, okay?
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  And they factored out covid deaths.
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  So non covid all coordinates at mortality is up by around,
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  almost 10% going month after month.
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  Okay, it's going up, but the Australian Bureau of Statistics
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  does not offer / or cannot provide any reason.
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  No one seems to know. No one seems to have any idea.
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  Why the deaths are so high. But hey, do what?
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  Dr. Gerard told you, and go out and get another booster because
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  obviously, obviously the boosters or the MRNA vaccine is
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  not messing with your immune system.
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  Obviously, it's not and that could not possibly be.
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  The reason why mortality It's have going up.
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  I can't be the reason because all the experts say it's not the
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  reason I mean mortality rates are up.
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  No one seems to know why there up there up by thousands and
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  thousands in Australia. I'm sorry, I shouldn't be
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  laughing because it's a, it's a very, very serious matter.
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  Mortality rates are up. No one seems to know why and yet
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  the fourth wave. Has he Queensland?
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  So, obviously, you should All go out and get your boosters
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  because that's the best protection as the good doctor
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  said against hospitalization and even death.
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  Why die of covid? When you way more likely to die
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  of something else? And no one knows why it's a
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  mystery. Hey that's just my opinion.
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  It's your body. It's your life.
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  Do with it as you will. That's just my opinion.
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  Thank you for listening to the slippery slope.
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  Ugh.