Hearing lots of fear about the delta variant. Of course it pays to remain vigilant. But so far, vaccines, at least those authorized in the US, are doing a good job against all current variants. Not to say the number of break-through infections is zero, but it’s a low number and mostly mild cases. It’s the unvaccinated that are getting hit hard. Guardedly optimistic!

Finally managed to get a booking for my first jab.  It's still two weeks away but I'm finally in the queue.

Starting to get really worried about Delta getting  a foothold here in the ACT, surrounded as we are by the state of New South Wales, where an incompetent and corrupt state government has totally cocked up its Delta responses, a situation not at all helped by the way the federal government has totally failed its responsibility to secure and roll out sufficient vaccines and establish appropriate quarantine facilities. 

NSW state premier Gladys the Superspreading Bin Chicken really does seem to be heading up just a more modern version of NSW's infamous Rum Corps of early colonial history.

 

Oh, the sTrumpettes and the other Right Wing Nut Jobs like Boris' Brexit Bozos have been infecting Aus politics for years now, via the common source of Rupert Murdoch's media ownership here and in the USA and UK.  The current federal government has been in bed with them for years, and the levels of corruption and rorting have been increasing at a rate that's positively obscene, even as they continue to fail at the two major federal responsibilities of the moment - quarantine and vaccine supply & rollout.

Have a look at the hashtag #auspol on twitter or tweetdeck if at all curious - you probably won't recognise many of the names, but the overall gist of things should be pretty clear.
 

I agree completely Spence.  Being vaccinated is the clear sensible thing to do.

I was looking at the numbers associated with the current NSW outbreak earlier today - the total number of cases detected, the number of cases hospitalised, the number in ICU, and the number of deaths all have the same basic profile in that over 80% of people in each group were unvaccinated.

But politics and logic rarely seem to mix well these days.
 

I am so sorry to see that this has been made a political thing elsewhere also.  It is what happens when people get attached to a story, and forget Diax's Rake (to quote Neal Stephenson from Anathem).

I'm good to go, vaccine-wise, but still worry about the ability to catch it and spread it asymptomatically, especially to persons with compromised immune systems.  So I'm still trying to be very careful with distance, handwashing, and masking.