Australian Authorities Urge People to Work from Home and Take Boosters Because Coronavirus is Back

All those people who said “Anglin, you’re crazy, the coronavirus is over, there’s no way they can bring it back after they lose the war in the Ukraine.”

Are you going to apologize, or what?

We have records. I have the screenshots, you bastards. How about looking at the record of the Stormer, and doing a little bit of trusting?

Reuters:

Australians admitted to hospitals from COVID-19 neared record levels on Wednesday as authorities urged businesses to let staff work from home and recommended people wear masks indoors and get booster shots urgently amid a major coronavirus outbreak.

Australia is in the grip of a third Omicron wave driven by the highly transmissible new subvariants, BA.4 and BA.5, with more than 300,000 cases recorded over the past seven days. Authorities say the actual numbers could be double that total, and Wednesday’s 53,850 new cases was the highest daily tally in two months.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is resisting pressure to reinstate tough curbs to halt the spread of the virus, including making masks mandatory indoors, though he encouraged people to wear it.

“The truth is that if you have mandates, you’ve got to enforce them,” Albanese told reporters on Wednesday. “Whilst there are mandates on public transport … not everyone is wearing a mask.”

Albanese said businesses and employees must decide together on any work-from-home arrangement, as unions called for employers to do more for their staff.

Employers must go beyond the government’s pandemic leave payments and provide paid leave at full pay for workers who need to isolate, and offer free rapid antigen tests, Australian Council of Trade Unions President Michele O’Neil said.

“No worker should have to decide between putting food on the table or isolating with COVID,” O’Neil said.

Last week, Australia reinstated support payments for casual workers who have to quarantine.

Australia’s Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly predicted the number of people ending up in hospital will soon hit a record high, and urged businesses to let more staff work from home.

Australia could see “millions” of new cases over the coming weeks, authorities have warned.

Authorities have also warned of a lag in people taking their booster shots.

So far, 95% of people above 16 have had two doses, helping keep Australia’s total COVID-19 cases just under 9 million and deaths at 10,884, far lower than many countries. But only about 71% have received three or more doses.

Of course coronavirus is back.

Of course it is.

What was the other option?

Winning the war in the Ukraine or even dragging it out indefinitely was never really an option, and even if it was an option, it was not enough to keep people excited. Global warming is a driver of policy, but it doesn’t get people into an excited state.

Collapsing the economy on purpose at a rapid pace creates the wrong kind of excitement.

There was never any option but to go back to coronavirus.

Now, it is back, and it’s coming back harder, and you all deserve it for questioning me.