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Aussie/NZ COVID.
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Sorry dudes - yep - final exam, which gives them a special university entry rank number out of 100. For example, you need an atar of 95 or so to do law or medicine at Sydney University. Essentially, that means you need 90% in all your subjects (scaling also applies here).What is HSC?
Aussie translation please, wankers.
I'm on week two and I would just like to say even with a mask on I am a treasure.
I feel for them. The online learning thing is one aspect and my seniors have been pretty good (jnr's are another story). But they miss all of that great end-of-year stuff: last days of school, muck up day, graduation, formal. I've heard a few rumours that the only exam they will actually sit is English... We can wait and see whether this will actually transpire or not.
I had a student from NZ who was here on a soccer scholarship.
He was so far ahead of the other kids.
I used to joke around with him saying, "I'm sorry you have to deal with all these stupid America people."
Smart kids will be fine. They alway are.
Being black isn't what makes you not have privilege..
It's being stupid.
Ugly comes next.
Stupid ugly people are the worst. And they rarely know they have either affliction.
A year ago we were hoping it would be the magic bullet, the big worry then was if it was even possible to develop a COVID vaccine.
The world has succeeded better than expectations, multiple vaccines produced with an efficacy better than our garden variety flu vaccines (don't hold me to that, but I heard one of our experts say that about efficacy - we have lots of experts, that is academics with real degrees in epidemiology, but they have been saying different things at different stages).
We now know that it is not a magic bullet. This idea of herd immunity at 80% vaxxed not possible due to incredible transmissible nature of delta and who knows what will come next. Also preventing sickness does not mean preventing catching it and transmitting it. We are already being prepared that the new normal will be a masked new normal.
The way I see it though, that our only way forward is to get vaxxed regardless of how effective it is. I don't think we have the stomach for the Swedish way and the way the states are operate against each other with locked borders it does not look possible to open up before we reach 80%. In principle the states are in agreement with our 70% - 80% Doherty plan (even if they will act on it differently). The people don't seem to be objecting to it. So I think its just get on with getting vaxxed and see what happens.
Agree. I got Pfizer jab #2 earlier tonight - doing my bit.
I put it around 1 in 4, maybe higher as I interact and see behaviors of close peers and family for myself, have absolutely lost their marbles.
All exhibit a high sensitivity to stimulus, regardless of what it is, and their irrational fears take over as they “boil over” and fall into a suck cycle demanding power over the situation to alleviate their fears.
mental health is absolutely the next big issue. and as casa says, lifestyle decisions due to poor mental health (see: drinking to numb the pain/boredom) will lead to even bigger downstream issues.
All exhibit a high sensitivity to stimulus, regardless of what it is, and their irrational fears take over as they “boil over” and fall into a suck cycle demanding power over the situation to alleviate their fears.
mental health is absolutely the next big issue. and as casa says, lifestyle decisions due to poor mental health (see: drinking to numb the pain/boredom) will lead to even bigger downstream issues.
Freeride is probably too humble to post this here, but he wrote a nice piece for swellnet.....
www.swellnet.com
Localism in the Time of Lockdown | Swellnet Dispatch | Swellnet
Very different from state to state.
The Border Closure At Tweed Heads Is Choking Australian Surf Business
The hub of the Australian surf industry sits on the borderline of NSW and QLD. New lockdown restrictions are causing major issues for surf business.
stabmag.com
The one benefit to this nonsense is that all the good surfboard manufacturers are keeping their online stock up to date too.
Ankle bracelets are so 90's.