Thanks in no part to Domicron Pairoftits we are now leading the way in new cases. And I know, the company line is now about how many are in hospital or ICU, but even the people getting sick and not going to hospital are still having a dire effect on the community. How many businesses have had to shutdown for a fortnight or so due to having no staff?
Either we start treating this like the common cold, an endemic – accept that everyone will get it and just go about our lives like normal, or we treat it like a pandemic and still have people isolating.
| Fortnight ending | AUS | NSW | VIC |
| Jan 8 2022 | 559,058 | 301,901 | 143,518 |
| Dec 25 2021 | 65,194 | 39,002 | 20,626 |
| Dec 11 2021 | 20,619 | 4,276 | 16,071 |
That means that in the last fortnight we have had 65% of our total case count of 850,349 nationally.
Looking at those numbers, it would mean we have at least 1 million people in their own lockdowns; 559,058 due to being positive and at least that number again in close contacts. Thankfully the number of people in hospital is less than 3000 but of those in lockdown, only the positive people that don’t have sick leave or annual leave are entitled to the government support (which is taxable) of $750. The close contacts don’t get any support now unless they can’t work because they are caring for a positive case.