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Saturday, March 13, 2021 11:23:54 PM
Vaccinated NSW quarantine worker who tested positive to coronavirus was infectious during overnight shift
"IMPT. all countries - Get guards out of corridors at quarantine hotels and get fresh air and CCTV in – experts
"Much of Western Australia goes into five-day lockdown after hotel guard tests positive to UK Covid variant""
NSW Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant (L) and NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard address the media after NSW recorded its first local COVID-19 case in 56 days. Source: AAP
A Sydney hotel quarantine worker who tested positive for COVID-19 on Saturday night had received the first dose of the Pfizer vaccination but was yet to develop immunity, said NSW Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant.
Updated Updated 1 hour ago
By Caroline Riches
A Sydney hotel quarantine security worker who has tested positive to COVID-19 was infectious during his shift on Friday night, causing 130 workers to immediately self-isolate, NSW Health said on Sunday.
NSW announced its first locally acquired case of COVID-19 in 56 days on Sunday after a 47-year-old security worker tested positive on Saturday night during routine testing despite having no symptoms.
The man's four family members have so far tested negative to the virus.
The source of the new infection, which will be included in Monday's numbers, is under investigation and urgent genome sequencing and testing of close contacts are underway, NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard and NSW Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant told the media on Sunday.
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The person, who works at Sydney's Sofitel Sydney Wentworth and Mantra Sydney Central hotels at the weekend and at an office during the week, received his first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccination on March 2, with his next second dose due "in the next week or so," Mr Hazzard said.
Dr Chant said his immune response was not expected to kick in until at least 12 to 14 days after the jab, which means the man was considered infectious during his shift at the Sydney Wentworth hotel on Friday night.
Authorities have asked 130 people who worked at the hotel from 7pm on Friday night to 7am on Saturday to immediately self-isolate and get tested.
"We are asking those individuals to immediately self-isolate and get a test, and basically, that allows us time to work through and ascertain the nature of interaction that this security guard would have had to those quarantine workers," Dr Chant said.
Hotel quarantine staff working multiple jobs was identified as a risk factor in Melbourne's deadly second wave. Hotel quarantine workers are now banned from holding a second job in Victoria, but there is no such restriction in NSW.
NSW Health has also issued alerts on a few Sydney venues visited by the hotel worker
More - https://www.sbs.com.au/news/vaccinated-nsw-quarantine-worker-who-tested-positive-to-coronavirus-was-infectious-during-overnight-shift
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Why Are Conservatives More Susceptible to Believing Lies?
An interplay between how all humans think and how conservatives tend to act might actually explain a lot about our current moment.
[...]
But illusions and delusions are based on conscious or unconscious wishes; Columbus’s belief that he had found a new route to the Indies was a delusion based on his wish that he had done so.
P - Although Freud is out of favor with many contemporary psychologists, modern cognitive psychology suggests that he was on the right track. The tenacity of many of the right’s beliefs in the face of evidence, rational arguments, and common sense suggest that these beliefs are not merely alternate interpretations of facts but are instead illusions rooted in unconscious wishes.
P -AKA, wishfulf'ing thinking.
P - This is a very human thing to do. As popular writers such as Daniel Kahneman, Cass Sunstein, and Richard Thaler have pointed out, we often use shortcuts when we reason, shortcuts that enable us to make decisions quickly and with little expenditure of mental energy.
P - But they also often lead us astray—we underestimate the risks of events that unfold slowly and whose consequences are felt only over the long term (think global warming) and overestimate the likelihood of events that unfold rapidly and have immediate consequences (think terrorist attacks).
[...]
Psychologists have repeatedly reported that self-described conservatives tend to place a higher value than those to their left on deference to tradition and authority. They are more likely to value stability, conformity, and order, and have more difficulty tolerating novelty and ambiguity and uncertainty.
[...]
As one Tea Party member told University of California sociologist Arlie Hochschild, “People think we are not good people if we don’t feel sorry for blacks and immigrants and Syrian refugees. But I am a good person and I don’t feel sorry for them.”
P - Baptist minister and former Republican congressman J.C. Watts put it succinctly. Campaigning for Sen. Rand Paul in Iowa in 2015 he observed, “The difference between Republicans and Democrats is that Republicans believe people are fundamentally bad, while Democrats see people as fundamentally good.”
P - These conservative traits lead directly to conservative views on many issues, just as liberal traits tend to lead to liberal views on many issues. But when you consider how these conservative traits and these conservative views interact with commonly shared patterns of motivated reasoning, it becomes clearer why conservatives may be more likely to run into errors in reasoning and into difficulty judging accurately what is true and what is false.
P - It’s not just that Trump is “their” president, so they want to defend him. Conservatives’ greater acceptance of hierarchy and trust in authority may lead to greater faith that what the president says must be true, even when the “facts” would seem to indicate otherwise.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=159889863
"IMPT. all countries - Get guards out of corridors at quarantine hotels and get fresh air and CCTV in – experts
"Much of Western Australia goes into five-day lockdown after hotel guard tests positive to UK Covid variant""
NSW Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant (L) and NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard address the media after NSW recorded its first local COVID-19 case in 56 days. Source: AAP
A Sydney hotel quarantine worker who tested positive for COVID-19 on Saturday night had received the first dose of the Pfizer vaccination but was yet to develop immunity, said NSW Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant.
Updated Updated 1 hour ago
By Caroline Riches
A Sydney hotel quarantine security worker who has tested positive to COVID-19 was infectious during his shift on Friday night, causing 130 workers to immediately self-isolate, NSW Health said on Sunday.
NSW announced its first locally acquired case of COVID-19 in 56 days on Sunday after a 47-year-old security worker tested positive on Saturday night during routine testing despite having no symptoms.
The man's four family members have so far tested negative to the virus.
The source of the new infection, which will be included in Monday's numbers, is under investigation and urgent genome sequencing and testing of close contacts are underway, NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard and NSW Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant told the media on Sunday.
READ MORE
Scott Morrison announces further $1.1 billion for Australia's COVID fight after receiving second jab
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/scott-morrison-announces-further-1-1-billion-for-australia-s-covid-fight-after-receiving-second-jab
The person, who works at Sydney's Sofitel Sydney Wentworth and Mantra Sydney Central hotels at the weekend and at an office during the week, received his first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccination on March 2, with his next second dose due "in the next week or so," Mr Hazzard said.
Dr Chant said his immune response was not expected to kick in until at least 12 to 14 days after the jab, which means the man was considered infectious during his shift at the Sydney Wentworth hotel on Friday night.
Authorities have asked 130 people who worked at the hotel from 7pm on Friday night to 7am on Saturday to immediately self-isolate and get tested.
"We are asking those individuals to immediately self-isolate and get a test, and basically, that allows us time to work through and ascertain the nature of interaction that this security guard would have had to those quarantine workers," Dr Chant said.
Hotel quarantine staff working multiple jobs was identified as a risk factor in Melbourne's deadly second wave. Hotel quarantine workers are now banned from holding a second job in Victoria, but there is no such restriction in NSW.
NSW Health has also issued alerts on a few Sydney venues visited by the hotel worker
More - https://www.sbs.com.au/news/vaccinated-nsw-quarantine-worker-who-tested-positive-to-coronavirus-was-infectious-during-overnight-shift
See also:
Why Are Conservatives More Susceptible to Believing Lies?
An interplay between how all humans think and how conservatives tend to act might actually explain a lot about our current moment.
[...]
But illusions and delusions are based on conscious or unconscious wishes; Columbus’s belief that he had found a new route to the Indies was a delusion based on his wish that he had done so.
P - Although Freud is out of favor with many contemporary psychologists, modern cognitive psychology suggests that he was on the right track. The tenacity of many of the right’s beliefs in the face of evidence, rational arguments, and common sense suggest that these beliefs are not merely alternate interpretations of facts but are instead illusions rooted in unconscious wishes.
P -AKA, wishfulf'ing thinking.
P - This is a very human thing to do. As popular writers such as Daniel Kahneman, Cass Sunstein, and Richard Thaler have pointed out, we often use shortcuts when we reason, shortcuts that enable us to make decisions quickly and with little expenditure of mental energy.
P - But they also often lead us astray—we underestimate the risks of events that unfold slowly and whose consequences are felt only over the long term (think global warming) and overestimate the likelihood of events that unfold rapidly and have immediate consequences (think terrorist attacks).
[...]
Psychologists have repeatedly reported that self-described conservatives tend to place a higher value than those to their left on deference to tradition and authority. They are more likely to value stability, conformity, and order, and have more difficulty tolerating novelty and ambiguity and uncertainty.
[...]
As one Tea Party member told University of California sociologist Arlie Hochschild, “People think we are not good people if we don’t feel sorry for blacks and immigrants and Syrian refugees. But I am a good person and I don’t feel sorry for them.”
P - Baptist minister and former Republican congressman J.C. Watts put it succinctly. Campaigning for Sen. Rand Paul in Iowa in 2015 he observed, “The difference between Republicans and Democrats is that Republicans believe people are fundamentally bad, while Democrats see people as fundamentally good.”
P - These conservative traits lead directly to conservative views on many issues, just as liberal traits tend to lead to liberal views on many issues. But when you consider how these conservative traits and these conservative views interact with commonly shared patterns of motivated reasoning, it becomes clearer why conservatives may be more likely to run into errors in reasoning and into difficulty judging accurately what is true and what is false.
P - It’s not just that Trump is “their” president, so they want to defend him. Conservatives’ greater acceptance of hierarchy and trust in authority may lead to greater faith that what the president says must be true, even when the “facts” would seem to indicate otherwise.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=159889863
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