AusCycling Will Not be Entering Riders for the Maribor DH World Cup
AusCycling has announced that they will not be entering any riders for UCI World Cup events before April 30.
The Australian cycling federation has revealed its decision to not enter riders to events in the period before the end of April. This includes the first round of the 2021 DH World Cup in Maribor. The new ruling will include all federation and individual entries to UCI World Cup events but it does not include riders who are a part of overseas-based UCI registered trade teams or Australian riders who live outside of the country.
 | AusCycling will NOT enter riders in UCI World Cup events over which it has entry jurisdiction between now and 30 April 2021. For clarity this includes: Federation entries (riders without the required UCI ranking points) Individual entries (riders with the required UCI rankings points) The following exceptions to the above apply: Riders that are contracted to overseas-based UCI registered trade teams Riders who are residentially based overseas AusCycling continues to monitor the global situation and will review the situation. |
AusCycling has also stated that the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) is continuing to advise that overseas travel from Australia is banned and citizens cannot leave without an exemption from DFAT.
Australia's federal government has recently reduced the number of available places in quarantine hotels making any return to the country expensive and difficult. This change could lead to athletes being stranded overseas for an extended period with a reduced number of available flights.
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www.health.govt.nz/our-work/diseases-and-conditions/covid-19-novel-coronavirus/covid-19-data-and-statistics/covid-19-current-cases
www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/04/my-city-australia-locked-down-single-covid-19-case-we-welcome-restrictions/%3foutputType=amp
Our numbers are largely falsified. Look at what just came out on Cuomo in NY. All kinds of death certs say covid and it was not covid - I know of two confirmed just myself (one a motorcycle crash and another cancer). Hospitals in the spring calling cases covid without even testing (I know - my good friend is a director of nursing at a major hospital). Not to mention the US tests about 10X more people on average than any of these other countries. Yet published deaths for US 2020 no different than any year in the past decade??? Wake up and do your own research rather than blindly trusting a media source owned by Amazon.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Australia
@swellhunter:
I’m all for the US testing as much as we are, but the risk isn’t nearly as bad as people think it is. As it is based on our current numbers, there’s only a mortality rate of just under 2%. And inherently because of how our hospital system has been tracking Covid deaths it’s lower than that. Of the few people I know who have had it, one high risk, they’ve had mild cold and flu like symptoms for a week or so and then been perfectly fine.
You know that “just under 2% mortality” is more than 470,000 deaths right. Are you ok with that?
Ok say, for sake of argument that half of the death reported are not from covid. That still leaves you with +235,000 preventable deaths. In my case y do know multiple people that have been badly sick or have died in the last year from covid. I am surprised by the lack of empathy. Empathy does not mean you are weak it means you can understand other people’s suffering.
And you can do something about it, instead of denial, you could empathize with the sick and the family of the dead and not push a false narrative that promotes people to not socially distance, wear masks and in general take care of thy neighbors.
I'd love for you to speak to the 400k family members in person but you won't because the internet is the only mask you'll ever agree to wear
And to go with your argument, the same can be said about any virus. That’s why, despite it largely not trending towards it, there are deaths from the common cold, the flu, pneumonia, bronchitis, and many more diseases and viruses that there is treatment for and aren’t generally seen as dangerous
Did you know that 63% of all statistics are made up?
Those are two democracies. Could somebody who lives in Australia or New Zealand explain to this person what type of government you have?
An actual freedom-loving island nation just above us is closing in on 120,000 dead (at least) and nobody's going anywhere anytime soon.
(Please mind the chasm)
dailyhive.com/vancouver/overpopulation-billboard-campaign-vancouver
Personally, I don't have a problem with erring on the side of caution, but there isn't necessarily a "one size fits all" answer that applies to every country. While my situation has not really changed (arguably improved) during this situation, I also know a number of people who's lives have been decimated. I wonder if a middle ground could have been found.
"The Economist Intelligence Unit's 2020 Democracy Index has just been released.
It weighed data from 167 countries to provide a snapshot of democracy worldwide, with a focus on the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Factors taken into consideration were electoral process, the functioning of government, political participation and culture, and civil liberties.
New Zealand scored 9.25 out of 10 in the latest index - a fraction less than in 2019.
Norway topped the list, followed by Iceland and Sweden, while North Korea came last with a score of 1.08 out of 10.
The US was defined as a "flawed democracy" and ranked 25th, with a score of 7.92.
"The negatives [for USA] include extremely low levels of trust in institutions and political parties, deep dysfunction in the functioning of government, increasing threats to freedom of expression, and a degree of societal polarisation that makes consensus almost impossible to achieve.
"Social cohesion has collapsed ... the new president, Joe Biden, faces a huge challenge in bringing together a country that is deeply divided over core values," the report stated."
'Oral' too is contraceptive
P.S. RIP @blowmyfuse
There have been exactly ZERO student deaths between kindergarten and high school. That's ages 5-19.
ZERO DEATHS of children over the age of 5 in a state of 10.5 Million people in a YEAR.
files.nc.gov/covid/documents/dashboard/Weekly-Ongoing-Clusters-in-Child-Care-and-School-Settings.pdf
YOU go run and hide under the nearest rock bud. I personally fought for this country to be F-R-E-E, thus will continue to exercise MY free will and live my life accordingly
Theyy are coming!!!! Ahhh
That is the government and high democracy we have in Australia and NZ..
www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-covid-19-deaths-are-counted1
Feel free to read it. It isn't a peer approved scientific journal article but I guess it is pretty reliable and balanced.
All the charter flights and quarantine for the Aus Open people was paid for by Tennis Australia. This is as much a statement about the amount of funding Cycling Australia doesn’t have to send our own athletes overseas.
As with most political augments between opposing sides. Both of you have points that can be considered correct.
Australia swings between a Social Democracy and a Market Democracy, depending on whether the left or right side of government is in power. ( Dems vs Rep....)
All adults are required to vote at every election by law. So the average Aussie would say that we are a democratic nation.
However, Australia like the US. Has a very healthy and legal political donation system (bribery), that allows multinational companies to direct which major policy directions the government take, by offering massive donations to who ever’s in power. Often against the bulk populations wishes ( this is why, Aussies generally hate Politicians)
An to add to it, we are also under the rule of the Queen. As we are a British commonwealth nation. In the late 70’s, the Queen didn’t like the elected socialist government. An so she tossed out our Prime Minster, and replaced him with her favoured conservative government party.
The WHO also doesn’t rate Australia very highly, on the world democratic scale. Due to our current government removing the workers right to strike, and imposing criminal convictions against unapproved industrial strike action ( similar to that of Hong Kong)
Most political scientists around the world agree, that Australia is a Plutocracy ( general controlled by billionaires, an multinational companies)
www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvss/vsrg/vsrg03-508.pdf
What it actually says is (and I know you have read it but this is for everybody else who might be interested) on page 2 of 7.
Here's the cdc link referring to the same information in the above link, page 2 around paragraph 5. www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvss/vsrg/vsrg03-508.pdf
Also when people die from the flu it's because the pickup secondary infections like pneumonia and organ failure from sepsis, sounds familiar? As well flu deaths are not recorded by the CDC but estimated from positive lab results. Doctors believe the numbers to be higher because most older people try and tough it and not go to the hospital so when they die of pneumonia or organ failure they chock it up to underlying conditions because they don't test for the flu after you die. Take it with a grain of salt but don't take it as an argument, context is lost in the comments. I try and read people's comments with a voice of humor or shit talking because it quickly goes downhill if not. But when people start insulting or dismissing people cause they can't handle a difference in opinions or facts that's when I get bent out of shape. Good day sir, truly hope you and your family are staying safe over there.
Stay Healthy and Safe out there World
A staff member caught it as this ‘South African’ strain is highly infectious.
They think there are around 500 close contacts linked to this outbreak.
The 5 day lockdown is not linked to the tennis at all.
Apparently the highways out of Melbourne in all directions were packed last night, as people are treating it as a long weekend.
Pretty selfish, and defeats the purpose of the lockdown
And again all will not be accountable, noone knows who gave the order and the idiot Melbourne public will forgive or be scared into submission as the poor, less secure and children get poorer, stupider and more dependent on the state. Woeful.
The only news I need is the Pinkbike front page every day.
This is on top of the other ruling. All depends on how easy a DFAT extension is to come by.
Unfortunately lots of people with low level infection can get a negative test and as the infection develops they will return a positive test. You need more than one test to be sure someone is negative.
Our hotel quarantine needs rethinking at the moment. Surprisingly, packing people who are likely infected with covid into small, densely packed rooms which will share some air isn't a good idea. It only took 12 months to figure that out... We have a facility with separate buildings that has led to no outbreaks. My gosh it is genius that we have put two and two together.
Largely Aussies and Kiwis are pretty bloody happy with how their democratically elected dictator governments have handled this. Mostly because we have spent the most part of the year dicking around like nothing has happened. We're more likely to get pissed off now that they didn't lock down quicker if there is an outbreak, because getting it early has been shown to result in shorter lockdown.
This is what I did to work in Jamaica recently.
Australia's second wave of outbreak and other small outbreaks since then were all sourced from quarantine. DFAT's approach makes sense and it appears that most Australians are happy. As it stands at the moment, I can go most places in Australia without a fear of catching COVID.
Restricting departures allows more people to return home.
Still bullshit that they let so many people in for tennis.
The rest of Australia is broadly in the same situation except when an outbreak pops up from returned travellers. I hugely feel for the people affected by it (especially musos and the arts) but damn we did the right thing.
While this has usually been done to prevent travel to particular locals (think Cuba), the president has statutory authority to prevent travel.
As per Haig v. Agee and the Passport Act of 1926 (currently codified at 22 U.S.C. § 211a et seq.), the Presidential administration may deny or revoke passports for foreign policy or national security reasons at any time.
Additionally it is against the law for a United States citizen to leave or enter the country without a passport. Though exceptions have been made in the past for friendly neighbors.
Results in 24 hours is common.
Chances of catching c19 within that window of pcr testing and boarding/flying is pretty low.
"AusCycling has also stated that the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) is continuing to advise that overseas travel from Australia is banned and citizens cannot leave without an exemption from DFAT."
Seems like I have been censored. You win.
You obviously know down votes already exist.....?
DUDE get help, you need it
Always going to be people in one country who would prefer the liberties of the other.
I'm glad our government is so strict and the citizens have followed the rules.
Tomorrow I'll go for a big group ride, we will finish at the pub and sink a few schooners and no one will get covid
Maybe you don't care about that but it's undeniably a difference.
Its not the risk of catching it that matters, its the risk of surviving if you do. Many things are for more dangerous and fatal.
climateactiontracker.org/countries/australia