Thread: Corona Virus

Originally Posted by 350RRC

I thought aged care workers were not allowed to work at multiple premises any more.

DL

I think the wording is ‘Advised not to work across multiple sites’. There is no ban as such as this was seen as potentially causing harm and issues as most ages care facilities run on fumes and often need to get people in at short notice to cover shifts and also the workers can sometimes only be offered a few hours a week at any facility.

Originally Posted by 350RRC

I thought aged care workers were not allowed to work at multiple premises any more.

DL

Diver, I saw this & thought of you but couldn't be buggered opening another thread.


I’m one of those irritating people who says they like running and actually means it | Emma Kemp | The Guardian
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Originally Posted by 4bee

Diver, I saw this & thought of you but couldn't be buggered opening another thread.


I’m one of those irritating people who says they like running and actually means it | Emma Kemp | The Guardian
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I am annoying plus- I loved running. trying hard to do it all over again. Hopping about like a nut at the moment trying to recover the lazy buggers muscles in my right leg. Never been worried about looking kooky happily

Back on bloody covid
The bit they are playing say staffing at aged care "only get offered the Commonwealth Vaccine IF they happen to have spare" is possibly one of the stupidest policies I have heard. Ring to see if I can refuse to allow anyone at my place to come to work if they refuse to get a vaccine. I have hundreds+++ of over 50 and a few at or close the the 100 year old mark. Just doing my training update. Cut and paste police alert

For people over the age of 50, the risk of death from COVID-19 progressively increases throughout each decade of age. From about 2 times as high for those aged 50–59 years to over10 times higher for those aged over 80 years. Findings were similar when results were adjusted for other risk factors. In Australia, the COVID-19 case fatality ratio increased substantially with age, from 0.6% in those aged 50–64 years, to 7.0% in those aged 65–79 years and 33.8% in those aged over 80 years (ATAGI, 2021b).

James, we don't have a problem with C&P per se, but it has to be attributed, relivant and justified.
Copyright allows the publication of others' intellectual work for review, which discussion justifies.

Originally Posted by 350RRC

I thought aged care workers were not allowed to work at multiple premises any more.

DL

States don't allow it, but the federal government does. These outbreaks are in federal aged care, not state.
Now four aged care homes and three schools affected. Worrying trend.

Originally Posted by Arapiles

Peter Harcher's take on it:

PM’s complacency is infectious. It’s time he caught the quarantine fever

"South Australia’s Chief Health Officer, Nicola Spurrier, says that the state’s quarantine protocols were not breached ....... So the system worked perfectly, and protocols were observed, according to the SA government. The shutdown of Victoria for a week is all part of the smooth functioning of the SA hotel quarantine, apparently. Good try, team. It’s a debacle and today Victoria is paying for it."

I guess that from SA Health's point of view if the infections aren't in SA then the system was successful.

And how did it happen?

“On one occasion, Case B opened his room door to collect his meal, then 18 seconds later Case A opened his door to collect his meal,” according to the report from SA Health this week. “This was during the time Case B was infectious but prior to staff knowing.”

This seems to have been the critical moment where infection passed to Case A, who then went to Victoria, unwittingly spreading the virus as he went. Notably, SA Health claims that there were “adequate ventilation levels in the corridor” but that perhaps the “adequate ventilation” hadn’t had time to flush away the virus-laden air exhaled by Case B.

Clearly the ventilation in the corridor wasn't adequate ..... and as a result a city of 5 million is in lockdown.

- When a bloggers Wife knows MORE about te subject (Air flow...) in question than the Powers That Be / Technical Advisors & Politicians....then we have a Houston-scale problem

Soooo...... why not put "prisoners" at different ends of the same floor.. or better still, different floors... or hotels... or outdoor venues. Rocket Science it ain't !

Until then, what's the problem with issuing everyone in Jail with Ivermectin or HCQ + Zinc ? Virus replication is all done by the first week of infection, and reducing the breeders in this window can only be good...
- What? - Sorry, I forgot... IVM is banned, (6 months incarceration in QLD for a DOCTOR caught prescribing it off-label.) Oh well, the Nobel mob have an odd view then, they're considering giving lots of money and laurels to a NY doctor who used HCQ to keep most ofl his pts alive and eventually well.

Early reports had him winning..... Dr. Vladimir Zelenko nominated for Nobel Peace Prize - Frontline News

HCQ proponent Dr. Vladimir Zelenko nominated for Nobel Prize

Originally Posted by 350RRC

I thought aged care workers were not allowed to work at multiple premises any more.

DL

The Commonwealth lifted the restriction in the aged care homes it regulates in Victoria:

Victoria COVID: Canberra withdrew rules on single-site working in aged care homes

Not looking good for the lockdown to end on Friday. Prof Mary-Louise McLaws says it normally needs at least a 14 day infection cycle, and preferably 28 days, to track and suppress a Covid outbreak.