Thread: Corona Virus

Originally Posted by 4bee

Are you rigged up with a Monitor to get that graph?

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Hi,
I got a BP monitor/measurery/digital thingy from the chemist shop and that gives me the Diastolic, Systolic pressures and the pulse rate.
I put these into an app (BP Journal) on the tablet and print/export to a pdf which I can email.
Screenshot attached
"Cheers

Originally Posted by 101RRS

I agree with your sentiments. However many cases are not clear cut and many have had no option to remain overseas.

The biggest issue is the Governments restriction on arrivals per week (4000) and specific restrictions in each international arrival city. Because of this aircraft can only carry a small proportion of their passenger load so airlines want to maximise their return on the trip are only offering Business and First Class fares and no economy so pricing is out of reach of many people - many people who had booked in economy are being bumped off the aircraft unless they pay rip off prices - London to Sydney has seen airfares of $25000 in some instances.

It's not only the international travel where the gouging is occurring.

A group of six of my familyfriends have booked and had cancelled flights - I won't name the airline - from Sydney to Darwin to attend a wedding and all three bookings have been cancelled. To add to the inconvenience, the airline has refused to refund the more than $10,000 for at least 20 weeks!

They have now made a fourth booking, involving shorter stay in Darwin and an overnight stopover in Adelaide. Hopefully this one won't be cancelled.

Along similar lines - two of my grandchildren were heading for Japan in March. Fortunately international travel got stopped just before they were leaving, not after they got there. But they only managed to get their money back last week!

Originally Posted by Xtreme

It's not only the international travel where the gouging is occurring.

A group of six of my familyfriends have booked and had cancelled flights - I won't name the airline - from Sydney to Darwin to attend a wedding and all three bookings have been cancelled. To add to the inconvenience, the airline has refused to refund the more than $10,000 for at least 20 weeks!

They have now made a fourth booking, involving shorter stay in Darwin and an overnight stopover in Adelaide. Hopefully this one won't be cancelled.

BASTARDS!

If the RAAF get involved with travel back to OZ, shirley the Govt. (which ones?) will be compelling airlines to pass the monies back seeing as how they are not providing the service? In fairness it should go to the RAAF/ Taxpayers as part payment for the journeys. Not all of it I hasten to add & certainly not the inflated fares but a reasonable amount to be calculated based on where they are & to where they go..

Residents from the ACT may fly into Qld from next Friday. A decision made at the National cabinet meeting, and little to do with the number of cases in the ACT . Qld stated from the start that their COVID rules would be re-assessed at the end of September. And at the National Cabinet meeting, the motion was passed to finally have the ACT airport accept responsibility for the NSW residents trying to sneak in by the back door.

"National cabinet also agreed on a new regime for domestic air travel, with all passengers required to provide their name, email, mobile number and home state."

Originally Posted by bob10

Residents from the ACT may fly into Qld from next Friday. A decision made at the National cabinet meeting, and little to do with the number of cases in the ACT . Qld stated from the start that their COVID rules would be re-assessed at the end of September. And at the National Cabinet meeting, the motion was passed to finally have the ACT airport accept responsibility for the NSW residents trying to sneak in by the back door.

"National cabinet also agreed on a new regime for domestic air travel, with all passengers required to provide their name, email, mobile number and home state."

Would that be the same covid rules reassessment where the premier said that she would leave the borders closed even if it cost her the election?
Qld premier prepared to lose election over borders

Sorry for bringing documented statements to the story

Regards,
Tote

Originally Posted by Tote

Would that be the same covid rules reassessment where the premier said that she would leave the borders closed even if it cost her the election?
Qld premier prepared to lose election over borders

Sorry for bringing documented statements to the story



Regards,
Tote

Work it out for yourself.

she refused to bow to continued border pressure.





Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says she is willing to lose the upcoming state election to keep people safe.
Responding to what she described as “relentless” attacks on her government and chief health officer’s border measures, Ms Palaszczuk said she made no apologies for decisions that had been made.
“If it means I have to lose the election, I will risk all that if it means keeping Queenslanders safe,” she said on Monday.
“I will always stand up for what I believe to be right in this state.”

5 families breaking COVID rules in Melbourne cause 33 positive cases. They decided it was ok to visit one another during the lockdown.

Some of the visits also went beyond the five-kilometre from home limit that applies in Melbourne.
“It fundamentally highlights the fact this virus knows no boundaries. This virus respects no differences between people. It ultimately thrives on close, human contact,” Mr Weimar said

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‘Undermines the entire strategy’: Rule-breakers spark COVID cluster




The premier has vented his disappointment in rule-breakers. Photo

Victorian health authorities are rushing to suppress a worrying COVID cluster sparked by a handful of rule-breaking households in Melbourne’s south-east.
There were 90 active coronavirus cases linked to the local government areas of Dandenong and Casey on Friday, including 33 linked to five households that have been visiting each other – and breaking Melbourne’s strict Stage 4 lockdown rules in the process.
A “disappointed” Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews said anyone who ignored strict virus measures was putting the state’s entire coronavirus strategy at risk.
“The rules are in place for a reason and anyone who undermines this, undermines the entire strategy, and it means the rules will be on for longer,” he said on Friday.
“We have seen this all the way through, whether it be dinner parties from people who have been on skiing holidays in Aspen … or families that live in the outer south-east, who I don’t think have been to Aspen recently.
“No matter how big your bank balance. If you go visiting and you have this, you will take it with you.”
One of Victoria’s first COVID clusters was sparked by a Melbourne couple who returned home from a skiing holiday with the virus.
Concerns have been raised over a COVID case connected to Fountain Gate shopping centre.The Department of Health and Human Services’ Jeroen Weimar said the 33 active cases (and another that is no longer active) were in just five households in the suburbs of Clyde, Cranbourne North, Hallam and Narre Warren South.
“These five houses in this particular cluster have had, unfortunately, some members of those households visiting other households,” Mr Weimar, who is in charge of the state’s virus testing, said.
Some of the visits also went beyond the five-kilometre from home limit that applies in Melbourne.
“It fundamentally highlights the fact this virus knows no boundaries. This virus respects no differences between people. It ultimately thrives on close, human contact,” Mr Weimar said.
Concerns have also been raised over one of the area’s largest shopping centres, Fountain Gate, after an infected person visited the centre.
The Casey outbreak is Victoria’s largest active cluster outside aged care. The original source remains under investigation.

Melbourne had 45 more virus cases on Friday – its highest number in a week. But the city’s 14-day rolling average of new infections continues to improve, dropping to 42.7.
It must stay below 50 for Melbourne’s coronavirus regulations to be relaxed on September 28.
Asked whether his government would use state of emergency and state of disaster powers to lock down problem suburbs or industries, Mr Andrews said that would not be the solution to the latest outbreaks.
Instead, the focus will remain on testing and contact tracing, described by Mr Andrews as “coronavirus detective work”.
Three new testing sites have opened in the area – at Clyde Recreation Reserve Footy Pavilion, Hallam Secondary College and Noble Park. A fourth site was to open at Dandenong Market on Friday.

Mr Andrews also said infected people who admitted during contact tracing interviews to breaking COVID-19 rules would not be fined.
“Giving contact tracers the correct information in a timely manner is worth more than $1200 to every Victorian,” he said.









Victorian Premier vents his frustration after rule-breaking causes cluster