Thread: Corona Virus

Regardless as to whether you agree or disagree with it, on the subject in question, it is quite clear that most Australians support sensible, science based, action to control this pandemic. I do not consider this is being stupid, quite the reverse.
Supporting action that will reduce deaths and suffering, and will also have the best economic outcome, is not what I would call stupid, although I would be the first to admit that there are some who do not think so, and rate their perceived freedumb as more important than reality.

Originally Posted by Eevo

i disagree with this.

Perhaps the reason you disagree is that you have been misled by the media that have been giving undo attention to the behaviour of a minority of recalcitrants.

If you follow certain media outlets you might thinks that the majority of Melbourne residents are emulating the anti-mask behaviour of certain residents of the USA.

The evidence shows that they are a smaller minority that they believe and do not deserve the attention they are being given in some media outlets.

Originally Posted by Eevo

thanks for taking the bait.

Sums up the last two and a half pages...

Come on SA. Hope you get on top of this one. I want the SA WA boarder to remain open pretty please. Good luck and best wishes

The good news is ""We just kept getting positives coming off the machine," Dr Spurrier told ABC Radio Adelaide.She said it was "very clear" the cluster was linked with a medi-hotel, where one of the infected people worked." No surprise Wild cases.



Seventeen new cases linked to Adelaide northern suburbs coronavirus cluster - ABC News

Yes and they did not learn the lessons from the Victorian saga - SA has not been testing quarantine hotel staff on a regular basis - it was not until the workers 80yo mother got tested because she had a sniffle that the contagious worked was found - by then too late.

Originally Posted by Eevo

i disagree with this.

Is this a personal observation/tendancy

Originally Posted by Tote

Dedicated quarantine facilities certainly had a place in days gone by, most capital cities had them, however I'm not sure that they are more effective than well managed hotel quarantine. The days have gone where you could employ medical staff to work in total isolation for an indeterminate period to reduce the risk of them inadvertently transmitting infection. WA made good use of Rottnest Island in April but that was a relatively short duration activity.

Regards,
Tote

This info is indicative of the total lack of knowledge of how infectious diseases hospitals and quarantine facilities operated.

My father spent nearly all his career as a physician at Fairfield Infectious Hospital in Melbourne, which had inpatients with all manner of infectious diseases

There was no need at all for the staff to be totally isolated for extended periods because they were thoroughly trained in cross infection prevention techniques. They went home from work at the end of their shifts.

My step mother was a senior nurse there from the the seventies and has recently watched the modern stupidity of nurses, etc wearing their PPE in cafeterias on rest breaks on TV.

She's mortified and very angry about the lack of any sort of expertise being used today after the Fairfield closure in 1994.

This same closure meant that sick Covid patients were treated or inpatients at hospitals all over Melbourne.

It is hardly surprising that around 1700 health professionals sadly contracted the disease.

DL

Sa has been so good at managing covid, its such a shock that there has now been such a possible big outbreak. Hopefully like the last one that was uni students, this cluster is also dealt with just as well. Im curious as to how on earth it got out again as means someone in the hotel was not doing the right thing social distancing