Thread: Corona Virus

Originally Posted by 350RRC

Problem is that cases can be positive for awhile in the original hotel before being detected.

Yeah that makes sense. I read the post above like the positives were knowingly being kept with the negatives.

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

They still haven't found the source of 'BBQ man' and his partner from the Eastern Suburbs, who were Delta cases. Hopefully it's died out and isn't still circulating untested in NSW. Nor did they trace the source of the Avalon outbreak, which spread to Melbourne.

Mick, these two events have faded into irrelevency. It's too far in the past for the source to be identified (actually, the intermediary source). Do you really think that with it being one of the most contagious variants that it would go undetected for 6 weeks or more? That would imply that there are thousands if not hundreds of thousands of undetected cases circulating but that's not the case is it? Testing result don't bear that out. As for Avalon that was six months ago and long knocked on the head. I guess you could ask the same question about any cluster that has emerged throughout the country. Did they find all the up stream AND down stream cases? Who knows?

I think we can be be assured that, as a nation, we do very well at stopping these outbreaks and with the testing of both people and sewage we can have a far amount of confidence that we are successful in doing that.

Originally Posted by 350RRC

AFAIK that happens here too. The case in question was moved to the Holiday Inn at the airport when tested positive.

Problem is that cases can be positive for awhile in the original hotel before being detected.

Gotta say that out in regional Vic (no lockdown) everyone is very diligently scanning or signing into premises they visit from what I've seen.

DL

DL, that is probably more from the huge fines they can get clobbered with rather that Public Duty.

I heard of one instance here where WW doors were locked by the cops & everyone inside was checked against the sign in book.


I wouldn't have thought that was legal but these days who knows? Apparently they did remove the one way turn stiles for a similar reason ie. "forced captivity", so who knows ?

Originally Posted by 350RRC

AFAIK that happens here too.

DL

Didn't happen in the Adelaide case that resulted in the Melb outbreak. The guy had tested negative the whole time in quarantine but was housed next to someone who had tested positive from the start.

Originally Posted by windsock

Yeah that makes sense. I read the post above like the positives were knowingly being kept with the negatives.

Yes they were - maybe fixed now but a month ago was still happening. That is one of the reasons Howard Springs has worked - even though it is all open air - known positives are kept in a separate secure area, away from the negatives and if a negative turns positive they are immediately moved. Even now in the hotels, a negative turned positive can take up to a day to be moved to a "positive" hotel.

Whoops! Vic woman positive in Caloundra, Qld, after crossing into Qld at Goondi, on the 5th June. Surely not a lockdown runner?

Originally Posted by Saitch

Whoops! Vic woman positive in Caloundra, Qld, after crossing into Qld at Goondi, on the 5th June. Surely not a lockdown runner?

Looks like there'll be a string of sites through NSW and onto the Sunshine Coast now where people will be on tenterhooks.

Originally Posted by rick130

Looks like there'll be a string of sites through NSW and onto the Sunshine Coast now where people will be on tenterhooks.

In Tenterfield?

Have any of these people been fined? Anyone know?

DL