Thread: Covid Mk ll

Originally Posted by JDNSW

Sounds a bit like the case on a field crew in Papua fifty years ago. The observer's expat offsider was sent along the line looking for a cable fault, with a local to carry test gear. This particular line was in a kunai swamp, and they were walking through waist deep water (no wonder there was a cable fault), when a croc surfaced a few metres away. The expat made record speed walking on water to the nearest tree, where the local (who had been behind him), reached down to help him up. They remained up the tree until another man was sent along to see why they had not reported in, about an hour later. No sign of the croc after the initial sighting.

As an aside, it was just near there that the Brisbane head office sent the accountant out to check on why progress was so slow. We dropped him off at one helipad and walked him along to the next, about half a mile away - wading waist deep in water, grass standing 2m high above the line ensuring not a breath of breeze, sun directly overhead, temperature around 35C, humidity close to 100%. We thought he was going to die on us, but he got his data, and we sent him back to make his report. Never had any more trouble from him. (Did I mention the leeches?)

That was one way to fix his duff. Bloody HO Staff!

Originally Posted by Saitch

No, 4bee. 'Throat deep'. It makes your comment a bit shallow.

Only by a few mm, shirley?

PCR negative. I love nurses. I had ordered the throat swab wording with care to avoid the low brow - I lost again

The I smell a RAT was confirmed by some hard working pathology crew at 5.08 this morning. No excuses for me now. Hundreds to vaccinate today My 7 days of lazy loafing cut down to seven days due to the other sod who actually had covid. Sending him to work today as well at last.

My RAT was a single line and the smudge of a 2nd line found my the boss was 40ish minutes late. My nurse suggested correctly smudges after 20 minutes are not valid

Port Fairy marathon training back out side - my skipping dayz are over

Originally Posted by NavyDiver

PCR negative. I love nurses. I had ordered the throat swab wording with care to avoid the low brow - I lost again

The I smell a RAT was confirmed by some hard working pathology crew at 5.08 this morning. No excuses for me now. Hundreds to vaccinate today My 7 days of lazy loafing cut down to seven days due to the other sod who actually had covid. Sending him to work today as well at last.

My RAT was a single line and the smudge of a 2nd line found my the boss was 40ish minutes late. My nurse suggested correctly smudges after 20 minutes are not valid

Port Fairy marathon training back out side - my skipping dayz are over

Your toezies will appreciate that.

It seems the nurses in ICU in Liverpool Hospital don't think all is ok on the Hospital front. ICU nurses in the front line of the pandemic plan to protest, while the NSW Nurses & Midwives Association has said 6 out of 10 NSW ICU Nurses said in a recent survey " they have no intention of sticking around " once the OMICRON outbreak subsides.

Exhausted nurses to protest in 'despair' as leaders discuss health system (thenewdaily.com.au)

Originally Posted by bob10

It seems the nurses in ICU in Liverpool Hospital don't think all is ok on the Hospital front. ICU nurses in the front line of the pandemic plan to protest, while the NSW Nurses & Midwives Association has said 6 out of 10 NSW ICU Nurses said in a recent survey " they have no intention of sticking around " once the OMICRON outbreak subsides.

Exhausted nurses to protest in 'despair' as leaders discuss health system (thenewdaily.com.au)

That was bound to happen, they all must have been going like the clappers without much of a decent break but they all seem to have stuck to their code of putting the Patient first AKA as "The Nightingale Pledge."


There will be more Oz wide, just wait & see.

Originally Posted by 4bee

That was bound to happen, they all must have been going like the clappers without much of a decent break.


There will be more Oz wide, just wait & see.

Talking to a nurse who took my stitches out of the wound from the cancer removal recently, she was casual in a Private Hospital, they were all on 'level four' , no holidays, no days off , double shifts , all those who left to go to other jobs [ like her] were on standby to be called back to ICU or COVID wards. She told me the Private hospital she worked at placed the dementia ward next to the COVID ward [ or the other way round] and dementia patients wandered in & out of the COVID ward early in the piece. She couldn't get out quick enough.

Originally Posted by bob10

Talking to a nurse who took my stitches out of the wound from the cancer removal recently, she was casual in a Private Hospital, they were all on 'level four' , no holidays, no days off , double shifts , all those who left to go to other jobs [ like her] were on standby to be called back to ICU or COVID wards. She told me the Private hospital she worked at placed the dementia ward next to the COVID ward [ or the other way round] and dementia patients wandered in & out of the COVID ward early in the piece. She couldn't get out quick enough.

WTF!