Coronavirus - Australia
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The Victoria situation is why the people saying 'we should imply protect the vulnerable and let everyone else live their lives' are misguided IMO.
It's so fkn hard to protect nursing homes from this, it seems. Once it's in the community it's very hard to stop. Even still there are new Victorian nursing homes picking up cases - how could that happen?
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@barbarian said in Coronavirus - Australia:
The Victoria situation is why the people saying 'we should imply protect the vulnerable and let everyone else live their lives' are misguided IMO.
It's so fkn hard to protect nursing homes from this, it seems. Once it's in the community it's very hard to stop. Even still there are new Victorian nursing homes picking up cases - how could that happen?
We get the fittest of the oldies to manage the place, the air force can drop supplies via helicopter.
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the paradox, as i see it, one of the many issues people have with the current lockdown is the inability to visit the elderly in rest homes but "better" management of these rest homes to allow other restrictions to ease would surely mean no one in or out of them other than staff
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@ACT-Crusader said in Coronavirus - Australia:
It goes a long way to explaining what a monumental fuck up it became. I bet there are PS trawling their email archive looking for something that says "isn't there a better qualified department to deal with quarantine?"
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@dogmeat said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@barbarian whilst it's primarily the elderly and then pre-existing conditions - it's not exclusively so.
Children are also dying from C-19. Just in small numbers.
Increase the number of cases at any one time and younger healthier people are at greater risk of dying
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@Kiwiwomble said in Coronavirus - Australia:
the paradox, as i see it, one of the many issues people have with the current lockdown is the inability to visit the elderly in rest homes but "better" management of these rest homes to allow other restrictions to ease would surely mean no one in or out of them other than staff
I almost wonder if staff become live in
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some of the shit coming out is unbelievable
the NT are closing their borders for 18 fucking months!!!!
I am very close to cancelling my accomodation in Sydney for New Years because that is looking dicey as hell.
We're all in this together my ass.
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@mariner4life I was supposed to be on the bike as of this Saturday into Qld, SA, NT and WA.
I'm not even pretending that's going ahead now. This is cooperative federalism...
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@antipodean said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@mariner4life I was supposed to be on the bike as of this Saturday into Qld, SA, NT and WA.
I'm not even pretending that's going ahead now. This is cooperative federalism...
it's keeping families apart. This country has a huge amount of FIFO workers who cannot get home now.
People can't visit relatives. You can't do business. It's infuriating. And to think there is no end in sight...
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I understand the State's closing their borders.
M4L - does FNQ have the health system to deal with an influx of virus-ridden retirees? I'm not sure it does. Likewise coastal communities in NSW.
As it stands it might be better to have a smaller intrastate travel market than no market at all.
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@antipodean we had to cancel a long weekend and that was gutting enough, cant imagine having to cancel what i imagine was a much longer and more planned out trip
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@barbarian said in Coronavirus - Australia:
I understand the State's closing their borders.
M4L - does FNQ have the health system to deal with an influx of virus-ridden retirees? I'm not sure it does. Likewise coastal communities in NSW.
As it stands it might be better to have a smaller intrastate travel market than no market at all.
what influx? from where?
We have 2 hospitals. In 18 months we will have, 2 hospitals. Are we saying no one come to Cairns ever?
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@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@barbarian said in Coronavirus - Australia:
I understand the State's closing their borders.
M4L - does FNQ have the health system to deal with an influx of virus-ridden retirees? I'm not sure it does. Likewise coastal communities in NSW.
As it stands it might be better to have a smaller intrastate travel market than no market at all.
what influx? from where?
We have 2 hospitals. In 18 months we will have, 2 hospitals. Are we saying no one come to Cairns ever?
No, but if the virus spreads through Sydney and borders are open, isn't there a risk of it coming into the community?
Then you have the residents plus the grey nomads and holiday makers, and once they get it it's not like they can get on a plane home.
Influx probably wasn't the right term to use, but holiday/retiree spots are certainly a bit vulnerable...
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@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@antipodean said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@mariner4life I was supposed to be on the bike as of this Saturday into Qld, SA, NT and WA.
I'm not even pretending that's going ahead now. This is cooperative federalism...
it's keeping families apart. This country has a huge amount of FIFO workers who cannot get home now.
I'm thankful I got to Qld when I did. It had a been a year since I was last there and it's looking increasingly uncertain when I can go back.
People can't visit relatives. You can't do business. It's infuriating. And to think there is no end in sight...
All because 0.085% of the population as of yesterday had a virus and 0.001% had died from it. Over seven months...