What I don’t understand is how does finding info that fuels rage and division help them cope with the lockdown. Surely that makes it worse, it’s like searching every morning for a new pair of bricks to smash your nuts between,
I’m speaking for myself here, but the days I let myself get angry over something (Australia post taking 12 days to deliver a package traveling from Epping to Ferntree Gully for instance) are worse days for me than the days I just accept my current reality and binge some episodes of Cobra Kai.
Nah I feel you bud. Usually when I get in a prik of a mood I can distract myself pretty easily and move on, but it’s hard to do in a little apartment and I’m stewing in the mood for longer than I’d like to.
You know what else is a very pleasant show to watch at the moment? Ted Lasso. There’s something about Jason Sudekis that makes it hard to stay in a bad mood.
If you are sub-talking about me, I am not really in lockdown. I live in the country, I went to the pub for dinner tonight. There is only 1 active case in 30k square kilometres around me - so I am not as susceptible to Dan’s constant fear mongering as those in Melbourne. In about 2 weeks I will be able to go to NSW for any reason I want. I am much more concerned about the legal and economic situation, than Covid - so I want good public policy.
Even though I won’t end up being very adversely effected myself, I have a lot of sympathy for those who have suffered much more - deaths in family, job and business losses, adverse health outcomes. I think they deserve an explanation, compensation, justice and retribution.
Not particularly, more ol mate Guzz. But it was just a general observation.
I’m surrounded by polar political opinions across my family and friends. It just seems to me that it’s the conservatives that are having a tougher time of it and part of it appears to be of their own making, in that they focus so heavily on how miserable everything is.
Maybe ignorance is bliss?
What I do know is I have ■■■■ all say in what’s going on, and no amount of blame warring appears to improve my day. I’m sure my cranky pants days make me harder to live with also.
What I do know is I get to wear trackies to work, and my staff room has most of my favourite food, and I’m the only ■■■■■■■■ in my office.
If you think that this virus is just fear mongering then talk to those who are sick, have lost family and friends, or have worked constantly for nearly six months to care for others and keep us safe.
But your OK, so it doesn’t really matter, and you can offer your mock sympathy while you are eating and drinking at the pub.
You are just another fool who needs someone else to blame.
I can assure you, the contact tracing team was never handling 700 cases a day. That’s like saying that Italy’s hospitals were handling all the cases they had during their peak, when they had to choose who to treat, and who to let die in the corridors or turn away from the hospitals.
The contact tracing team grew in size by about 6 times during the second wave. Even with the larger team, overtime only started to drop a couple of weeks ago. If we successfully implement every system recommended, and have the ability to co-ordinate contact tracers Australia-wide to wherever in the country they’re needed, I highly doubt they can handle 100 cases a day, and actually reduce numbers. Even now I’d be very impressed if they managed to contain 50 a day without severe restrictions on public movement.
It’s one thing to track and trace all the close contacts of 20 new cases a day, manage all their close contacts and work with them all to minimise the risk of infecting others. It’s an entirely different thing to contact trace 500 cases a day. At those levels, many corners have to be cut just to do the very basics. The primary goal then becomes to find as many of each new case’s close contacts and ask them to get tested. Do you think when close contacts are 20,000+, that everyone gets regular contact and good information? Or that there is time to link all the under investigation cases to a cluster? Things are in a constant state of disorganisation and compromise at those figures, even with everyone working around the clock.
With large numbers, if there is an obvious link to another case, it is noted. If there isn’t, you either write it down as community transmission, or it sits on the pile that you never get to. With low numbers, everything is followed up as far as possible, and accounted for as quickly as possible, and you have a chance of staying ahead of the spread.
In areas of the world where hospitals were overwhelmed, the health care workers receive nothing but praise. Yet when our small team of hard working DHHS staff were overwhelmed while working insane hours to try to keep the public safe, they are actually being criticised.
To bear in mind also that contact tracing at the Crossroads was facilitated by a private company function at that hotel, with the names, contact numbers and addresses of guests at their fingertips.
