I blame the schoolteachers.
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Of the 13 overnight there was 7 workers and 6 close contacts.
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For that reason alone its time we as a society had a good hard look at our employment laws. Labour hire, casualisation of the workforce, all have to be reviewed in my opinon. If for no other reason that not having sick leave means people come to work sick. Surely it doesnt require a pandemic for people to see that is not good business. No good for staff not good for customers.
I used to send staff home if they were sick. I’d tell them dont come here infecting everyone else. Easy to do when you kow they will get paid. Hard to do if you know they might be on the bread line.
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There is currently a Senate inquiry into aged care, which could take up the issue of government authority to enforce standards. The aged care Commissioner has sent a shot across the bows of the NSW aged care home, threatening to suspend its licence to operate.
As the Commonwealth subsidises aged care homes, it has more clout over aged care than meatworks ( although a meatworks could be shut down for failing to comply with Comminwealth food standards)
She doesn’t seem to have very much influence then.
There are jobs going at supermarkets and Australia post.
My son the banquet and events chef who has gone to the mines, has been told the mine contract expires at the end of the month. But he can clean trains if he likes. (another contract the consolidated group have) Thats what he’s probably going to do until his real job returns probably next year. Show me the money he says.
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Batmania
Cluster… ■■■■…
Close contacts have other close contacts. Especially if they’re not social distancing either.
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We should will
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Thank you. That’s not at all good, but not as bad as it could be. Hopefully nothing wider emerges in the next week.
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I can’t believe people pay money to people like that. She must really live up to her name.
The G-Strain is back!
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It’s been increasing every day for at least 3 weeks. I’ve said it a lot in here. People are very restless.
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people are also very stupid
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So true @Reboot…vaccine is 10months away …if we can all be disciplined and keep social distancing…but open up businesses and schools we can manage a low number of cases and start to reboot the economy so we can pay for all of this
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You did see that he wrote the word “IF” and “HAD”…?
I think Prof Pete does know the reason the pubs aren’t open.
And also has good comprehension skills.
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Haha. The rant I deleted was going along the lines of Governments reducing our national science institutions to businesses of which they demand “efficiency dividends”, and then selling them off bit by bit to private industry.
The 10 month possible estimate relates to a vaccine going through human clinical trials to be proven as effective without major health side effects. How much longer before it gets to the marketable stage in sufficient quantities?
Yeah I actually considered adding “rant reinstated”. My rant filter was backyard pool in the winter in the 80’s quality before the pandemic, it’s barely a hairnet now.
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I really think we are far too fixated on the case numbers and reacting to those.
The death numbers are far more important as that’s giving us the signal that we aren’t providing enough time to the doctors to treat the virus and that our tracing isn’t working.
That’s our best way forward. Total irradication is far too costly and just as riddled with ‘false sense of securities’. New Zealand are the closest to what is considered ‘irradication’ yet that isn’t the definition people think it is. I doubt any other countries will wait until irradication of cases before reducing restrictions. Italy are reducing restriction and they have more daily deaths than we have cases.
The flattening of the curve isn’t just for the purpose of irradiating the virus. It’s to buy us time to prepare for worse times. That’s making sure we have PPE, tests, treatments available, contact tracing. We haven’t put these to the test, but we will be over the coming months.
Yes, you can get the virus just by touching the same item someone else touched. But people forget that we’re not acting the same was as we did in February. People are washing their hands more daily, washing them a lot more thoroughly than they did in February and people are touching their face less. Yes, there is still a chance, but it is far less now than it was back in February.
Remember the horde of people at Bondi Beach for two days in the middle of March? Did that show the giant spread in cases that we were expecting? I’m not even sure if 50% of the people at the beach those two days would have amounted to the total number of cases since then?
The majority of people (I’d guess at around 90%) are acting very differently to the way they did in February. This is a huge factor in how the virus spreads. Yes, there will always be one idiot here and there. I do agree that people are less defensive now than they were three weeks ago.
There will be clusters and they won’t be shut down instantly. Too many variables and relying on people to tell the truth of who they have been with and where they have been the last fortnight. A detailed app would be of great assistance, but privacy is the big barrier holding it back.
Unless people are willing to sacrifice (that’s financial, social, privacy, etc.) then that’s about the best we can look forward to.
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