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Originally Posted by leesa
Not a tried and tested one for a novel virus, no. An influenza outbreak doesn't really compare. Did you read that document? Do you think it's sufficient to handle a global pandemic of a novel virus?
There's nothing in there about border measures, limiting intake of people and how to process them, nothing of the best way to quarantine and isolate, testing large numbers of the population, coordinating healthcare workers so that we don't either run low in other areas or accidentally kill off all our health staff, utilising our defense forces. It's an influenza strategy, it's inadequate for something like covid.
I've never said that Australia's strategy hasn't been a success, actually I think I've said that it has been a success on several occasions. What I've said is that people should quieten down and stop expecting that we're going to get it 100% right during our first go at a major pandemic. After it's done we'll go figure out what worked, what didn't and put it all together in a strategy that can be enacted from week1 the next time it happens.
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Yes, funnily enough I have read it. I actually read them last year when this sprung up too. I would suggest you haven't read them fully though as they are rather lengthy documents.
And of interest, you would have noticed the detection of a novel virus was one of the triggers for enacting the QLD plan
Activation of the Queensland Health pandemic influenza plan may be considered by
the Director-General or the Chief Health Officer and Deputy Director-General
Prevention Division (CHO & DDG) under the following circumstances:
notification from the Australian Government Department of Health of the emergence of a
novel influenza virus with pandemic potential in Australia or overseas
potential or actual threat of seasonal influenza overwhelming health service
capacity.
Go on Fonzie... say it... "I was wro ...wro...wrong"