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In Sydney working. Was given a penthouse suite. For $135 a night. Wall to ceiling windows with huge open screen sliding doors off balcony. Top 40th floor.
In Sydney CBD overlooking Botany Bay, Sydney airport and blue mountains. Arrived Sunday night- very few jets. Now I see a jet fly in every 40 minutes odd - so strange. City today is deserted. Feels weird that I am here working away - my matter will probably run all this week. That drink of red wine on balcony on Friday - only problem I will feel like Will Smith in I am Legend
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1. If this is indeed the first stage of a herd immunity strategy, there should have been a concomitant program to isolate the at-risk population? And yet, we got crickets on that front. It's like saying we wont allow people to drive to the MCG for the AFL grand final, but making no preparations for public transport to provide the alternative. 2. It's not really feasible. We need 60-70% of the population for herd immunity to be effective. If we keep the 2k ICU cases there for say, 3 weeks, that's 20+ years of hospitalisation. |
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NSW Education board says Schools should cease regular teaching streams immediately and move to an emergency program for those who need their children cared for to keep working...where have I heard that before.
I understand Scomo is getting his 'advice' from the CMO, but the CMO isn't running the Education dept, how about we listen to those people who we pay thousands of dollars to every year to manage schools, is their 'advice' not equally important and valued. |
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The CMO is a political appointment, no more than a puppet to give legitimacy to the government's policies. Actual experts in the G08 institutions have pretty much contradicted the government's approach, calling for immediate school/university closure.
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Top post mate. Thanks for putting that up The way I look at it is I’m sure there have been many areas that we would do things differently with hindsight , there’s going to be plenty of time to review all that later. It’s easy for all of us to armchair review all this mess sitting in the cheap seats...much harder to make the calls in the hot seat. The fact is we are here, we all move forward from this point and work with what we have. Stay well up there Ok? |
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Give me a break. Easy to sit back and talk **** when your not standing in the centerlink lines or listening to families and educators at their coal face. |
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Simply saying children are 'super spreaders' just doesn't cut it. Statistically while children are capable of contracting the virus, they are the least at risk. They are also the lowest group to actually be infected so the risk of them spreading is also small. Teachers should be adult enough to be able to practice basic hygiene to protect themselves. If parents wish to keep their kids home then that's ok but keeping schools open means education continues for the children and those parents who work in critical services can continue going to work. Some people need to stop and start looking outside their own bubble.
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So the message is wrong?
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I listened to a teacher on the radio this morning, she's home in isolation currently and expected back at work next week, she doesn't feel comfortable doing so and has her own kids home, a teacher, someone at that coalface, who wont put her kids in it and doesn't want to be there herself. Then we had a day care worker who said and I quote ' everyone knows kids are spreaders, its impossible to stop the spread amongst them or maintain hygiene' and then said her centre was down to its last half bottle of hand steriliser. |
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Plenty of professionals saying Scomo is out of touch and out of depth but apparently some woman who thinks he's doing a wonderful job is the standard. |
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Literally all the epidemiology from 100 years of research since the Spanish flu. It's not even up for debate.
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I want each and everyone of these public servants to be accountable for their destruction of the Australian economy. The advice been given should have come from economists. Quarantine the infirm, sick, elderly and anyone with a susceptibility to complications from Covid-19. The remaining population can go about their daily business, in commerce, trade, service delivery and keep the economy ticking over. This is being handled in a cluster eff of a manner.
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No. Because you're making assumptions on someone you know nothing about and you like contradicting anyone else's views.
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I have my own model, and its been correct to within 10-20 cases for the last 2 weeks. We are on track to exceed ICU capacity in around 2 weeks, 3 if this weeks measures have any significant impact. Advise your at-risk loved ones to isolate.. totally isolate. Make a plan to get them food etc. If they fall ill much later than a month from now, their prospects for receiving adequate care will be greatly diminished. |
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Im a simple bus driver and I've got 2.5 days left until im handing over the reigns to someone else so I can stay home with my children and reduce our exposure to the virus and hopefully allow my Wife to continue to serve our elderly to the best of her ability for as long as possible, a joint decision between all of us.
Yesterday I found myself being questioned by many parents about what they should do with their children, many of whom speak broken English and some non at all. If these parents are turning to the guy who drives the bus that picks up and drops off their kids to help them make decisions it says something about the message that's coming from the top. |
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I agree some people need to start looking outside thier bubble, says the man in the mirror. |
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Im not blaming him for it, im sure there are plenty of people talking about it that aren't blaming him. I respect her right to an opinion, that's all it is. |
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They keep quoting the number of ICU beds/ventilators that we have in the health system, never any mention of how many are actually available . My wife used to work in a private hospital that had ICU beds, she said it was not uncommon for all of them (around ten) to be in use.
She now works for the largest private healthcare provider in the state, because they are mainly involved with elective surgery they are pretty much shutting down, plenty of staff told to take leave etc. |
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Hard times coming for most Australian's no matter the circumstances. Can see a lot of hate, anger and confusion in this thread.
Just remember we are all in this together. Also remember that you can make your own informed decisions, you don't need the government to make them for you, if you want to stay at home and have a plan then do it, you are not sheep. Educate your family and friends on why you are doing what you are doing. For example, my elderly mum reckoned she was going to bingo yesterday in her country town because her doctor said COVID19 is nothing to worry about. Yeh nah mum, you are staying home. All the best everyone.
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Just watched his speech, from a outsider looking in it did not inspire much confidence, all i could make out was he's forming commissions from the old boys network, that all takes time which you don't have. They have no plan, just sounds like they are clutching at straws. He needs to take leadership of this and make some hard decisions. If the lemons running NZ can figure it out, with how they handled this crisis in under a week and a half, your mob should be able to, we have every one on board from banks, tax, employers, you name it every one has come to the party, plus no major job loss, your employer can access funds from Govt. As of to night NZ is shut for the next month.
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