(08-16-2021, 08:06 AM)Mav link Wrote:I saw a news item about that after your post, so were 100% on the money. Sadly, that gives credibility to your other observations.

(08-16-2021, 09:32 AM)capcom link Wrote:If we'd have slapped on $5000 fines from day one, the message might have got through to most of these bastards.  Just like we should at airports with lying foreigners on Border control.

(08-16-2021, 10:04 AM)Gointocarlton link Wrote:>  >  >  >  >  >  >  >  >  >  >  >  >

(08-16-2021, 07:15 AM)ElwoodBlues1 link Wrote:Thry is right about getting worse, Frankston Hospital had a lot of staff infected last year at the peak and had to go on bypass, close wards etc but those stats wont make the news, same this year with Western health at Sunshine Footscray as I remarked before.
One of the problems with ICU staff is they take a while to train up, you just cant pick nurses up off any ward and dump them in ICU and expect them to do the job properly...you can have the beds and equipment but you get staff sick/infected and then you dont have many backups in those specialty areas.
Pandemics quickly highlight the gaps in the healthcare system and the lack of resources, State Premier's and the Fed Government need to fund the building of more hospitals, train and pay specialist staff properly and stop relying on the good nature of these caregivers to save the day. Ditto for Paramedics....they found money to increase the drug testing of these life savers but cant be bothered fixing the problems in the system which lead to the mental breakdowns and staff leaving the job..

(08-16-2021, 10:58 AM)kruddler link Wrote:I spoke to a bloke at work today which i've known for years, but only see occasionally. He had Covid. He said it took him 5 months to actually get over. No hospital stay required, but knocked him about pretty bad. He'd be late 40's and in decent shape.

He caught it from his wife who is a nurse....and caught it with plenty of other people through contact with Covid positive patients.
I'm not sure what hospital his wife works at but he works out of bayswater and i know he's further out of the CBD than that. Chances are, she works at Frankston hospital. Plenty of nurses and doctors got it at the same time.

I remember reading such stuff on here, but i don't recall hearing about it in the media.

(08-16-2021, 11:32 AM)ElwoodBlues1 link Wrote:Yep, a lot of stuff doesnt make the media, my daughter lives out West and doesnt even bother with Sunshine Hospital, goes straight into the City for the Royal Womens or Royal Melbourne.
She wants to start a family next year but isnt happy with being in the Sunshine hospital zone and wants to move....its not the Hospital as such it just the lack of staff and overcrowding in ER etc. One Public Hospital serving such a large growing area is a disgrace and when the ER is full you have a mile long line of people waiting.
Its like the Police where she lives...you make a call after 8pm and they arrive half an hour later as there is no local manned station after a certain time.

(08-16-2021, 05:35 PM)cookie2 link Wrote:Well it’s 3:30 am and I can’t sleep, just pondering zero covid, the new lockdown and curfew, the latest world events and wondering where all of this stuff is leading us. A lot seems to rest on the vaccination program.

(08-16-2021, 05:35 PM)cookie2 date Wrote:Well it’s 3:30 am and I can’t sleep, just pondering zero covid, the new lockdown and curfew, the latest world events and wondering where all of this stuff is leading us. A lot seems to rest on the vaccination program.