CV and mad panic behaviour

[ElwoodBlues1]

Police help? The police commissioner made it clear the police were only prepared to be the 2nd line of defence, i.e. if someone escaped from quarantine, they’d find them and bring them back. Other than that, they were involved in the “ring of steel” to keep Melburnians from fleeing to regional areas. As for the military, it seemed Scotty from Marketing was quite willing to use them as political pawns, threatening to pull them out if Victoria didn’t toe the Federal government’s line on lockdowns and the like. He refused to honour a request for a nominated number of soldiers at one stage to man the borders.

And yes, there should be more funding for health and in particular pandemic preparedness. That’s what happens when Jeff Kennett’s Razor gangs cut things to the bone in the health system.

Jeff Kennett did a lot wrong but thats a long bow to draw in regard recent events . Cuts that affect the ability of professional contract tracing in Victoria fall squarely on the shoulders of Dan Andrews who as former health minister new exactly what he was doing. Despite warnings from the DHHS in May 2019 that Victoria’s public health team responsible for contact tracing communicable diseases was dangerously understaffed compared to other states, by March in 2020 the division was pared down to only 14 members. Victoria, a state with 6.4 million people, had only six physicians in its health protection branch, compared to 24 in New South Wales and 17 in Queensland.
Andrews was the health minister trying to get rid of nurse-patient ratios and undermine other basic conditions using Howards work choices to do it..
The new Footscray Hospital is another furphy....Its portrayed as the Andrews Govt looking after the struggling west but in fact is a Public-Private partnership which just allows the Privates to rip off the public purse and wont be helping the western suburbs battler. Frankston Hospital has been promised an overhaul given its in such a mess and didnt have enough PPE gear at the height of CoVid. It often has its ER overcrowded and trolleys in the corridors but dont think Dan is looking after those poor sods in Franga...yep another Public-Private partnership which will see more nose jobs and face lifts than dealing with that under-resourced ER dept.