CV and mad panic behaviour

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Thanks for the insight [member=105]Thryleon[/member]‍

I was at the CSIRO / Synchrotron a few weeks back, nearby to the new Victorian Heart Hospital and was impressed by how quickly it has risen out of the ground. It's costing upwards of $600M to build and counting, will 'only' have 206 beds with 20 of those being ICU. I think by the time it has opened it will have taken about 5 years to build, and it's small compared to say Monash Medical Centre.

I never understood the 4000 ICU bed references, and they never talk about the timeframe. Unless someone in health is being tricky with the definition of ICU, of course an ICU bed in a political / public service / bureaucratic definition might mean just that, the bed with a ventilator and not much else!

I think Australia's total ICU capacity is only about 3500 ICU beds.

Those types of declarations are happening in every state at many levels from politicians to public servants, is it a sign they are planning for this pandemic to persist much much longer than we already think is way too long?