CV and mad panic behaviour

[shawny]

Andrews is copping more criticism over his 'code brown' response which is designed to ease pressure on the health system. He's already backflipped on IVF being deemed as elective, which was always going to happen once the media jumped on the young women emotional TV appearance about her missing her chance to have children. All of a sudden the science supported IVF not being elective -X

Now senior surgeons are saying the blanket restriction has not been thought through as there are a several 'elective' surgeries that  apply very little pressure to the health system yet assist patients getting better quicker and ease the pressure on another back log once restrictions are lifted. He said day procedures that don't require stays overnight can be safely preformed during this time and stopping them is simply non sensical.

We have 120 odd in ICU in a state of over 6.5 million. One ICU bed per 55,000 in a state with 90% plus vaxed against statistically the weakest Covid variant and we are lead to believe the system is overwhelmed to the extent where restrictions this dire are necessary.  If this is true then our health system needs a serious overhaul.