Australian Reports of the Virus Spread

[I love to travel]

NSW Premier has got to stop saying thank you so much, she is looking wobbly today and not authoritative. I really fear for NSW, feels like the wheels are starting to fall off.

 

[Princess Fiona]

Yes if he was Tier 2 (which I think he was based on what is now Tier 1/2 today), All at AAMI park were contacted with advice as per wear their seat was.

With these sporting events in Melbourne you can only buy fixed seats and have to supply contact details on purchase, plus are meant to use the QR Code on entry.


This is the advice he would have had (Vic DHHS website added this at 1.00 on 15th July) I assume that he would have been a Tier 2 at that time.

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He was at the MCG AFL game. Not the Wallabies

 

[lovetravellingoz]

He was at the MCG AFL game. Not the Wallabies

Sorry my mistake. Yes .

There is no way that he would not have been aware of the requirements.

Also note that if he is a MCC Member that he would also have been sent advice from them. All in MCC Reserve would be Members or Guests of Members.


The MCG advice was last upgraded on the 15th July at 9PM., and earlier advice was in place.

 

[kpc]

NSW Premier has got to stop saying thank you so much, she is looking wobbly today and not authoritative. I really fear for NSW, feels like the wheels are starting to fall off.

I thought she looked very stressed today and close to tears as she begged Sydneysiders to follow the restrictions.

 

[bcworld]

So essentially, the supermarket shelves all across Sydney would empty without the additional retail exception for the 3 LGAs it seems.

 

[HappyFlyerFamily]

I thought she looked very stressed today and close to tears as she begged Sydneysiders to follow the restrictions.

Was expecting more intensity from the journalists. Though I noticed some senior journalists, it was a Sunday stroll......

Definite backflip on yesterday's announcement.

Saturday morning was the NSW health advice. The intervening 24 hour backflip was not.

 

[MelMel]

Shouldn’t he have already been isolating pending a Covid test result before getting sick and going to hospital ? He was at the MCG and that was listed days ago.

I have friends in Geelong who went to the game at the MCG. They tested and isolated as soon as they were notified. They all returned negative tests and their children returned to school. This man may have initially tested negative then ignored developing symptoms and health directives until he presented to hospital

 

[Princess Fiona]

Was expecting more intensity from the journalists. Though I noticed some senior journalists, it was a Sunday stroll......

Definite backflip on yesterday's announcement.

Saturday morning was the NSW health advice. The intervening 24 hour backflip was not.

Sadly it certainly looks that way.

 

[HappyFlyerFamily]

So essentially, the supermarket shelves all across Sydney would empty without the additional retail exception for the 3 LGAs it seems.

I can understand logistics, but the supermarket staff can just stay home and roster in other staff from outside the "epicentre".....

 

[RAM]

So confirmed at this morning's media briefing - NSW Govt had not done any planning on an outbreak beating the contact tracing in NSW under any circumstances. Couldn't possibly happen in NSW.

Today, at the same time as asking for people across all of Western Sydney to increase testing rates, only 'health care & emergency workers' in Canterbury Bankstown & Liverpool LGAs, as well as more people living all across Sydney to get tested - later grudgingly told (only in response to a question) that NSW is already exceeding the processing capacity.

Immediately preceeding this we were told a couple of times that "the data we see today is what was happening 5 days ago".

In response to questions:

• NSW now exceeded CV test processing capacity, now exceeding under 24 hour turn around, introduced tiers for test processing priority (sensible).
• NSW had not created any list of 'essential workers'
• NSW had not discussed with industry what roles are essential at any time since CV began.
• NSW Govt did not know that workers at Port Botany chemical factories were 'critical' workers as they produce the inputs for packaging.
• Ambulance workers now forced into isolation in Liverpool area gone from 70 to over 250 - only revealed when question asked
• Agency worker brought in to Aged Care home, to replace quaranting staff, has tested positive

Anyone wanting a job? - demand for 'security guards' has near doubled due to construction site closures now requiring nearly 3x the normal number across all construction sites.

Odd how the Premier was happy to receive all the plaudits last year but now won't mention the deaths. I must have missed it, but did Kerry announce the death of the Eastern Suburbs resident? Or was it announced via Tweet?

 

[kpc]

Saturday morning was the NSW health advice. The intervening 24 hour backflip was not.

Very disappointed with the relaxation of essential workers who can leave the 3 LGAs and work elsewhere...eg now you could leave your home in Fairfield and wotk in the nursery garden in Bunnings in Chatswood....absolutely ridiculous Gladys and I'm sure Sydneysidets are in for a very extended lockdown....

 

[Lynda2475]

And Suttonn just stated the cases at MCG were seated within 3 rows of each other, totally within droplet spread range. So not as random as previously claimed.

 

[RAM]

The difference being that those people had been socialising and in each others apartments. Which is different to living in same complex and having no interaction.

The mask mandate is not a huge burden. However no fresh air for 14 days because a neighbour you may have never met or been anywhere near is draconian.

What you say may be fine in a block of old 3 storey walk-ups but any unit block with a lift means anyone using the lift is/was at risk of catching CV from someone who was positive who used the lift.

Masks decrease the risk but too many are loose fitting, or below peoples' noses. CV can be caught via your eyes not just being breathed in. That's why despite having N95 masks you see full face shields in use.

For everyday people, wearing any type of glasses (sun glasses, safety classes <$10 from any hardware store) provides (thought to be) >90% the benefit of a full face shield for people not in a continuos CV facing role.

So when going out shopping, vaccination, testing, etc - wear glasses.

 

[HappyFlyerFamily]

The asymptomatic testing for the epicentre 3 LGAs just got messier, but it doesn't start from some until Wednesday.

Paraphrasing - it seems Fairfield LGAs residents that need to leave the LGA for work need to undertake testing every 3 days if you are critical retail plus healthcare and emergency (all three groups now classed as authorised workers) + plus Canterbury-Bankstown and Liverpool LGA residents that need to leave the LGA for work need to test if they are healthcare (including aged care) .

So emergency workers and critical retail workers from Canterbury-Bankstown and Liverpool LGAs don't need to test to leave the LGAs for work - why? because there is not enough capacity........time to remove those plastic street dividers.

What a hot mess

 

[bcworld]

And Suttonn just stated the cases at MCG were seated within 3 rows of each other, totally within droplet spread range. So not as random as previously claimed.

All of them or just the new ones announced today?

 

[antycbr]

NSW Premier has got to stop saying thank you so much, she is looking wobbly today and not authoritative. I really fear for NSW, feels like the wheels are starting to fall off.

At the Oscars they have an orchestra to cut off the thankyou speeches.

Thanking your ministers for doing their jobs was particularly galling

 

[lovetravellingoz]

Update on Victorian Apartments.

Jeroen Weimar confirmed that settings will start cautious but can be varied subject to test results and building specific reviews of transmission risk.

A third has been identified and its status is yet to be determined based on risk and transmission.

By Caitlyn Davey​

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VIC: The apartment buildings affected ​

• Ariele Apartments - all 131 residents are under lockdown, and no further positive cases reported today
• Isola apartment complex - on Burnley street in Richmond, one positive case was living there but has been moved out. There's no reason to believe there was transmission on site, but as a caution there are testing teams working with residents
• An apartment building in Fitzroy has been flagged as an area of concern. There was a positive case living in the building but the teams are still assessing the building at this time

 

[HappyFlyerFamily]

At the Oscars they have an orchestra to cut off the thankyou speeches.

Thanking your ministers for doing their jobs was particularly galling

"From the bottom of my heart, I'd like to thank business leaders....." (not contact tracers, not those doing it tough in isolation, not those staying at home)

(Hope I got the quote right)

That says it all right now in this hot mess.

 

[lovetravellingoz]

And Suttonn just stated the cases at MCG were seated within 3 rows of each other, totally within droplet spread range. So not as random as previously claimed.

When did he state that?

I heard him speak today on the Rugby at AAMI Park, and the Euro Final watched at The Crafty Squire Venue in Melbourne








Three Aisles 21-23 are the area of concern at AAMI Park.

An Aisle means a whole bay of seating, and not 3 rows. And AAMI Park is not the MCG.


The seating plan below shows the main area of concern.






At the MCG Rows are typically 30 odd seats long. So for seats to be within droplet range they would need to within a small section of a row of a few abutting rows +- to where 60s man was seated.

 

[RAM]

Really surprised NSW MoH haven't shut down the leak yet OR they are deliberately leaking the number of cases for some reason...

So many things being done differently this time:

• Mystery/unlinked cases number never mentioned in the briefings, but prior to Dec 2020's 4 outbreaks it was a lead figure.
• Mystery cases max was 18 in Dec 2020, today it is 224
• Deaths no longer announced by the Premier
• No reference to the "Gold Standard" contact tracers anymore, pretty much no mention of what contact tracing is doing, primary contact numbers, casual contact numbers
• Infections of heathcare, aged & disability care or frontline workers no longer being announced at the daily briefings - only coming up when a reporter asks specifically about it or the media has already run with it prior to the briefing. This has been going on since before lockdown as Sutherland Hospital A&E was put into quarantine due to CV+ acute emergency case BEFORE the first 'Claytons shutdown'. Never reflected on Health website that I could find.

It is a tried & trusted political tool to 'leak' bad news or potentially adverse new policies so that the Minister responsible is not seen to be the prime deliverer of bad news.

I hope that is not the case, but given how much information is now being deliberately hidden in NSW, yet it is better than a 50/50 bet IMHO.

Michael West Media has sent emails, put in FOI/GIPA requests to see the 'medical advice' that the Premier keeps referring to in making decisions and they are all being turned down.

Some States publish the official daily advice received by their Premier, others make it available on request.