Australian Reports of the Virus Spread

[MARTINE]

It seems our lockdowns have really grabbed the attention of our American friends

https://twitter.com/x/status/1445126806152089602

I can answer the woman’s question on the placard re what’s happening in Melbourne
… nothing good

 

[nutwood]

If true one would expect most people will stop checking in. Why would you want to expose yourself to paying $4k simply for being in the wrong place at the wrong time by accident?

I find it hard to believe that SA Health would be so stupid. Realistically, Covid control only happens thanks to the forbearance of the general public. It's not just checking in, it's people presenting for testing and ultimately, obedience to public health directives.
I'll be interested to see how this story develops.

 

[Carrots]

I find it hard to believe that SA Health would be so stupid.

If the actions of SA Health in the last 18 months has shown us anything.... it's easy to believe it.

Even if they're not being charged for the privilege of a 2 week "holiday" in an Adelaide hotel, it's pretty poor planning to shift people from a regional area 5hrs away into Adelaide rather than allow home quarantine and regular random visits for compliance.

 

[Pushka]

If the actions of SA Health in the last 18 months has shown us anything.... it's easy to believe it.

Even if they're not being charged for the privilege of a 2 week "holiday" in an Adelaide hotel, it's pretty poor planning to shift people from a regional area 5hrs away into Adelaide rather than allow home quarantine and regular random visits for compliance.

It's all almost impossible to think that SA Health can deal reasonably with an outbreak that will come.

 

[dairyfloss]

Didn't SA Health just finish trialing a home quarantine program for o/s arrivals?! Why on earth wouldn't they leverage that for such scenarios, as well, rather than burden their citizens in this way (even if it was a state funded medi-hotel). Just awful.

 

[jakeseven7]

If true one would expect most people will stop checking in. Why would you want to expose yourself to paying $4k simply for being in the wrong place at the wrong time by accident?

Quite honestly a lot of my friends have stopped checking in, in a lot of states and territories…

 

[andye]

That’s process is a 7 day activity. Not just Mon-Fri.
Discharges to rehab is Mon-Fri

Absolutely but there a still umpteen things that can prevent weekend discharges. Many people in hospital with covid also have social and care needs that need multidisciplinary assessment beyond weekend cover. And there are investigations/interventions that only happen in working week

 

[Quickstatus]

multidisciplinary assessment beyond weekend cover. And there are investigations/interventions that only happen in working week

No if people are waiting for final assessment to go home but it’s the weekend, there is no waiting for weekday to go home. All that gets done in weekends as well.
Interventions and multidisciplinary assessments also happen in weekend. Treatments don’t stop just because it’s the weekend.

Physio/occupational therapy/social work all available 7 days.

If people need advanced speciality interventions etc they won’t be going home on Monday either.

It is very rare for someone who has to wait from Friday to Monday just so someone can give them the all clear. That would raise the ire of the bed manager

I actually cannot think of anything that would prevent a weekend/ out of business hours discharge. The only reason would be if there is nowhere else for the patient to go to - which why i say rehab. Going home problems and no one to pick up a patient is rarely an issue.

 

[drron]

We have a weekend discharge round in Medicine here.

 

[Pushka]

Didn't SA Health just finish trialing a home quarantine program for o/s arrivals?! Why on earth wouldn't they leverage that for such scenarios, as well, rather than burden their citizens in this way (even if it was a state funded medi-hotel). Just awful.

I'm hoping that they differentiate between actual known contact with a positive person as opposed to being part of a general community where covid is. Apparently she got around despite saying she went home after testing. Via a bottle shop. And went to Melbourne but said she only went to Casterton which is in the bubble. She is well known to police apparently and many reported sightings in the community. Yet SA Health still blather and defend her. Sigh.

 

[MARTINE]

I'm hoping that they differentiate between actual known contact with a positive person as opposed to being part of a general community where covid is. Apparently she got around despite saying she went home after testing. Via a bottle shop. And went to Melbourne but said she only went to Casterton which is in the bubble. She is well known to police apparently and many reported sightings in the community. Yet SA Health still blather and defend her. Sigh.

.. we just can’t get a lucky break in Melb…

 

[nutwood]

I'm trying to relate the panic in SA to the "nothing to see here" in Queensland.
The Mt Gambier case is quite straightforward. Someone went to a Covid risk area and came back positive. Obviously possibility of community spread but nothing unusual.
In Queensland, we have a worker in the massage industry. The latest is that the genome tracing is pointing to a Victorian link in the middle of September but there's no explanation as to where she came into contact with the virus and not a whole lot on who she has been in contact with after that. On face value, that suggests that Covid has a solid, but low profile, presence in Queensland. A person does not spontaneously acquire a virus from Victoria.
The cynical side of me wonders if there's a strong disinclination to look too hard at the massage parlour's visitor book because the answers are already known? Dr Young seems happy because they've done over 112,000 tests. Numbers are nice but it really depends on who they are testing.

 

[MARTINE]

I'm trying to relate the panic in SA to the "nothing to see here" in Queensland.
The Mt Gambier case is quite straightforward. Someone went to a Covid risk area and came back positive. Obviously possibility of community spread but nothing unusual.
In Queensland, we have a worker in the massage industry. The latest is that the genome tracing is pointing to a Victorian link in the middle of September but there's no explanation as to where she came into contact with the virus and not a whole lot on who she has been in contact with after that. On face value, that suggests that Covid has a solid, but low profile, presence in Queensland. A person does not spontaneously acquire a virus from Victoria.
The cynical side of me wonders if there's a strong disinclination to look too hard at the massage parlour's visitor book because the answers are already known? Dr Young seems happy because they've done over 112,000 tests. Numbers are nice but it really depends on who they are testing.

Agree…reQld …Sooooo many questions sooooo few answers and lots of exposures…

 

[mviy]

Victoria isn't showing any sign that the cases will peak before reopening as has happened in NSW.

The vaccination rates are still too low in the problem LGAs. We need them to get past 50% fully vaccinated which could still be a few weeks away in some of them: First and Second Doses Administered by LGA in Victoria - COVID Live

When the vaccination rates get past 50% then with restrictions in place the numbers should start to stabilise and as vaccination rates improve further start coming down.

 

[Pushka]

The woman from Mt Gambier who lied about being in the border bubble then came home to her kids with symptoms then tested positive then went to the local pub and sent around 20? Straight to a med hotel in Adelaide as close contacts plus floated around the community has had her car torched. Locals are very angry at the restrictions and border change.

 

[jakeseven7]

The woman from Mt Gambier who lied about being in the border bubble then came home to her kids with symptoms then tested positive then went to the local pub and sent around 20? Straight to a med hotel in Adelaide as close contacts plus floated around the community has had her car torched. Locals are very angry at the restrictions and border change.

What’s the level of vaccinations down there? I thought regional SA had special early access to vaccines so why are they so worried?

 

[Pushka]

What’s the level of vaccinations down there? I thought regional SA had special early access to vaccines so why are they so worried?

It’s poor apparently and no hub nearby. Like not within 4 hours. And people just don’t want to go out of their way. Few appointments available (like, 5) until December. Major fail. It’s on the freakin border! There’s plenty of police patrolling the border but not vaccination places. Wrong!

 

[jakeseven7]

Agree…reQld …Sooooo many questions sooooo few answers and lots of exposures…

Mmmm hmmm…. I have a theory it’s silently spreading amongst kids…. And if it isn’t already, it will and this could well be the way it spreads into the other states.

Our NSW and VIC clinics are picking up heaps of completely asymptomatic kids. Heaps and heaps.

 

[dairyfloss]

Small reductions in all just about all categories for NSW again, today

 

[Carrots]

Mmmm hmmm…. I have a theory it’s silently spreading amongst kids…. And if it isn’t already, it will and this could well be the way it spreads into the other states.

Our NSW and VIC clinics are picking up heaps of completely asymptomatic kids. Heaps and heaps.

Don't tell Anna...!