ABC NEWS is reporting that in Victoria "A Whittlesea man who stated he was in Richmond to visit work colleagues but could not produce appropriate documentation. The man has been fined nine times previously for breaching the Chief Health Officer’s directives"
How is this guy still able to move about the community? Surely he should be detained if unwilling to comply, clearly fines having zero effect on his behaviour!
...and quite likely an unlicensed driver banned from driving until 2028 or so....
Meanwhile the 'debt collectors' are sent around to collect 'robodebts'.
There are those who know how the system works - and abuse it massively and then there are those who try their best to do the right thing (most of the time).
Guess which group causes society more trouble?
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Speaking of trouble....
With all the disturbing information coming out from the latest round of the Aged Care Royal Commission....
A well-informed individual mentioned that perhaps NSW is more exposed to an increase in 'serious' CV cases due to some cost saving introduced by the then State Govt in 2007. It seems that 'true' infectious diseases safe bed numbers can be counted with one's fingers at Sydney's major hospitals. The recent (2020) expansion of ICU capacity has (according to reports) not involved any new real construction - just repurposing of existing spaces.
WHY?
Only single digit number of beds at each major hospital have their own self-contained -ve pressure air conditioning ducted enclosure to prevent cross-contamination. Otherwise there is very little difference between the hospitals & the nursing homes (other than staff qualifications). The air-con is a daisy-chain system going along multi-opening ducting. This was identified some years ago by an exercise conducted at Sydney Airport with a flight arriving that contained travellers with an extremely infectious disease - how prescient! Pity there was no funding to rectify the multiple issues uncovered since then.
However with 44% of hospital staff incorrectly taking off their masks & close to 80% not disposing of them 'safely' - things can easily go wrong if we're unlucky.
For example, a number of shift change conferences are still conducted in the same meeting rooms (say 4m x 3m) with that ward's 14 nurses going off-shift in the room together with the 14 nurses about to start - with the 14 about to start not wearing masks yet (protocol - only put on before approaching patient if applicable) and virtually all of the leaving nurses not wearing a mask either. 28 people into 12 sq metres (including tables) does not provide much social distancing opportunity.
Hopefully there are many major hospitals where this is not happening.
Perhaps explains why there are 1,000+ hospital staff in Vic who have tested +ve (close to 1 in 6 of active cases) BUT still claimed by Vic CMO that they did not contract it at their workplace despite the claims that nearly all non-hospital cases are from their non-hospital workplaces.
Common sense continues to not be so common these days.
