Australian Reports of the Virus Spread

[drron]

And the Launceston general has been ramped most days for some years.
When working in Rockhampton on one day even the helicopters were ramped at the hospital.

 

[Must...Fly!]

And the Launceston general has been ramped most days for some years.
When working in Rockhampton on one day even the helicopters were ramped at the hospital.

I know ramping is always present. It makes sense in some ways, but it is interesting that with the regular winter ailments being lower and hardly any travel in to or out of the state that it would reach record highs in Perth.

 

[Pushka]

I know ramping is always present. It makes sense in some ways, but it is interesting that with the regular winter ailments being lower and hardly any travel in to or out of the state that it would reach record highs in Perth.

GP's are turning away anyone with any Covid like symptoms (and that can be extremely varied from headaches to respiratory to fatigue) so there is nowhere else for people to go.

 

[nutwood]

And the Launceston general has been ramped most days for some years.
When working in Rockhampton on one day even the helicopters were ramped at the hospital.

Displaying my ignorance I know, but what is ramping in a medical context?

 

[Princess Fiona]

Displaying my ignorance I know, but what is ramping in a medical context?

Ambulance patients unable to be offloaded off stretchers into ED beds due to over crowding in the department

 

[jakeseven7]

I know ramping is always present. It makes sense in some ways, but it is interesting that with the regular winter ailments being lower and hardly any travel in to or out of the state that it would reach record highs in Perth.

When VIC schools went back there was a huge surge in cold like viruses - that also drove alot of people to test (a good side effect I guess!) but apparently they have all cleared now and there is very little respiratory illness or colds around which explains why testing rates have dropped back a bit.

 

[Hvr]

Displaying my ignorance I know, but what is ramping in a medical context?

Ramping is when ambulances are lined up at the hospital waiting to get the patient admitted.

 

[Princess Fiona]

Apologies I missed this. It is sad to hear how endemic severe and acute mental health issues have become increasingly prevalent this year. I wonder how many of those who are presenting with such acute conditions have support networks and family interstate, where borders are closed and precluding their visit. Even if where they are living is open & free for people to come, they may not be able to go back.

My experience is almost exclusively child and and adolescent mental health and I would say that little to none of it has been due to closed borders. Multi factorial but includes lack of enough outpatient services compounded by changes due to COVID-19. Our activity had been rising substantially pre-covid and has continued.

 

[Pushka]

After using masks now for 3 months in 30+ degrees temperatures with high humidity, I've come to the conclusion that surgical masks are more comfortable than re-usable as they are lighter to wear. Although we have several boxes of two different types of masks (that our employers provided), and one is definitely more comfortable than the other. I've noticed most people have gravitated back to surgicals masks too.

In fact the other day I was sitting by the pool, working on my laptop, then decided to go for a swim. It wasn't until I was almost waist deep in the water that I realised I still had my mask on So not terribly intrusive for me anyway. Either that or just used to them by now.

My SIL ordered some from Amazon and they are great. I got mine from the chemist in the very early days and they are dreadful. I've now got into a pack that has the Ambulance endorsement and they are better Today I almost got used to it. Then went into the chemist for the scripts and it had moved so that every breath I was taking was making it blow in and out. I must have looked like an idiot. Obviously designed as multi fit but they are too large and the elastics aren't even stretched so just a flappy loopy thing.

 

[blackcat20]

GP's are turning away anyone with any Covid like symptoms (and that can be extremely varied from headaches to respiratory to fatigue) so there is nowhere else for people to go.

Tried to get Miss TC into the GP last week and they refused. Got a phone appointment (an hour late!) And the doc immediately booked her in for later that day

 

[nutwood]

Speaking from an industrial perspective, a correctly fitting mask should seal fully to your face. If you block the air pathways, you should be able to hold it to your face simply by sucking. If it fogs your glasses it's leaking and you have the wrong shaped nose.

 

[Pushka]

Tried to get Miss TC into the GP last week and they refused. Got a phone appointment (an hour late!) And the doc immediately booked her in for later that day

Great you were able to finally see a Dr but what a to-do to get the appointment. Must say our Drs clinic has a sign saying that children will always be seen on the day. Not sure if that still applies with Covid.

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Speaking from an industrial perspective, a correctly fitting mask should seal fully to your face. If you block the air pathways, you should be able to hold it to your face simply by sucking. If it fogs your glasses it's leaking and you have the wrong shaped nose.

Yep. So what do we do about wrong noses then

I don’t understand. We in SA are having to do things now that we should have been doing in early Covid days but didn’t. It’s like we are going backwards even though I sense there is no longer the immense worry about the quarantine breach. I also find it interesting they don’t call it the Peppers cluster but the suburb the older lady first presented.

 

[nutwood]

Yep. So what do we do about wrong noses then

In Tasmania we try it on either head, then select the best fit.

 

[jakeseven7]

 

[pauly7]

We in SA are having to do things now that we should have been doing in early Covid days but didn’t. It’s like we are going backwards even though I sense there is no longer the immense worry about the quarantine breach.

Having been based in MEL during the lockdown but fortunate enough to have exemptions to continue to move around Australia for work, honestly no where else in Australia apart from VIC has really gotten what Covidsafe actually means in practice. Maybe some parts of Sydney at a push.

I’ve spent a lot of time especially in QLD, halfway stuck between horrified and amazed at the populations and businesses behaviour regarding social distancing, hygiene and checking in. I often think if there was even a small quarantine breach it would be everywhere before you knew it.

I think the states that have released their restrictions so much without embedding covidsafe rules well enough are ticking time bombs.

I suspect that is one of the genuine reasons states like WA and QLD have been so slow to open because their public health teams know this. They’ve failed to train their populations sufficiently and their state governments have pushed hard to release their restrictions for popularity reasons.

 

[Pushka]

Having been based in MEL during the lockdown but fortunate enough to have exemptions to continue to move around Australia for work, honestly no where else in Australia apart from VIC has really gotten what Covidsafe actually means in practice. Maybe some parts of Sydney at a push.

I’ve spent a lot of time especially in QLD, halfway stuck between horrified and amazed at the populations and businesses behaviour regarding social distancing, hygiene and checking in. I often think if there was even a small quarantine breach it would be everywhere before you knew it.

I think the states that have released their restrictions so much without embedding covidsafe rules well enough are ticking time bombs.

I suspect that is one of the genuine reasons states like WA and QLD have been so slow to open because their public health teams know this. They’ve failed to train their populations sufficiently and their state governments have pushed hard to release their restrictions for popularity reasons.

So what would be your thoughts about NSW in comparison with Victoria? It seems like they genuinely know how to deal with outbreaks - well from a distance it appears that way. So we have the shut down in Victoria but NSW never did that. Never mandated masks. What is NSW doing differently that "seems" to be working?

 

[tgh]

The covid preparation somnolence in Qld is partially due to a lack of government and big business support for basic Covid "cleanliness"
The hypocrisy of sporting exemptions in Qld will have convinced many that the Covid risk is overblown.
We have been riding for a fall for a long time.

 

[blackcat20]

So what would be your thoughts about NSW in comparison with Victoria? It seems like they genuinely know how to deal with outbreaks - well from a distance it appears that way. So we have the shut down in Victoria but NSW never did that. Never mandated masks. What is NSW doing differently that "seems" to be working?

NSW never had the case numbers VIC did, they didnt need a lockdown but we certainly did.

 

[Pushka]

NSW never had the case numbers VIC did, they didnt need a lockdown but we certainly did.

But they could easily have done so. They certainly had the beginnings of what Victoria had. Agree re the lockdown, must have been very tough esp as at the beginning there was never true certainty as to how long it would take.

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The covid preparation somnolence in Qld is partially due to a lack of government and big business support for basic Covid "cleanliness"
The hypocrisy of sporting exemptions in Qld will have convinced many that the Covid risk is overblown.
We have been riding for a fall for a long time.

Yet they didn't allow the Indian cricketers to bubble there. Maybe they regretted the football leniency.

 

[blackcat20]

NSW seems to have had a lot of unexplainable luck. Like an infectious taxi driver driving around for days that didnt infect anyone. VIC got the swiss cheese of superspreaders, family gatherings and vulnerable workplaces.