A lot of the catastrophisers over mandates should have trouble explaining this. Seems like one of the first major industry mandates, aged care, is bearing fruit and has been a triumph. Hopefully this means it is now safe to sack all of the anti-vaxxers in the industry and society will be ok.
Is the total funding poor, or is it already being poorly spent?
I would probably say underfunded.
Apparently nurses in some hospitals here in Melbourne are refusing to work in the covid wards. My partner said they are asking some of his coworkers who have all said no. When I asked him he said he would only do it if they paid extra. I think that is fair enough. He was telling me a story of someone who was begging to be vaccinated and his coworker just told him its too late for you. Sounds brutal but a reality. And to think this is only going to get worse.
South Australia has lifted restrictions in the south-east and reinstated the the 70km border bubble with Victoria, except Portland where COVID viral fragments were found between September 29 and October 6.
The border bubble had its radius reduced from 70km to 30km on Monday after a woman returning from Victoria tested positive to COVID-19. No new cases have been detected in the region since.
Earlier, it was revealed that a male truck drive aged in his 60s had tested positive for COVID-19. He returned a negative result after getting tested in NSW earlier on Thursday, but after he drove into SA later that night and tested at Yamba in the Riverland, the test came back positve. The man has had one dose of the Pfizer vaccine and lives in a share house at Salisbury in Adelaideâs north with a âhandfulâ of close contacts.
I still canât believe south australia are using sewageâŚ
Portland is in Victoria, thereâs currently not known cases of the virus there however the Victorian wastewater testing has found fragments there. Itâs a useful precursor in areas not known to have the virus if it shows up unexpectedly.
I know where Portland is. I just donât think its a good enough reason to discontinue the border bubble arrangement. We are supposed to be learning to live with the virus without these sorts of restrictions and reasoning.
I think theyâve been pretty swift in getting it back to 70km after that incursion, if that means Portland is excluded for a bit longer, so be it.
" Another 
day for community cases in Queensland as the state kicks off the second super vaccine weekend."
Queensland Health Minister Yvette DâAth said reports of three men crossing the border from New South Wales without a valid border pass to attend the NRL Grand Final were âextremely disappointingâ. The three men from Sydneyâs west were pictured on social media partying with the victorious Penrith side. DâAth said the trio had tested negative to COVID.
SA Health said this afternoon that a Victorian truck driver in his 20s had tested positive for COVID-19 at a border testing site at Yamba in the Riverland today, according to a press release. SA Health said the man was travelling through South Australia to Western Australia but is now being escorted back to Adelaide by police to quarantine in a medi-hotel.
QLD CHO Jeanette Young at it again.
Encouraging people to not get vaccinated at the drive thru services as they canât monitor you from your car for the 15 minute period.
Iâm sure theyâre doing it just fine.
Why does the woman make it so hard?
Gee thatâs the second one in two days. I wonder if thereâs anything that can be done to manage this before we reach the vaccination thresholds. At the moment SAâs rates arenât enough for us to start letting loose like NSW or Victoria so we need to do something.
According to the The World Mortality Dataset which tracks excess mortality across countries during the COVID-19 pandemic, Australia and New Zealand are part of only a handful of countries that had less than normal mortality rates for 2020, which is suspected to be linked to the reduction in non-COVID infectious mortality such as the flu due to social distancing.
Australia was found to have a -3% decrease in mortality for 2020 which numbered 4,400 people.
From last Thursday they mandated truck drivers have to have at least one jab to enter, from Monday that extends to essential workers.
Could this happen here in australia? And is this why quarantine facilities are really being made?
Iâm not sure how this will work.
By the time someone has tested positive theyâve most likely already passed it onto their household.
So whatâs the point of removing them?
I also think that if there was a threat of being removed from your home if you test positive then people will stop getting tested. Who would open themselves up to the risk of being removed from your own home?
It would probably have something to do with the vaccines working on some and not on others. The more time they spend with them the more likely it is to pass it on?
It would be more effective for those living in shared facilities as well.
Iâd certainly hope the facilities would be open to allow people top optionally isolate away from their families, as happens with hotels right now. Canât see that being mandatory though.
QLD Update: Zero new cases.