The Federal Government will not be providing any financial assistance for Victoria for this lockdown! What a fucking joke!
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Victorian Treasurer Tim Pallas said this morning that the estimate cost of circuit breaker event is $700 million-plus, based on Treasury estimates. He also announced a package of financial assistance for businesses affected by the lockdown.
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Acting Premier James Merlino said 70 per cent of primary close contacts had had test results returned and they had been negative.
COVID-19 testing commander Jerome Weimar said over half of the residents and two-thirds of staff at Arcare Maidstone had been vaccinated.
It was revealed earlier that the whole of Chadstone Shopping Centre had been classified as a tier 2 exposure site. Anyone who had been there between 11.30am-2pm Wednesday May 26 should get tested and isolate until negative results returned. Also, Yokozuna restaurant inside Chadstone is a tier 1 site, and anyone who had been there from 11.30am to midday on May 26 must get tested and isolate for 14 days.
I cannot wait until the next Federal Election. Iâll be good to see these pack of dicks booted from office.
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Heidi Murphey reporting the worker in question has his 1st dose of covid 19 vaccine and a significant no of residents as well. with Rafael also reporting this. plus the letter the aged centre sent out. according to the letter at this time, there are no other cases of covid-19 in any of their other residents. and they have strictly limited the movement between team members and residents and visitations since the stage 3 lockdown came into effect
At the rate Federal Labor are going, I wouldnât be putting my money on Scott Morrison and the Liberal Party losing government.
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Considering this lockdown stemmed from a Liberal governed state, I donât think Canberra assistance is out of the question.
To be fair though, the Federal Government canât bail us out every time we go into lockdown. Theyâre not a bottomless pit of money.
If we had good contact tracing in Victoria, then we wouldnât be in lockdown, so why should the Feds have to pay?
They couldâve been a bit more proactive though in supporting some of the ideas Victoria had, such as building a dedicated quarantine facility instead of hotel quarantine. But instead the feds are doing jack all and thinks hotel quarantine is good enough. Also the vaccine rollout has been rubbish too yet time and time again we hear Greg Hunt peddling out the rubbish line of âweâre doing very well, weâre on trackâ. It takes an outbreak (that wasnât even Victoriaâs fault) to up the vaccination rate so thereâs clearly something wrong with the federal governmentâs approach to everything.
They have to take the responsibility somewhere, not just handball it to the Victorian government and call it a day.
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At least some help would have been a nice though I mean the optics doesnât look good f. Punishing a whole state for what???
At least a bit of money could have helped or is the current Australian government so inept they want to see Victoria fail in containing the outbreak. Letâs see what happens when Sydney goes on lock down again and they have another big outbreak. Theyâll be happy to throw cash towards their liberal
Mates.
Thatâs a bit unfair to say donât you think?
Our contact tracing effort has been top notch this time around. You can see the improvements since our NYE cluster, February lockdown and even before that.
Contact tracers can only be as good as what people tell them and what resources are provided. You canât blame them for people being in the community for a week to 10 days knowing that they have symptoms, yet they continue on with their lives. Thatâs that persons responsibility, not contact tracers.
Honest question - can you see yourself as a contact tracer?
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I definitely acknowledge that our contact tracing has improved in Victoria since the pandemic began, but forgive me for being dubious when the whole state is thrown into lockdown. Other states such as New South Wales wouldnât throw the entire state into lockdown, because they have faith in their contact tracers to get on top of outbreaks.
By no means am I taking a personal dig at the Victorian contract tracers, Iâm sure theyâre all trying their hardest, but from the outside looking in, it feels as if thereâs still some problems in the system that havenât been resolved.
If I was unemployed and contact tracing was one of the only jobs available, Iâd happily undertake that role. As we all know, contact tracers play a vital part in finding close contacts and ultimately assisting in shutting down outbreaks. It wouldnât be an easy job, but Iâd certainly be up for the challenge.
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Iâm sorry, but this lockdown is on the Federal Government. Has absolutely nothing to do with the contact tracing teams.
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How so? They didnât cause it. If anyone was to provide financial assistance to VIC, it should be the SA Government.
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Have been you watching any news this week?
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As much as it shouldnât have happened, SA never deliberately allowed this guy to come to Victoria infected so Iâm not sure why youâre so determined to have SA take full responsibility for this when they didnât intentionally release him when he was infected. If they knew he was infected and still released him then by all meansâŚ
If the Federal government was ever smart enough to build dedicated quarantine facilities/or fixed up ventilation systems across the country to a national standard then the leak wouldnât have happened in SA either. Even SA suffered a lockdown because of a leak from hotel quarantine (as did Queensland and Western Australia twice, not to mention Victoria in February) so they obviously wouldnât want to see another state experiencing the same.
So technically speaking itâs the Federal governmentâs complacency that has ultimately caused this outbreak.
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Unless Iâm watching the wrong news, I was under the impression that there was a supposed leak in SA hotel quarantine that eventually lead to the outbreak in Victoria. So what am I missing?
For the record, I donât think anyone should have to be bailing out Victoria, but if someone must bail us out, then itâs only fair if itâs SA.
The likely virus leak from a South Australian quarantine hotel that caused Victoriaâs lockdown was caused by inadequate ventilation, experts insist,
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The matter of fact is that since hotel quarantine is never perfect and occurrences like these have happened multiple times these years, the Federal Government clearly needs to do more because for as long as they ignore these issues, these outbreaks from hotel quarantine may persist until they fix it. Itâs not a SA problem, itâs a nationwide problem.
Just for the record would you be happy if the reverse happened and South Australians call for Victoria to be held accountable when the Federal government is absolutely ignorant and complacent about the actual problem with hotel quarantine? Iâm sure no states would want the virus to leak out into another state and plunging them into lockdown.
And no SA doesnât need to bail anyone out either. The Federal government needs to take responsibility for their inadequate work in hotel quarantine. Build some dedicated facilities like Howard Springs so that we can prevent any outbreaks from hotels in the future.
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Easy way to identify a 3AW listeners and Herald Sun readers is the continual attempts to return to the contact tracing failure narrative.
Thereâs no question early on this was an issue, but not in this outbreak.
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This is not a South Australian or a Victorian issue. The Federal Government holds responsibility for the national quarantine strategy / standards, which there currently isnât. Excuse the expression, but they have done fuck all or announced fuck all. Hotels should not be the national standard 18 months later in the middle of a pandemic.
As previously stated, we still have 70 aged care centres around Australia that still havenât been vaccinated. Itâs bloody embarrassing on a world standard that we only have 2% of our population fully vaccinated. And yes this is also on the Federal Government!!
And not to offer any assistance to Victorian business this morning was bloody terrible.
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They wonât be booted. Thatâs the sad reality.
Iâm not going to have a go at the contact tracers but they Clearly didnât track down all close contacts of the first initial case. So there is still a lot of work to be done.