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The NSW premier just said even if they had 80% vaccination we would still have restrictions with 400 cases a day.
We are going to be locked up for a long time.

NSW are in all sorts of shizen, her announcement is about softening the coming blows, within the next week or two there is a better than 50/50 chance they'll be wishing they still had only 400 a day!

I heard a Sydney based Doc on the radio today saying the metro ICU's are just about cooked, not just because of patient numbers, but because they have so so many staff unavailable in isolation, with the remainder working OT double and triple shifts. He said it can't continue, and if the public don't break from it's hell bent track then the health system will break!

It's quite hard to get hold of confirmed NSW stats, I have no idea why, they seem to guard everything making it very hard to cross check those claims!

This is exactly a consequence of not locking down early enough or hard enough, and as a result the @Thryleon predictions about things getting much much worse for the health sector before they get better will likely come true!

Thry is right about getting worse, Frankston Hospital had a lot of staff infected last year at the peak and had to go on bypass, close wards etc but those stats wont make the news, same this year with Western health at Sunshine Footscray as I remarked before.

I saw a news item about that after your post, so were 100% on the money. Sadly, that gives credibility to your other observations.

If we'd have slapped on $5000 fines from day one, the message might have got through to most of these bastards.  Just like we should at airports with lying foreigners on Border control.

Thry is right about getting worse, Frankston Hospital had a lot of staff infected last year at the peak and had to go on bypass, close wards etc but those stats wont make the news, same this year with Western health at Sunshine Footscray as I remarked before.
One of the problems with ICU staff is they take a while to train up, you just cant pick nurses up off any ward and dump them in ICU and expect them to do the job properly...you can have the beds and equipment but you get staff sick/infected and then you dont have many backups in those specialty areas.
Pandemics quickly highlight the gaps in the healthcare system and the lack of resources, State Premier's and the Fed Government need to fund the building of more hospitals, train and pay specialist staff properly and stop relying on the good nature of these caregivers to save the day. Ditto for Paramedics....they found money to increase the drug testing of these life savers but cant be bothered fixing the problems in the system which lead to the mental breakdowns and staff leaving the job..

I spoke to a bloke at work today which i've known for years, but only see occasionally. He had Covid. He said it took him 5 months to actually get over. No hospital stay required, but knocked him about pretty bad. He'd be late 40's and in decent shape.

He caught it from his wife who is a nurse....and caught it with plenty of other people through contact with Covid positive patients.
I'm not sure what hospital his wife works at but he works out of bayswater and i know he's further out of the CBD than that. Chances are, she works at Frankston hospital. Plenty of nurses and doctors got it at the same time.

I remember reading such stuff on here, but i don't recall hearing about it in the media.

Yep, a lot of stuff doesnt make the media, my daughter lives out West and doesnt even bother with Sunshine Hospital, goes straight into the City for the Royal Womens or Royal Melbourne.
She wants to start a family next year but isnt happy with being in the Sunshine hospital zone and wants to move....its not the Hospital as such it just the lack of staff and overcrowding in ER etc. One Public Hospital serving such a large growing area is a disgrace and when the ER is full you have a mile long line of people waiting.
Its like the Police where she lives...you make a call after 8pm and they arrive half an hour later as there is no local manned station after a certain time.

Well it’s 3:30 am and I can’t sleep, just pondering zero covid, the new lockdown and curfew, the latest world events and wondering where all of this stuff is leading us. A lot seems to rest on the vaccination program.

Well it’s 3:30 am and I can’t sleep, just pondering zero covid, the new lockdown and curfew, the latest world events and wondering where all of this stuff is leading us. A lot seems to rest on the vaccination program.