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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: CV and mad panic behaviour
Quote from: ElwoodBlues1 – on
Jeff Kennett did a lot wrong but thats a long bow to draw in regard recent events . Cuts that affect the ability of professional contract tracing in Victoria fall squarely on the shoulders of Dan Andrews who as former health minister new exactly what he was doing. Despite warnings from the DHHS in May 2019 that Victoria’s public health team responsible for contact tracing communicable diseases was dangerously understaffed compared to other states, by March in 2020 the division was pared down to only 14 members. Victoria, a state with 6.4 million people, had only six physicians in its health protection branch, compared to 24 in New South Wales and 17 in Queensland.
Andrews was the health minister trying to get rid of nurse-patient ratios and undermine other basic conditions using Howards work choices to do it..
The new Footscray Hospital is another furphy....Its portrayed as the Andrews Govt looking after the struggling west but in fact is a Public-Private partnership which just allows the Privates to rip off the public purse and wont be helping the western suburbs battler. Frankston Hospital has been promised an overhaul given its in such a mess and didnt have enough PPE gear at the height of CoVid. It often has its ER overcrowded and trolleys in the corridors but dont think Dan is looking after those poor sods in Franga...yep another Public-Private partnership which will see more nose jobs and face lifts than dealing with that under-resourced ER dept.

Some great people work in ER at Frankston and despite those shortcomings I would happily go there again.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: CV and mad panic behaviour
Quote from: ElwoodBlues1 – on
Very sad Video on yahoo news of a son transporting his dead mother(CoVid) on a motor bike wedged in between himself and the son in law, no ambulance or other transport available. I didnt post the video as it might distress some but it just shows the state of the country and how bad things have got in terms of resources.

I think it also shows a resilience that is incomprehendable to those in developed countries except, perhaps, in extreme wartime. My experience of third world countries is that ambulances are the exception rather than the rule.
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The Sports Desk / Re: God help me
Quote from: ElwoodBlues1 – on
Patrick Patterson was less known but a lot of batters of that era said he was the most dangerous... Easy to forget Marshall and then later Ambrose, it was a never ending line of quality quicks. Marshall gets forgotten but his record is sensational and while smaller in stature he was highly skilled and bowled players out rather than blasting them out.

Watching live Marshalls run in was something to behold, very long and very very fast.  Then he would unleash the ball and you wouldn't see anything until the batsman hit it or the keeper caught it.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
Quote from: ElwoodBlues1 – on
I'm heavily in the Blue Chips, Utilities, Reits/trusts, supermarkets and the big LIC's and ETF's, still keeping a good portion of cash as well not that you get much in the banks these days but I sleep better than being 100% in stocks.


I think you need about two years of spending in cash so you can ride out the inevitable storms.  It crossed my mind to sell everything before it hit the fan here but because of that buffer I decided not to..  Whilst I've recovered most of the losses there were some real bargains at the height of the storm.

The sharemarket is gambling and highly capitalist which would have made my leftist uni self disown  or even shoot me. lol
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
After losing over 100k during the big fall I rejigged and sold off some and went heavily with those that pay fully franked dividends and are solid long term, one bank and mining then some funds. I find my broker fairly useless now and shy away from anything he recommends. lol Fortescue, who he told me to avoid, have been brilliant and I get over 100% return per year from my original investment.