Carlton Supporters Club

While I agree about health work wages, paying them more won't really solve the problems in the system.

They need a lot more staff and a lot more ambulance crews.

The first thing they should do is kybosh the nerd bean counters doing time and motion studies on ambulance crews and ED staff to ensure they are operating at full efficiency!

A mate recently retired after a career as an ambo - most recently in a very senior role.  He's neither a nerd or a bean counter but a very experienced operational ambo.  His take is that they don't have enough ambulances (or spare parts for the ambulances they have) for additional staff.  That means that newly qualified paramedics (my niece just qualified) can't get the 12 months in the passenger seat they need as the next step in their career path.

My niece will probably have to go interstate to progress her career.

My reference to "more ambulance crews" assumes the new hardware to go with them, and the same for nurses and health care staff.

Authorities just have to wear the cost of having some of them idle when things are quiet, there is in my opinion a point at which operations become too lean.

It is cruel, a site for heartless and unrepentant schadenfreude. This is a place where deaths are celebrated, and it is not the only one. While endless ink has been spilled on the anger of Trump voters and Fox News viewers and QAnon adherents, there are other angers that haven’t been nearly as well explored. The exhaustion and fury doctors and nurses feel, for example, as they deal yet again with overwhelmed ICUs. Instead of being hailed as heroes, this time around they’re risking their lives to serve while walking through anti-vax protesters and being called murderers or worse by misled family members demanding or indeed suing for sick unvaccinated relatives on ventilators to be dosed with ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine or vitamin C. There is the anger of family members of those without COVID who are dying or sicker than they should be because treatment was delayed or denied to them at dozens of hospitals that had no beds available. There’s the frustration of parents trying to keep their children safe, the constant, destabilizing calculations and adaptations people are forced into when (for instance) the governor of Texas prohibits schools from taking safety measures and then two teachers at a single school die, forcing closures once again. There’s the run-of-the-mill anger of those weary of living under pandemic conditions and demoralized—in the most literal sense—by the selfishness of their compatriots.

Subscriptions to the HermanCainAward subreddit are increasing exponentially, from 2,000 subscribers on July 4 to 5,000 at the beginning of August to more than 100,000 on Sept. 1 to 243,000 Friday to 276,000 today. If that rate is any indication, rage is growing toward anti-vaxxers deliberately prolonging the pandemic out of an anti-social and deadly understanding of their rights. Now, it’s true that not everyone on the subreddit assents to its spiteful premise: One exhausted nurse wrote a long post about how much one of her anti-vax patients suffered, as an attempt at counterbalance. She acknowledged her own compassion fatigue but also urged readers to think harder about how we got to this sorry pass. Plenty of the discussions do orbit around that basic question. But most of the comments are angry. A collection of screenshots generally elicits a common sentiment: The person got their just desserts.

Locating that point correctly is the $64000 question.
It’s all good until you (me) needs that urgent ambo…

Is Delta more deadly?
The WHO says this variant of concern has an increased risk of hospitalisation. This is unsurprising because increased transmissibility could go hand-in-hand with case severity until most of the world’s population is vaccinated.
A study from February to June in Canada, yet to be peer-reviewed, compared non-variants of concern with Delta. It found people infected with the Delta variant were:
105% more likely to be hospitalised
241% more likely to be admitted to an intensive care unit
121% more likely to die from the disease.
For the other three variants of concern, these values were 52%, 89% and 51% respectively.
This shows the Delta is the most problematic variant of concern to date.

The only football supporter I saw arrested at the Shrine protest just had to be wearing a Carlton scarf.
Prompting of course the old.... "not going well on or off the field!" comment.

I just caught some footage of the rioters at the Shrine.  One brainiac exclaimed, "Let them shoot us on hollowed ground.  On hollowed ground!"

 

Looks like Point lonsdale has received an exemption from lock down for "economic reasons".  Hey Lisa,  our town is 7 km away and we're struggling too,  can we be exempted too?

In a month's time,  when cricket season starts,  I predict that the first ball in Port Vs. Queenscliffe C grade...well the batsman wont be stepping forwards.

As Orwell said... "all animals are equal,  but some are more equal than others"