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News Worldwide impact of the novel coronavirus (covid-19)

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To everyone worried about numbers, which yes, I do also, a lot- just a small reminder: things are getting more and more concerning everywhere, hence leading to a lot more testing. So you have to consider the number of tested against the number of infected(whether or not showing symptoms, well or worse off, altogether).

With us for example there is government website for the situation and every day there has been official update- this many tested, this many positive. Now, assuming the information is true, it seems like the percentage of spreading is actually smaller. Like, before when a group would test about 1/3 would be positive, now it seems to be roughly 1/5th every time. But they are testing in thousands more people so suddenly seems like the number grew overnight. But many of those people could have been infected for a while and just not known it. I'm not saying it's better for those infected whatsoever, but that maybe it's not growing as much so suddenly, maybe it's more sudden because of additional testing. I don't know if any of this made any sense, did in my head.

In any case, I think here they are speaking that the next 2 weeks will be the hardest, and to some extend I think it implies it getting better after... but in my end, without a set date in sight I feel like I'm in a bubble frozen in time. Like I won't believe things are really slowing and improving until it happens. Is that just my screwed up lack of sense of time or is that how it feels to everyone in isolation?
 
I am a bit scared for everyone. I am a bit overwhelmed. But really I am doing extremely well considering it all.

Today is 2 weeks and 5 days since Morrison stopped telling Australians to go to the footy, restaurants or out with your friends. Countries had been locked down for weeks and he was still looking forward to the footy on the Saturday. He has to own that.

f*cking Australian journalists are sucking up to Morrison saying that he is rising to the occasion when he hasn't put in the basics that the World Health Organisation that are the backbone of Covid19 management;. I am so livid. For f*ck's sake do at least ONE Google before you be sycophants. And it's giving Australians are false sense of security and they are continuing to go out.

We are at the point now where folks are going to stop looking at us funny when we turn up to the front gate with masks, gloves and fully suited. We have been disinfecting the front gate and the letter box and now I will disinfect the front driveway.

I was exposed and went into lockdown in February. I was wondering when someone was going to notice that no much on the efficacy of masks has been translated into English.

I am also quarantining myself from my partner so I am constantly cleaning things in the house. It's exhausting. I fear for the doctors and the nurses - it's so easy to make a mistake and then have to go back and clean everything again.

But I have modeled best practice and a few people who wouldn't have otherwise worn scarves have been doing so. Small contributions but at least I did something.

I sent the delivers information on masks and wrote if you can't get masks, scraves, sheets and anything will do.

We have to two P95 masks because if either one has to go to hospital we don't want to infect everyone on the way or in the ambulance.

I told folks if you can buy P95's buy them and send them to your nearest hospital - we need just enough to protect ourselves. Lesser equipment.

I really tried to contact journalists and other folks to say hey that mask thing is pretty important - look what they are doing in all the countries that have successful suppression/mitigation/few cases - they all wear masks. This was where calling it the Chinese Virus became dangerous - folks were engaging in racist tropes instead of going what are they doing that works and let's follow that.

Our level of quarantine is high because B has had multiple operations earlier this year and late last year.

And because we have cleaned and modeled cleaning to each person it's been like a ripple effect.

I wrote to all the grandmothers saying I have a theory and said the virus comes from the kids to the grandkids and back to the kids - young people, that's when they die. All family members were wearing masks at home and washing themselves and their clothes and wearing masks before engaging with young people.

The World Health Organisation sees school closures as one of the backbones of Covid19 management. In the schools they didn't close down all teachers and students had masks, temperatures were constantly taken. They also had highly trained with protocols and best practise Pandemic Offices. Specialised cleaners looking like they were astronauts would deep clean the schools. If someone because sick, protocols kicked into place and I still can't believe that with all the school closures in 188 countries with 89.5% of the world's students shut down that Australia, still hasn't. Schools that stayed open had specialised cleaners looking like they were astronauts that would deep clean the schools. If someone because sick, protocols kicked into place and I still can't believe that with school closures in 188 countries with 89.5% of the world's students shut down that Australia still hasn't when I started to join the online shut the schools a lot of schools had already shut down in country with a hell of a lot less

The private schools were having emergency meetings in January about how to have students at home and do home learning and they had device practice in Feb. They knew it was coming. How did our Prime Minister fail to act.

Australia is yet to implement our Australian Health Management Plan for Pandemic Influenza in any meaningful way. But it's too late now. Morrison was briefed in November but failed to act. And I am not upset about it anymore but I am so, so, so sorry for all that don't understand Science and don't follow the news.

Department of Health | Australian Health Management Plan for Pandemic Influenza (AHMPPI)
https://www1.health.gov.au/internet...E2DDCCA257D47001B9948/$File/w-AHMPPI-2019.PDF

I know a doctor that quit because of the lack of PPEs he doesn't go near anything that arrives in his house for 24 hours and then he washes it down. With food B and I have been washing everything down, even the boxes, we have been cleaning everything down. Because I didn't want anything coming in from outside but also not infecting B is important.

But I realise now I should have been spraying the drive way, so I dropped the ball there.

I tried to get people to wear masks but they were too busy being racist and calling it a Chinese Virus and they all missed the boat and it became exhausting to deal with that certain level of sexist White man who has to fight just to prove his superiority and a lot of other folks wouldn't wear scarves because that would mean they had to face what was coming.

Ironically we will now manage 3, 6, 9 12 -18 months because of infection control I obsessively did with Papa Bear and also the idiot that exposed me - I would have gone back into the schools, I would have infected lots of people without my knowledge base, and I would not have been ready as I am now.

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Empty aisles are starting to get to me. I turned my frustration to appreciation when I saw that the limits per customer are stronger. I thanked them for stopping the hoarding and scalping. People actually need those products and they are making sure they get them.
Unemployment going up is concerning. I don't like inflation and want this to be over with so people can get back to work. I hate seeing so many cars parked at home this long.
Why didn't sick people wear masks before this all started? Probably would have caused the orginal virus this mutated from to go extinct if we did. No. Healthy people wear masks instead. Atleast if they have anything contagious they're less likely to spread it wearing a mask. A mask that sick people and doctors need! Cool you're role. Captain Hindsight is annoying at best.
This incubation can last up to 4 weeks. But initial quarantines were for 2 weeks.
The store cutting hours is forcing people who would otherwise never see each other shop at the same times. I find that funny in a dark way.
Imagine catching a virus and not knowing you're contagious for weeks. Wow! I never would've guessed that.
The cart sanitizer person was doing a very poor job. That's interesting. But, thank you anyway.
The beautiful thing is the attitudes. So many people are encouraging each other and lending a helping hand to others. Those people's actions are invaluable to our communities. I have faith in our society. I need our community to pull through and think we can get through this together.
 
When I was getting ready to go home from work today they announced that someone with confirmed diagnosed Covid-19 has been in the call center. The last time they were in the office was March 20th and that everyone in contact with them has been alerted.

I guess I went to work at home just in time?

Either way, they packed up 2 monitors, a tower that I got logged into virtually today, a keyboard, mouse, and gave me all the cell numbers of all the managers and the IT phone numbers. It's all setup and working. All ready to work at home for as long as needed.
 
I agree to disagree but I won't lie. Lying is too dangerous. So this is my position I am not going to change it. I have done my research and have medico friends who have quite because they simply said I am not committing suicide as nothing is in place so I will come back in the end and when they finally provide proper PPES etc I can build up when all the other doctors have died. Look at the death rates of medical people in Italy. 50 doctors dead. 1 in 10 folks sick with Covid19 are medical personnel. We haven't even done some of the basics that Italy has done, which has a better health system, more ICU beds per capita. We lost that time because Morrison wasted it. He actually knows what is going on.

It's not about politics or who Morrison is, it really isn't. He has failed to implement the three basic protocols that the World Health Organisation list as the backbone of Pandemic management. He is still failing to do that. He is not doing a good job even now when 89.5% of schools around the world have shut down due to Covid19. That's across 188 countries that shut down schools and we still haven't properly. Teachers in the Asian countries had Pandemic Offices where every student and teacher was temperature tested before, during and leaving school. They all had significant PPEs. They had teams specially trained who have better PPEs that Australian medical staff have.

We never thought he would do this. The modeling for that level of transmission is most concerning. At first the modeling was like 50,000 - 100,000. It's now significantly higher and yeah it could have been prevented if Morrison had acted. We could be at 500,000 upwards now. If he hadn't known or he had put in place even 25% of every available process then yeah he's done or doing something. It's been continuous announcements with no action to the point commercial TV turns up films everyoen getting off a plane - no temperature testing, no masks, no washing or spraying of equipment, no being quarantined for even 15 minutes. That was still happening LAST week.

It's been 2 weeks and 4 days since Morrison stopped telling Australians to go to the footy.

He was briefed last year in November is the earliest we have found for him knowing and yes it was terribly hard because the government of China was lying and the 6 doctors who spoke out had to publicly say that they were spreading traitorous rumours or some such rubbish. But he knew and he failed to prepare the hospitals. He failed to stop kids going to school after a couple of weeks this first term. No one thought that that would ever happen. He knew.

And he's still not even getting out the basics in some instances.

I hate my families f*cking guts right? I f*cking hate them but they are medicos and they are on the front line and because Morrison has failed to act and is failing to act their lives are on the line and if they are dead they can't treat other Australians.

China is not the only government that is lying so is Australia and America. And it's increasing of the fatalities.

If sick folks can't get testing and we are definitely not doing the best testing in the world. I have been in lockdown since Feb - complex story.

And it's dangerous to pretend that someone is doing a good job when they are not as folks get complacent and the consequences are serious.

I have done two months worth of reading, video watching, scientific paper reading and so forth. I am not a medical person but I can tell you he has failed us and continues to fail as a leader with the basics I know and he has ASIO, Intelligence briefings (which interesting the LNP undermined during what was heated exchange in Canberra).

Our hospitals are not ready, and you know when Morrison found out that the Chinese were buying every possibly medically related and sending it home he could have at least acted to get stockpiles for Australia.

ASIO has done a brilliant job with an incompetent leader.

I agree to disagree but I won't lie. Lying is too dangerous. There's been way too much of it.
 
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No wonder we all have to stay home and now wear masks when outside.
I have really copped for wearing scarves around the house, outside the house and also the masks that I had as an artist who works with toxic materials.

One thing that did make me laugh for about half an hour the other day is that the Burka might save us all! LMAO Yeah it's priceless.
 
I'm no fan of Morrison at all. I will give him something though, think he's trying to do his best..
Totally disagree but totally willing to agree to disagree.

What he has done is a total joke. He didn't even get spacers for the lines for Centrelink so there's no Social Distancing. Elderly people outside for a special shopping - no social distancing.


but definitely don't rate Murphy. Incredibly defensive and agree he's in way over his head. I've been listening to the UK CMO and CSO mostly. Seem to be far better communicators.
Yes and they have relevant medical knowledge whereas Murphy kept agreeing with Morrison like he was lackey of Putin or Kim Jong-un or Saddam Hussien/

He is going to cause a generation of Australians a terrible lot of pain. HE lied and said it was okay to keep the schools open when it's totally dangerous and the only schools that can stay open are Asian ones with all the PPEs, cleaning protocols, specialised equipment, the absolute years of training for this. Taiwan spent 16 years preparing for this so yeah their schools can stay open but no kid would ever take their mask off or touch anything unless they had a wiper to wipe it down. Australian public schools didn't allchave enough soap. So for an uneducated person they don't get why it is incredible dangerous for us to keep our schools open. Morrison kept saying he had medical advice saying it was okay to keep the schools open - that's a lie. I am watching the f*cking daily briefings from around the whole goddamned world who are saying the Science and Medical advice say the opposite, so what does Morrison know that no other leader seems to know?

An the lies - China shut down 200 million students. Front line staff were provided assistance for their kids. Morrison used that these folks - the front line staff needing their kids to be at school as a reason not to close. This is ridiculous - I mean you could even get someone like me who loves teaching all kids, and I could run school via Skype from home. I could teach a lesson, get them to walk around the house and then so on and so forth. I can teach any type of kid and I could keep them company. He didn't do it because he didn't have the political will to do it. Every hour that kids and teachers are together escalates infections and fatalities. A lot of teachers in my region are around 60-65 - they know that they won't get a ventilator

He's done poorly indeed but maybe when upwards of 500,000 Australians die folks might look at the facts then. I am so annoyed.
 
It's leading by example @anthony. He didn't go into self isolation for two weeks after he was exposed to Dutton. It's the lack of leadership by example. If the Prime Minister does it - it will filter down to every level of society and bureacracy.

It's only been two weeks and 5 days since he stopped saying he was going to the footy.
 
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