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Send Vicpol over there, they will soon sort them out.
Mick
Send Vicpol over there, they will soon sort them out.Just watching the World road race cycle championship, being held in Flanders, Belgium.
There are huge crowds of spectators jammed along the road, no one is wearing a mask.
There may well be another challenge from some organisations such as the BCA and possibly retail and hospitality industry unions over authorities insistence on proof of vaccine before service.There are a number of legal challenges that will need to be resolved around some of the responses to COVID.
The first thing to establish, is that in all cases, wherever there is conflict, a Federal Law will overide a state or territory law.
One of them is the Commonwealth Disability Discriimination Act of 1992.
When the Victorian government instituted heavy penalties to licensed premises for serving under age drinkers, the hotel association in particular were up in arms about having to be the state governments police. Fell on deaf ears though.Soon, NSW will become the first state or territory to begin a new era in which the fully vaccinated are able to go to pubs, cafes and other venues, while the unvaccinated will be stopped at the door.
To access these greater freedoms, members of the public will use digital or paper certificates to show a venue they've had both jabs.
Retail workers, many of them young and working on their own, are likely to be on the frontline of any public hostility to the system.
Retailers have already seen increased violence towards staff when enforcing COVID rules that are sometimes unpopular with customers, and they're now worried the situation will get worse.
Yeah they'd find those elderly couples and pregnant women and sort them out QuickSmart.Send Vicpol over there, they will soon sort them out.
Mick
Ms Dean argued the case about the flu shot should be a warning in the debate about making it compulsory to get the COVID-19 vaccination."It is an abhorrent concept and is morally and ethically wrong and the anthesis [sic] of our democratic way of life and everything we value."
Vaccination is working to reduce the number of people requiring hospitalisation and ICU treatment with Covid-19, and now the pressure on the hospital system looks set to be markedly less than predicted by government-commissioned modelling.
At current lockdown settings in NSW, government modelling predicted there would be 560 people suffering Covid-19 in intensive care units across the state by late October. However, the number of people in ICU has been decreasing over the past week.
There were 244 Covid-19 patients in ICU in NSW on September 21, and on Monday that figure had dropped to 214. There were 1286 people in hospital with Covid-19 in NSW a week ago, and that number now stands at 1155.
If the plateauing in hospitalisations continues or those in hospital continues to decrease, numbers will have peaked well below the predictions contained in modelling commissioned by the NSW government.
Victoria’s hospitalisation rates are also well below modelling estimates. On Monday, Victoria had 8538 active cases and 363 people in hospital with Covid-19, of whom 75 were in ICU, amounting to a 4.25 per cent hospitalisation rate. Accounting for a lag between diagnosis and hospitalisation and using the 5673 active cases seven days earlier, the hospitalisation rate is 6.4 per cent. That’s well below the 10.57 per cent hospitalisation rate seen during Melbourne’s second wave last year.
The differences between the two waves in Melbourne are even more stark when deaths are considered, with 25 deaths during Victoria’s current outbreak so far compared with 161 in the second wave to August 7, 2020.
I guess that last line is true if your original modelling had such a wide possibility of results (1400 to 2900 if you will) , you can still get in the ballpark.he believed modelling predicting a 10 per cent hospitalisation rate was “holding up”.
The Andrews government’s road map for reopening, announced just over a week ago was based on Burnet Institute modelling which predicted daily case numbers – now at a seven-day average of 723 – would reach 1400 to -2900 between October 19 and 31, with 2202 deaths expected between July 1 and December 31.
Asked whether Victoria’s trajectory resembled that predicted by the modelling, Mr Andrews said: “I think it’s at the more positive end of the scale.”
Australia's should get a new national flag of a tongue licking a boot. Bastards here love getting suppressed and can't wait to dob in "wrongdoers". Surprised everyone isn't wearing stackhats just in case.Just watching the World road race cycle championship, being held in Flanders, Belgium.
There are huge crowds of spectators jammed along the road, no one is wearing a mask.
Just watching the World road race cycle championship, being held in Flanders, Belgium.
There are huge crowds of spectators jammed along the road, no one is wearing a mask.
Obviously the people in Sydney / Melbourne spend a lot of money on a house, because they spend so much time in them. Boom boom.What about the grand final......
Yeah I would have gone to that too!What about the grand final......
Will be interesting to see how this one pans out.Victoria’s workplace safety watchdog has charged the state’s health department with 58 breaches of the Occupational Health and Safety Act in relation to the Andrews government’s initial hotel quarantine program.
Covid infections among security guards in two Victorian quarantine hotels in May and June 2020 led to the the state’s second wave of coronavirus, killing 801 people including 642 in aged care facilities, causing more than 18,000 to become infected, and resulting in a three-and-a-half month lockdown.
WorkSafe confirmed the charges, each of which is punishable with a fine of up to $1.64 million, early on Wednesday afternoon.
“The Department of Health, formerly the Department of Health and Human Services, has been charged with 17 breaches of Section 21(1) of the OHS Act, in that it failed to provide and maintain, as far as reasonably practicable, a working environment that was safe and without risks to health for its employees,” WorkSafe said in a statement.
“The department has been charged with a further 41 breaches of section 23 (1) of the OHS Act, in that it failed to ensure, so far as was reasonably practicable, that persons other than employees were not exposed to risks to their health and safety arising from conduct of its undertaking.”
“WorkSafe alleges that the Department of Health breached OHS laws by failing to appoint people with infection prevention and control (IPC) expertise to be stationed at hotels it was utilising for the program,” the agency said.
“It alleges the department failed to provide security guards with face-to-face infection prevention control training by a person with expertise in IPC prior to them commencing work, and either failed, or initially failed, to provide written instruction for the use of PPE.
“WorkSafe further alleges the department failed to update written instructions relating to the wearing of masks at several of the hotels.
“In all charges, WorkSafe alleges that Department of Health employees, Victorian Government Authorised Officers on secondment, or security guards were put at risk of serious illness or death through contracting COVID-19 from an infected returned traveller, another person working in the hotels or from a contaminated surface.”
The article goes further to cite a paper where Ivermectin was used as a scabies control.Abstract
Purpose: Published literature describing the use of oral ivermectin for the treatment of head lice infestation is reviewed.
Summary: In the United States and globally, head lice infestation, or pediculosis capitis, remains a public health issue with both social and medical implications. Treatment with oral or topical medications is typically required for head lice eradication. Resistance to traditional topical therapies for head lice infestation is increasing, creating a need for consideration of additional treatment options. A growing body of data describing the potential role of oral ivermectin for the treatment or prevention of head lice infestation is available. A literature search identified 5 clinical trials that evaluated safety and/or effectiveness outcomes of oral ivermectin use as an alternative to malathion, other topical prescription medications, and traditional, nonprescription remedies; those studies were conducted in various parts of the world (e.g., Australia, Brazil, Mexico, Egypt) and likely involved varying types and degrees of lice resistance. Clinical research findings to date, while not consistently robust, suggest that oral ivermectin is comparable or superior in effectiveness to other topical treatment options for head lice infestation while being well tolerated and favorably perceived by patients and caretakers.
Conclusion: Oral ivermectin is an option for the treatment of head lice infestation, especially in individuals who have experienced a treatment failure. Published evidence from clinical trials indicates that oral ivermectin is as effective as currently available topical treatments.
Where is the bit about being unvaccinated?What a classic, the union adopts mandatory vaccinations for the workers and it sounds as though the union officials aren't vaccinated.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
CFMEU president tests positive, Setka in isolation as COVID hits union office
Construction union staff, including leader John Setka, have been forced into isolation after an outbreak linked to a violent confrontation at the CFMEU’s headquarters.www.theage.com.au
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