SA closed to greater Melbourne from midnight. WA will follow shortly after I think.

They were already closed or required 14 days quarantine as does NT
Tas & Qld obviously so desperate for any tourist dollar still open (though Tas closed to some Melb Suburbs including CBD)

But the great news is that that Labour Socialist Left ideals & dictums have not been compromised


We got the best hotel quarantine in da world .........

:}

KRaviator - you appear to be attributing a politician with altruism.

As the two are mutually exclusive I suggest you look elsewhere for a reason...

I would suggest money, as thats what usually drives them.

Is ($$)mandatory($$) hotel quarantine cashflow worth maxing out while it lasts?

All down to risk management I suppose.

Every time DA opens his mouth an outbreak occurs, remember June last year his comment to SA “why would anyone want to go to SA” boom hard lockdown 900 dead. DA has a go at Premier Gladys telling her that his HQ is superior and now it’s happening again. Time for DA to go he is incompetent.

I 100% support you guys moving on, best for everybody I reckon.

That's NOT going to happen, they love him down there. The more he lies, the more he locks them down, the more they love him.

Victoria is OK for now because the tennis is on.

Chairman Dan is the Donald Trump of Oz Politics.

Yes. I'm afraid we'll never be able to provide the degree of forelock tugging and subservience that the "old states" believe to be their due..

Well balanced chips on both shoulders :ok:

Nah, Tassie can stay, pretty cool joint, great whisky and beer.

In SA's case, that's incorrect. SA only required a test on arrival followed by self isolation until a negative test was returned. Then another test on Day 5 and Day 12.

I know this because I had planned to travel to SA next week.

Different rules again


https://www.news.com.au/national/sou...dd88a3d4671f08

Hey McLimit, do you think this -

Take some time to read the breathtaking arrogance from someone who had over 800 people die from decisions he was responsible for

Might have something to do with why -

Also, you lot from other States wonder why NSW shakes their heads at you lot.

Seems you want it both ways.

Or does the need for a three week lockdown not fit the narrative...

Ahhhh, 3 week lockdown? Lockdown where? What are you talking about?

And why should he not be given an exemption??

Re the MEL Holiday Inn outbreak. To be fair, the same nebuliser driven outbreak (assuming that's what happened) could have happened in any other state undertaking hotel floor Q ( NT, not looking at you :) ). Personal baggage from your flight is certainly not searched in WA. Had he sick man arrived into Perth with his nebuliser, the same infection would have happened to a similar number of people and they may have been worse off with (until last week) no community mask wearing and limited testing.

SOPS - if you read the fine print of most the states, such exemptions have always been in the fine print. I'm not as intricately familiar with SA's as I have been with every other state, but I'd be surprised if it was different.

The (Christmas) Northern Beaches outbreak, source remains undetermined.

"Also, you lot from other States wonder why NSW shakes their heads at you lot."

Indeed.

:hmm:

Virus is airborne; it gets around fine with or without help...

If you test positive while in HQ in Qld, you are transported to a Covid ward at a hospital. You do not stay in HQ.

Not in WA you don't. And you can also develop symptoms between the test a couple of days in and the ~10 day test.

Yes, clearly evidenced elsewhere. But likely the nebuliser helped it spread significantly.

Seems eminently sensible.

As has been pointed out so many times, a targeted lock down of a couple of LGA's NOT a whole city and NOT for a single case.

One of the Holiday Inn infected is in ICU and not doing well - 38 years old.

This is the same person that owned the nebuliser, who would already have medical issues may asthma something unknown to the public. Nothing too see here cant blame every ICU case on C-19

In the early days of the pandemic nebulisers were banned for use in many hospitals, as were 'aerosol generating procedures'. I doubt in this case it could have been avoided. Someone got sick, maybe they already had respiratory issues and had their own nebuliser, which they used, leading to this spread in a place not designed to contain aerosols.

If however, the scenario was that the patient tested positive, became unwell and then was GIVEN this treatment by authorities... then that is a massive clusterf*ck on behalf of the VIC Health team/ whoever manages HQ at the moment, seemingly against their own hospital procedures.

So I'll ask again, if not for a single case then what is the correct number?
Please cite your expert reference for the correct number.

"More than one" is a meaningless but nefarious answer.

Well, considering the WA CHO testified in court that their health system can successfully manage 500 new cases per day the answer is obviously not "1". That would utilise 650 hospital and 124 ICU beds, but would remain within the capability of the WA health system. That being the case, I would say anything more than 500 new cases per day, based on a population of 2.66 million should be the trigger to require a lockdown, because anything less than 500 can be managed by the (existing) health system. Your reference is Palmer v Western Australia (No 4) [2020] FCA 1221 [86].

If you want to extrapolate that to other states, on the assumption all health systems have the same capacity, that is 1,200 cases a day for Mexico and 1,500 for NSW. And that's per day remember....

given the WA health system only has 111 ICU beds I’m not sure this would allow the system to carry on in its’ usual form. The WA health COVID response plan suggests that ward closures and the use of private hospital capacity would be required to ramp up the ICU capacity and hospitals have plans to implement COVID/Non-COVID areas. This means routine operations and treatment may have to be cut back, I presume that’s what he meant by .
Pretty sure most WA residents would rather see their Aunty Doris have a hip replacement than 500 new cases per day.

undetermined or covered up?

You forgot to mention the other half of the quoted sentence, the bit that mentions 70 deaths.
But then, that'd be OK, wouldn't it?

While you, Clive and Beryl may agree, apparently the Federal Court of Australia did not.

I didn't forget, nor intentionally omit it. You asked for a specific number of cases, I gave what I consider to be a reasonable number of cases based on testimony from a state CHO - incidentally the same one who also champions "28 days COVID free" to allow his state border to reopen to the rest of the country, and to hell with the socio-economic cost of that 28-day delay.
To me, YES, it would! I make no secret of that fact, nor apologies for it. But in saying that, I am happy to accept personal responsibility for my health, and tolerate minor inconveniences (masks/social distancing/hand sanitiser on entry, for eg) to allow life to continue as normally as possible, as it does in NSW (who has kept borders open almost entirely throughout...). By the same token, I don't smoke so, personally, I don't consider the 8,000-odd deaths from preventable lung cancer a year as being "OK". But hey, the rest of Australia seems to think that killing 8,000 citizens a year by the sales of tobacco products is perfectly fine! So who's right?

My point is, if the Government has had a financial model for acceptable risk (including death) v reward for decades, and they threw it out the window for COVID. However, the Government - of all persuasions - is happy to rake in the billions of dollars from tobacco excise, despite knowing it is one of the leading causes of preventable deaths in Australia.

You can't have it both ways.

You gave based on the summing up of his testimony by the court, the full paragraph ends

Yes I did, and yes it does.

What is your point?

The issue with having active covid cases, regardless of borders, is that it kills demand. People are generally not willing to take the risk - especially so for corporate travel. Without corporate travel the golden triangle - and many other routes would be half, if not less, their standard capacity - and we can forget about yield

That your figure of 500 new cases per day should not be used as a threshold for a lockdown as you’ve taken it in isolation from the rest of the summation. There would be a significant impact on the provision of WA’s health services well before that figure is reached.

Yep. Air travel has been decimated in nations where borders have remained open too, so I don’t know why people here think open borders would suddenly mean a return to normality. I remember in March before any borders were closed passenger numbers were plummeting, the free market was choosing not to travel whilst this pandemic is active.

This slowdown of aviation is because of a worldwide health crisis and it’ll be over when the health crisis is no longer an issue, not borders.

Lets get one thing straight...

Since the prohibition on cruise ships and an isolated case or two on cargo ships, there is only one other way that the country is now subjected to receiving infected individuals - international air travel.

That firstly means that bleating by international pilots and airlines is just that - self interested crap. The Federal Government and the states have already been overly generous, in my opinion, in permitting any international arrivals of passengers at all.

Given that generosity, it is even worse when we hear International pilots carping about lockdown conditions, etc., when the need for such measures is directly caused by their employers activities.

It should also be of interest to domestic RPT pilots because without the constant stream of infected individuals from overseas we would have beaten this virus by now and could have reopened the whole domestic RPT and tourism market

My suggestion is that there should be only two quarantine locations Christmas and Manus Islands. No one gets to land here unless they are tested Covid free for fourteen days.

"Can manage", but why would you want to?

As long as this thing is allowed to replicate, like in Europe it can and will mutate (remember not that long ago viewed as unlikely) and possibly come up with something that can defeat our efforts at vaccination.

Then its back to square one.

I don't want to go all the way back to square one. Do you?

Sunfish accusing other people of ‘bleating’ and ‘carping’ has just made my day. :ok: