This appeared an hour or so ago:
Scott Morrison says healthcare system can cope despite warnings of Covid-19 pressure
Scott Morrison has called for people to ‘manage their own health’ as hospital staff and paramedics feel the strain of soaring Covid-19 cases.
Rising Covid-19 cases and hospitalisations continue to put enormous pressure on parts of Australia’s healthcare system as hospitals grapple with staff shortages and ambulances are delayed.
There are at least 188,000 active coronavirus cases in the country, with almost 2000 people in hospital and almost 150 patients in intensive care, according to the most recent federal government data.
Scott Morrison on Monday insisted the country’s hospitals could cope, saying most people with the Omicron Covid strain would have a much milder illness than with Delta.
The Prime Minister said rising case numbers were part of “the new phase” of the pandemic in which people would need to take responsibility for “managing their own health” at home.
“That doesn’t mean to say it can’t put pressure on the hospital system. It can. And that’s why we’re working very closely with the premiers and chief ministers to make sure those resources are there,” he told Sunrise.
Mr Morrison reiterated NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet’s recent pleas for people only to call triple-0 in an emergency.
“Having some Covid symptoms is not a medical emergency,” Mr Morrison said.
Australian Paramedics Association NSW delegate Brett Simpson said earlier that surging cases were leading to record call-outs and creating critical delays.
“We’re seeing priority one emergency cases across Sydney and NSW waiting for over an hour for an ambulance to even attend. That is simply unacceptable and untenable,” he said.
Hospitalisations have doubled in NSW in the week since Christmas to more than 1000 patients, with a record 22,577 daily infections reported on Saturday.
Nurses at some of the state’s hospitals have reportedly been offered cash incentives to cancel their annual leave and staff have been begged to take extra shifts.
NSW Health revealed on Friday that health workers classified as close contacts would be permitted to leave self-isolation in “exceptional circumstances” to minimise disruption at hospitals and testing clinics.
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So it seems it is up to you what happens to you - and the Government would seem to prefer that you don't bother them until you are at death's door!
I loved he comment on Twitter that Mr Morison is working on moving us to a "user pays pandemic"!
Totally astonishing IMVHO!
David.
And what if the longer-ter health implications of COVID? There is plenty of evidence this little beast play havoc with the body.
ReplyDeleteScotty from marketing seems to have forgotten that it isn't just a health issue. If people test positive or get sick they don't work, they don't go out and spend, and the economy tanks.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if he is getting advice from his Health department. They don't exactly have a good track record. Seems nobody in the Federal government considered that testing would become the next big problem after vaccination.
So much of this pandemic has come as a surprise to those living in the Canberra bubble. Pity they are immune from learning lessons from their own failures. They just claim they haven't failed.
Scotty even has trouble marketing himself.
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Scott Morrison's New Year's Eve display of a barramundi curry has divided opinion on social media with his aprons creating more confusion than the dish itself.
The Prime Minister is fond of showcasing his culinary skills and on Friday he sliced some fish fillets to prepare a Kerala curry.
But in Facebook posts on New Year's Eve, Mr Morrison featured in a black shirt with a matching stripped black apron while slicing the fish.
By the time he is at the pan cooking a curry over a gas cooktop, he's wearing a navy blue shirt with another matching striped apron over his white shorts and thongs.
And despite the fish being sliced, the finished barramundi dish was mysteriously whole again.
Is there a central repository of RAT results? Of course not. Are they uploaded to MyHR? Of course not.
ReplyDeleteJust as well nobody can get hold of a RAT even if they were wiling to pay for it, it would just confuse things and we can't have that can we?
Governments have lost control of the virus. They have no idea of the number of people infected because the testing system has collapsed. They are now telling people that if they feel sick they should assume they are infected with COVID19 and self isolate.
ReplyDeleteThis is no way to run a national healthcare system. Hunt must be glad he's planning to spend more time with his family. Scomo has an election to look forward to.
There is a strange logic at work here. The government will try and give everyone a free health record costing well over $2.5 Billion and counting, which they don't want and don't use. But when it comes to RAT kits, which people want and will use - forget it. You can't get one even if you are prepared to pay for it. Strollout, all over again.
ReplyDeleteIt's logic like that which kills people.
How do these people sleep at night? Arrogance - it's a wonderful thing.
Q. What do Theranos and MyHR have in common?
ReplyDeleteA. They're both vapourware.
Q. What's the difference between Theranos and MyHR?
A. Elizabeth Holmes is going to jail but the government is getting away with it.
Q. What did Theranos and MyHR succeed in doing?
ReplyDeleteA. They both conned people out of an enormous amount of money.
Gee, they really thought this testing thing through. Technology on its own is never enough.
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Not good for the community
President of the Ballarat African Association (BAA), Michael Akindeju, said English-only instructions on RATs was a key multicultural issue raised at a meeting with the Ballarat COVID-19 Community Engagement Implementation Advisory Group on Monday.
He said the inability of some multicultural communities to read instructions was "not good for the community and not good for the health system."
"If people are not able to effectively use the kits as they’re supposed to, there will be a lot of false negatives or false positives"
"That's why it is important to not only provide and make those kits available but to actually provide means by which people can actually use them effectively," he said