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Fair call. They have clearly ramped up things on the testing front nowThe UK has completed about 5 million tests to date, so not a small number..
Fair call. They have clearly ramped up things on the testing front nowThe UK has completed about 5 million tests to date, so not a small number..
Fair call. They have clearly ramped up things on the testing front now
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Again it appears we are not looking at what the UK did to see why they have had such a bad outcome with the Covid virus.It really doesn't lend support to the idea that lockdowns are the most important part of the public health response.They actually went into lockdown on March 15th over a week before Australia.
So what did they do differently?They didn't close their borders and were very variable in using quarantine.They continued to let visitors in from the EU and had no quarantine for those people.
In the beginning of their problems there were quite a few people returning from Italy after a skiing trip with symptoms.They were told they "might" be advised to self isolate.Several schools had such trips and had some with symptoms-mainly the staff that accompanied the children.
So only now have they said they will close the borders and introduce a 14 day compulsory quarantine.The horse has bolted so far it can not be seen anymore.
Although when announcing the lockdown it was part of the plan to do extra contact tracing and testing that really took a long time to ramp up.By mid march they were only doing 5000 tests a day.It looked better earlier on but only because initially they recorded each person tested as having 2 tests-nasal and saliva.Germany when the UK was doing 5000 tests per day were doing 70000 per day and much better contact tracing.
So again not that much evidence that the lockdown per se is very important in our response to Covid 19.
Again it appears we are not looking at what the UK did to see why they have had such a bad outcome with the Covid virus.It really doesn't lend support to the idea that lockdowns are the most important part of the public health response.They actually went into lockdown on March 15th over a week before Australia.
So what did they do differently?They didn't close their borders and were very variable in using quarantine.They continued to let visitors in from the EU and had no quarantine for those people.
In the beginning of their problems there were quite a few people returning from Italy after a skiing trip with symptoms.They were told they "might" be advised to self isolate.Several schools had such trips and had some with symptoms-mainly the staff that accompanied the children.
So only now have they said they will close the borders and introduce a 14 day compulsory quarantine.The horse has bolted so far it can not be seen anymore.
Although when announcing the lockdown it was part of the plan to do extra contact tracing and testing that really took a long time to ramp up.By mid march they were only doing 5000 tests a day.It looked better earlier on but only because initially they recorded each person tested as having 2 tests-nasal and saliva.Germany when the UK was doing 5000 tests per day were doing 70000 per day and much better contact tracing.
So again not that much evidence that the lockdown per se is very important in our response to Covid 19.
He actually urged the UK to observe lockdown on March 16th but became mandatory on March 23.
I don't see how you can see lockdown is a successful strategy when the UK lockdown has been at least as severe as Victoria.And it has failed.Common sense says it needed to include other measures and that has been border closures and quarantine of arriviing people in virtually all comparatively successful countries.
Again look at the opposite case-border closures with aggressive contact tracing and quarantine with little lockdown making Taiwan the most successful at combating the pandemic.
Again look at the opposite case-border closures with aggressive contact tracing and quarantine with little lockdown making Taiwan the most successful at combating the pandemic.
...but different provisions of lockdown, and their corresponding welfare support mechanisms, do lead to different economic outcomes. I agree that the comparison with NZ is interesting.Don't get so excited.I am merely pointing out many of the lockdown provisions do not make a more successful outcome on controlling the virus.
the comparison with NZ is interesting.Their more severe lockdown led to a virtually identical death rate to Australia.In fact Australia just beat NZ in the deaths per million.NZ was in 81st position and Australia 82nd.A higher number meant a lower death rate.
And a positive in Qld from someone who'd had contact with a positive Covid in Melbourne and who flew on 2 flights on June 2.
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Agree. And it's why international travellers coming from active countries need supervised quarantine. Sorry Flashback. The good have to suffer because of fools like this jerk. Locals can be idiots too. Hope gets named and shamed and that the test is a true positive this timeThe main question here would seem to be why was he not self-isolating when it appears that he had been in contact with a known case? Was it a case of not wanting to put off plans that he had already made as you would assume that both the flights and the interstate job had both been committed to for some time? If so this is extremely disappointing.
Mr Miles said the man, who had been in contact with a known COVID-19 case in Melbourne, spent one night in Brisbane to socialise with about 15 family and friends on the south side of Brisbane.
Public health alert issued after fruit picker with COVID-19 flies from Melbourne into Queensland
Queensland Health issues a public health alert after a fruit picker took two flights — from Melbourne to Brisbane to Bundaberg — while infectious. He also worked and lived with other strawberry pickers before his positive test came back.www.abc.net.au
So, he just gets a flight into BNE from MEL, and after spending a night with a family of 14, jumps on another flight to BDB to pick fruit with others?And a positive in Qld from someone who'd had contact with a positive Covid in Melbourne and who flew on 2 flights on June 2.
P'rhaps we need to subcontract the potus for guidance on a decent fence to keep the riff raff out… ( he may soon be seeking new employment opportunities)
Never mind keeping the borders closed , we clearly need 14 day quarantine and then a clear test before we allow interlopers to set foot in our pristine PERfect paradise….
Why did qld allow the person to fly in without a clear test ?
Edit: But, the strawberries that he picked are just fine.