Australian Reports of the Virus Spread

[jase05]

If anyone in Melbourne encounters these nimrods please feel free to plow into them with your trolleys

 

[Colin 2905]

If anyone in Melbourne encounters these nimrods please feel free to plow into them with your trolleys

Maybe practise some free farting in their general direction?

 

[MooTime]

If anyone in Melbourne encounters these nimrods please feel free to plow into them with your trolleys

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I'd do a hellova lot more than ram a trolley thru them.
Worlds full of stupid people.

 

[hydrabyss]

If anyone in Melbourne encounters these nimrods please feel free to plow into them with your trolleys

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I can handle a covid case or 2 from Melbourne appearing in NSW but please people from Melbourne don't let these people escape your borders into ours.

 

[TomVexille]

I can handle a covid case or 2 from Melbourne appearing in NSW but please people from Melbourne don't let these people escape your borders into ours.

As far as I can tell they tend to move to QLD

 

[lovetravellingoz]

19 sites added the exposure site list in Victoria on Friday night. The sites focus on Taylors Hill, Burnside and Hillside and are from 5.45 am 1st June and earlier.

So it likely most of these these are from the 2 "migrants" to Qld.

One of them may have worked at, or had a project at, Rexel Australia





There was one exposure on the 7th June, which looking at the location is probably linked to recent batch of 4 cases.Thouh it could bea new case.

You can see all the exposure sires at

Case alerts - public exposure sites | Coronavirus Victoria

Victorian locations where there is a risk you may have been exposed to COVID-19

www.coronavirus.vic.gov.au

 

[kamchatsky]

HAPPY 20,000TH!

Isn't it sad that this thread gets to 20000 posts? After all, we were all thinking this would have been over in 3-4 months....?

 

[lovetravellingoz]

VicGovDH

@VicGovDH

One new locally-acquired case was notified to the Department yesterday. Investigations are underway into the acquisition source. Full case, testing and vaccination numbers are being re-verified and will be available shortly. #COVID19Vic

9:26 AM · Jun 12, 2021·Twitter Web

 

[lovetravellingoz]

 

[drron]

More revelations to the best practice Victorian HQ system.
The Novotel/Ibis hotel in Little Lonsdale street was the hotel which sourced the Delta variant cluster.It hadn't had a brilliant history in the last couple of months.

Breach hotel housed man linked to Delta variant outbreak

Despite concerns of a quarantine leak, the government is expecting to release Melbourne from tough lockdown restrictions on Thursday.

www.theage.com.au

It turns out it shares a car park with the 408 Lonsdale street apartment block.And soiled linen from the hotel is stored in that car park.

Toxic waste from hotel quarantine stored in residential carpark

The car park is so secure that a fellow was captured on CCTV accessing it via the 408 Lonsdale apartments in April and stealing an ADF vehicle.

‘Emma Cassar has gone missing’ as Melbourne hotel quarantine suffers security breach

Sky News host Peta Credlin says CQV head Emma Cassar "has gone missing" as exclusive CCTV footage obtained by Sky News reveals a security breach at a Melbourne quarantine hotel at the centre of concerns about the Delta outbreak. "CCTV from April 27 shows a man using a large object to pry a...

www.skynews.com.au

 

[lovetravellingoz]

More revelations to the best practice Victorian HQ system.
The Novotel/Ibis hotel in Little Lonsdale street was the hotel which sourced the Delta variant cluster.It hadn't had a brilliant history in the last couple of months.

Breach hotel housed man linked to Delta variant outbreak

Despite concerns of a quarantine leak, the government is expecting to release Melbourne from tough lockdown restrictions on Thursday.

www.theage.com.au

It turns out it shares a car park with the 408 Lonsdale street apartment block.And soiled linen from the hotel is stored in that car park.

Toxic waste from hotel quarantine stored in residential carpark

The car park is so secure that a fellow was captured on CCTV accessing it via the 408 Lonsdale apartments in April and stealing an ADF vehicle.

‘Emma Cassar has gone missing’ as Melbourne hotel quarantine suffers security breach

Sky News host Peta Credlin says CQV head Emma Cassar "has gone missing" as exclusive CCTV footage obtained by Sky News reveals a security breach at a Melbourne quarantine hotel at the centre of concerns about the Delta outbreak. "CCTV from April 27 shows a man using a large object to pry a...

www.skynews.com.au

Cassar only intermittently attends the Vic Pressers pressers. So "going missing" seems to be a misleading description. Especially for a car stolen on 27th April = 7 weeks ago.

The last time she did (8th June) the linen was a question she was asked and answered.

The manager that was dismissed was also discussed by her at a presser back at that time.

 

[dajop]

I find it interesting there’s so much fuss about linen being stored in bins in a secure carpark (can the virus be transmitted in air from linen - I can’t imagine anyone touching it), and a shared carpark, was there a similar expose on SkyNews about the escalator at the Sofitel Wentworth in Sydney, where people come down the escalator and there is a just a rope separating the public from people checking into the quarantine hotel? (Or was that fake news, I didn’t follow up). A space not just shared with linen and a few staff but actual guests,

I’m not really sure why SkyNews are so concerned about the former and not the latter. Both could cause breaches.

 

[lovetravellingoz]

I find it interesting there’s so much fuss about linen being stored in bins in a secure carpark (can the virus be transmitted in air from linen - I can’t imagine anyone touching it), and a shared carpark, was there a similar expose on SkyNews about the escalator at the Sofitel Wentworth in Sydney, where people come down the escalator and there is a just a rope separating the public from people checking into the quarantine hotel? (Or was that fake news, I didn’t follow up). A space not just shared with linen and a few staff but actual guests,

I’m not really sure why SkyNews are so concerned about the former and not the latter. Both could cause breaches.

As per the pics on SkyNews on 2nd June.

Linen is in tied plastic bags, and is in a fenced off area. (You can see the blue barrier ).

 

[lovetravellingoz]

Vic Presser.

One likely (not sure if that is meant to imply anything) community acquired case.

The result came in last night, and interview begun very late last night. Not yet linked.
The case developed symptoms, got tested and gained result all in the same day.

 

[oz_mark]

As per the pics on SkyNews on 2nd June.

Linen is in tied plastic bags, and is in a fenced off area. (You can see the blue barrier ).

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Quite something they call it 'toxic waste'

 

[lovetravellingoz]

Vic Presser.

Jeroen Weimar: Latest case to be interviewed again this morning. However last night's interview indicated he lived near other positive cases and had some social setting overlap, though not close enough to be a primary close contact of a positive case.

The family of the new case is being tested, with the results expected later today, says Weimar

 

[drron]

Cassar only intermittently attends the Vic Pressers pressers. So "going missing" seems to be a misleading description. Especially for a car stolen on 27th April = 7 weeks ago.

The last time she did (8th June) the linen was a question she was asked and answered.

The manager that was dismissed was also discussed by her at a presser back at that time.

You missed the main point of that question of the presser-soiled linen being stored in the car park shared by the HQ and apartment block.Do you really think that is unimportant.That had been raised in the media just 2 days before that presser.

 

[N860CR]

I think if you were deceptive enough to break rules in three different states you'd be laying low and wait for your symptoms to pass.

So they have a virus that is so bad and so deadly that we are still having the most draconian, knee jerk border restrictions in this country’s history, yet the people who actually have the virus could just “lay low until the symptoms pass”. There are a few issues there…..

If we go down the path of naming and shaming, massive fines etc etc then people are simply not going to come forward for testing (especially given, as you said, they can just have a bit of a lie down at home and get over it).

The time for these knee jerk lockdowns of the entire population and arbitrary border closures (that are easily circumvented) has passed.

 

[RooFlyer]

I find it interesting there’s so much fuss about linen being stored in bins in a secure carpark (can the virus be transmitted in air from linen -

Plus the 2 facilities (HQ hotel and the adjacent appartments) shared a stairwell etc. Now, hotels for quarantine isn't a perfect scheme but there are things you can do to make them less suceptable to breaches, perhaps especially in Vic, where they've been through so much and had an investigation into the lask major outbreak from HQ breaches and the current situation was meant to be top notch as a result.

To me, it isn't that the linen was bagged and roped off - its that it shouldn't be in a shared area at all; it's an avoidable risk point. What happens if some bags are nicked? Unlikely to get a virus spread but the kerfuffle would use up yet more resources, at least.

I'm sympathetic to those running HQ and +99% of the time there is no drama, but given the consequences of just one case escaping, stuff like this is surprising, at the least.

... and I don't think we've mentioned Maitu Bush, described as general manager of Victoria’s COVID-19 Quarantine Infection Prevention and Control, who got suspended or stood aside for refusing COVID tests and breaching infection control protocols. Also reported as having been found to have put onto the payroll a couple of gym mates, not qualified, at $100K ea. Stuff like that can and probably is happening elsewhere, but again, disappointing that the media can expose these types of things.

This article from the Oz on-line (probably pay-walled, sorry) details a number of HQ breaches since January this year:

NoCookies | The Australian

www.theaustralian.com.au

 

[lovetravellingoz]

You missed the main point of that question of the presser-soiled linen being stored in the car park shared by the HQ and apartment block.Do you really think that is unimportant.That had been raised in the media just 2 days before that presser.

No I understood the point.

The linen has to get out of the building.

It is a temporary storage location till it is picked up.


It is in a designated area with barriers.

It is in sealed bags as per procedures.

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And yes completely dedicated quarantine sites would be best.