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@go-tazz wrote:
With all the help they will get and the experience from Victoria on how to get it under control they should be at 0 within a month.
I too hope you are right; fingers crossed. But all it takes one infected kid attending large illegal gathering, infecting 20, who take it home to their family, who then infect their co-workers, before you know you can have hundred+ people infected, and all that before anybody gets sick and tracing starts. 😞
@go-tazz wrote:
@debra9275 wrote:it's very similar to the way the 2nd wave outbreak started in Vic... hopefully it can be controlled quickly.
Shouldn't be a problem as they have over 3.6 million less people in Adelaide and Salibury/Elizabeth are outer
suburbs and they only have 379 thousand that live in the rest of that state which have low densities as it's more then four times as big as Victoria in size so it shouldn't spread as quickly as it did in Vic.
With all the help they will get and the experience from Victoria on how to get it under control they should be at 0 within a month.
Mainly not what to do according to this article.............As I have said all along, we need honesty about the mistakes made by the Victorian administration if others are to learn from the terrible experience Victorians endured.
South Australia has gone in hard and fast, implementing restrictions on gatherings, closing some high risk businesses, ramping up testing, isolating close contacts ( not letting them wander the streets and shops for " excercise " ) huge efforts in contact tracing, announcing all front line workers will be Covid tested weekly ( an Australian first ), delaying any new international arrivals of returning Australians and probably most important of all, removing any Covid positive patients from aged care homes and taking them to ICU.
South Australia was already highly active in COVID planning before this outbreak. One of my sisters is a senior nurse and was asked to go in for professional PPU fitting last week. ( before the outbreak ) SA medical staff are not just using any PPU from a box, it is tested and fitted to suit the individuals body and face shape.
When the first wave swept through Australia and South Australia was recording higher numbers of cases per head of population than most other states, the SA government was the first to introduce closed borders. It appears the Victorian administration still isnt taking COVID seriously. If it was it would have the border with S.A. shut now. By leaving that border open, it is risking reinfecting Victorians and going through all of the hardships of months of lockdowns again.
It appears almost bizarre to me that Dan Andrews would risk going through all of that again by his tardy response to the South Australian outbreak.
@debra9275 wrote:In hindsight, I agree that maybe we should've gone into lockdown a few weeks earlier, but maybe Dictator Dan didn't want all that power for whatever he's supposed to have wanted power for
When the first wave swept through Australia and South Australia was recording higher numbers of cases per head of population than most other states, the SA government was the first to introduce closed borders. It appears the Victorian administration still isnt taking COVID seriously. If it was it would have the border with S.A. shut now. By leaving that border open, it is risking reinfecting Victorians and going through all of the hardships of months of lockdowns again.
It appears almost bizarre to me that Dan Andrews would risk going through all of that again by his tardy response to the South Australian outbreak.
I'm pretty sure that you were complaining just a few weeks ago about the border being closed Chameleon, and I'd like to point out that Victoria has never had closed borders to any state (not yet anyway)
Definitely not complaining Debra, just referencing those ( in particular Stawka who has Kudo'd your post) who made very direct posts, claiming I was not affected by border closures and Dan Andrews COVID response in general so had no right to comment on the issue. ( Just shows it doesnt pay to make assumptions Stawka, you really know very little about those who post here and assumptions are often wildly innacurate 
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Like Victorians who where asked to adhere to draconian containment measures, I accepted border closures and there effect on my family as a vital strategy to controlling the spread of the virus. Like others on these forums I understood the virus was totally out of control in Victoria and harsh measures where required to contain it. I was accepting of the direct costs to my family and business of those responses.
I just cant get my head around the fact that during the Victorian COVID outbreak, people where not allowed to leave home, except for a few direct reasons and even then, remain within 5 km. of their home, but some-one from Salsibury Adelaide at the centre of this outbreak can hop in a car and drive through Victorian country towns, stopping for fuel and refreshments and visit relatives in Melbourne, going out to pubs for dinner, shop in the malls for Christmas goodies etc.
For heavens sake, Victorians have had to endure enough already. I get it that South Australia was the first state to announce re-opening its border with Victoria at day 14 of donuts, ( following the science to the letter ) but WHY would an administration risk puting Victorians through all of that again now that S.A. has had a sizable outbreak ?
