Leaders who aspire to be good at their job take the hard decisions and wear them. The other type takes advantage of that, to gain political advantage by telling people what they want to hear. Just as with Churchill in…arggghh, no! No World War II metaphors! Stick with the here and now. We have good leaders at the state level, Gladys aside, and Scott Morrison is… guess which?
Morrison’s new push on opening up is made with the deepest cynicism, despite being wrapped in a parable concerning The Croods (another parable! Preach it, preacher man!). That will not be news to any reader here, but it’s worth considering the mechanism by which it occurs. The premiers must hold the line in order to preserve the safety and adequacy of state-based health systems. They know they’ll really get it in the neck if we were to get ventilator shortages, ward overcrowding, and deaths before medical attention.
All that is playing out in the US now. The country that hates “rationing” and “death panels” is now seeing what a really brutal triage is like — triage as it was when invented, a doctor stalking through battlefields deciding who among the wounded is worth attention and who isn’t.
These nightmare scenes are something that would not disturb Morrison and that is neither because he is an utterly cynical professional politician nor because is a Christian literalist, but because he is both. His fatalism and belief in the supernatural is undergirding a lack of response to an emergency.
Morrison has been helped immensely in this by the reporting of the 70-80% vaccine targets, figures whose actual range the media has barely explained. It has taken many days for the stories on this to even explain that the target we are charging towards is 70-80% of adults, i.e. vaccine-eligible people.
There are good epidemiological reasons to express the numbers in terms of those likely to sicken without the vaccine, but, well, it’s not 70-80%, is it? It’s around 50% of the population — a less impressive and less comforting figure. The 70-80% hasn’t been questioned in News Corp because duh, but nor has come it under much scrutiny in The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, or even Guardian Australia with their short communique stories, live updates, and relative lack of analysis. Peter Costello, chair of Nine, has called for lockdowns to end, but I’m sure he’s a fair-minded, hands-off chair who just lets journos do their job.
Indeed, everything about this virus shows that the act of scientific communication has to be thought about very carefully, if there is to be some equalisation of understanding of what’s happening between leaders and led. The daily case reports are an example. The raw figures are given out — 44,812, etc, etc — with no explanation that these are as a proportion of the tested, which is a proportion of the population as a whole.
The multiplier would appear to be between 25 and 40. Politicians in constant dialogue with scientists and with, you know, university degrees, are going round with this fact in their head. Much of the population doesn’t. The politicians may have strategic reasons for not explaining how the figures are derived. But the media-as-stenographer once again falls down.
Thus Labor has been left with the task it has often been handed in recent decades: to have an eye to fairness and equality, and change in that direction, while also offering the unwelcome news drawn from basic prudence and responsibility, that things are not yet how we would want them. The right’s embrace of capitalism allows them to be nihilistic and chaotic at the same time.
And above all, to tell people what they want to hear. Which is that the virus is a one-off. And the Delta variant, which is practically a new condition, is a one-off. One-off number two. There aren’t going to be any more variants; the virus won’t respond to our initiatives with further evolution and adaptation; it’s not a super-virus, borne of having a petri dish of 8 billion people; it won’t turn to children if they are left unvaccinated; nothing really, really bad is going to happen next.
How an opposition says that, in the face of a public that desperately wants to believe that the world has not changed, I do not know. But someone within the political-media mainstream has to. Some nations actually count the consequences: in Sweden, the prime minister has just resigned, citing the failure of Sweden’s contrary strategy. People have gone very quiet about Sweden, lockdown sceptics muttered a couple of months ago. They’re gone absolutely stone-silent now. I wonder why?
This feels like a historical passage with many rounds to go. We are in a stage that we will emerge from eventually, but we’re not out of it yet. When we are, the world will have to change the way it does things, in every dimension, simply to stay “as it is”. Just as, um, oh come on it’s Friday, let it rip. We are not yet at the end of the beginning. But Scott Morrison is on the steps, promising “freedom in our time”, his vax certificate in his hand, flapping in the wind.
Morrison is scum with no concern for the Australian people.
Yep
Doherty Institute refuses to deny interference from Prime Minister Scott Morrison regarding their support of Morrison’s failed Covid plan
There is a powerful prima facie case that Prime Minister Scott Morrison pressured the Doherty Institute to publicly support his Covid strategy which if true is very disturbing.
The Doherty Institute produced the Doherty Report which has in effect been the road map that Prime Minister Scott Morrison and all the state premiers agreed to use as the basis for managing the Covid crisis.
But Scott Morrison and NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian have been selectively quoting from the Doherty Report to support Morrisons Covid plan and NSW’s failed Covid management…KCofA
Agree there is a prima facie case that Doherty has either been influenced by Morrison or was selected due to LNP predilection and so do others as there are multiple tweets to their posts stating they appear to have been compromised. They’ve strayed from the science is science lane which is a concern on top the concern of what Morrison does with their report.
Yeah right, why don’t you show a photo of an unhappy frog?
A disgusting cockroach
New South Wales, which recorded 1029 new local coronavirus cases on Thursday, Westmead Hospital issued an “internal disaster management” protocol this week as it reached capacity for Covid-19 patients.
The hospital reduced ambulance arrivals and transferred critical patients to other sites. A memo said it was “conducting urgent reviews with clinicians around critical care capacity, emergency department flow, Covid-19 wards, ambulance offloading and our Covid patient journey”.
Acting general manager Jenelle Matic said the facility’s management was also “working with our private hospital network to open up to 100 beds”.
Shortly after Westmead established its emergency operations centre, Blacktown Hospital stopped accepting Covid-19 patients.
In mid-August, The Saturday Paper has learnt, another Sydney hospital, St George Hospital, also in a local government area of concern, was forced to “furlough” 90 staff for two weeks of isolation following exposure to the highly contagious Delta strain of the virus….Rick Morton TSP
Scuttle around in the dark of your happy ignorance while others do the hard yards while you poke fun at them
although the NSW government is physically capable of expanding its intensive care capacity to 2015 beds and ventilators, a document prepared for national cabinet shows it has just a fraction of the staff available to run them. The paper says that “additional nursing staff resources available for bedside ICU care” is just 328. In practice, this is enough staff to add only about 164 extra ICU beds.
Run from the truth, scuttle from responsibility, pretend you’ve got something to offer, it’s all show just like your hero Morriscum and both of you chanting freedom, what a national disgrace your ilk are.
Morriscum ”has been told the country could expand its intensive care beds by 944 places – but at best it has the staff to operate 346 of these.
In the densely populated south-west and Western Sydney regions, where 80 per cent of all cases from the Delta outbreak are located, the clinical chokepoints are even more pronounced.
On Monday, Nepean Hospital intensive care specialist Dr Nhi Nguyen told reporters that patients were being transferred to Wollongong to relieve the pressure on south-western Sydney.
“What has worried us over the last few weeks is the increasing number of patients who are admitted to intensive care,” Nguyen said. “They are younger, they are staying in intensive care for longer and they are needing care that cannot be provided anywhere else on the wards. There are those who are on breathing machines and on heart/lung machines.”
One-quarter of all ICU patients in NSW are now aged 40 and under.”
Beware the crackpot who tells other to beware, the crackpot it the most dangerous of all ….and that’s you and your Coalition. What an appalling excuse for a human being you are and your mates Berjiklian and Morrisin all responsible for a disaster and you smirk and attempt pathetic smart-alec comments that merely reflect your inanity. Your lot have been banned from social media and you should be banned from this forum too
A health source, who cannot be named, says just one vascular surgeon in NSW has performed multiple operations on unvaccinated Covid-19 patients who have blood clots related to the virus.
“Sometimes patients have clots removed several times. He has operated on people from 30 years and up. Amputation has also had to be considered in some cases,” the source says.
“It’s incredibly stressful for all staff – and surgeons are very mindful of protecting the ICU and theatre staff.”
Despite these issues, Prime Minister Scott Morrison is pushing for the country to open and for the hospital system to keep up.
And here you are nothing more than a jumped up bit of garbage thinking you’re some sort of very stable genius like your kind do, the psychopaths of the world
Here you go pet; this is why you’ve been instructed to shoutspit and hiss Freedom, live with covid, etc etc like the little parrot you are.
It’s the recession we didn’t need to have, Eslake says: the Morrison–Berejiklian recession.
Morrison’s hidden recession
If the lockdowns continue into October or even November – which appears highly likely in NSW, given the failure of the state government’s belated efforts to control the spread of the virus, and is entirely possible elsewhere – then Australia will end 2021 officially in recession.
“But,” says Eslake, “I would say we’re in a recession now.”
And that pet, is why you’re here doing your best impersonation of a lesser crested parrot
Tell us more about the crackpots.
I don’t know if you are able to read more than three or four sentences strung together but if you are this is an article that will save you from further embarrassment and crack pottery
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/aug/28/morrisons-safe-plan-for-living-with-covid-may-be-necessary-even-sensible-but-it-wont-be-safe
Allan, If you not saying it I’ve read others say that it doesn’t matter what we say to people who aren’t interested in considering and discussing information. Suggest you put it out there for the rest of us who will read it and it’s there if they want to consider it too and drop the ad hominems for your sake as its like giving a rock the power to upset us when it refuses to more itself to where want it.
Interestingly I am not upset by what the cockroach writes, but I’m so sick of ignorant fools that I have decided if and when I so choose, I will call them to account
I do understand what you are saying , it’s either no one responds which is probably the best course of action as the purile cockroach I am sure glories in a response, thinking that he has tugged someone’s chain, but the only chain is that ball and chain around his neck
The fact that the cockroach gets some pleasure out of having a response is enough to warrant turning off the pleasure faucet for the cockroach . I believe he and his ilk are intellectually challenged
Very interested in discussing and considering information. It must be well thought through and considered itself though. Not banal and simplistic tropes revolving around the same unbalanced rhetoric.
That will be wonderful you are going to stop your unbalanced rhetoric excellent thank you we will all be much appreciative
I’m not sure how much that Morrison’s belief in the second coming is affecting us here, other than for him to have no concern for the sick and dying, for the vulnerable and needy. I see Morrison as a narcissist whose religious beliefs are merely to buttress his own ego. Everything he does is short-term, for his own benefit and ultimately to get re-elected. It’s just that the Pentecostal churches that prioritise money over mercy dovetail nicely with his own goals, as well as give him a useful network of people and influence. Unfortunately for Morrison, COVID has shone a light onto just how useless and self-serving he is.
I hae ma doots about Morrison’s “religious beliefs” too. Everything he does is to, as you say, buttress his own ego. I suspect he shopped around to find a religion that suited him.
I agree BSA Bob. He is a religious imposter. Not only using it to justify his own self-serving incompetence, but also to garner votes from a very wealthy church with a huge following.
Churches are one of those places that people following “dirty money” can’t follow isn’t that sweet?
Me, too, Bob. I see his ‘religion’ as nothing more than a ‘convenient alignment’ – of his vested interests with god’s. For a man who can’t tell the truth it entitles him to jabber about ‘my truth’ and miracles, and talk in tongues, while he allocates largesse to some and suffering to others.
It’s an old notion that “man made god in his own image”, and Morrison merely adds another data point.
Less a data point than Null-T.
I see him (and several other prominent members of our government) as a hard-core fundamentalist loon who can’t give a sh!t about any serious threat because he believes we’re in the End Times, a common belief among Pentacostals. Worse still, he may also as is common among them believe in the Rapture, in which case he gets magically levitated away from the sh!t show he did nothing to prevent.
Can you get any more dangerous than a leader who (a) believe he was elected by God (b) because of his religion *** doesn’t even care for the safety of the nation he leads, because his God is going to destroy everything, something from which he will personally benefit ***
Has Morrison planned beyond the date of the next election & ordered a massive supply of booster shots? If the current vaccines are efficacious for approx 5 months (or whatever the figure is, who knows?) we will need reinforcements soon.
The majority of Australians have enjoyed a remarkably good standard of living for the past five decades, we are used to freedoms, not the least being an international playground for holidays. We will need to live off the memories for considerable time until this pandemic wears itself out.
Other than “Keeping Labor Out” and “DonorFeed” has there ever been any other plan?
I was bothered by his comment as reported on RN that “We are seeking other sources of vaccines.” …8 months after proven vaccines became available.
Hands up anyone keen on receiving any of the 1M Polish Phizzer, excess to requirement stocks.
One so unstable that it needed -“minus 70C storage“, left over from a Polish summer which was record breakingly hot.
Yeah, I’m totes up on that.
Batch tested by the TGA, an organization No One is Game to go Near.
I do trust them and they run on a binary system of Yes or No.
The theory I have heard is that as a politician you wouldn’t be missed for a couple of weeks by which time the surgical waste would have taken the waster off to his god somewhere.
I can’t ever imagine Australia using vaccines that don’t align with the 5 eyes nations.
Even comments on TG site don’t agree with you
Gladys ‘cares’ only about those in ICU.
The other thousands and thousands who face long-Covid and compromised health for the rest of their lives – whether long or short – are of no interest to her.
The numbers in ICU are the only numbers that matter to her.
Despicable, callous woman.
Bloody hell! 1218 new Covid infections and 6 deaths.
But Gladys and Scott are laughing all the way to the ballot boxes.
Dismissing case numbers and concentrating on vaccination numbers is going to plan and paying dividends.
After yesterday’s mind-blowing record high of 1035 cases one newspaper (guess which one) simply led with the headline: “NSW smashes jab record, weddings get the green light”.
The Coalition’s pre-election strategy of rehabilitating SlowMo’s tattered reputation over the vaccination rollout fiasco with the mantra “we’re hitting world-class marks” and that we’ll soon be opening up from lockdown to new freedoms, thanks to him and the vaccination uptake — is up and running and gaining traction.
Can someone please start a petition demanding the resignation of Gladys and Morrison?
I’m not on social media otherwise I would do it myself.
It’s time.
Seems like the more logical thing they should be easing, is restrictions for funerals in NSW. At the rate we are going, that’s the more likely event to occur rather than freaking weddings. I bet (on the covid dollars I don’t have), that they’re preparing for the unemployment increase post-covid. So if there are more married couples; folks will be eligible for less gov aid (since both spousal incomes will be assessed).
Geez 1218 cases and they announce it like it’s totally cool. Can’t wait to hear them talk about vaccines today and hearing about what more freedom carrots dangled with 1500 cases. Yay. Fools. (Or so smart, that they’re evil.)
Modelling suggests the case numbers may be even higher in about two months.Its really about hospitalization and death, and we need to see those numbers improving. These are the important numbers.
Thanks Berejiklian
“People have gone very quiet about Sweden, lockdown sceptics muttered a couple of months ago. They’re gone absolutely stone-silent now. I wonder why?” …you’re not referring to your fellow Crikey contributor Adam Schwab by any chance are you Guy?
The citizens of Sweden I’ll be vastly happier than most of the citizens of Australia right now.
This bodes well for their future, whilst ours remains uncertain.
Before the howls, yes people died of covid in Sweden.
10 times more deaths and higher unemployment that countries that did lockdown (and even Sweden closed school and unis early on) doesn’t look like it makes for a vastly happier population that ours . . . https://www.businessinsider.com.au/sweden-covid-no-lockdown-strategy-failed-higher-death-rate-2021-8
So business insider reports about happiness when it suites?
Constantly on the run from links to reality.
I’m happy that we don’t have Sweden’s politicians. The suggestion that they are vastly happier than most citizens of Australia is both unlikely, and certainly is not true of people from WA, NT, SA, Qld or Tas.
The good news is that the ABC’s “Drum” interviewed the shrewd director of the Doherty Institute and we were told: (1) initial case numbers matter but not a great deal, since exponential growth of numbers of cases quickly closes the gap between small and larger initial numbers of cases, which tops off at a given number, according to how many are vaccinated; (2) even at 80% fully vaccinated from age 12 up, hospitalisations and deaths will be unacceptably high without other control measures, such as number limits at events, mask wearing and tracking and isolating as many new cases as is possible.
Point (2) is crucial. It is what Morrison (Smirkmo) glosses over when he urges the states to provide their citizens with “freedom”. In WA, where citizens have enjoyed freedom for most of the time, because border controls and short and sharp lockdowns have meant not many outbreaks, its Premier is concerned that the overwhelming majority of citizens with limited interest in overseas or interstate travel and visitors will get less freedom than they have enjoyed so far. For the WA Premier, 90% of aged 12 up fully vaccinated will be much better, because It will be accompanied with fewer restrictions, provided there are annual booster shots and unnavaccinated people from overseas must still quarantine.
Life here in Tassie has been pretty much normal for over a year,
People have even been able to leave the state for holidays or business, so long as they follow isolation rules set by the state government.
Yes, Tassie has done as well as WA, as has SA, although its Chief Health Officer, Professor Spurier, has followed the precautionary principle in a way that “gold standard” Gladys Berejiklian failed utterly to do and continues with restrictions that the Doherty report recommends for 80% plus vaccinated, because, as New Zealand found, Delta from NSW can sneak in and turn up in largish numbers before you know it.
We were doing fine in the ACT until “Gold Standard” Gladys lost control of the Sydney outbreak 🙁
Very nervous in Qld with the Glady’s shadow on the map moving northward. Starting to dislike southern visitors. Too many NSW and Vic number plates.
A number of returning Taswegians have sent their vehicles back by car carriers and caught a plane over Glady’s COVID Cloud.
Very wise, if not thrifty.
NSW is soaking up the vaccines that were meant for otheshe r states and Bickerkiller is doing her best to get everyone to see how wonderful life is in NSW. vowed there would be no further lockdowns across the state once an 80% vaccination target was reached; which is in effect 56% of the population!!
And she again reiterated that residents will enjoy “a much fairer existence” once the 70% “magic” target is reached. As of Sunday, NSW had fully vaccinated 35% of its population, she is such a devious bit of trash, that figure excludes kids and under 16.
That’s mighty Australian of you.
Without NSW and VIC you are nothing more than a village in the 1400s battling against “the sickness”
Very interested in discussing and considering information. It must be well thought through and considered itself though. Not banal and simplistic tropes revolving around the same unbalanced rhetoric.
Perhaps heed your own advice!
There are now 813 Covid patients in hospitals across NSW – 35 more than Saturday. Currently 126 people are in intensive care, 54 of whom are on ventilators, four people who were not vaccinated. The other two people had received their first dose.
Killer Gladly reassured the rest of the nation that she is showing us how to live with covid. Someone please, take her away and rid us of her. She is busily blaming the dead where she can if they weren’t vaccinated! FFS it’s still impossible to get the vaccine in some parts of NSW, she is the most detestable person in this nation.
She said “the most relevant number is how many people are vaccinated and how many are we keeping out of hospital and intensive care”.
“We have to come to terms with living with this virus,” she said.
The best outcome for the nation would be if she caught it and died
WA has indeed so far coped far better than most and so McGowan takes the credit. But there is a huge vulnerability that could quickly wreck the state along with McGowan’s reputation, and that’s the very poor rate of vaccinations. Berejeklian’s wanton failure to do her job in NSW (encouraged by Morrison) has already done serious damage to neighbouring states, and if (when) the outbreaks spread to WA it is likely that a complacent but vulnerable population will not cope because it is long used to being very casual about masks, contact tracing and all other precautions. At that point the blame will land on McGowan, fairly or not. And in some ways – such as the predictable collapse of badly prepared and under-resourced health care in WA – the blame will be entirely fair.
When we in WA have gone into lockdown I haven’t noticed too much complacency.
I prefer the facts, over Morrison’s anti-WA propaganda. WA has 32% of NSW’s population but the McGowan Government has delivered 34% as many vaccines as the Berejiklian Govt. The data tells us which government is the laggard when it comes to delivering vaccines – Berejiklian’s. The high vaccine numbers in NSW are coming from the Feds pumping in large doses via GPs and primary care clinics, not the State system. That may be justifiable for health reasons but don’t blame McGowan for any underperformance by the Morrison Government in getting doses into WA arms. See the ‘Doses by administration channel’ chart here: https://www.covid19data.com.au/vaccines.
I agree with all you say. But it does not change the basic problem for McGowan: if Covid runs riot through WA he will get the blame, and with current levels of vaccination WA is horribly vulnerable. All the details about why and how are irrelevant, very few look that closely, McGowan gets the credit while things are good and he will get the blame if they go bad. That’s how it works.
A disturbingly accurate summation.
The LNP will of course beat the drum on it being McGowan’s fault but I’m not as sure the public would agree as they would be aware supply was diverted to NSW and Vic and are fortunate enough to have a leader who isn’t a complete BS artist like Gladys and work to fix the problem.
Here in the NT we’ve done as well as WA + we have very high vaccination rates.
Last week’s Top End snap lockdown had tighter restrictions than NSW even has now and pretty much everyone complied. Then a week of looser restrictions, including public mask-wearing where you couldn’t socially distance and life is pretty much back to normal. And this was all because of one imported case and no identified community transmission.
Gold standard Gladys should take note!
One thing, and an important one, is that WA is far more likely to follow Health Orders given they see the alternative in NSW and as McGowan hasn’t disgraced himself as a self-promoter willing to inflict ‘living with the virus’ on an unvaccinated public for sake of perceived political gain.
What a crock that ‘initial case numbers’ thing is. Are they really saying you want to let rip with contact traceys already failing and your hospitals full? It doesn’t seem like anyone can handle over 100 cases a day.
Also re, “outbreaks will top off at a given number” – how do we know – the 80% graph cuts out at 180 days while case numbers are still rising.
Very good point about freedom in WA. I’m from Qld (suburbia, just like Canavan) and we’ve been pretty free as well. I’m one of those people who is itching to go overseas – but not so much I want thousands of people to die for it.
The initial numbers is just a mathematical point. The assumption is that numbers can increase with 70-80% vaccinated up to the unvaccinated and “breakthrough” infections among the vaccinate, which do not bother hospitals and ICU much at all. Of course, to let it rip in NSW now would be absolutely daft, since not enough people are vaccinated. And you don’t let it rip either, since point 2 requires that you have health measures in place, with isolation of as many infected people you can find and their close contacts. So, you have misunderstood what I wrote. I am worried that “gold standard” Gladys might relax control too much soon, just as she did when the outbreak began. She has failed to take the necessary precautions and she might do that when she relaxes controls. After all, Smirkmo doesn’t mention them.
“Let it rip” is a meaningless trope
You are your existence would be the definition of meaningless
In a private staff briefing obtained by The Saturday Paper, the highly regarded executive director of the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Professor Christopher Goodnow, produced his own data that reinforces Chant’s view.
The log graph he provided shows the daily case numbers in NSW doubling in 1.8 days near the start of the outbreak, with this doubling rate reduced to 8.8 days following the state’s lockdown.
This figure improved again when further restrictions were added to the lockdown, delaying the doubling of case rates to 13.3 days…TSP Rick Morton
Ultimately, the reopening of Australia will come down to an assessment of risk: health versus economic, with political risk also considered.
And you’re here soiling yourself in delight doing the economic busting to go jig. Good little lesser crested parrot.
Not sure where you’re coming from Allan, but I agree with the comment :
“Ultimately, the reopening of Australia will come down to an assessment of risk: health versus economic, with political risk also considered.”
The ALP will take a slightly different approach, i.e.:
“Ultimately, the reopening of Australia will come down to an assessment of political risk to the ALP in maintaining non-sustainable lockdowns, however the ALP will also pay lip service to the health versus economic implications.”
https://www.ceda.com.au/NewsAndResources/Opinion/Health-Ageing/Why-it-is-not-health-vs-the-economy-in-the-COVID-1
And the consistent view of economists since with benefit of data from economies that did and didn’t control covid. Aus economy demo this as does NSW’s in reverse. We are seeing what ‘living with the virus’ means in practice as it’s goal is to use only enough restrictions as are necessary to prevent hospitals from collapsing. There is hope – or at least is said to be – that higher vaccination rates will end NSW’s lockdown but even if it does some epis have calc that the cost of opening up will be an average of 3 mths of lockdowns per year + other restrictions. With NSW’s hospitals stressed to the gills even before we invite 385k and more to come cases I have to wonder if the epis were being optimistic.
I don’t care much about the economy. I’m more concerned about how this is hurting individuals and families and anybody who wants to enjoy a life in the brief time that they are living.
Opinions from those living in places that have never experienced lockdowns (or not much) are absolutely irrelevant.
Odd that someone who constantly rants about lockdowns for health reasons being unimportant compared to the damage to commercial interests to write “I don’t care much about the economy“.
Just one of your, many, slips showing.
Permanent lockdowns are impossible to maintain.
Nobody is calling for permanent lockdowns, BTC. Nobody, no one at all. Just another trope of yours. As for ‘let it rip’ being a trope, it’s really just shorthand for having no controls in place. You have strong opinions, best to back it up with some actual reading.
By opinions I mean opinions about lockdowns
18n years old, but just a case to Berjiklian and her mouthpieces
“I was passed out for 14 hours a day. Time moves so strangely when you’re in that state. Morning and night were barely distinguishable.”
Donna recalls trying to sit up in bed. “I began hyperventilating.” By this point, she had not eaten for three days. She couldn’t keep anything down.
“I remember trying to take Strepsils, and even that I would throw up. If I tried to breathe, I would cough and gag.”
Barely making it to the bathroom, Donna tried to take a shower. She passed out from the steam.
“I was excessively shivering, but was sweating and hot. I am lucky Sam and Alex were there to call for a nurse.”
Donna was taken to Royal Prince Alfred hospital, still gagging and throwing up nothing. Her visit lasted eight hours. “They said I was dehydrated, gave me laxatives (for her stomach cramps) and sent me back to the hotel,” Donna says.
‘I wasn’t certain I was going to leave hospital’Donna wasn’t getting better. Just a few days later, she was again taken to hospital. This time, she would be there for six days. Unable to breathe or walk, she was put in an isolated room at St Vincent’s.
“On the first day, they gave me oxygen through tubes into my nose. The next day I was given a full face oxygen mask.”
When nurses tried to check Donna’s blood, her arms were too limp to find a vein. She describes not being able to make it to the bathroom, right beside her bed.
“I was catatonic for a few days.”
Covid 19 is KILLING individuals. Havn’t you noticed? Brief time they are living? Are you waiting for the rapture?
The way you keep using the word trope indicates you are not aware of its discursive meaning.
Several epidemiologists have disagreed with the proposition that starting with high case numbers doesn’t matter given exponential growth as the model assumes effective contract tracing will contain ?70% (a disturbingly large number whatever it was) of the cases and NSW’s outbreak is already beyond the limits of its contact tracers. Some one of our panoply of experts said that algorithms had been worked out for contact tracing and be interesting to know what they are and if – and if not why not – Doherty applied them.