I’m on a late, and really should have a nap, but not before addressing this mendacity.
Firstly, it is the role of Public Health to respond in an emergency- no doubt.
But in the Aged Care sector, that emergency has been made orders of magnitude worse by the failures of federal...
Firstly, it is the role of Public Health to respond in an emergency- no doubt.
But in the Aged Care sector, that emergency has been made orders of magnitude worse by the failures of federal...
regulation and oversight. The set up of the AC Sector in Australia, and the preparedness for such an event, is absolutely as bad the RC has been told, only emphasised by the clown-like appearance and performance of public servants in their attempts to defend it. @SquigglyRick has
covered this exhaustively in @SatPaper, where others have failed. So, sorry- it is demonstrably, medically & probably legally ‘binary’ in explanation.
Furthermore, the clinical advice has been consistently ignored, or massaged to political requirements. In preparing for tutorial
Furthermore, the clinical advice has been consistently ignored, or massaged to political requirements. In preparing for tutorial
for my junior colleagues, the record of this sorry response is littered with pronouncements of our immediate ex-CHO, referring in even the same interview to both ‘herd immunity’ and the lack of infection in children. Both balderdash. That it took until July for a group of...
‘Experts’ to arrive at the conclusion that masks might be ‘a good thing’ is either to make a mockery of the expertise involved, or to acknowledge that these experts were not being paid attention to. We KNOW this was happening- it was on show when the PM rejected advice on numbers
in gatherings, in March. The assumption around the traps was that recommendations on masks was slow emerging because of misguided attempts to keep them in reserve, for some trigger unreleased. Well, that line has been long-crossed, with the infection rates of HCWs in VIC at the..
moment. Medical advice is not ‘evolving’ in Australia- to those medically informed and with a dog in the fight, it is being stood down, stepped around, and adapted to political requirements.
One expects #auspol to be dishonest. There is nothing to hold them accountable. It still
One expects #auspol to be dishonest. There is nothing to hold them accountable. It still
...surprises me to watch an interview that dispenses with the traditional ‘white lying’ approach of plausible deniability, safe in the knowledge that outright fibs can be told, with the only people likely to correct them being the forward facing doctors & nurses...
currently too busy, too sick, or too tired to hold them to account.
