What did Melbourne, Australia do to get our covid numbers down from 700+ a day to zero in the last 48h?
Here’s a list:
5km travelling limit
1 hour outside the home
Leave home only for essential work, essential activities, medical, care, health/exercise reasons.
Curfew 8pm-5am
Schools online.
Schools open for vulnerable kids or those whose parents are essential workers.
All activities online.
No social gatherings, except for funerals, etc.
Reduced hospital activities.
Pre-operative swab for all operations.
Operating theatres at 50% capacity plus emergencies.
Splitting of teams.
All meetings online.
No retail. Essential retail only (medicine, building maintenance, etc)
To my colleagues entering winter in the northern hemisphere, stay strong. It can be done.
We in Melbourne Australia fought covid during winter. At one point in a city of 5million people we had 700+ daily new cases.
We did a hard lockdown:
5km bubble
Essential movements only
Curfew 8pm to 5am
1 hour outside the home
Masks
Social distancing
Pre-op covid swab for all cases
Reduced hospital activities
Telehealth
Here’s what it does to ham. My own experiment at home. The pics on left are at 0, 20 minutes and 40 minutes. The 2 pictures on the right are at 60 mins. Burned through 3 layers of ham.
Here is a couple of batteries I extracted from a child’s throat. They were there for a few hours as it was an unwitnessed event.
Urgent button battery warning (disc battery). Especially for those in Queensland.
What will button battery do to the lining of your child’s throat? See the experiment I did. Here’s button battery on ham. Pics on the left are 0, 20 minutes and 40 minutes. The 2 pics on right are at 60minutes. It burned through 3 layers of ham.
Button batteries can kill.
Here’s a couple of button batteries I retrieved from a child’s throat & oesophagus a few years ago. They’ve been there for a few hours.
So the other day the scrub nurse assisting me in the operation shared his story.
He was born in an African country ravaged by war. He saw his friends and family murdered violently. He had to flee his village with a handful of survivors. 1/
He jumped over the dead bodies of people he knew. He fled to another country. Lived in refugee camps and somehow made it to the UK as a refugee many years ago.
Fast forward a few years he spent 16 years working as an accountant. 2/
Since the EU, worked became difficult for him and he lost his job. He and his family returned to their country of origin and thought they could consider living in their post-war home nation.
They couldn’t fit in. They couldn’t deal with the lawlessness and corruption. 3/