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acwmr

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04/02/21

07:37

Post #: 50691780

Originally posted by misterS: ↑
So, another worker in a 'quarantine' Hotel has got infected. Is anyone surprised? Never mind the wisdom of flying a few hundred people in to play tennis in the middle of a global pandemic, they are just plain old hotels.

There is no protection designed into them to manage people infected with a highly transmissable disease.

They aren't hospitals, some of them haven't even been clean. They've all got carpet instead of smooth, easy-to-disinfect floors, lots of soft furnishings, may have cramped elevators, narrow corridors, regular airconditioning.

The staff aren't trained as doctors or nurses, or even as hospital orderlies, so they have no training and no relevant experience whatsoever to draw on.

Probably have a two-bob mask, minimum wage, casual employment, and are just people doing a usually boring, low-paid job on auto-pilot, except now it is potentially deadly dangerous, as well - to themselves, their family and all their contacts.

Suddenly their grotty hotel is an infectious diseases hospital, only without any of the disinfection advantages, support, equipment, design, failsafes or trained staff.

The Commonwealth ought to spend a quid fulfilling the quarantine responsibilities given to it in our Constitution, instead of letting State Health Departments keep trying to do it on the cheap and let's face it, with mixed results.

For instance, start paying for some trained nurses to run the quarantine in these hotels to an effective standard, you know, the kind of quarantine where staff don't keep getting infected by the quarantined guests!

The later covid variants are even more transmissable and deadly than the earlier versions, so where is concomitant ramp-up in the strictness of quarantine?

Plodding along, one step behind evolving events is just not good enough. The health professionals require 'health' hotels, because they understand the danger.

The whole idea of quarantine is to treat inmates as though they are infected, so how is it that the 'quarantine' hotels do not operate on the same basis as 'health' hotels? It may seem superficially logical, but it simply is not.
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The worker was employed by the government (not a contractor, it is said, (I fail to see the difference) and this is the list of places he visited (from Vic Health Website
A Hotel Quarantine worker at the Grand Hyatt Hotel has tested positive to coronavirus (COVID-19).
The individual last worked at the Grand Hyatt on 29 January and was tested at the end of their shift, returning a negative result. Subsequently, he developed symptoms and was tested again on 2 February. He returned a positive result late today.
All CQV staff are tested daily, including an exit test on their final day.
We are contacting all Australian Open players, officials and support staff who were staying at the Grand Hyatt during the entire period. They are considered casual contacts. They must immediately isolate and get tested.
We are contacting all Hotel staff working at the Grand Hyatt who are considered primary close contacts. They must immediately isolate and get tested and remain isolated for 14 days.
Public health teams are identifying exposure sites. Initial Tier 1 exposure sites and times include:
Saturday 30th January 2021
Club Noble in Noble Park
46-56 Moodemere St
Noble Park VIC 3174
14:36 - 15:30
Aces Sporting Club (Driving Range) Cnr Springvale Rd and Hutton Rd, Keysborough, VIC 3173 22:00 - 23:15
Sunday 31st January 2021
Northpoint Café Brighton
2b North Road, Brighton VIC 3186
08:10 - 09:30
Kmart Keysborough
Parkmore Keysborough Shopping Centre, C/317 Cheltenham Rd, Keysborough VIC 3173
16:00 - 17:00
Kmart Brandon Park
Brandon Park Shopping Centre, Cnr Springvale & Ferntree Gully Rds, Brandon Park, VIC 3170
16:35 - 17:10
Coles Springvale
825 Dandenong Rd, Springvale VIC 3171
17:00 - 18:00
Monday 1 February 2021
Bunnings Springvale
849 Princes Hwy, Springvale VIC 3171
11:28 - 12:15
Melbourne Golf Academy
385 Centre Dandenong Rd, Heatherton VIC 3202
17:19 - 18:36

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