@Sally221
Yeah Sally it is really getting to the scary part of this pandemic for you guys, and we over here in Oz are heartbroken for the fact that your administration did not take this a bit more seriously when they had the chance. It looks like by the end of today there will be half a million confirmed US infections and your death toll is going to reach 15,000....this is just terrible to see.......
And thank you so much @Helen3 for posting this thread. You also are in a dire situation in the UK and are probably going to hit 1,000 new deaths in the next 24 hour period.
Why is it that everyone just thought we would dodge a bullet here? For a couple of months we looked at what was happening in China with some sort of idle curiosity never seriously thinking it would affect us.
I guess we in this country have to be thankful that our Federal Government did jump onto this quickly and set up some really strict social distancing rules, STR activity is banned and anyone not adhering to social distancing rules receives an instant fine from $1,000 up to $1,600 in some states.
But no matter how good the Federal Government have been, the NSW government have done their best to frustrate our containment of this disease.
Two weeks ago the New South Wales authorities allow an infected cruise ship (The Ruby Princess) to dock in Sydney Harbour and the crew hurriedly disembarked 2,300 passengers with absolutely no health checks into the Australian community .....they were simply herded off the ship, with ambulances taking some, and this has now resulted in almost half of Australia's total infections. The handling of this by Carnival Cruises, border force and the NSW health service is now under criminal investigation and charges will be laid.
Fortunately we as a country are now getting on top of this and new infection rates are falling rapidly around the country.
I have been keeping a daily graph of the progress of this disease in South Australia and this is where we stand as of this morning (9th April) ........
We have a total of 420 confirmed cases of which there are currently 300 that are classified as active. We have, as of this morning 3 deaths in total
Hopefully we can get those green and blue lines to meet within the next few weeks. With a state urban population of 1.4 million people the infection rate is so low that the chance of catching Covid-19 is extremely slight, but we are all practicing strict social distancing standards and it seems to be working.
Sit tight where ever you are and don't let silly figureheads tell you it's just a storm in a teacup. We just hope that casualties can be limited and we can get back the world we had.
Thanks again Helen.....all hosts please take note!
Cheers......Rob
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