@timrichards I seem to remember that every train station was painted maroon with gold trim, shortly thereafter. It's not exactly, accurately 'brownish-red', but a colour mixed especially, methinks. Queenslanders have been the Maroons since State of Origin began.
I was on a self service check out in Coles today..
The lady supervising the area came over..
Looked at all my purchases..
Said..
I'm just checking.....
Checking what ....... I asked..
Oh..what you're buying..I dunno what to make for dinner.. I'm looking for inspiration..
@RealJournalism I read a few years ago that we all rely on scientists to sustain the human population now. That was specifically addressing agriculture and food and water supplies. But of course, with the 8+ billion humans now overtaxing the planet and all the pollution we create, it's even truer.
Thank you, #scientists. You are our miracle workers.
@RealJournalism Thanks. Last I looked at the projections -- a few years ago, tho -- growth was supposed to peak at 12 billion. With disastrous global warming , it will be difficult to feed us, among other issues like clean water supplies.😬
I tried to see this replica 16th century pirate ship that one guy built over 10 years but apparently it sails around and is not a permanent fixture. So doing my obligatory visit to Urangan Pier.
You can see why the pier is so long 868m (originally 1.1km) when the tide is out like this. Also saw an Australasian Darter on the pier. #HerveyBay#Queensland#Birds
Queensland: "Doctors are acquiring RSV, COVID and influenza in the state’s hospitals in rising numbers, sparking the state’s peak medical body to call for urgent action to better protect medics in an already struggling healthcare workforce."
@DenisCOVIDinfoguy 😱😱 What....if they just wore respirators? You know what I mean - proper PPE, not those rubbish surgical masks. I am amazed (not really) that they haven't managed to make the connection. Air scrubbers would be another positive step.
Truly. Do they need a few old codgers to do the 'talk'?🤔@auscovid19
Did you know that #SharkCulling programs in #NSW and #Queensland have never been assessed under our national environment laws ?
That’s despite the fact that #nets and lethal drumlines in NSW and QLD have caught 174 #CriticallyEndangered grey nurse #sharks in the past decade, killing 70. Over the same time, a massive 538 threatened marine #turtles were also caught across both states, with at least 183 killed.
Tell the Federal Environment Minister it’s time for change.
For the first time in over 20 years, national #EnvironmentalLaws are being rewritten. Tell Federal Environment Minister, #TanyaPlibersek that you want her to require the #NSW and #Queensland shark culling programs to be subject to national environment laws.
@guardian this morning is reporting on a woman do went looking for help from several #Queensland police stations and got, wait for it.. fuck all help.
The cops said she was cop shopping. Why is that needed? Three days later, her estranged husband tied her to a clothesline, poured petrol on her, and set her alight, in front of her 3 kids, aged 3 to 9.
Yeah, y'all do seem to have some upcatching to do. Last i heard it was still pretty racist down there, too.
I still love your culture. I've really liked just about every aussie i met. The ones i met were good people, and similar to texas liberals. Feisty.
The world needs more outlaw cultures. Yeah, it gives the shitheads freer rein, but i also read that you have the least inequality among developed nations. There is an upside to disobedience.
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I have obtained information about hospital-acquired COVID-19 from Queensland Health. From Jan-22 to June-23 an average of 14 people caught C19 in hospital each day, and one of these died each day. The data only lists deaths in the hospital, we don't know how many died soon after discharge.
The Queensland AMA has written to the CHO "expressing members' concerns about rising COVID cases and inadequate infection controls within Queensland Health hospitals". They have now published the letter and the non-answer here: https://www.ama.com.au/qld/correspondence/CHOcovid
It does not address the doctors' concerns at all. It just says that each hospital should make their own rules, proportionate to the current risk.
In spite of the acknowledged current wave of COVID, here's an example of current guidance from a typical Qld hospital:
Visitors are welcome at Metro South Health facilities, and are asked to help keep patients safe by:
practising hand hygiene
staying home if you have any flu-like symptoms
avoid visiting hospitals, aged care, or disability care centre while you have any cold or flu symptoms.
As well as being totally inadequate, point 3 seems to assume you'll ignore point 2.
The policy of leaving it to individuals to manage their own COVID-19 protection has now been extended to health care generally, resulting in vast disparity between the safety offered by different services. If I buy a fridge, I get to see a star rating and can have confidence that what I buy will have that level of energy efficiency. I can be confident the fridge meets safety standards and it won't electrocute me. If I enter a public building I don't have to check that the fire doors work. But if I am taken to hospital with a broken hip it's pot luck whether I'm exposed to avoidable airborne disease.
@DenisCOVIDinfoguy@auscovid19 Sigh. JG swings 180 between assuring all and sundry it'll be fine to do nothing, to feigning surprise when it isn't. Political line-towing over public health, every. single. time.
Here's a late photo for #FensterFreitag - a window in The Old Church in Mena Creek, Queensland, Australia. It was built as a Catholic church after WWII but only operated as a place of worship for a decade. Nowadays it's short-stay accommodation.
Warning as COVID just one part of huge wave of sickness sweeping Queensland.
"A wave of illness is sweeping Queensland this holiday season, with hospitals recording a significant spike in COVID hospitalisations and children with respiratory infections."
@mattkarger@DenisCOVIDinfoguy@auscovid19 It's getting sillier by the day - That quote at the end by Gerard, about young children who have gone to school through the pandemic not not having seen this kind of bacterium before - so now being exposed at school isn't actually being exposed?
Everyone should have their first bout of Mild™️ pneumonia before 6, right? Hand out the pneumonia blankets!
