DenisCOVIDinfoguy,
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COVID-19 and flu update Ballarat: Masks Still Matter in 2024 | thecourier.com.au

"MASKS still matter is the advice from the region's public health leader as the community faces rising cases of COVID-19 and influenza."

"If everybody who is symptomatic tests themselves, many will show they have COVID-19." - Dr Rob Grenfell, Grampians Public Health Unit chief strategy and regions officer

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Source: https://www.thecourier.com.au/story/8607418/covid-19-and-flu-update-ballarat-masks-still-matter-in-2024/

COVID-19 cases continue to impact bed availability and staffing at Grampians Health Ballarat Base Hospital with 14 COVID-positive patients in hospital as of Monday morning. This did not include patients with influenza. Dr Grenfell said both viruses were a serious concern, particularly for those at a higher risk of severe outcomes - and many people had loved ones under threat. "The issue for people out there are those with impaired immunity," Dr Grenfell said. "We're continuing to bring outbreaks in aged care centres under control...we're testing inpatients and those across our cancer wards. "If everybody who is symptomatic tests themselves, many will show they have COVID-19." The nation's drug regulator, the Therapeutic Goods Administrator, has also been urging people to check their rapid antigen tests (commonly known as a RAT) and to not use a kit after its expiry or use-by date. City of Ballarat's free RAT program finished at the end of 2023. Dr Grenfell said all the health and hygiene lessons from COVID-19 still mattered to prevent viral outbreaks: social distancing; hand hygiene; good ventilation; wearing masks when in closed spaces and unable to social distance; and, keeping vaccinations up to date. He said masks do work as a line of protection and people should consider masking up once more. If sick - even with a sniffle - Dr Grenfell urged people to stay at home.

nikink,
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@DenisCOVIDinfoguy @auscovid19 I wonder if I would've gotten covid if:

  1. I was allowed to wfh
  2. The people i work with would also wear masks
  3. My employer put in an effort to clean the shared air within buildings
  4. WHS laws were followed
  5. My union cared enough about workers rights to fight for 1, 2, 3 and 4.
UberAirQuality,
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@nikink @DenisCOVIDinfoguy @auscovid19 would be great if we had moved on to understanding how masks work to understand which were useful, but the organised pro-disease campaign have kept the discussion at a more basic level “why even mask?” level.

I continue to mask conspicuously (with a P2 respirator) whenever I am around othe people breathing, and don’t raise topic myself, but I am pushing back hard against some of the stupidity these days.

nikink,
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@UberAirQuality @DenisCOVIDinfoguy @auscovid19 Same. And since I got covid from a person in my office building I've had to endure "why are you still masking they obviously don't work" style conversations.

Along with "hahaha bubble-boy got covid hahaha" style interactions.

sigh.

Tooden,
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@DenisCOVIDinfoguy But WHYYYY those crappy surgical masks? Every damn time, it's the least effective mask they wear, for the photo.🙄 @auscovid19

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