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Originally Posted by Peter Ward
I'm also following the Department of health website with some interest as they have no interest in headlines....as they used to say in Dragnet, "just the facts, m'am , just the facts"
27 cases have recovered. So the actives cases in Oz are at 170. I'd suggest it's too early to tell whether recovery will outweigh new cases at this point.
Australian Dept of health and welfare state:
"The leading cause of death for all older Australians was coronary heart disease—51,600 deaths between 2014 and 2016, followed by dementia and Alzheimer disease (37,400 deaths), cerebrovascular disease (29,800), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (19,500) and lung cancer (19,200)"
or about 520 people a day for the 2014/16 period. COVID19 deaths remain at 3 in one month (or so)
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I think it is not so much the deaths Peter, the significant concern is the economy. Basically putting a stop to it.....and everyone’s earning ability. Think about those poor folk with no holiday pay or savings up their sleeves but bills to pay. Thy will not have an income for the period of any widespread shutdowns.
In my line of work (local gov) we had a meeting yesterday, the tone the subject matter was presented in was fairly dire.
I wwouldn’t be surprised if by next week schools were closed (speaking to a local teacher they have been advised by principal to prepare a weeks worth of online classes over weekend) and ‘services’ were scaled back to essential only.
I also hear (from a good source) that ambulance transports were up by 80% yesterday in Victoria......but hospital emergency room admissions were at a normal level.....what does that mean????