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What on Earth is a "covid-protester"??
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Those who protested measures of the governments pandemic response, including lockdowns, vaccine mandates, and the like.
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Freedumber I think was the more common term
Good article for your Sunday. The photo says it all.
People are waiting for hours at the emergency room or giving up and going home. So, what's going on?
Adding more beds won't fix emergency department pressures. Neither will one-size-fits-all processes. But improving patient flow and addressing staff shortages might, write Robyn Clay-Williams and Henry Cutler.
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Sounds more like covid-supporters, or covid-enablers than covid-protesters.
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Good article for your Sunday. The photo says it all.
People are waiting for hours at the emergency room or giving up and going home. So, what's going on?
Adding more beds won't fix emergency department pressures. Neither will one-size-fits-all processes. But improving patient flow and addressing staff shortages might, write Robyn Clay-Williams and Henry Cutler.
Somewhere else's ED must be doing a lot better than most metro Melbourne ED if the national average of "longer than 4 hours to be admitted or discharged" is 1 in 3. Its much closer to 1 in 2 where I work and from the data I have seen its similar at other Vic metro ED.
Unfortunately that article still assumes that there is a duty of care for hospitals to find safe housing for homeless people. Locally that ship has long sailed. Hospitals are not housing services. I fully accept that lack of housing leads to poor health outcomes but we (hospitals) don't have the resources to fix this.
And while I am aware this will come off as racist/ culturally insensitive - but one thing that patients can do to help themselves is to learn English. While we theoretically have interpreting staff available, many interpreters are 1) only available business hours for face to face 2) limited to phone interpreting due to their own health issues (so not supposed to go to higher risk of COVID areas like the emergency department) 3) the ED is often noisy making phone interpreting inaccurate/ ineffective
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To me it comes down to whether peaceful protest is a fundamental right or not. If it is, you should support the right to protest irrespective of the cause. If it isn't, the same justification and response can be used for causes you champion.
Take the logging protesters for example, which now may be jailed. What's the justification? Safety, same as covid.
Some of you guys are so short sighted.
The article does not recognise that the decisions are made by people not 'hospitals'. Those responsible for housing (an example) dont face the 24/7 problems presenting in EDs.
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The difference was the timing. Not in favour of protests while rampant virus with unvaccinated population
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There's really no point protesting about lockdowns unless you're in lockdown.
The ballot box is the only way to express your opinion on lockdowns.
Are the Libs up to making an issue of it.
Are the Libs smart enough to take a leaf out of the campaign tactics that were a winner for the ALP/Albo :
'We knew the job we had to do on Morrison': Dee Madigan on Labor's campaign
Speaking on this week’s Mumbrellacast, Campaign Edge executive creative director, Dee Madigan admitted “as much as people hate negative ads, we know they work, and I think this election sort of proved that”.Madigan, a regular Gruen panelist, who also ran the winning Australian Labor Party’s...mumbrella.com.au
I very much doubt the Vic Libs are that smart.
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You could say the same of any issue, yet people still attend protests for whatever reason.
I'd be surprised if policy differences regarding lockdowns or anything to do with covid will make much difference in the election. There's bigger current day issues that warrant more attention.
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Like I said...
All you do, is regurgitate talking points.
Are you scared to think for yourself?
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It will matter in the state election just as how Morrison and Frydenberg's reaction contributed to them losing government. The ALP will be nervous, not so much about winning this state election however their concern will be if its majority becomes small enough to give the Liberals a sniff in 2026.
Coming from the person who supports real pay cuts because Dan is never wrong…
If I just regurgitate talking points wouldn’t I be against the pay rise because it causes inflation?
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Where have I done that???
Stop creating boogeymen, start thinking for yourself...
No... you're regurgitating talking points, because you've no idea why you support or oppose a position...
Well you refused to say you don’t support Dans pay cuts. Why keep ignoring the question if you don’t?
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So I haven't done what you claim...
Also, did you ask me? Either way... No I don't support "Dans pay cuts".
What's your biggest problem with "Dans pay cuts"?
Yes I did and you ignored it to keep repeating the same thing over and over, yet have the nerve to call our other peoples posting.
Because it affects people I know who are facing cost of living pressures and getting a pay cut whilst Dan enjoys his massive pay rise before cutting everyone else’s wages. Yet has the nerve to stand side by side with Albo as he calls for pay rises in line with inflation, something Dans government has put policies in place to stop occurring.
It also takes them 6-7 months to actually approve any agreements as well just putting further pressure on peoples stretched budgets and no idea if things will ever improve, even at the measly 1.5% the government is offering.
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Who got a pay cut? How much was their pay cut by?
Do you actually mean that in terms of cost of living, their wage hasn't kept up?
What do you even mean... or understand to mean... by "pay cut"?
Hey Ed, you talking about teachers by any chance?
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Get in there, adogsfan5!
Na not here to argue. Just had a few teacher mates mention / complain about their annual salary increases dropping and not in line with CPI or something like that.
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