A little birdy told me (a reliable birdy) that hospitals spending cash like it was monopoly money during COVID is a big part of the reason they are having to make hard cuts now.
Honestly seems like there was a lot of overreacting during COVID. And the fact that no state government wants to review their actions suggests to me they know this and don’t want to be held to account.
Money was spent cause it had to be. Everyone was working with limited information which in hindsight looks like an overreaction.
Doesn’t help that we’ve got massive infrastructure projects going over budget and money is tight in the state.
This would be a perfect time to raise revenue by taxing resources and such,.and sharing it with the states.
Anyway, just my two cents
Well, my source works in the medical system according to them there was insufficient spending restraint, even with COVID.
More broadly I think we overreacted. This is an opinion, and the one way to flush out the facts is to do something like a royal commission as state level. Of course state governments won’t do this because they don’t want to be accountable.
And regarding hindsight, there was plenty of people at the time who considered it as such but they were ignored. Do not think for a minute that all decisions are rational and forward thinking. There was a lot of politics at play here.
I don’t think it was so much an overreaction to Covid or excessive spending, I think it was more a case of not spending in the right way, so most of what was spent was wasted.
The whole point of lockdowns was to slow the spread to allow medical services time to increase the capacity to deal with a higher volume of patients, but that didn’t really happen. If they had spent their money on things that would increase capacity, streamline process etc. it would have led to the ability to clear a lot of backlog of patients, reduce ramping etc. when that capacity was not needed for Covid. That obviously hasn’t happened.
I don’t work in the hospitals but I expect the experience there was similar to my organisation - the potential problems were ignored early on when it would have been the best time to do something, then when Covid hit a lot of money got splashed around on short-term initiatives so managers could feel they were doing something (thanks for the free food, but really a waste of money), but no effective longer term changes were met. This is combined with workers leaving because of overwork and insufficient staff numbers and pay making it hard to recruit and retain new people, which is the culmination of years/decades of insufficient funding.
Having gone through a few royal comissions at work I can quite confidently say it won’t do anything. A few executives get tossed out, some minor cosmetic changes get made and the staff all get new uniforms with the new logo on it. All of the real systemic and funding problems that are the root cause remain.
Oh look, I understand that health spending was mad at the time for many reasons.
I also think that in such a unique case of a global pandemic, overreacting is better than a relaxed approach.
The data from places with minimal restrictions is pretty telling.
I imagine that anyone in a position of authority would have done similar given the situation.
Anyone know anything amusing going on next Sunday during the day? Scheduled power outage so the house will be utterly miserable. Had been thinking Deadpool but remembered the date wrong. Gah!
City or suburbs? Could do something like aquarium, gallery (Pharoh exhibition is on), museum. Or in suburbs cafe lunch, day trip, local shopping center, pub lunch, farmers market.
I have to say the electric blanket was a good investment, better than the heated throw. Because you’re able to use an electric blanket under the covers that traps heat and gets much warmer. Very good.
Hot water bottles are also amazing. (Just be careful to replace them every two/three years or at any sign of the rubber perishing. Or they will split/leak and scald you.)
Reckon I could troll my colonoscopy team by swallowing a lego head the morning of the procedure.
Shove a matchbox racecar up there to pay homage to jackass.
Or not. It’s your choice and your arse baby.
Make them do an Easter egg hunt
Old mate and I have a date.
Caught up with an old colleague for drinks tonight. We had a good gossip / bitching session about our previous employer, both of who we had problems with, and talking about how much better we are off now.
Then I was craving noodles for dins - still thinking about how good this was. Hit the spot.
Looks delicious.
Love bowltiful!
Oooh competitive goonsy. You beat me, although you were 5 seconds early and posted this yesterday 😛
Anyways, today (after 3am) is the steam “summer” sale! Time to buy games I won’t play for 6 months :D
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I’ll just try to finish off my wishlist. I’m terrible at actually buying games.
I get an email that a game I wishlisted is on sale and I just go, ‘that’s great, good for them’ and never actually buy it
I posted this right on the clock
Not quite
the clock on my pc was 12.00
I now have to investigate this
investigation done, my clock is 8.3 seconds ahead!!
my clock is now synchronised
I had time.is up ready to beat you
As the time of posting was 5 seconds early this seems to indicate that it took about 4 seconds from when you posted it until when it was actually done. So you might need to post at 11:59:56 to get an exact midnight posting. More investigations may be required to confirm.
My sale was not very productive. I only got 3 games because I decided to buy cities skylines 2, which was only 10% off and still going for 62 bucks.
Also I don’t actually have enough space to install any of them because I left my hard drive at home
Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋
Bombe Alaska please
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🍰And now 🥃🔥 Wheeee!
I’m strangely craving chicken lately.
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Bacon and egg roll with a flat white plz chef
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Ta muchly
Microwaved peas and corn with salt, pepper, and butter please
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You can microwave my peas and corn any day
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Sky pretty.
Weird nightmare crew represent 🙌🏻🦠🧞♀️💍🩺💥
typed it out then realised it was kinda gross
I dreamt I had weird creatures/fungus/organisms all under my skin. It started with weird ant things coming out of my belly button the it was everything from giant green amoebas to insect type things to fungi. And one giant long thing up one leg that was a tracking device.
Took forever to get to a doctor but he was helping me get them out. Then there was some guy chasing me oh and I had to get to a wedding.
I am bloody exhausted. Off to check my whole body for weird pimples…(Shudder)……
I once dreamed I had seedlings growing in my legs.
I dreamed about wanting to hike to a waterfall and then hearing that it was now overrun by giant killer rats. I then I went to a weird “natural” lake but creatures from Diablo IV started coming out of a tunnel nearby and my boyfriend and I had to fight them, twas pretty wild!
👋🏼 I’ve got the Rona which seems to be making mine extra weird
I had a weird nightmare but I forgot it.
The other night I also had a weird nightmare involving zombies, a woodchipper, and a large and sturdy plate glass window.
Train - coughing ppl
Work - person sits at the desk next to me coughing and snotting.
Dentist - kid with chesty cough in waiting room
Ffs. I’m masked up because I have health issues.
On the way to school my daughter came across a flock of little corellas. Of course she took snaps. I think they made her day. It’s also the last day of term so it’s double happiness ☺
A couple of years ago I passed a flock of little corellas feeding on the grass at Latrobe Uni - they were eating bullants. Wtf? Only creature I’ve EVER seen eating bullants.
A bit of a setback for Elder this morning. The welfare person at his school suggested we try next term for three morning sessions a week in class for an hour each time. When I mentioned it to Elder he had a meltdown, couldn’t sleep and now isn’t going to this morning’s meeting at all 😟😔 It seems like a bit of a leap from where he is now, and I only told him what it might look like and I didn’t push, but I guess it’s my fault and I feel like I’ve set him back by even mentioning it. His therapist actually suggested that online virtual schools might be the solution for now because he’s missed the whole first year of highschool up to this point, but the problem with that is Mr P is dyslexic and is not au fait with internet and tech and I have work, so there’d be nobody at home in a position to support him. I’m going to talk to my boss about more flexible hours (the financial planner in my head says, “but we need the money dammit!”), but I’m not optimistic as it is a factory job after all. Virtual Schools Victoria, aside from when the classes are held via video conferencing, are actually very flexible in their scheduling. Going to work now with all this running around in my head and had to put it somewhere 🤯😵💫
I’m so sorry you’re having such a hard time. I hope you can find a solution that works for all of you ❤️
Installing a little outdoor handrail for the p’s today. Just 5 steps.
Safe to say I have no idea what I’m doing.
I have watched the youchoobs though so with any luck they won’t fall down.
Omg. Many good lucks 🤞
Time for scream
big inhale
eyes widen
bystanders take cover
burp
Windows shatter, ears ringing
