They’ll ease restrictions if numbers hold up but there will always be some type of restriction in place until a vaccine.
The other thing that i am fascinated to know is the suspemsion of non-urgent elective surgeries.
Good point. Assume they would have to ease the restrictions on elective surgeries as well.The other thing that i am fascinated to know is the suspemsion of non-urgent elective surgeries.
Considering the following categories
ELECTIVE SURGERY | Prime Minister of Australia
www.pm.gov.au
If someone does an ACl for example, that will cause pain and discomfort but wont necessarily deteriorate. Does that mean if someone does a full ACL then they have to wait 3 months to have the surgery?
Is it like that for other things like hamstrings, shoulders, etc?
Doubt the players will agree to play if in the case of injury they cant have corrective surgery straight away (if that is indeed the case)
| 1919 | Montreal Canadiens (NHL) vs. Seattle Metropolitans (PCHA) – Series cancelled after the fifth game because of the flu epidemic – Stanley Cup not awarded |
ok, checking my history:
List of Stanley Cup champions - Wikipedia
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taking that as a win. bye.
1919
More seriously, an article appeared a couple of days ago that notes how sport played on, and yes it did mostly play on. whether it was wise to do so is another matter, particularly given other things such as the Easter Show and horseracing courses were ordered to shut down (as a punter in another article says, it was all bloody Victoria's fault.). a NSW gazette notice near the end of March 1919 lists all things that were banned at one time: http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article229668628 - which is fairly similar to today, and yes sport is not mentioned in there. this article printed in South Australia's Catholic paper the Southern Cross raises the issues of Churches being closed in NSW while bowling greens and cricket ground stayed open. Tasmania ended up banned all gatherings, including outdoor sport. (although I suppose we have to ask ourselves, for this debate, does what Tasmania did really matter? I'm gonna say yes, but hey, sound off in the comments. Old mate J.H.S explained why it was wrong for their government to ban sport...)
now, taking the point of view that death is bad, I would argue it was not wise to for sport to continue, but that's just my view. of course, most sporting competitions did not have to worry about traveling interstate which made continuing to play a lot easier, and the one sport that did have to worry about this, cricket, saw scheduled matches cancelled: (#1 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article175738570, #2 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article151043964 and #3, following the end of article #2, no FC games were played after January despite some being scheduled due to the rather inconvenient matter of the state borders being closed, http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1910S/1918-19/AUS_LOCAL/OTHERFC/)
As noted in the Fairfax article, infectious disease is completely different nowadays anyway. people died all the time back then from various things. Sydney saw the Bubonic plague arrive 20 years earlier. Councils in Sydney had Infectious Diseases Registers to try to monitor these things (among the things recorded, who supplied each victim's milk, in case the milk was the issue). People died all the time, in particular infants, and life went on. So by a certain point, the response in metropolitan Sydney was just to order face masks be wore when on public transport. (whilst i'm here, here's a fun article talking about the experimental easing of restrictions in NSW in early Autumn 1919....and some of the restrictions being put back in place. Sydney would go on to suffer it's deadliest wave a couple of months later. thankfully we don't live with the threat of infectious disease all around us and we don't need to rush back into life as it was.
tl;dr some sport was cancelled, some sport wasn't. death should be avoided if possible.
Is that how the term flu shot originated?
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Listen chaps, I know a lot of your friends and family have already died due to the disease in the trenches, and those that survived then got told to run directly into machine guns, but we've decided that the risks of carrying on are now too high.
Absolute fool. Should be locked up.
What a scallywag, risking other people's life through selfishness.
You probably can. For one they reckon less money has been spent on alcohol by aussies when you factor the money not being spent on booze in pubs. And for two they reckon you can only drive to and from the bottle-o these days, not supposed to go driving around for non-essential reasons.
