Can you expand and be a bit more specific?
This is Australia your wife is talking of?
Yeah, talking about Australia.
To give you a couple of examples:
Her hospital is already rationing PPE for staff because of shortages of things like face masks and gowns, and shit hasn't even got real yet.
They are also relaxing precautionary stay-away rules for staff (such as 14 days after returning from overseas), and relaxing the flue-like-symptom criteria for not coming in to work - because they are already desperately short of staff.
The above 2 points simply increase the risk of medical staff being transmitters.... in a hospital.
Then there are the behind-the-scenes planning meetings happening every day ATM:
She told me of one planning meeting with the local nursing homes (it is well known the aged get hit hard by COVID). It was suggested to the nursing homes that they split their facilities into dirty and clean sections (Corona and Corona-free), especially for the recovery phase, as the hospitals will need to ship patients out as soon as they show they are over the worst and starting to recover... in order to free up precious bed-space. The nursing homes said they would not accept residents back to their facilities until they are test-confirmed totally clear of the virus. The hospital then suggested that in this case, they won't accept any residents who test positive, because it will choke up the resources they have. They then additionally suggested that under normal circumstances, no matter what the illness 90-year old Berryl presents with, reality is that they don't put a 90-year old on a respirator - because treatment for COVID requires being put on a respirator, it is probably better use of resources if Berryl is kept in the Nursing Home facility and just comforted. Apparently at this point, the nursing home hierarchy sat stunned, with eyes wide open, and a quiet stalemate ensued.
