Comments by "John Woodrow" (@johnwoodrow8769) on "Given there was no rule book, the PM did 'well in managing COVID-19 in aged care'" video.

What a pile of nonsense "no rule book to follow". Covid-19 from a risk/problem perspective in aged care homes is IDENTICAL to annual Influenza. A virus year after year killing hundreds of vunerable aged people. Same method of transmission, same EVERYTHING. The 'system' has had 100 years to get the rule book written. The reason there is no well defined tight process, because they haven't cared in the past. But all of a sudden it now matter, supposedly.
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@gribbler1695 You clearly know nothing about Influenza. The vast majority of people who carry and spread Influenza are asymptomatic. That's exactly what the Influenza vaccine does. It doesn't stop someone from catching Influenza, it just minimizes the effect of having it so they walk around spreading it. And what sort of a genius does someone need to be to know that staff working in multiple locations is a stupid idea that should have been banned. When more than 3000 people have died in Australia from Covid-19 then it will be about the same as Influenza each and every year.
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@gribbler1695 And if you know anything about science you would appreciate that a single study means next to nothing. https://virologydownunder.com/influenza-virus-transmission-with-or-without-symptoms-youre-dropping-flu-virus/
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@gribbler1695 "Asymptomatic carriers play an important role. As many as 50% of infections with normal seasonal flu may be asymptomatic, which may in part be due to pre-existing partial immunity [1]. Asymptomatic patients shed virus and can transmit the disease, but not at the same rate as symptomatic individuals, which creates an invisible “reservoir” for the virus. The implication of this is that public health disease containment measures and infection control measures, alone, may slow but cannot stop a flu epidemic." https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/cbn/2005/cbnreport_103105.html#:~:text=As%20many%20as%2050%25%20of,%E2%80%9Creservoir%E2%80%9D%20for%20the%20virus.
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@gribbler1695 Just use your own 'grey matter'. Both Covid-19 and Influenza are highly contagious upper respiratory tract virus spread predominately by coughing, sneezing, and to a lesser extent just breathing. Both by airborne droplets and from surfaces. If asymptomatic or mild symptom but infected Influenza carriers can't spread Influenza, then for exactly the same reasons asymptomatic or mild symptom Covid-19 carriers wouldn't spread Covid-19. You can't have one or the other. They both do, or they both don't. Clearly both do.
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@gribbler1695 The approach to Influenza in aged care homes has ALWAYS been inadequate. The annual deaths in aged care homes in Australia VASTLY exceeds the current Covid-19 recorded ones. The only difference is society doesn't really care if aged care residents from Influenza, which they do in the thousands in Australia each and every year. It isn't even considered important enough to make the MSM.
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