Was the queue at our local place (4cyte) crazy? Tip I have from the local mums was northcote medical - it costs you $20 but you can make an appointment and get a test. Wish I'd known before Stanley and James stood in the cold at the Royal Children's for 2.5 hours last week.
I'd wondered why there had been queues built up on Station Street every day for the last week. The Tullamarine option worked well for me, but obviously you've got to be prepared to do some driving. Certainly it's best to avoid testing centres close to big shopping malls which have just been declared exposure sites...
Yeah, that’s why. We went there previously as close then James got turned away on Tuesday evening (they went home early) and Wed morning (they weren’t taking people on foot as council complaints about cars queuing on station st). A long wait in the cold and a delayed start to antibiotics weren’t great for a baby with a chest infection!
I’m hoping as long as fifteen pounds doesn’t become an exposure site we can avoid more tests in the near future
They're making babies wait in the cold for non-covid issues? Bloody hell. There should have been some sort of triage going on. And they wonder why there's "hesitancy".
The doctor wouldn’t see him without a Covid test, and it happened to be the worst day to get one so instead of going to doctors Tuesday we had to wait til Thursday, and even then I had to argue to get in as no one had told me we needed an isolation room appointment. I could have taken him to emergency but he wasn’t that sick.
I’m not sure if I’d spoken to a different receptionist they’d have seen him in isolation in the first place, you’d think that was the point of the room, but we weren’t offered that. At least the chest x-ray and results for quick.
What was the test for, had you been in a hot spot or did he have 'flu like symptoms'? Seems like overkill and/or neglect on the doctor's behalf.
he had a cough (he has a chest infection), it's normal - if you have any symptoms they won't see you without a negative test, just seemed a bit harsh that a little baby should be sick for an extra couple of days. To be honest I thought they'd tell me he has a cough he'll be fine, but turns out it's not great. (he is totally fine apart from occasionally coughing)
Not much of a queue on Station Street at lunchtime today.
yeah, the initial long queues seem to have died down. My boss's wife and daughter also had to get tested after being in Northland
The current list of exposure sites is so big it might as well just say 'If you've been in greater Melbourne during May and you went outside, get tested immediately'.
I don't know why they can't put that list on a map with some filters - I'm very tempted to mine the data and just do it but it feels too much like my actual work. It would be easy enough to do in google maps and I know how much they've paid for software and consulting services (not ours)
Yeah I basically just sorted it by suburb and looked to see if there was anything in Ringwood (there isn't) since that's about as far as I've been on foot but then I've also been to 'work' the past couple of days and don't know where the three people I interact with have been (though we're all mask abiding government employees).
Someone's done that:
https://covid19nearme.com.au/state/vicAt least the Department of Health list now defaults to sorting by most recently added so you can easily see what's new (you can still sort by suburb if you want to).
(And 300-odd sites may seem a lot, but I'd guess the total number of shops, restaurants etc. in Melbourne would be in the tens of thousands).
The number of people at those shops though...
nice - I like that they have done the whole bus route. It's not hard to do, so I'm not sure why dhhs haven't done it
Probably invested millions into a feasibility study to determine the best application then went with something that one of their mates cobbled together for an inflated price that then didn't work. Knowing government, you can't back down and go with something else after that!
What I really want to know is: did Blair shop at Northland's good Coles or the scheisse Coles?
Northland only has one Coles. It's (the much smaller) Northcote Plaza which has two.
they've now got a map of exposure sites
https://www.coronavirus.vic.gov.au/exposure-sites-... it's not as good as the one blair shared, could really do with being able to select new exposure sites.
...and I didn't visit any of the three Coles in question, being at the time in the process of running down my household food stocks in anticipation of being away for the next month (so much for that).
Ah. In that case, I've never been to Northland, only Southland.
Indeed you haven't. Normally I only venture in for new running shoes or a haircut, once every few months apiece, or occasionally for Christmas shopping. (Its reputation in my mind certainly wasn't helped when, on the first weekend after I moved into Heidelberg, someone was stabbed there in an altercation over a parking spot).
A 2km limit would do the same to me.
That boundary looks very straight.
We can still get both plaza Coles within 2k, not the Ivanhoe woollies where we actually shop though
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