Dear Kossacks asleep at the wheel on a huge national historical moment.
It is a known fact for Centuries, influenza spread more in the Cold, in the Winter.
Oh and btw, we are in a pandemic, it happens about 3 times per Century, more or less dramatic.
Today in NSW Australia heres what is happening;
In the first three weeks of winter, 1487 people presented with flu-like symptoms, there where 91 presentations last year after 3 weeks.
From News com Australia we might observing a high probability of what we will be confront with in our next Cold Season.
Please Dare to reach out and read further, nothing to prove, nothing to defend here but to serve.
Snowy Owl
Via http://www.news.com.au/...
There are now more than 420 confirmed human swine flu cases in NSW.
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NSW Health's chief health officer Kerry Chant said Sydney's west had been hardest hit.
"A few weeks ago people who had flu-like symptoms were more likely to have seasonal flu but now we're seeing human swine flu become a more prevalent strain," she said. "It's spreading quite rapidly and because there's no immunity it will continue to spread."
Figures from NSW Health show in the first three weeks of winter, 1487 people presented with flu-like symptoms to 41 NSW emergency departments, compared to 91 presentations for the same time last year.
The biggest increase was in children aged 5 to 16 years.
NSW Health Minister John Della Bosca said 7900 extra home-based care visits from nurses and 550 extra hospital beds would be rolled out across the State to manage the increased demand on public hospitals.
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Many Public Health Servants have shout since 2003 about our Infrastructure handicaps that we have to revamp in order to deal and cope with the incomiing patients from the pandemic.
Not enough; beds, staff, medicines and respirators.
On ventilators Canada is moving swiftly;
Via the Globe and Mail (Toronto, Ontario)
Swine flu fears spur Canada to stock up on ventilators
Critical ventilators to help Canada cope with the swine flu outbreak are being ordered by the federal government amid dire warnings about the severity of this fall's flu season.
As the pandemic spreads globally, Canadian public health findings show – for unknown reasons – that victims here have been younger and sicker, and have required more ventilators than most other countries, including the United States.
For years, medical experts have been worried about the small number of intensive care nurses who would be available to treat patients during an influenza pandemic. But the first wave of the H1N1 virus, which killed 29 people in Canada and sent 663 to hospital as of Friday, has exposed another shortfall in national pandemic planning: the number of ventilator machines.
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"It appears that there is a sub-population of relatively young people who very rapidly develop severe illness with this virus. And they are not a large number, but they require very intensive ventilatory support with new advanced ventilators," said Allison McGeer, an expert in infectious disease at Mount Sinai.
No it is not looking good my friends, we are on our own, and I do not see the dust of the incoming Cavalry on the Horizon, but there is the Historical Layout we still have and still a lot of Good Will from Folks with Boots on the Ground.
Solidarity, consensus and coordination at the Regional Level, (Because of the Narrow Relations still present in Regions and Natural Inclinations) can be more effective in their responses towards a pandemic than any plan made behind a desk from a central position projected wall to wall or coast to coast.
We can complain and rightly so that they should do this or that, but it appear more obviously weeks after weeks that we are on our own, lets used our energy the best way and work on the local levels and coordinated with our Regions with the resources within it and yes Cash from the Central Gov would help us in reducing morbidity and mortality.
Snowy Owl shouting get informed about the second wave.
To inform not to inflame.
H1N1 pandemic Domino Effects
Lets all put our Shouldes to the wheel to get the job done, we are all together in this.
Snowy Owl