Does Victorian meat have the VIRUS ?

[Juliar]

The media have much to answer for with that Deputy Health Officer in Victoria.
So happy to screech about her Capt. Cook lies.
Yet not one word about her not advising labor meat works donor Cedar Meats and now a massive Covid 19 outbreak and contamination
media silent, labor guilty.

The meat works, Cedar Meats, donated $15,000 to the ALP … like our friend
Just imagine for a second if they were LNP donors and a LNP premier had declined to disclose the name of the place the cluster had originated from … doesn’t bear thinking about Face screaming in fear!!!

Victorian government kept the identity of the cedar meat works secret and didn’t let the community know. What is the purpose of an app if the government willingly puts the public at risk because the unidentified spread just happen to donors to the Labor Party ?

But then Victoria is a backward Socialist State and diseases flourish under a Socialist regime.



Victoria records 17 new coronavirus cases as meatworks COVID-19 cluster grows
By Emilia Terzon and staff Posted 3 hours ago, updated 11 minutes ago


A truck is parked in an industrial driveway in front of a brick building marked 'Cedar Meats Australia'.
Cedar Meats Australia is linked to 49 of Victoria's confirmed COVID-19 cases.(ABC News: Sean Warren)

A cluster of coronavirus cases at a Melbourne meatworks has risen to 49, as it is revealed one of the first cases associated with the outbreak was only diagnosed after the worker presented to hospital with a severed thumb.

Key points:
Four of the 17 cases confirmed in Victoria overnight were linked to Cedar Meats Australia
Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton said the cluster was not, and is not, a public health risk
The State Government announced public sector workers who lost jobs could be redeployed for $1,500 per fortnight
Of the 17 new COVID-19 cases in Victoria, four are linked to Cedar Meats Australia, seven are returning overseas travellers in mandatory hotel quarantine and six cases remain under investigation.

The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has confirmed the first case in the cluster was diagnosed on April 2, but said the worker had not been at Cedar Meats for four weeks so the abattoir was not considered an exposure site.

DHHS said the second and third cases linked to the workplace were diagnosed on April 24 and 25, and were the first indication of a possible cluster.

Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton said contact tracers were investigating whether the cluster was due to some employees being part of a close-knit community outside of work.

The third case was diagnosed after the worker developed symptoms while at Sunshine Hospital with a severed thumb from a workplace injury.

"It was the first time Cedar Meats became aware that one of its employees had a positive COVID-19 result," general manager Tony Kairouz said in a statement.

The Cedar Meats worker was the case that led to 24 Sunshine Hospital workers being sent home for quarantine and testing.


Read all about the Victorian VIRUS scandal here

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-06/ ... r/12218540

[Juliar]

Socialist incompetence for all to see.




Health in Dan’s Victoriastan—COVID-19 aplenty ?
AMM 06.05.20.

It can’t possibly be that all Victorians are plain dumb? Just enough though to keep electing a disaster like Labor’s Daniel Andrews.

Especially fraught with incompetence of a very serious kind is his Department of Health and Human Services, the same one that incubated the now infamous, Deputy Chief Health Officer Dr Annaliese van Diemen, now being counselled for being a dope, a Marxist maldy rarely cured while suckling on taxpayers’ teat.

But comparing the life of Captain James Cook, a great man long dead, as she did to the scourge of COVID-19 is rather different that allowing an alleged outbreak of COVID-19 at the Melbourne abattoir Cedar Meats.

One of Victoria’s largest outbreaks of COVID-19 was given a three-week headstart following a major oversight by the state’s Health ­Department.

The Australian can reveal health authorities decided that a Melbourne abattoir was “not considered an exposure site” because the first infected employee “had not been at work while infectious”.

The Department of Health and Human Services on Tuesday night confirmed the first case of COVID-19 linked to the Melbourne abattoir Cedar Meats was diagnosed on April 2 — three weeks before a second case was identified as part of a cluster which has now reached 45 infections.


Abattoir outbreak allowed to spread for three weeks
RACHEL BAXENDALE 8:20AM MAY 6, 2020


The Cedar Meats abattoir in Brooklyn, Melbourne. Picture: Getty Images

One of Victoria’s largest outbreaks of COVID-19 was given a three-week headstart following a major oversight by the state’s Health ­Department.

The Australian can reveal health authorities decided that a Melbourne abattoir was “not considered an exposure site” because the first infected employee “had not been at work while infectious”.

The Department of Health and Human Services on Tuesday night confirmed the first case of COVID-19 linked to the Melbourne abattoir Cedar Meats was diagnosed on April 2 — three weeks before a second case was identified as part of a cluster which has now reached 45 infections.

The Tuesday night statement from the DHHS represents a dramatic change in its public position on the meatworks cluster. Previously, it had claimed the first positive was detected on April 24.

DHHS on Tuesday confirmed an additional 11 cases linked to the facility in the western suburb of Brooklyn, after it was shut down on Friday with an expectation that it will not reopen until May 18, following thorough cleaning.

Cedar Meats general manager Tony Kairouz has said he “first ­became aware” that one of his 350 employees was infected on April 27, after a worker was rushed to the Sunshine Hospital for emergency surgery on a severed thumb and tested positive for COVID-19.

But in response to questions from The Australian submitted hours earlier, DHHS confirmed late on Tuesday that the “first case in this cluster was diagnosed on 2 April, but had not been at work while infectious so the workplace was not considered an exposure site”.

“The second case linked to the workplace was diagnosed on 24 April, followed quickly by a third case just over 24 hours later who had been a patient at Sunshine Hospital for unrelated reasons prior to diagnosis or displaying symptoms,” the department confirmed. “These cases were the first indication of a possible cluster. As soon as more than one case linked to the workplace was identified, active case finding commenced. The source of infection is still under investigation.

“A thorough risk assessment was undertaken and work was ­rapidly scaled back at the facility, with only minimal staff on site to ensure the safe and appropriate management of the remaining ­animals.

“When more cases were identified on 29 April the department advised the workplace to take ­additional actions across the ­entire workforce — including the testing of all staff. All results are expected to be returned as soon as possible and the results shared daily. The facility has been advised to close for at least 14 days, which will continue to be reviewed based on health information.

“Advice from Food Standards Australia New Zealand is that there is no evidence COVID-19 can be transmitted to people through food or packaging. Based on this information, consumers can have confidence that meat processed at the facility is safe to eat.”

The department has confirmed 42 cases in Cedar Meats staff, and another three in close contacts. Four cases were confirmed in staff working in one area of the plant last Wednesday, with eight cases confirmed by Saturday, rising to 15 on Sunday.

On Monday, an additional 19 cases were confirmed, with a further­ ­11 confirmed on Tuesday.

The original source of the outbreak has not been established, and there is no known connection between a shipment of mutton from Cedar Meats which was exported to China last month, and the infections, which were first detected more than a fortnight later.

The 35 tonnes of mutton was trucked to the airport and flown to Wuhan, China, on April 9, as the backload on a flight which arrived in Sydney the previous day with 90 tonnes of protective masks, gowns and ventilators.

The Victorian government and Health Department chose not to name Cedar Meats at the weekend as the abattoir linked to the COVID-19 cases, despite naming a school linked to just one case.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/a ... 39d9f72abc


COMMENTS praising the Socialist Victorian "Govt"

Ivan 1 HOUR AGO
So let me get this straight. 45 people infected and they only discovered COVID when somebody hurt their finger. I smell a rat.

Geoff 1 HOUR AGO
Maybe the Vic Health officials should do their jobs instead of making incorrect political tweets?

Derrick 1 HOUR AGO
Perhaps if the doctor spent more time on her medical responsibilities and less on her woke lefty socialist ideals and tweets they may have investigated the start of the outbreak more comprehensively?

John '51 1 HOUR AGO
Whoooo....this must be some kind of reporting error. It can't be Victoria, it must be some socialist authoritarian backwater.

Ian 1 HOUR AGO
Doesn’t give me a lot of confidence in our Government, premier or health officer.

Oz-Rita 1 HOUR AGO
It's all the fault of captain Cook, the deputy leader of the Victorian Health department told us so.

Nancy 1 HOUR AGO
42 cases. Does that mean 42 people, and their families, and any people they have been in contact with are now locked up in a hotel somewhere?

Oz-Rita 1 HOUR AGO
What can you expect from a Health Department whose senior 250000$ a year leaders are publicly comparing Captain Cook with the Corona Virus and not only get away with it, but are praised for being outstanding in their work?!

Douglas 1 HOUR AGO
Score after first half of the game-
Victorian and New South Wales Health Departments: 0.
Coronavirus:2.
Can we hope for a comeback in the second half?

Cnsrvtv 2 HOURS AGO
... and all the while the second in charge in Vic health was busy on twitter politicising the virus.

[Valkie]

I just hope the meat packed during this little episode is destroyed.

I believe, and I will be corrected if wrong by many members of this forum.

That virus can survive for quite some time, years possibly, in frozen and very cold environments.

This would possibly mean that anything packed and refrigerated or frozen, could carry this virus for quite some time.

A bit of a concern, one might say.

[Bobby]

I just hope the meat packed during this little episode is destroyed.

I believe, and I will be corrected if wrong by many members of this forum.

That virus can survive for quite some time, years possibly, in frozen and very cold environments.

This would possibly mean that anything packed and refrigerated or frozen, could carry this virus for quite some time.

A bit of a concern, one might say.

Cooking meat easily destroys any viruses.
The virus would be on the surface of the meat and so hot olive oil
would probably destroy the virus within 2 seconds while frying.

[Juliar]

Sounds like the Victorian Commo state is as off as its meat!!!




Vic State government antics indicative of a 'flawed political system'
05/05/2020

Sky News host Chris Smith says the political hypocrisy and shunting of responsibility in the state of Victoria demonstrates Australia “definitely has one layer of government too many”.

Victoria's Health Department declined to name Cedar Meats on the same day it shamelessly named Melbourne's Meadowglen Primary School, where just one teacher had tested positive for the coronavirus.

Mr Smith said “the teacher, who'd been at the school filming videos for students to learn from online, barely came into contact with anyone while the abattoir had hundreds of employees”.

The policy of the Victorian Health Minister to name sources of Victorian outbreaks which constitute “significant public health risks” fails to “tally with the decision to name Meadowglen Primary Schools and not name Cedar Meats,” Mr Smith said.

The Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews insisted decisions to name or not name are made by Health Department bureaucrats and Victoria's Chief Health Officer, Brett Sutton, who also attempted to shift the blame, saying the responsibility was on Cedar Meats to voluntarily identify themselves.

Mr Smith said the government’s “ducking and weaving” could be easily reduced to a case of “simple politics”.

The Victorian government “wanted to embarrass Federal Education Minister Dan Tehan, who savaged them on Sunday, over not having a plan to reopen Victorian schools in term two,” he said.

The “duplication” evident in both the coronavirus crisis and the bushfire emergency demonstrates the needs for a “vital reform of federal-state relations,” Mr Smith said.

https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6154312672001

[sprintcyclist]

I just hope the meat packed during this little episode is destroyed.

I believe, and I will be corrected if wrong by many members of this forum.

That virus can survive for quite some time, years possibly, in frozen and very cold environments.

This would possibly mean that anything packed and refrigerated or frozen, could carry this virus for quite some time.

A bit of a concern, one might say.

Cooking meat easily destroys any viruses.
The virus would be on the surface of the meat and so hot olive oil
would probably destroy the virus within 2 seconds while frying.

that is my understanding too.

Still, I'ld probably have it all destroyed

[Bobby]

I just hope the meat packed during this little episode is destroyed.

I believe, and I will be corrected if wrong by many members of this forum.

That virus can survive for quite some time, years possibly, in frozen and very cold environments.

This would possibly mean that anything packed and refrigerated or frozen, could carry this virus for quite some time.

A bit of a concern, one might say.

Cooking meat easily destroys any viruses.
The virus would be on the surface of the meat and so hot olive oil
would probably destroy the virus within 2 seconds while frying.

that is my understanding too.

Still, I'ld probably have it all destroyed

I doubt that any meat is contaminated.

[Texan]

Eh. Cook it well and eat it.

[Black Orchid]

Test it out in Parliament House.

[Bobby]

Eh. Cook it well and eat it.

Test it out in Parliament House.

Coronaviruses are everywhere.
They are easily killed by burning hot oil.