Nai quarantine for suspected cases is one of the ONLY ways of minimising the spread of this flu. It is not mild and has the potential be deadly to the weak, immunosuppressed, elderly and new born babies.
I hope your little one is well soon and that swine flu can be ruled out - as you can see by the people you have been in contact with the potential of spread is vast if people are not quarantined on suspicion.
I dread to think what would happen to myself or my Imogen if I was to come in contact in our current health states. I am grateful for the quarrantine rules - but also very empathetic how it can impact greatly on some financially.
What do you believe is inept?
Someone said you have to pay $90 for the test - this is not right. A swab will be taken and cultured and this will tell you. This will be bulk billed if your GP ticks the box - if not you will pay the usual gap.
FC - I know it is bad and we are concerned mainly for our 3month old. Not to mention the elderly we were in contact with on Sunday at Great Aunty's 80th and the wedding we went to on Saturday where the bride has chronic fatigue! You don't have to pay for the test as long as you are a "suspected case" so you have to prove that you were in contact with a confirmed case to get the free test.
Let me just say that the GP had 4 families in isolation rooms waiting for the DHS to confirm that he could test for swine flu. Apparently they had no record of the original confirmed case (the one that they called the childcare centre to let them know about). So I called childcare to get the case number. Now DHS apparently say that the case number is "confidential" and we needed to have the child's NAME (so the case number is confidential but the name is not - go figure!). Anyhoo after wrangling a 3yo in a face mask in isolation for 2.5 hours we were finally given the go-ahead to get a test done.
Fortunately DP was doing the wrangling and I was home with the baby as I didn't want to take her to the Dr. It was apparently very difficult but the process was certainly the worst part. You would think that with Vic having the most cases they would have managed to get their acts together *sigh*
The childcare centre hasn't closed yet either as DHS advised it can still stay open - I think that's the main problem with the spread is that the response just isn't quick enough and people come into contact with the virus before action has been taken.
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