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Australian Care Home Residents May Have Died From Neglect After Staff Were Furloughed

by Luke Perry
15 November 2021 4:12 PM

St. Basil’s Home for the Age in Melbourne has faced an inquiry to answer why 50 residents of the care home died between July and August 2020. It has been uncovered that the existing staff were furloughed, meaning that the facility could not provide enough personnel to adequately look after the residents, leading to severe cases of neglect, with one resident left unable to speak due to dehydration. The Australian Associated Press has the story.

In an opening statement counsel assisting Peter Rozen QC said staff at the home were deemed ‘close contacts’ and furloughed on July 22nd, with the Commonwealth taking over the home despite multiple warnings that regular staff should not be replaced.

He said one doctor involved in the response, Dr. Rabin Sinnappu, warned that furloughing St. Basil’s staff would result in disaster, while another doctor described it as a “shocking” idea.

Rozen said a lack of care for residents had become apparent by the end of the first day of the takeover, after the Federal Health Department could not find enough new staff.

“There were far too few of these workers at St. Basil’s for them to have provided care at the level the residents deserved and the law required,” he said.

The court heard that by July 23rd, pathology staff visiting to test residents found the conditions “shocking to say the least”.

The Medical Director of Melbourne Pathology, Dr. Ellen Maxwell, alerted the Victorian Health Department in an email that Covid-positive residents were mixing freely with others, bins were overflowing, PPE had not been cleared and medication was on the floor.

She said one staff member was in tears, appalled that a patient who had died was wheeled out of the home with no attempt to clear the corridor of people.

The first witness at the inquest was Christine Golding whose mother Efraxia, 84, caught the virus at the home.

She testified that St. Basil’s had provided good, culturally appropriate care for her mother, but during the outbreak her mother’s treatment was inhumane and degrading.

Although Efraxia could not feed herself, several trays of food were found left in her room, and at one point she was no longer able to talk due to dehydration and lack of food, Golding said.

She recalled the facility manager warning that if staff were furloughed, people would die from neglect rather than Covid.

“That sent a shiver up my spine,” she told the hearing.

During the outbreak a group of residents’ families met outside the home, and when staff would not tell them who was in charge, they began banging on the windows until the police were called, she said.

“It was a state of chaos and desperation… the anger was driven by fear,” she said.

“Australians deserve to know why our aged care Covid preparedness was so poor, why it spectacularly failed my mother and contributed to her premature death.”

Rozen said the inquest would not lay blame on the workers brought in to care for St. Basil’s residents, saying the evidence would show a number of them went “above and beyond”, but the circumstances were impossible.

He also explained that an expert report would show the delay between the notification of the first Covid case at the home on July 9th, and test results becoming available on July 17th, was a root cause of the failure to contain the outbreak, as was a lack of co-ordination between state and federal health departments.

45 residents died from Covid, but the inquest is also covering five other deaths at the home during the same period.

Worth reading in full.

Tags: AustraliaCare homesFurloughStaff shortages

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john1T
john1T
2 years ago

Moderna is the worst of the mRNA products. Money talks. Moderna have similar deals to build production of mRNA “vaccines” in the UK and Canada. Who has any faith that our authorities will not approve them.

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JaneDoeNL
JaneDoeNL
2 years ago

If I were a cynic, I’d say the bank accounts of some regulatory officers should be audited. Unfortunately, I am much more of a realist than a cynic and know that this will not happen.

“Rigorous, independent and based on evidence” – I bet whoever wrote this could not keep a straight face.

The Berenson article the author refers to is worth a read. Besides the points made re the obfuscation of AEs, he also mentions that the data indicated that a 3rd shot (the “booster”, later to become known as the “first of infinite boosters”) was already being trialled in January 2021. Not only did these scum not test the poison as to whether it stopped transmission/infection, they obviously knew from the start that a) not only would it do no such thing, b) they knew that whatever “protection” it offered waned fairly quickly and subsequent doses would be necessary. Had they said any of this from the start, no one other than the very elderly, the very vulnerable and the very gullible would have allowed this garbage anywhere near their body, regardless of the social pressure, bribes and coercion.

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Jabba the Hut
Jabba the Hut
2 years ago

Rishi will be happy, Moderna stocks will be on the up.
My neighbour tested positive for the rona was a bit under the weather, took the Moderna jab was really ill and in bed for 3 days. He’ll be lining up for his spring booster, baffles me why people can’t make the link.

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Tyrbiter
Tyrbiter
2 years ago
Reply to  Jabba the Hut

Quite likely that the positive test was actually for something else that he would have recovered from easily on his own. Add in the spike protein jab and he’s lucky he didn’t die. If he keeps being jabbed then he’ll die early, that’s almost certain.

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Jabba the Hut
Jabba the Hut
2 years ago
Reply to  Tyrbiter

That’s why I said tested positive rather than he had the rona. God knows what he had could have been Hay fever. But yes he seems to have aged rapidly over the last 12months.

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ELH
ELH
2 years ago
Reply to  Jabba the Hut

I too have looked at friends and acquaintances and thought they look tired and older – could be a good comeback i.e. “don’t have that booster, makes you age faster…”

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CaseyJones
CaseyJones
2 years ago
Reply to  Jabba the Hut

Anecdotal too, but adding up: My 59-yo husband went in for emergency abdominal surgery 2 weeks after his 4th Moderna dose 6 months ago. He took a 5th dose along with a flu shot (“That why God gave us 2 arms!”) 3 months ago. He looks frail and thin and often complains that he’s tired and doesn’t feel that great. He recovered a lot faster when he had the same surgery 3.5 years ago. Granted he’s older now, but that first hospital stay was extended because he also got pneumonia and c Diff while there. Also anecdotal: Some vaxxed people won’t mention their medical issues or side effects in front of an unvaxxed person, so the extent of injuries might not be as apparent until you hear of the injuries second or third hand.

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TheGreenAcres
TheGreenAcres
2 years ago

When you are in a hole… keep digging.

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stewart
stewart
2 years ago

It’s quite simple really. Now that I see what gets approved I just don’t trust any drug or vaccine. Why would I?

And there are many like me.

They should keep going and let’s see where it ends. Either our total enslavement to them or their self destruction.

At this point, I’m quite happy to see how this one plays out. I like our odds.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago

A new and utterly devastating Scamdemic, whoops, “pandemic,” must surely now be waiting in the wings given all the preparatory work that’s been completed.

Won’t be long now. I wonder what’s holding it up?😀

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JohnK
JohnK
2 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Looks like a modern business model: make a new drug, and invent a related disease to enhance your sales.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago
Reply to  JohnK

That’s it in a nutshell.

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john1T
john1T
2 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Maybe they have this in mind

The same people who put the HIV gene sequences onto the Sars-2 spike have also been doing the reverse, putting a human Sars spike onto HIV allowing it to infect human respiratory cells.

That’s airborne AIDS

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Tyrbiter
Tyrbiter
2 years ago
Reply to  john1T

Terminate with extreme prejudice.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
2 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Well there’s a possibility it could be this one; human-metapneumovirus. And I’m sure animals will get the blame but it’ll be due to GoF, if it even is a genuine virus at all. Blame the Dutch for this one;
https://theconversation.com/human-metapneumovirus-or-hmpv-is-filling-icus-this-spring-a-pediatric-infectious-disease-specialist-explains-this-little-known-virus-202594

This doctor calls cobblers on it, as do I;

”Sell the bird flu fear. Next pandemic fear. How can other animal viruses cross over and infect humans blah blah blah.
Heads on a swivel friends. The zoonotic narrative continues, they are priming the fear pump for another zoonotic jump illness. Articles such as this make zoonotic jumping appear normal when it is not. It is likely all lab manipulation of a virus much like “the illness alleged to be covid to deploy a DOD bioweapon injection”.
They will come for us again. Sooner than later. Articles like this keep the fear going and the sleepy sleepers will keep slumbering and trusting this nonsense.”

https://docbrown77.substack.com/p/the-human-metapneumovirus-is-now

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RTSC
RTSC
2 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Yes, they’ve nearly got everything in place. The new WHO Regulations and Treaty are anticipated to be in place in 2024, so it’ll be announced anytime after that.

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soundofreason
soundofreason
2 years ago

The safety and efficacy of Spikevax is also supported by real-world use in millions of people worldwide,

What sort of clinical trial is that? How does it compare with a control group? Whut? No control group? No proof. Maybe an FOI request can reveal their ‘working’.

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Tyrbiter
Tyrbiter
2 years ago
Reply to  soundofreason

We’ve seen their working, it’s utterly incorrect and miscalculated.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
2 years ago

Since when did evidence matter? That’s so 2019 BCW ( Before Clown World ).

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Chris P
Chris P
2 years ago

Does this mean Moderna lose the Emergency Use Authorisation liability shield? If so, it could be the beginning of the end for the company. Ever the optimist.

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Dr G
Dr G
2 years ago

With Melbourne the lockdown capital of the world, the TGA the leading “Big Pharma funded” drug regulatory body in the world, and the Moderna mRNA factory announced almost before the jabs were released, am I the only one to see an issue here?
Fortunately, as with most of the world, people are voting with their feet.
Victoriastan is in so much debt that Chairman Dan recently had a trip to China with no journalists allowed, in order to beg (unsuccessfully) for money. He then went to the Prime Minister of Australia (also from the left faction of Labor) also to beg, and it appears that was knocked back also.

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Smudger
Smudger
2 years ago

Just because the Australian authorities have approved the Moderna jab doesn’t mean the Aussies have to get jabbed. It’s approval may suggest that the Aussie health regulators are not executing due diligence of care but we know they are captured by the global bio-security industrial complex and its nefarious agenda. As the old saying goes ‘Its difficult to get someone to understand something when their careers depend on them not understanding’.

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