remember the days of the image above? Taken in the middle of March outside a Centrelink office with no one social distancing or wearing masks. I used to walk past the local branch in Moreland Road near the corner of Sydney Road on a regular basis. I spoke to someone from this branch one day and he said they saw approximately 500 people a day.
so in the middle of July there was a scare at a call center in Mill Park
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8556099/Fears-Centrelink-coronavirus-explosion-450-staff-sent-isolation.html
I can only assume that the whole staff were isolated because the call centres are upstairs from the service counters downstairs. This may seem like a statistic post revisited but I have no specific data so I am writing this in the form of a general overview. All I know is that concerns were initially raised in the media on 24th March, with real fears manifesting themselves on 24th July.
there are 918 branches of Centrelink in Australia. They take the form of Access Points, Agents, Remote Service Centres, Service Centres and a My Gov office in Perth. Victoria has 136 of these and New South Wales has the most with 220.
hindsight is a wonderful thing but I wonder about over what period of time did the phenomenon of the people occur? With no masks or social distancing? I saw stock video images on the news for I don't know how long - every night.
take the sum total of the people who acted in such a manner and how did it lead to positive virus cases - now? How many people were seen by these branches over this five month period?
the strangest thing about making this observation, I feel more confused than ever
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