Some of the measures the government is enforcing in hospitals are ridiculous in my opinion.

Think of it this way:

• For the past 3 days now, Victoria has not had over 20 new cases per day.
• 20% of cases go to hospital (so 4 per day)
• 25% of hospitalised patients need intensive care (1 per day)

I can't understand why the Deputy Chief Medical Officer Nick Coatsworth said immediately following the release of data that for the first time in 3 weeks Australia had less than 100 new cases:

"We have set ourselves a national target of 7,500, building on the over 4,400 existing ventilators."

Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt said today there's only 82 covid patients in ICU in Australia and only 35 of them currently require ventilators.

Additionally, my dad is a head physio at a major hospital in Melbourne and he's spent all last week bolstering the amount of physios available to work in their ICU from the usual 4 to 50, which he believes is a complete waste of time when they have had a maximum of 3 covid patients in ICU at the same time over the past 3 weeks.

It just doesn't make sense how it's projected that 4,400 ventilators won't be enough when we're already past the biggest surge and I doubt we've even used 100 ventilators yet nation-wide.

There are much higher priorities to spend money on than buying another 3000 completely unnecessary ventilators.