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NSW Police granted power to arrest non-compliant coronavirus patients

The powers, which exist under current biosecurity legislation, mean that NSW will not have to legislate to introduce compulsory quarantine measures like South Australia to bring laws into line with federal biosecurity laws.

NSW Health responding to heated questions about handling outbreak

Minister Hazzard and Dr Chant are copping some quite heated questions during this press conference with reporters suggesting NSW Health has been slow to release information to the public.

Dr Chant said the public has been provided with relevant information for them to act on, and NSW Health does not want people avoiding hospitals in an emergency because of ill-informed concerns.

NSW Health has deployed two very senior infection control nurses to the Dorothy Henderson Lodge aged care facility, she said.

The aged care worker had a relationship with a small group of residents rather than a more general exposure to other residents in the facility, Dr Chant said. The "pod" of residents cared for the by the staff member in question are in single rooms and locked down.

In response to concerns about the infected doctor at Ryde Hospital, Dr Chant said to date, no healthcare workers who came in contact him have tested positive.

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Dorothy Henderson Lodge aged care worker confirmed as latest patient

By Kate Aubusson

NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard has confirmed Australia's third locally-transmitted case of COVID-19 is "a much-loved and very long-working member of the staff" at the Dorothy Henderson Lodge, an aged care centre operated by BaptistCare in Sydney's northern suburbs.

The woman, 50, "was working on around about 24 February when she started to get those symptoms that I was just talking about - the sort of symptoms that we're all very familiar with flu," Mr Hazzard said.

Eleven residents at the lodge have been isolated. Two have presented with respiratory symptoms and are being tested for coronavirus. One is a 95-year-old woman who has since died.

"Whether or not it was related to coronavirus we don't know at this point," Mr Hazzard said.

https://www.theage.com.au/world/asia/coronavirus-update-live-fed-delivers-emergency-rate-cut-as-global-infections-pass-90-000-20200304-p546ld.html

“I Don’t Think He’d Be Our Strongest Nominee” – Hillary Clinton Bashes Bernie Sanders on Super Tuesday

On Super Tuesday Hillary Clinton was making the rounds bashing communist Bernie Sanders.

Hillary joined Good Morning America this AM to trash Bernie and later in the day joined ABC News.

This begs the question: Why would Hillary be making the rounds bashing Bernie on Super Tuesday?

ABC reporter Linsey Davis: “Joe Biden has said flat out Bernie Sanders could not beat Donald Trump. Do you agree?”

Hillary Clinton: “I don’t think he’d be our strongest nominee. No. And that’s what this primary process is about. Let’s see who emerges but for everybody voting today or in any of the contests ahead of time the most important issue is who can defeat Donald Trump.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/03/i-dont-think-hed-be-our-strongest-nominee-hillary-clinton-trashes-bernie-sanders-again-video/

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"No Child Should Feel Stigmatized": California Bill Would Punish Retailers With Separate Boys And Girls Departments

A bill introduced by a California Democratic lawmaker would punish stores that separate toys, clothing and other children's items into separate boys and girls sections - forcing them to pay a $1000 fine, according to The Federalist Papers.

"I was inspired to introduce this bill after 8-year-old Britten asked, ‘Why should a store tell me what a girl’s shirt or toy is?" said California State Assembly member Evan Low of Silicon Valley, who unveiled AB 2826 last week. "Her bill will help children express themselves freely and without bias. We need to let kids be kids."

Via a press release by Low:

Clothing and toys sections of department stores that are separated along gender lines pigeonhole children. No child should feel stigmatized for wearing a dinosaur shirt or playing with a Barbie doll, and separating items that are traditionally marketed for either girls or boys makes it more difficult for the consumer to compare products. It also incorrectly implies that their use by one gender is inappropriate.

The bill states:

This bill would require a retail department store with 500 or more employees to maintain undivided areas of its sales floor where, if it sells childcare articles, children’s clothing, or toys, all childcare items, all clothing for children, or all toys, regardless of whether a particular item has traditionally been marketed for either girls or for boys, shall be displayed. Beginning on January 1, 2023, the bill would make a retail department store that fails to correct a violation of these provisions within 30 days of receiving written notice of the violation from the Attorney General liable for a civil penalty of $1,000, as provided.

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(a) A retail department store shall maintain one, undivided area of its sales floor where, if it sells childcare articles, all childcare articles, regardless of whether a particular item has traditionally been marketed for either girls or for boys, shall be displayed.

(b) A retail department store shall maintain one, undivided area of its sales floor where, if it sells children’s clothing, all clothing for children, regardless of whether a particular item has traditionally been marketed for either girls or for boys, shall be displayed.

(c) A retail department store shall maintain one, undivided area of its sales floor where, if it sells toys, all toys, regardless of whether a particular item has traditionally been marketed for either girls or for boys, shall be displayed.

Yet another 'quirk' for California retailers to love about the Golden State.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/no-child-should-feel-stigmatized-california-bill-would-punish-retailers-separate-boys-and

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