Malcolm and David write regarding: “Technology innovators are being invited to offer suggestions about how Sydney's emerging 'third city', Bradfield, can tap smart city technologies to help the "city for the future" meet its goals around clean energy, digital connectivity, circular economy, and other areas.”
Good points gents, also .. Regarding all future smart-cities, it’s apparent we will need to prepare on a many fronts. As places where people gather, new-virus public-health measures must now be planned https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/06/13/covid-flu-rsv-viruses/ Quote “At one point last quarter, children were admitted to Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital with a startling range of seven respiratory viruses. They had adenovirus and rhinovirus, respiratory syncytial virus and human metapneumovirus, influenza and parainfluenza, as well as the coronavirus — which many specialists say is to blame for the unusual surges. “That’s not typical for any time of year and certainly not typical in May and June,” said Thomas Murray, an infection-control expert and associate professor of pediatrics at Yale. Some children admitted to the hospital were co-infected with two viruses and a few with three, he said. More than two years into the coronavirus pandemic, familiar viruses are acting in unfamiliar ways. Respiratory syncytial virus, known as RSV, typically limits its suffocating assaults to the winter months ..” (end quote) And, on a local front .. https://www.bendigohealth.org.au/mosquitodiseases Insects and mosquitoes in our region are now known to carry a number of viruses which cause disease, including: Ross River virus Murray Valley encephalitis virus West Nile virus (also called Kunjin virus) Barmah Forest virus Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) What to look out for: “Symptoms common to most diseases carried by mosquitoes are fever, rash, joint and muscle aches, headache and fatigue. Most people who contract a mosquito-borne disease have few symptoms and recover completely. A proportion of people become very unwell or have long-lasting effects. Infection with Japanese encephalitis virus and Murray Valley encephalitis virus can be fatal in rare cases. They can cause a rare but potentially serious infection of the brain with symptoms of encephalitis such as severe headache, neck stiffness, sensitivity to light, confusion, seizures, paralysis and coma. If you have any of these symptoms, you should seek urgent medical advice.” (End quote) -- _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
