It's the not letting the Aussies stuck abroad back in that's seemed particularly harsh, though there's been more than enough internal idiocy to go round.
We ARE letting people back into Australia - it's just that we can only cope with so many people in the quarantine hotels at any one time without letting COVID escape out into the general community
We just reached 160 days since our last case of community transmission in my state, and that's because of the quarantine hotels, and because we're slowing the number of returnees to a manageable number
We could let more people back in if the Federal government chipped in some money, but at the moment the states are paying for all the quarantine of overseas returnees [even tho legally it's a Federal responsibility] and the states only have so much money...
though there's been more than enough internal idiocy to go round.
...I've been regarding Britain's response with abject horror.
Letting people go on overseas holidays during a pandemic!
and come back and not quarantine at home for 14 days!
Subsidising people to go to restaurants when there is community transmission!
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Date: 2020-09-23 05:36 pm (UTC)We ARE letting people back into Australia - it's just that we can only cope with so many people in the quarantine hotels at any one time without letting COVID escape out into the general community
We just reached 160 days since our last case of community transmission in my state, and that's because of the quarantine hotels, and because we're slowing the number of returnees to a manageable number
We could let more people back in if the Federal government chipped in some money, but at the moment the states are paying for all the quarantine of overseas returnees [even tho legally it's a Federal responsibility] and the states only have so much money...
though there's been more than enough internal idiocy to go round.
...I've been regarding Britain's response with abject horror.
Letting people go on overseas holidays during a pandemic!
and come back and not quarantine at home for 14 days!
Subsidising people to go to restaurants when there is community transmission!
Getting Serco to stuff up doing COVID tests!