T1 Terry wrote: ↑Mon Feb 01, 2021 3:03 pm
Who is going to move to a completely isolated area to service the quarantine facilities, give medical care and police the isolation? In this case he security guard had two jobs .... could it have been the one job didn't pay enough?
What if we put all the service staff, the medical staff and the security staff in isolation as well ..... how many volunteers would there be for those jobs?
Maybe those making the hard decisions have to weigh up just how to make the whole quarantine thing work ..... overseas travellers arriving in Australia need to be quarantined .... no arguments there, but where is the infrastructure to land these planes full of overseas travellers, have the planes serviced and refuelled, the flight crew available for the crew required to fly the plane back out if the crew has gone over flying hrs .... and all for every airline that flies in and out with O/S passengers ....... A lit more logistics involved, not just spare of the moment decisions aimed at making someone rich ......
T1 Terry
There was a time not that long ago when everyone who entered the country had to be quarantined away from society, there's no reason why we can't do it again. There are many landing facilities for big planes in the center and nth W areas, there is one place where they store and wreck airliners including jumbo's and it has a huge air strip. Most people are totally unaware of what facilities are actually in the supposed dead center, many are military as we happen to have the most advanced early warning and tracking systems on the planet.
There are a number of unused mining towns and camps throughout Aus. They get serviced for medical reasons and it's not hard to isolate staff from those in quarantine, they are already doing it the NT where they are putting returning Aussies in a disused camp with great facilities. Workers would flock to do the job, it would be a massive driver of the economy because the entire of Aus would be able to continue living, working, travelling and having fun, knowing they are safe where ever they go in the country. As long as they have quarantine in cities, and use private security who are not trained in any way for situations like this, nothing will change. Private security don't give a stuff, just look at what privatisation has done to the prison system, they are just there for the money and it will never change.
Stuff the cost of setting it all up, it will come back in the future and if we made all international flights land in the center of the country, we would drive the economy further as it would become a hub for all flights. It would also reduce international flight costs because the travel times would be shorter from everywhere. Connect to the Ghan and Indian pacific lines and you have an excellent way to service the facilities. Which we will need for many years if not decades to come.
These vaccines won't work for long, just like the supposed flu vaccine which some studies say kills more people than the flu itself. It will be the same with corona, it's already mutated into more deadly versions and seems to be mutating faster and faster. The present approach ensures more deadly strains will get into Aus, it's impossible to get rid of it when you bring those contaminated into the center of large cities and allow untrained fools to look after them.