Today I am ashamed to be called an Australian. As the Indian medical system collapses, The Australian Government has proposed to gaol people who travel back to Australia from nominated Red Zones via a secondary country.
I believe instead of this, the Australia should be sending planes over, QANTAS, RAAF, Private Jets, anything they can get their hands on, I don’t care, to get as many Australian home from these Red Zones as soon as possible. They can spend three weeks in quarantine upon return to protect the Australian community here. Even use remote locations if they are overly concerned of outbreaks.
Additionally the Australian Government should be sending supplies, medical equipment, oxygen and whatever the Indian medical system needs ASAP. Instead of the inadequate response so far. We should be doing everything we can in our power to help India out of the terrible predicament they are in.
This is an absolute disgrace.
Sorry . ? disagree . We have to be vigilant , and maintain our high standards in the face of adversity . We need to protect the people that are here , which means upholding existing protocols , especially because the Indian strain could be introducing a huge amount of hurt to the Australian population.
I highly doubt we arnt offering aid to them , but we can’t flush the baby with the bath water . It sounds cold , and inhumane , but Australians leaders first and primary mandate is to keep Australians safe .
Which means vetting and quarantining all who come home , in due course . Otherwise , all the good work we’ve done over the last 18 months will be brought undone .
Once we get our population vaccinated , then we can begin to relax , but doing what you suggest , shows complacency IMO , and we are so close to the finish line .
Not at all being complacent. They still need to go into Quarantine. I’m suggesting 3 weeks not 2. I’m not suggesting they be allowed directly into community. They can put the high risk in the NT facilities, that will protect the population here.
To propose gaol for Australians trying to get home anyway they can is a disgrace and disgusting. We should be doing everything we can to get them safely home ASAP.
I’d say the Gaol is just about queue jumping , and a scare tactic . If they could safely increase the volume of people returning to manage any spread , I’m sure they will. But in all seriousness , whole hotels are dedicated now , to just being predominantly quarantine zones , and I’d say that they’re chosen by how well they can enforce a lockdown , and as such are limited by the amount of beds and rooms they can provide . As far as I understood it , you can’t just check into a random Best Western .
I understand your sentiment , but you can’t save everyone , and I personally would not be happy if the government put the lives of many in this country at risk , to save the few. It’s cold , yea maybe , but it’s the right choice .
It’s akin to being on a flight , and the the oxygen masks fall. Your first priority is to fit your own , as your no help to anyone incapacitated.
If we relax the protocols we could be incapacitated, and then we arnt letting anyone in .
I do hate the fact that there are Australians that can't come home, I never thought I would see a situations where there are 1000's of Australians stranded like this in such terrible situations. The issue is though I don't know of a better answer
Yea I’m with you man . I sound like a massive prick , I know that . But it has to be this way . The kind of decisions that mess people up forever , are getting made now .
Its actually really distressing to me that we have people that can't return home, it is such a hard situation as because of what is going on overseas we have to take away some of the things that make Australia Australia. Never did I think I would live to see the day where we closed our borders to our own people. It kind of feels like being on a lift raft and paddling away from friends that are in the water drowning, but if we paddle over to them the entire life raft could sink.
It is a real dilemma for me just thinking about the right options because the answer that is probably right answer goes against my own personal moral fibre and the moral fibre of what makes our country important to me. I am so glad it is not my decision to make as I don't know if I could make one
It’s the old question of how much is one life worth ? Is one death the same as a million deaths . Or is the “greater good , to protect the many and cast the few ?
The reality is , in nature . It’s usually the latter as much as we want to tell ourselves differently.
Still doesn’t make it any less crappy though .
The thing is I think we will get them home, just not as quickly as we would like. One thing it does raise for me though is why are we about to send a large number of athletes overseas when if something goes wrong we can't bring them home.
My understanding is we aren't sending them at one time and they aren't all coming home the same time .......but it is still a major problem ...can see a major superpower bringing a super athlete whether they do or don't have Covid ...and thats the problem .....winning is more than everything
