Originally Posted by
gordonfvckingramsay
Basically there is none required while the government provide the company an out by denying the severity.
From what we've seen recently, airlines are reluctant to acknowledge the threat on either international or domestic flights within Australia. And as incidences of this virus spread to other countries, we will be receiving infected individuals from everywhere, not just China.
The duty of care is enshrined in statute; clearly.
The Australian government has shown an incredibly lack of duty of care to Australian citizenry by not restricting anything.
The big donors to both sides of politics are most pleased.
In Europe and the US it is the airline unions pushing workplace health and safety, not airline management.
It is not a surprise that airlines are now cancelling China mainland flying for the duty of care is clear and their unions know it.
That the Australian government, airline Qantas and surprisingly the union representing flight crew continue to refute the likelihood of human to human transmission while it is now acknowledged that this does in fact occur:
The fact that asymptomatic persons are potential sources of 2019-nCoV infection may warrant a reassessment of transmission dynamics of the current outbreak. In this context, the detection of 2019-nCoV and a high sputum viral load in a convalescent patient (Patient 1) arouse concern about prolonged shedding of 2019-nCoV after recovery.
This study is the German based one into asymptomatic transmission.
That it is spread without symptoms is a real concern.