Originally Posted by
compressor stall
Do you have any understanding of what that means to Aussie pilots flying internationally?
Edit: Maybe I should explain...
Do you understand that that would mean living almost each day of your life in isolation? You'd fly a tour for a week overseas - and when you're overseas you are in hotel lockdown (or if not you're likely in a country where you don't want to leave the hotel room anyway, nor should you under the terms of the AirCrew exemption) and then you come back to 2 weeks hotel isolated quarantine, which is longer your time off. Then you go to work again. Repeat.
Now do you see the problem? A life never seeing the sun (except maybe between the airport and the taxi). Or anyone else for that matter besides the co-pilot and the ground staff. Health implications - DVT, sanity?
So what makes aircrew so special in that regard? There are, literally, dozens of my colleagues in that exact same boat. And that's just the rail guys, not even counting the plant or production operators. They live on the East coast, NZ or elsewhere but work in the Pilbara, and up until Mark McGoose opened the border
sans quarantine to "low risk" states, they had to quarantine for 2 weeks every time they went to work, or, spend their off-duty time on-site in a donga, or in a hotel in Perth, held captive by the state and spend months away from their families. And these are the people McGowan is crowing about that are "Keeping our state economy going!" Yessiree! that's great for their physical and mental health, and that of their family. Nothing to see here, moving on....
If Pilots of all people, cannot abide by a reasonable quarantine direction to sit and stay in your hotel for 2 weeks, then yes, they
should be forced to undergo mandatory quarantine at a location of the Governments choosing. They've been given a great deal of leeway in order to keep transportation lines open, and some - by no means all, or even the majority - are showing they can't be trusted to do the right thing. If Governments' won't trust the great unwashed to do the right thing, why should Pilots get special treatment when they've proven they won't either?