Originally Posted by
Dannyboy39
Brisbane going into a three day snap lockdown for the sake of ONE known case. Ridiculous.
(1) Why 3 days when the incubation period is around 5 days on average but up to 14 days.
(2) Its supposedly the “super Covid” U.K. strain - how did it get in if the borders have been all but shut for a year? Clearly a lot of countries are not flung enough genomic testing - the genie is well and truly out of the bottle.
(3) Isn’t this proving that all out elimination isn’t working?
There was 1 case yesterday (the cleaner with the UK strain of the virus).
There are 9 cases today - and that cleaner has been to a lot of places whilst contagious.
The Virus got in through hotel quarantine.
Elimination would have worked - but for some reason we are still bringing in overseas travellers to hotel quarantine into the middle of our most populated cities. It defies any logic that this is still occurring after what happened in Victoria.
It’s up to the federal government to step up and set up inbound quarantine in remote parts of the country. This would cost a significant amount of money - but significantly less than the cost of the damage that is being done through opening and closing of the borders.