Originally Posted by
Australopithecus
Absolutely all of the human and economic disaster of the past year is a direct result of wishful, magical thinking on the part of most of our governments.
Fixed it. It got out in Victoria in a big way. It's got out in NSW, Qld and WA as well. The only rational response out of all of the HQ outbreaks was from Gladys with the targeted lockdown of the Insular Peninsula while keeping the rest of the city (and borders) open. Granted she took about 9 months too long to mandate masks on transport and the like, but that is a preventative measure to guard against an outbreak, not a response to one.
There comes a point where someone has to call time on goings-on.
Doing the same thing, over and over, and expecting a different result is madness. Note that, so far as I'm aware, neither NSW Health, Qld Health or the mob in WA can
positively tell you
how it got out of HQ! And it looks like it might be the same in Mexico as well.
If they don't know how it spread in "quarantine" then how can they stop it in the future? And that being the case, if they are not assured they can prevent it in the future, any ongoing HQ is a pointless exercise so long as you have trigger-happy politicians playing God with their borders and the Australian people - because
when it does get out again, as it most certainly will, there goes the border, there goes travel, weddings, funerals and jobs.
The simple, though politically incorrect & unpalatable answer, to me seems to be an immediate halt on
all international passenger arrivals. Yes, we will still need HQ for the aircrew on freighters, but that is a tiny percentage of that required now, and their time here
in quarantine is maybe 10% of that of passengers, with consequent lower interaction with the hotel staff & guards, etc.