Originally Posted by
SOPS
It has just been stated that since this began.. there have been 51000 people through HQ in WA alone. Some have been through HQ as many as 8 times!!! This rubbish has to stop. You come in, you stay in. You leave now, you don’t come back. And that included ‘ sports people’ and such.
So by that logic the PM should stay out then? What about the various government ministers that need to travel?
What about Australians that live overseas and need to come home to deal with various family issues? They can’t go back overseas?
What about the various business owners in Australia that need to travel to keep their businesses running?
What about Australians that have family overseas they need to see?
I could go on and on, but I’m sure you get the point. The border CAN NEVER be closed. No country on earth functions that way. By your logic, all airlines should stop flying to Australia as well, good luck getting any of that Pfizer vaccine that’s so important now!
Australian citizens have a right to access their own country. It’s up to the government to create a safe and effective way for that to happen during a pandemic. Just shouting “shut the border!” is not safe and effective.
Do you get that point? ITS UP TO THE GOVERNMENT to create an effective quarantine system. To allow citizens to move around so the country continues to function.
If there actually was a safe and effective quarantine system (NOT hotel quarantine), that was user pays, with an associated cap on numbers, plus all the issues with international air travel at the moment, plus the risk of getting COVID (cause most Aussies aren’t vaccinated) and people STILL want to travel with all that hassle and risk, who are you to say “no”??
What happened to our liberal democracy? What happened to some level of personal responsibility when presented with the associated risks?
This is not something that will go away this year or probably the next, the influenza continued to spike every year well into the mid 1920’s after the original outbreak in 1919. Shutting the country off from the world for multiple years is not a suitable response.