Issues with quarantine and country borders

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Myrtone
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Issues with quarantine and country borders

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Apparently we could have done (virtually) without lockdowns early on in the pandemic if our federal government had done a better job with quarantine and been tougher on people leaving the country. The Morrison government has been criticised for not creating a national quarantine standard.
Quarantine has everything to do with what crosses our borders, so there needs to be a national standard, created on advice of the biosecurity people.

The Victorian and Queensland governments are both building quarantine facilities, these are applauded by experts who work in fields like epidemiology and especially biosecurity.

Under a federal government that made a national quarantine standard on advice of the biosecurity people and built the needed quarantine facilities, we could have done away with locking down any part of this country maybe as early as June 2020.

These facilities are being built for unvaccinated arrivals, who still need to quarantine at their own expense, and also for future pandemics.
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The Victorian and Queensland facilities have both been largely funded by the Commonwealth.
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The pandemic was called too late as there are authorities in some European counties now saying that they where finding COVID in competitors returning from the 2019 Wuhan world military games if those reports are true that would mean that COVID was circulating for around 2 months before China tipped the W.H.O off about what was happening in Wuhan so locking borders and quarantine rules where hopeless as the Wuhan outbreak was reported to the W.H.O two and a half months before the W,H.O declared COVID as a pandemic
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We stopped traffic from China right at the beginning of February 2020 and New Zealand did around the same time. We also stopped traffic from other countries where there were outbreaks like Iran, Italy and South Korea. It was in March that year that the W.H.O declared COVID-19 a pandemic.
Taiwan stopped traffic from mainland China as early as New Years Eve of 2019.
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Myrtone wrote: Sat Mar 12, 2022 8:54 pm We stopped traffic from China right at the beginning of February 2020 and New Zealand did around the same time. We also stopped traffic from other countries where there were outbreaks like Iran, Italy and South Korea. It was in March that year that the W.H.O declared COVID-19 a pandemic.
Taiwan stopped traffic from mainland China as early as New Years Eve of 2019.
Taiwan knew about it before anyone else but as they wanted to stay on the Communist Party's good side they didn't say anything until it was made official by Beijing witch was on New Year's Eve 2019-2020
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Please see this article, written by two infection control experts about how quarantine facilities should be built, remember they are being built for future pandemics. Also a recent article in the Guardian notes that it also has other uses.
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A frequently stated criticism of quarantine facilities is that they would be used for a limited period or be useless for many years and then finally useful. This does not take into account other uses they have, such as flood evacuation and housing for refugees.

And is it true that these facilities are cheaper to build than (multi story) hotels?
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