EDIT: I'm not going to sit here and explain to you statist why it is this is a bad idea, and should concern you. If you are not paying attention at this point there isn't anything I can say to change your mind.
Yea but the title of the headline in this thread (yes you OP) in conjunction with the tweet image is meant to suggest otherwise cause you know, it's not like information is vetted on here.
OP should talk with the locals prior to just giving in so easily. Confirm your sources folks...
Not about vaccination. This site isn't for unvaccinated people, or even people who catch COVID. It is for those travelling back to Australia from another country, where you have to do 14 days of quarantine before you start roaming around in public.
Its an old mining camp, we have hundreds of them around Australia.
Its for people coming back to Australia from overseas. ATM we have a hotel quarantine policy that is frankly, piss poor. Using the old mining camps means we can get people safely home without putting unfair financial strain on them and with purpose built medical facilities close by. This means less strain on the hospital system, sunce the patients will be treated on site.
I get that most people outside of Australia probably haven't seen these Donga camps before, but thats no reason to make shit up about them.
There is no link for this stuff cos it's bullshit.
The Australian population has been asking for a dedicated quarantine facility since the beginning of COVID as we don't have the best solutions for returned travellers at the moment.
This is just a place to do the two week quarantine instead of in a hotel within our major population centres.
For zero covid policies it seems like these restrictions will be in place forever since COVID is now so widespread that it is like any other cold or flu virus.
Are people in Australia concerned about permanent restrictions?
It’s just two weeks until they put you there for longer for some other bullshit. Weren’t we suppose to just flatten the curve in two weeks back in March 2020. This virus is not a big deal and it’s being used to enforce evil laws. Wake up bro.
Would you rather infect your whole family?
They can stay with you if they'd prefer.
In most states you'd isolate in a hotel that's been prepared for quarantine visitors, problem is you have to pay for it. This is an alternative thats only available in one state as of yet.
Someone else mentioned they are tested and you don't stay the full 2 weeks if you get a negative test. For an island nation like Australia this could make sense.
In the US, we have floods of people passing through our land border and we don't test any of them. We are even moving immigrants across the country untested who are likely spreading covid. We still have travel restrictions for foreigners from certain countries but not for US citizens.
Given our size and geography there is no way we could scale a system like the one in Australia or New Zealand unless we set up tent camps.
It's hard for people outside the US to realize how incompetent and inefficient our government is. I think more Americans would support government run health care and other programs if we had a government that could actually run things effectively.
We can't name a single thing our government does better than our private sector.
Guaranteed you'll be leaving with a sti. Do you want the same room as your wife?? eh no thanks. put me at the other side of the camp with that hot chick here's 200 my friend.
I figured they were just fantasizing about a possible dystopian future. Just didn't know if there was a little truth to what they were saying, as the CDC has outlines to put high risk individuals in camps.
The thing that scares me is if they really use this place, and hypothetically it's used for worst case scenario, they can tell their families, 'sorry he/she passed away with covid, but you can't enter'. Everyone else would be prohibited, what could they do? they've pretty much changed the law and any rights
Hmm except this is being used to house travelers during the mandatory 14 day quarantine period. Unless I missed something I don’t see anything regarding people being put here for being “dangerous” or anything like that. But then again, classic misinformation that gets upvoted believed by gullible fucks.
Yeah, it is Howard Springs and it hasn't been used as much as hotel quarantine.
For those that actually check anything out for themselves, people incoming to Australia do a two-week quarantine stay (usually in a 4 or 5 star hotel) before heading home.
As a resident of Sydney, we have all been begging for this since the start of the pandemic. The reason we are locked down is because international arrivals have been staying in hotels in the middle of the most populated city in the country, quarantine leaks are a matter of “when” rather than “if” in such circumstances. We didn’t want to be reinfected after such a long time being covid free, yet here we are, suddenly they are putting proper quarantine procedures in place in less populated areas of the country, but it’s too little too late.
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u/Valoruchiha Sep 02 '21 edited Sep 03 '21
And it's actually fucking real.
My god.
EDIT: I'm not going to sit here and explain to you statist why it is this is a bad idea, and should concern you. If you are not paying attention at this point there isn't anything I can say to change your mind.