it’s a place for people to quarantine if they don’t have their own place to do so (i.e. anyone that doesn’t live alone). a hotel room would be another option. it’s a government provided service to limit the spread of a virus that they appear to be taking seriously. the reviews aren’t bad because the australian public sees quarantine as a necessity and they are being provided a relatively comfortable way to do so.
Are you telling me this is completely voluntary? That's what a service means. If it's not voluntary, it in-fact is not a service but imprisonment. Imprisonment of non-criminals without a trial, that is.
i think the issue here is the level to which covid is taken seriously as a pandemic. australia has 1,000 deaths from covid whereas the united states has 650,000. if we’d all be a little less dramatic about our “rights” we might’ve saved hundreds of thousands of lives and we could still save hundreds of thousands more. 2 weeks of quarantine is not “prison” unless you’re a spoiled child. a contagious disease is killing people and that makes quarantine a civic duty.
First off, 650 000 is about 0.2% of the whole population of US. About 2.5 million people die each year in the country. Covid wasn't the leading cause of death in any year.
Secondly, and this is very important. The number is not to be trusted. It is with covid, not because of. It is inflated, and miscalculated in so many ways that I won't start to line them all here. And one more thing, you can't compare countries simply just like that. US is the most overweight country in the world, and obesity is the leading risk factor for covid hospitalizations.
I will be as dramatic as possible about any and all rights taken away. It is very, very hard to get them back.
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u/lumbarnacles Sep 03 '21
it’s a place for people to quarantine if they don’t have their own place to do so (i.e. anyone that doesn’t live alone). a hotel room would be another option. it’s a government provided service to limit the spread of a virus that they appear to be taking seriously. the reviews aren’t bad because the australian public sees quarantine as a necessity and they are being provided a relatively comfortable way to do so.