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Well that's not going to last long is it? Once the HQ rooms fill up, where will they put every one else? There's 2500 people in iso here in VIC ATM because of the flight from Perth with the infected guy on it.

And you all wonder why I don't trust the contact tracing teams (if they exist).

That's pretty extreme. We live in one of the most liberal democracies in the world. And right now, there's probably close to 1 billion Indians who would love to have been living in "isolated" Australia and not allowed to leave all this time. (my unscientific survey of recent Uber drivers backs...

We live in a post-covid world. I don't believe we are ever going to get back to the freedom of movement we had before.

But time and time again, we have seen contact tracing fail badly. Do you really think the Vic govt has 100 people sitting in a room just waiting for another outbreak so the contact tracing could be done quickly and efficiently? I guess the debate for your second point is: what is essential...

@Lynda2475 your point is well taken about arrival numbers, but if you were a Melburnian who lived through last year's lockdown, you would think that ANY arrivals is too risky. Many of us are struggling with fear and borderline PTSD about this. There's a reason there's been an exodus out of Melbs...

What does it matter, since they are just faking their tests anyway? All flights from India need to end NOW.

With car rental costs upwards of $120 per day, if you are in a capital city, you'd be better off in taxis/Ubers with PT to take you the longer distances.

So the carrier was contagious before he got on the flight to MEL. Now there are *how many* people in Melbs who have potentially caught it off him during the flight and in the terminal. If there's another lockdown, I'm actually going to need some serious mental health support. I'm terrified of a...

It's okay they are old and clearly do not matter to @N860CR

FFS it is NOT "a very mild virus". Are you blind? Parts of Europe going into a 4th wave, the US still a basket case though the situation is improving there, India with no room in hospitals or even oxygen to help treat the sick. 300K cases per day there, with only limited testing available...

Barry prefers my lap but prefers to sleep on hubby. Also spontaneously interacts more with him. So it's a fair-ish split

How is it you are able to do this over again when others so desperate to come home cannot?

@prozac cases like yours - with a good medical reason - are exactly the reason why the rest of us have a responsibility to be vaccinated as soon as it's offered to us, regardless of which vaccine it is. We need that herd immunity to protect those who genuinely can't be vaccinated.

There, I fixed it for you. And you are forgetting that our economy is one of the few in the world that is pretty much back on track BECAUSE we have no covid transmission. Which gets us back to my point above. There are two schools here: those who are heavily affected by the current border...

None of this would be a problem if people could have been trusted to do the right thing and quarantine at home. It infuriates me as my husband and I arrived back in Australia mid-March last year, and obeyed the directive to the letter, despite my significant birthday happening while we were...

Yes, I know it will be unpopular with the Indian community, but we must protect the majority here. Ban arrivals from India, and find a way to ensure they haven't come via a third country too.

As has been stated hundreds of times before, being vaccinated will not necessarily prevent you from catching covid. It ONLY prevents you from ending up in hospital with it. Immunity from catching it is a bonus but not guaranteed, even with the Pfizer vax. That's the reason people cannot enter...

Perhaps we should refuse flights from corrupt countries such as India then.

No, it wouldn't. What airlines don't seem to care about is that everyone considers themselves to be a VIP in their own head. Or maybe more meek people don't, I don't know, but speaking for myself, *I* am the most important person to me, particularly in stressful, airport situations. I am at...