Corona Virus

What I dont understand about whack job Bannana Benders - is that they are dead worried about people coming up from down south and infecting them so they close the borders - fair enough - but then they allow their citizens to freely travel south and then come back into Qld without a care in the world - strange.

If they are so worried - shut border and stay on your own side of the fence.

Their citizens vote there!

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Originally Posted by DiscoMick

I went to Byron Bay and back today. The locals said the place was dead as until about a week ago, when Queensland number plates starting appearing, to the great delight of the local restauranteurs, who seem to have been abandoned by NSW tourists, strangely enough.

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Geez Mick,how irresponsible,you could be the start of this second wave everyone is **** scared of.........[bigsad][bighmmm]

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Originally Posted by Tote

Thats 'cause you are all Queenslanders, mind the daylight saving doesn't fade the curtains. I now know how Joe Bjelke was able to be king for so long.



Well I've spent too long in the deep north,
the land of the big peanut
It ain't that great in the Police State
They burn down the hippies huts

They turn back the clocks a decade
they bust you for no reason
The sun shines the whole year 'round
The shotguns' still in season

Get me over the border, get me over the border
Down to New South Wales

The girls' are sweet & juicy
Oh so brown & blonde
but watch out for the young ones
You wont get no bond

They don't treat you too well

Down in Bogga Road jail
Make a break, make a break for the border
with the dogs running on your tail

Over the border put some wind in my sails
Over the border put some wind in my sails
Get me over the border down to New South Wales

It's a nice place to visit
But I wouldn't want to stay
I might want to march in the street some day
But ol' Joh wont let me have my say
So I'll get on down to Coolangatta
And get on my way

Get over the border
Get this rocket on the rails Put some wind in my sails
I got my foot to the floor I don't know what I went there for
Get out of Queensland I'm only going back with a gun in my hand
I got me a mango one day they're gonna hang Joh

Over the border put some wind in my sails
over the border get my wheels on the rails
Get me over the border down to new south wales

Skyhooks, 1979

Regards,
Tote

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The tragic irony this song elicits is that Graeme Strachan was a Queensland resident at the time of his untimely death!

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Originally Posted by DiscoMick

I went to Byron Bay and back today. The locals said the place was dead as until about a week ago, when Queensland number plates starting appearing, to the great delight of the local restauranteurs, who seem to have been abandoned by NSW tourists, strangely enough.

There was a long queue of vehicles with Queensland number plates and border passes stuck to their windscreens at Tweed Heads. Also trucks being waved through. We were waved through.

Far as I know I wasn't infected by any NSW people without symptoms. Might still have the test again tomorrow though, just to be sure. Can't be too careful.

Lets keep the border closed to southerners until July 13, as currently planned, and see if NSW has the second wave NSW Premier GladysB says is likely. After all, she should know, shouldn't she?

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It was dead as until a week ago as we weren't traveling in NSW, NSW residents had been adhering to travel restrictions.

It was dead as yesterday, too, I've never seen it so dead.

Great to see all the responsible Black Life Matters demonstrators practicing Social Distancing to help in not transmitting Coved 19 . Apparently everybody else,s life doesn't matter . Interesting to note with authority approval as well , what hope have we got . :wacko:

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Originally Posted by ramblingboy42

It's interesting to note that it's mostly non Queenslanders trying to maintain the argument against Queensland's border restrictions.

You just don't get it down there do you?

Someone said businesses are closing at Bryon Bay. Well, from my observation , businesses are always closing at Byron Bay , it's got nothing to do with Queenslanders. It has no real stable population , but the blues festival is good.

I hope we are last to open our borders and we will not change to daylight saving either. If you want either , find a different place to go to.

Why do you all want to come here?

And if you don't want to come here as more than one have already said , shut the **** up!

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Another retiree who forgets that trade and commerce fuels their retirement.

The border closure is hurting Qld more than it hurts NSW, but the longer things remain closed the worse things will be and the longer it will take to haul our arses out of a deep recession.
The social and mental health impacts of mass unemployment and massive debt need to be balanced against a virus that won't be eliminated and an arbitrary line on a map won't stop it.

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Originally Posted by ramblingboy42

It's interesting to note that it's mostly non Queenslanders trying to maintain the argument against Queensland's border restrictions.

You just don't get it down there do you?

Someone said businesses are closing at Bryon Bay. Well, from my observation , businesses are always closing at Byron Bay , it's got nothing to do with Queenslanders. It has no real stable population , but the blues festival is good.

I hope we are last to open our borders and we will not change to daylight saving either. If you want either , find a different place to go to.

Why do you all want to come here?

And if you don't want to come here as more than one have already said , shut the **** up!

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One benefit of closing Tassies borders is 4wd Action/24/7 are kept from trashing our tracks and getting them closed to locals aftter they've pocketed money and goods from sponsors!! And of course the knock on effect of encouraging heaps of other 4wd visitors to do the same.

Graham and his mates focus largely on 3 or 4 tracks..2 of which are the focus of survey and possible closure. One actually crosses private land not that 4wd 24/7 ever says so in their selfish money making trips down here..

There's not that many hard tracks left in Tas..and unlike NSW and VIC which has a capacity to rest them..Tassie Depts just close them for good cause they have no money to repair them😞

I sorta like the isolation from that perspective😎

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Originally Posted by 101RRS

What I dont understand about whack job Bannana Benders - is that they are dead worried about people coming up from down south and infecting them so they close the borders - fair enough - but then they allow their citizens to freely travel south and then come back into Qld without a care in the world - strange.

If they are so worried - shut border and stay on your own side of the fence.

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Legalities, a state has the right to prevent non-residents entry but cannot deny residents access. States have no authority to prevent departure of residents. Responsible people would not be border hopping, ergo diluting the safeguards to prevent the spread of the lethal virus. Anyone, apart from essential workers, should be compulsorilly isolated, in supervised accommodation, at their expense.
That might stop the irresponsible travelers thumbing their nose at society and putting the rest of the population at unnecessary risk. The last reported case of the danger was from a person who flew in from down south.

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Originally Posted by rick130

Another retiree who forgets that trade and commerce fuels their retirement.

The border closure is hurting Qld more than it hurts NSW, but the longer things remain closed the worse things will be and the longer it will take to haul our arses out of a deep recession.
The social and mental health impacts of mass unemployment and massive debt need to be balanced against a virus that won't be eliminated and an arbitrary line on a map won't stop it.

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While you can argue about a particular border closure (if there are no cases on either side, or cases on both sides, its a bit silly), "arbitrary lines on maps", usually with the help of a physical barrier such as a large river , mountain range or ocean, have stopped epidemics for many centuries.

And you seem to be falling into a false dichotomy - it is not an alternative between quarantine measures + mass unemployment + debt versus business as usual, it is the alternative between quarantine measures + mass unemployment + debt versus no quarantine measures + mass unemployment + debt + plus many more deaths and sickness. If the virus is allowed to spread unchecked, most people simply stop "business as usual" because they are frightened. Of course, there is a proportion who will, and we have a very good example of what happens in Scandinavia. Sweden has virtually no quarantine measures (their constitution pretty much prevents it) compared to their neighbours Norway and Denmark, and not only do they have a much higher death rate and a lot more cases, but their economy is almost as badly affected.