. Not at all certain that Navy, Army or Airforce staff would have seen a entirely different outcome with out other items such as compulsory testing of everyone in the Hotels.
A 12 other sailors with muskets dressed in 200 year old Navy uniforms were not expert actors 
There seems to be some confusion as to the hotel infections. Depends on which media you read I guess.Originally Posted by 101RRS
Victoria’s ‘patient zero’ was Rydges staffer
A night staffer at Melbourne’s Rydges on Swanston has been revealed as ‘patient zero’ in a media report.
Leaked emails obtained by the Melbourne Age show a night duty manager – not a security guard – was believed to be the link between the hotel quarantine and the community spread.
After becoming infected, the night manager passed the virus onto security staff who spread the disease to families in the northern and western suburbs of Melbourne, the report claims.
It’s not known how the hotel staffer was infected but it’s believed a returned traveller in hotel quarantine may have been the source.
The emails show a considerable effort was made to contain the spread after the manager came down with the illness on May 25.
Seven security guards contracted to patrol the hotel were stood down immediately and told to get tested and go home to isolate and a small number of hotel staff and health workers were told to do the same, The Age reports.
Five of those security guards tested positive but by then had already brought the virus to the community.
The Age says the email chain shows officials initially mistakenly reported that a security guard was the first positive test.
There is no suggestion the night manager became infection due to improper behaviour.
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