Thread: Corona Virus

Originally Posted by ramblingboy42

People (Australians) are seeking exemptions and being given same , to fly out of the country to visit their "whatever excuse they may have", every day , mind you. As far as I know these exemptions do not include guaranteed return flights. So they expect to get a return flight and whinge like **** when they can't.

We all have hardships and before the modern era (which is not very old) of multiple daily flights from Australia all over the world , you didn't make short planned visits for any reason.

Maybe I'm hard but I think if they want to try to beat our border policy and fly out of the country in these current times , then they should suck it up big time for their chance to return home.

Yeah , I'm a hard callous bastard but I don't think I'm as hard and callous as any person who flies out clean and flies back with a covid infection

Well .... the issue for my wife - who went OS to see her critically ill mother who's been in a coma for the last 5 weeks - is that they gave zero notice of the change in policy, which is coming into effect the day before she's due to fly back.

She's currently doing two weeks in quarantine in Tokyo, will be released in time to spend a few hours with her mother in the ICU and will then will fly back here to do another two weeks hotel quarantine.

She's working remotely by arrangement with her employer.

She's not trying to beat anyone's border policy, she's not on holiday and she's had her first AZ shot.

Oh, and BTW, the whole point of 14 days hotel quarantine is to detect if any arrivees have covid.

More of the same...............

In Vic's 2nd wave 660 people died in private nursing homes, state run 0. That's months ago and nothing has been learnt or done since.

Didn't someone promise that ALL aged care workers would be vacc'ed in Oz by Easter 2021?

Dunno who that was? .

DL

Possible super spreader event at the Meriton Suites Hotel in Waterloo, may keep Sydney in lock down. On one hand you have hundreds of dedicated people from the Premier down working hard to get on top of the outbreak, and the other a handful of {[ ] put your own word there.} ' others ' doing their own thing.

NSW lockdown uncertainty amid community virus spread | The New Daily

Originally Posted by Arapiles

Well .... the issue for my wife - who went OS to see her critically ill mother who's been in a coma for the last 5 weeks - is that they gave zero notice of the change in policy, which is coming into effect the day before she's due to fly back.

She's currently doing two weeks in quarantine in Tokyo, will be released in time to spend a few hours with her mother in the ICU and will then will fly back here to do another two weeks hotel quarantine.

She's working remotely by arrangement with her employer.

She's not trying to beat anyone's border policy, she's not on holiday and she's had her first AZ shot.

Oh, and BTW, the whole point of 14 days hotel quarantine is to detect if any arrivees have covid.

I hope your wife gets back ok, and any one else in a similar situation. I hope Australians haven't hardened their hearts to the extent we treat our own returning citizens as bad as we treat refugees.

The NSW Health Minister , and his take on the vaccine rollout fiasco. Not happy Canberra!!!


Welcome to the Hunger Games: Minister's cruel swipe at vaccine shortage (inqld.com.au)

Originally Posted by Eevo

I'll be making a booking tommorow.

after a few home tests today, i believe its the sensation of feeling cold. but my legs are not actually cold.

It will be the day after 'tomorrow' in a few hours, I have my second jab booked for 14th and chomping at the bit to get it done. So I have an interest in your issue not just for your health but an answer of some sort for anyone else who may get 'cold legs' sensation.

From the Sydney Morning Herald;" Sydneysiders are like a pack of teens taking advantage of Glad's cool Mum parenting" .

COVID NSW: Sydneysiders are like a pack of teens taking advantage of Glad’s ‘cool mum’ parenting (smh.com.au)

Originally Posted by RANDLOVER

She should be top of the list as is an obvious compassion case, and should be miles ahead of anyone leaving or returning from overseas to conduct business meetings, leisure activities, etc.

Unfortunately it doesn't work like that - they simply told her airline they had to halve their flights, and, as it turns out, the flight they cancelled is the one she was booked on.

As of tonight she's trying to find another flight and will look at flying into a different city - as she said, so long as I can get back to Australia.


FYI, these planes are 350 seaters and they're running them to and from Australia with less than 20 passengers on board - and the fares are normal, not the tens of thousands that are being reported in the press. They would be losing about a million dollars per flight in lost fares and expenses - I used to work for an airline and I know that even having one sitting on the runway cost hundreds of thousands per week, fly it somewhere and you can add fuel and staffing costs to that.