“I doubt very much that you’d find there’d be many guests at a hotel that would want to be staying at a property where there are potentially carriers of coronavirus,” he told Sky News host Chris Kenny.
When asked about the cost of acquiring hotels for the duration of the quarantine measure, Mr Elliott said based on his briefing “state governments will be covering the costs of the hotels which would probably include some sort of food arrangement, beverages”. “I don’t think that anybody coming off a plane would expect the taxpayer to cover any of those further luxuries over the course of a 14-day period.
They’re not being ‘handed over’. They’re being leased out. Where the hell does this bloke think he is?
Way too late now as the virus has been arriving here for months unhindered. Should have set up leper style colonies much earlier.
Better paying for a hotel room rather than an ICU bed.
Don’t care how it’s done just don’t fuck it up. For Christ sake have ample police all over the bloody hotels
Must have to WELD them in like they did in China.
Why should taxpayers pay?
who will pay for the hotel fee?
Who exactly are these people who are not self-isolating? what countries are they arriving from? what countries do these people originate? I am pretty sure we all know -_-
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