We found the limits of hotel quarantine. It’s time we fixed it

Professor Jason Monty, the University of Melbourne’s head of mechanical engineering,he thought it was extraordinary high-rise hotels had been chosen for quarantine, given their ventilation was so poor.

There have been about at least 10 leaks from hotel quarantine since December, yet as recently as Friday Morrison government ministers were still praising Australia’s quarantine arrangements. Pressure for change continues to come from outside rather than within, with a proposal from the Victorian government to build a large cabin-style quarantine site in Melbourne’s northWe can’t expect perfectionism in our governments’ response to this pandemic, or a quarantine system that is completely leak-free. Our public officials should, however, have their ears open to expert advice, and for months experts have been sounding the alarm on the problem of poorly ventilated hotels.

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aishamae I don’t trust a word the government says and I work for them

aishamae Guess what? The Covid-positive guy today in Melbourne arrived in Adelaide from India via the Maldives.

aishamae That’s not what you said when there were leaks in Victoria. Oh how you change when you want a particular outcome.

aishamae Or... Get the population vaccinated, change the risk appetite and state by state competition to have “no covid cases” - an impossible objective!

aishamae It is bizarre - that as a first world nation we have not vaccinated ourselves to such a lever that this incompetence doesn’t worry us. So slow. Lazy. Amateurish. Sloppy.

aishamae New self contained cabin type quarantine facilities will provide a better alternative to high rise hotels. The problem now is that by the time they are built, they will sit there idle until the next pandemic by which time they might be considered unusable.

aishamae Just put Gladys in charge.

aishamae Unless it’s Victoria, and then you throw all the toys out of the pram.

aishamae OK, so what you are saying is that we Ausies (I refuse to put in the second 's' for ideological reasons) should accept a standard that is much less than 'best practice'. Why?

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aishamae meanwhile 10’s of thousands of Australians remain separated indefinitely from their partners/spouses/young kids overseas. We’re one of the only countries in the world with an exit ban - even NZ never had one! Our lives are on hold these last 14 months! LoveIsNotTourism

aishamae Yep, the federal government needs to do their job

aishamae We can’t expect anything but failure from our government. Fixed that for you.

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