At the time and now also looking back, I must admit I was quite annoyed the government didn't move quickly on the travel ban from Italy. It almost felt like the ban was being delayed due to the Melbourne 2020 Grand Prix. Whether it was or not will only be known by the government but perhaps in years to come we may find out.
Thank goodness a team member was infected otherwise the Melbourne Grand Prix would have gone ahead and who knows what level of infection would have occurred.
I think this is where the government got it wrong. If the government used its modelling now and went back and made the decision to ban travel from Italy and implement tighter quarantine measures it would be interesting to see how much the curve would have been reduced. It may even be that we'd have eliminated the virus now.
The huge impact of the Ruby Princess on NSW would likely not have occurred if the bans were started earlier. With an extra week of travel bans the passengers would have no left the ship in such an uncontrolled manner.
The following article appeared on the 11th of March 2020.
https://www.smh.com.au/sport/formula-one-narrowly-escapes-australian-travel-ban-on-italy-20200311-p54918.html
I remember it was frustrating at the time. Add that Scott Morrison was still talking about attending his beloved Sharks NRL match, it appeared he was either keeping up appearances for Australians, or just didn't get it at that stage.
https://www.smh.com.au/sport/formula-one-narrowly-escapes-australian-travel-ban-on-italy-20200311-p54918.html
Thankfully that changed and the government caught up to where they needed to be.
The quarantining of everyone coming into Australia into hotels is where we needed to get to. Asking people to self-isolate just doesn't work because of the nature of a portion of the people. I couldn't help feeling that one thing the government could have done was to compensate people for having their liberty taken away from them. It was necessary for them to be quarantined but it's almost like they were doing the community services. They'd done nothing wrong.
The one thing I feel the government is still doing wrong is not providing the valuable raw data that lets us know what is really going on. Victoria did this for a while. We were informed where infected people had been and we could make sure this had no impact on us. Then all of a sudden the Victorian government stopped providing the information. That to me means something is being hidden from all of us.
Could the governments of Australia do better. Absolutely. However in my mind they've done very well and I'm thankful for the efforts. I'm thankful for those who have been quarantined in hotels. I'm thankful for the many people around me who really are making a considerable effort to self isolate and social distance.
Thank you.
Kelvin Eldridge
www.Mapz.com.au/coronavirusvictoria/
Thank goodness a team member was infected otherwise the Melbourne Grand Prix would have gone ahead and who knows what level of infection would have occurred.
I think this is where the government got it wrong. If the government used its modelling now and went back and made the decision to ban travel from Italy and implement tighter quarantine measures it would be interesting to see how much the curve would have been reduced. It may even be that we'd have eliminated the virus now.
The huge impact of the Ruby Princess on NSW would likely not have occurred if the bans were started earlier. With an extra week of travel bans the passengers would have no left the ship in such an uncontrolled manner.
The following article appeared on the 11th of March 2020.
https://www.smh.com.au/sport/formula-one-narrowly-escapes-australian-travel-ban-on-italy-20200311-p54918.html
I remember it was frustrating at the time. Add that Scott Morrison was still talking about attending his beloved Sharks NRL match, it appeared he was either keeping up appearances for Australians, or just didn't get it at that stage.
https://www.smh.com.au/sport/formula-one-narrowly-escapes-australian-travel-ban-on-italy-20200311-p54918.html
Thankfully that changed and the government caught up to where they needed to be.
The quarantining of everyone coming into Australia into hotels is where we needed to get to. Asking people to self-isolate just doesn't work because of the nature of a portion of the people. I couldn't help feeling that one thing the government could have done was to compensate people for having their liberty taken away from them. It was necessary for them to be quarantined but it's almost like they were doing the community services. They'd done nothing wrong.
The one thing I feel the government is still doing wrong is not providing the valuable raw data that lets us know what is really going on. Victoria did this for a while. We were informed where infected people had been and we could make sure this had no impact on us. Then all of a sudden the Victorian government stopped providing the information. That to me means something is being hidden from all of us.
Could the governments of Australia do better. Absolutely. However in my mind they've done very well and I'm thankful for the efforts. I'm thankful for those who have been quarantined in hotels. I'm thankful for the many people around me who really are making a considerable effort to self isolate and social distance.
Thank you.
Kelvin Eldridge
www.Mapz.com.au/coronavirusvictoria/
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