I'm not legally qualified in any way, but I always felt the detention of people in quarantine for the benefit of the community should mean the people get compensated for giving up their liberty, rather than being treated like prisoners.
Reading today's article from news.com.au where there's a comment suggesting the hotel quarantine may not have been legal makes me think there's a class action waiting to happen. You can't just lock people up in rooms for 14 days and not make every effort to support those people beyond the basics.
I suspect most people will take the attitude that people should have been locked up in hotel quarantine, but then ask yourself, what if it was you? What if you had your liberty taken away from you for 14 days through no fault of your own. I've read a lot of information published and it appears that after around 5 days some 95% of people who are infected can be tested and shown to be infected. If that's true a test down after 5 days would have shown the risk posed by the majority of these people to be very low.
My only thought really is that people who have the liberty taken away from them through no fault of their own for the benefit of the community should have been compensated.
Kelvin Eldridge
www.Mapz.com.au/coronavirusvictoria/
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