I'm getting the feeling in the press that Dan Andrews and Brett Sutton are blaming the person for not coming forward with the information, but the problem is, the person already broke the rules by dining in a cafe in regional Victoria. That should immediately flag that further investigation needs to be done by contract tracers. So in fact no matter what this person did, the contract tracers did not follow through when a person had already done the wrong thing.
If a person does the right thing through their actions, they're showing they can be trusted. It's no one's fault a person gets infected. But if you do something wrong there could be consequences. If people do something wrong a different level of investigation should be carried out and that includes phone records. By not doing that all Victorians are being inconvenienced in lockdown and that isn't fair on those doing the right thing.
Secondly, regional businesses have to start treating every customer as a potential traveller from Melbourne. In this case the person in question supposedly, may have, had a meal in a cafe, had a meal at a restaurant, went to a golf course, went to Bunnings, had a hair cut, yet none of these businesses appears to have challenged where the person lived. If it's true and it's hard to know if the information is correct in the media, these businesses also let us all down.
We are in the incredible situation where people who get infected with coronavirus can do the wrong thing and then if they're honest and forthcoming, they get away scott-free. The benefit to the community outweighs the punishment of the one. That doesn't seem right or fair, but it's what is necessary.
If people are doing the right thing it makes sense standard contract tracing should be followed. But when there's a red flag by someone that has already done the wrong thing, then surely the contract tracers should have done more.
Kelvin Eldridge
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