Gordon wrote on Jul 25
th, 2020 at 6:27pm:
Paid just $18 an hour and having received no training, guards involved in Melbourne’s botched hotel coronavirus outbreak are speaking up.
Victoria’s bungled hotel quarantine operation – and the second lockdown that followed – is set to leave Australia with a $3 billion hangover, with unsettling allegations about the misconduct that occurred at the hotels – used to quarantine returned overseas travellers – coming to light as the state’s virus infections surge.
https://www.news.com.au/world/coronavirus/australia/coronavirus-victoria-melbour... I'm a bit over people making excuses for themselves and their own lack of any sort of common sense. Get a grip. Hotel quarantine was
not introduced at the start of the pandemic, it didn't begin till several weeks in & by that time, information about covid was
dominating the news stories. We were seeing China and Italy in trouble.
It's too simplistic to blame everything on Dan.
But if you read that report, the guards
knew the people were in quarantine, they must have known quarantine
was for a reason. I'd expect even a second class brain would have realised the guests were covid risks.
They were, as the report says,"
instructed to take these people for walks on the rooftop walking area and guards just wear a mask and share lifts with these people.”
You don't wear a mask without a reason.
Folks, what we're looking at here is a lack of common sense by many of the guards and a neglect of their duties that bordered on criminal.
Some guards even let the guests go shopping. That's a huge difference to a supervised walk on a rooftop area.
I believe the companies who supplied the services should be fined massively. Those guards who didn't follow even the basic directions should be fined too.
The government deserves to cop flak for not overseeing this better but if we want to go on from this (and the next bit won't be popular), since all our covid can probably be traced back to the quarantine hotels, what it means is one or more of the guards was muslim and then went to the big Eid celebration that was our next big spreader. The one where a big family gathering spread covid through many different suburbs. That gathering of what-30 or 40 or more people, was at a time when there were no more than 5 visitors allowed in a home.
So that's another slack guard. And at a time when the risks were very well known and we were just starting to emerge from lockdown.
Then you have the fact that one in four people who have lately been tested as positive to covid have not been at home. They are out at the shops or at work, despite the fact there is a payment for those people if they have no sick leave available.
So we have all these people who are using no common sense at all & just doing as they please, but then they want to put all the blame on Dan. Some of it yes, but obviously, you can't fix stupid with some people.
Nope. It all comes down to which guards they used, and Vic used cheap guards with no experience while NSW used police and ADF.
A % of people are fkwits so it's a GIVEN that a certain amount of people will attempt to break out of quarantine and people in NSW attempted it regularly, but quarantine hotels in NSW had police and AFD which stopped that.
For my work, I actually went to the private residence section of one of the hotels. There was a NSW police sargent at the front door, he got my ID and radioed up to the podium level where I changed lifts for the residential section.
A mate of mine is NSW police and he told me how buttoned downed the quarantine hotels were.
Nobody was allowed to leave their room except for a medical emergency.
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