seanpodge
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The hotels around Australia were mostly empty so I am hoping the Federal Government is getting a good deal. Christmas Island would be expensive per person compared with 5 star, 4 star , 3 star, 2 star hotels.
Latecomers from Bali who went there after the Government said don’t go there could get tentland.
The other issue with Christmas Island (which is why the government should not have sent the people from Wuhan there) is that it has very rudimentary medical facilities to the point that pregnant women have to fly to Perth at 8 months to give birth. If any of those passengers had COVID-19, they would have in all likely hood been transported to the mainland to get treatment in an appropriate hospital at both great expense and risk to flight crew.
It's hard not to be a bit cynical about the choice of Christmas Island when it's not on offer now and the government took so long to block arrivals from the US and other countries that the the source of many cases in Australia.