Talking to the converted here. Like I said, SA Covid free for ages, go out to birthday dinner or pop into a winery for a tasting etc and win 2 weeks in a med hotel as the prize. I was surprised the media didn’t go into uproar. Likely it was so unexpected it didn’t register with them.
I said to someone at work yesterday, it would be a fun conversation if someone called me and demanded I moved to a medi-hotel.
And my argument would probably end something like -"So you want me to catch covid."
The interesting thing if that I am in a large apartment tower in Melbourne. So we already know that the Department of Health has a very very low tolerance for keeping positives at home in apartment buildings or indeed putting the entire building in to quarantine without any warning.
MrP's comment when I told him. Be an interesting court case if you became very ill and had permanent complications or.....
I live in one in SA and we have had this discussion very recently.
I presume they are not adding to the insult by charging you for the privilege.
If it was me, and it could be anyone - we dined there a few months ago - they could take me to court for payment. But I don't think so.
This I most certainly agree with (at least since WW2 time), and the unfortunate thing (to me) is that it doesn't seem to be shifting toward the better either.
Unfortunately SA has the track record
decided he didn't have to do that. Then he went out and about Adelaide. And here we are.
www.abc.net.au
Sorry to have to add a record number not confirmed as fully isolating.
I thought he was from Argentina. Has there been any further development as to his status? I assume he must a resident or a citizen as otherwise wouldn't the SA Government be blaming Border Force for granting an exemption by now?Well yes but this outbreak was caused by a lapse in judgement from SA Health in the first place..
Patient zero was an elderly man from Brazil who was brought to SA on compassionate grounds as he was ill. He spent a few days in Sydney quarantine then was moved to RPA after a fall, where he spent the next 10 days. Pretty much everyone else has had to spend another period of self isolate and testing in SA when there are hotspots interstate, which there was in NSW at the time. And if bad enough, not even residents can return home. SA Health in their wisdom
My best guess is that the person is possibly a 'last relative overseas' immigration status, so is possibly in the process of getting PR. In the scheme of the mishandling of a covid-possible case, possibly an irrelevant fact.
I'd hope that the Feds aren't giving ANY money for Brisbane's Olympics. Total waste.
Why not put the entire state in to one? Problem solved.
I think it's up to the State to assess compassionate entry? Or maybe SA Health doesn't point fingers at the Feds. Let's say South America then
checked and yes, Argentina. Never been to South America and it shows . But if he was granted compassionate grounds (and he was) then likely he wasn't PR or citizen or he could simply have come back without permission needed.
