Australian state border restrictions

[Lynda2475]

Just because you are vaccinated, it doesnt mean you cant contract and pass on the virus.

True but it greatly reduces it, and we should be doing a local trial to prove the effect.

Makes sense to be doing local trial of vaccinated peoples interstate movements even before home quarantine for international arrivals.

Being able to have travel privileges both domestic and international will be a big incentive to vaccine uptake.

BTW the woman who brought Covid from Bondi to WA was not fully vaccinated, she had only had 1 dose of AZ. To be fully vaccinated you have to wait 2 weeks from second dose.

 

[mviy]

A question about allowing fully vaccinated to travel is whether it would encourage people to bring forward their second AZ dose even if not in a hotspot and whether that is a good thing.

 

[Must...Fly!]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1415186784959401984

VIC now "low risk" according to WA.

 

[jrfsp]

WA just re-classified VIC as low risk.....lasted less than a week.

Would expect SA to follow suit ......

 

[jase05]

WA just re-classified VIC as low risk.....lasted less than a week.

Would expect SA to follow suit ......

And Geelong football club has just landed in Perth and will be allowed to still play tomorrow night

 

[There'sOnlyOneJimmy]

And Geelong football club has just landed in Perth and will be allowed to still play tomorrow night

Not that I’m biased at all... unless the person in question had some very special access privileges, he would have been at least 50 mtr from all GFC personnel at all times. So I don’t think that there’s any tangible risk of transmission by allowing GFC to travel.
Whether the Bread & Circuses of the AFL should be allowed to continue is a different debate, but as long as they have the social/political licence to play, then in my opinion allowing GFC to play in Perth is entirely consistent (Keeping in mind that they all live in a bubble of sorts anyway).

 

[jakeseven7]

Not that I’m biased at all... unless the person in question had some very special access privileges, he would have been at least 50 mtr from all GFC personnel at all times. So I don’t think that there’s any tangible risk of transmission by allowing GFC to travel.
Whether the Bread & Circuses of the AFL should be allowed to continue is a different debate, but as long as they have the social/political licence to play, then in my opinion allowing GFC to play in Perth is entirely consistent (Keeping in mind that they all live in a bubble of sorts anyway).

Aren't we all used to the made up on the go double standards by now?

 

[Happy Dude]

I read today of a WA woman who flew to NSW recently to attend her daughter who was having an emergency C section. She now can't return to WA to return to her 11 year old son whom she left in the care of her elderly parent.

Last year, I went to QLD to be with my dying mother and couldn't get back in to the ACT to be with my wife as she underwent breast cancer operations and treatment. The part of QLD I was in and the ACT were "covid free" but nothing could be done. Nothing about these border closures is fair and often seem just plain 'mean'. She'll just have to play it as it lays, like the rest of us.

 

[Pushka]

Last year, I went to QLD to be with my dying mother and couldn't get back in to the ACT to be with my wife as she underwent breast cancer operations and treatment. The part of QLD I was in and the ACT were "covid free" but nothing could be done. Nothing about these border closures is fair and often seem just plain 'mean'. She'll just have to play it as it lays, like the rest of us.

Yes, there are so many sad stories. I hope your wife is doing well.

The thought of a mother and child being separated must surely come on some kind of radar for alternative arrangements.

 

[jb747]

So, when it becomes rife in all of the states, will they close the borders to each other?

 

[I love to travel]

So, when it becomes rife in all of the states, will they close the borders to each other?

Let's review that comment in a week Seriously this could soon be affecting multiple states so we might be back to April 2020

 

[jase05]

Not that I’m biased at all... unless the person in question had some very special access privileges, he would have been at least 50 mtr from all GFC personnel at all times. So I don’t think that there’s any tangible risk of transmission by allowing GFC to travel.
Whether the Bread & Circuses of the AFL should be allowed to continue is a different debate, but as long as they have the social/political licence to play, then in my opinion allowing GFC to play in Perth is entirely consistent (Keeping in mind that they all live in a bubble of sorts anyway).

Apart from the fact one of the boundary umpires from Carlton v Geelong lives in the locked down apartments in Melbourne

 

[Happy Dude]

The thought of a mother and child being separated must surely come on some kind of radar for alternative arrangements.

Perhaps, but I am regularly astonished by the many reports of young infants that have been left in foreign countries with elderly grandparents. This doesn't seem that bad by comparison. In fact, isn't the alternative arrangements in this case just being extended? Not by the WA woman's choice or preference appears to be the issue.

 

[jrfsp]

Dubbo on the latest list of venue of concerns....i think QLD will close tomorrow

https://twitter.com/x/status/1415215950073237504

 

[There'sOnlyOneJimmy]

Apart from the fact one of the boundary umpires from Carlton v Geelong lives in the locked down apartments in Melbourne

that changes things a bit...

 

[nutwood]

So, when it becomes rife in all of the states, will they close the borders to each other?

To be honest, that might be the best outcome. Then they can all sit down, take a deep breath and realise we are all in this together. Appears to be the only hope we have of getting a national approach to the issue.

 

[mviy]

Weighing up what to do about my trip from MEL to HBA tomorrow. Still hoping it can go ahead. Looks like a late night for me waiting to hear if anything is announced.

 

[Pushka]

Perhaps, but I am regularly astonished by the many reports of young infants that have been left in foreign countries with elderly grandparents. This doesn't seem that bad by comparison. In fact, isn't the alternative arrangements in this case just being extended? Not by the WA woman's choice or preference appears to be the issue.

Yes agree, but leaving the grandchildren with grandparents is quite common in some subcontinent countries. I know personally of a couple of families where this is done and considered appropriate.

I think it's the unknown - how long will they be apart that is distressing for all parties. There's no date in sight. And, it's WA although other states do similar.

 

[DC3]

… Question is will Queensland follow? I'm due to fly to Brisbane in the morning.

The hint has been there for several days now. Is anyone taking any notice?

 

[jrfsp]

Testing requirements now imposed for those arriving into SA from VIC