Thanks. I actually called SA check and was transferred to their technical unit.
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Probably the biggest thing to come out of it is still a 72hr quarantine for international travellersSA press con at 10.30 re date for 90% dd 12+. We will be there by end of year.
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That’s consistent with other states though. Presume a 2 year old with vaxxed parents is ok for 72 hours too?
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Not sure but he did also state that restrictions could be completely removed if they see good data. Looks like the 72hr pre arrival and then arrival tests are here to stay for some time though
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GG only just extended the Commissioners powers for another 28 days so we are stuck with the two of them for a little longer yet
He is having less and less input as each day passes thankfullyWhat an awful early Christmas present for SA
He? I thought it was Prof Spurrier holding it all back.
Whilst they do generally go with her recommendations it’s Stevens that has the final say. Thankfully he has sided with Marshall on a few recent issues otherwise we may have been back in lockdown again
At some point that will occur. At this point COVID ain't nothing new. Those of us who are high risk know to take extra precautions. At the same time, we've got vaccines to prevent severe illness and a number of excellent treatments that make the prospect of hospitalization a very remote possibility indeed.
Will more people die from COVID in Australia? That's a certainty. What matters is what we've done to minimize that risk. Remember, even during the harsh lockdowns of Melbourne and Sydney there was still death, sometimes in the double digits every day. At the end of the day it's all a balance between risk and recovering from the economic, social and other harm caused by these lockdowns. Remember, many Australians die each and every year from the flu and we don't lock the country down when that happens.
The big wildcard has always been a crazy variant that arrives. Hopefully we don't encounter that, or we get a vaccine that puts us ahead of the threat. The science so far seems to suggest that new variants will favour greater spread over increased severity, particularly if future variants are based off of Omicron. If this trend continues we may be in the very fortunate situation where future variants render nothing more than sniffles for most, which is the case for many garden variety rhinoviruses.
I've flown a number of times now to Melbourne and there is no vaccination check either. The real risk of having an unvaccinated person on the flight is they end up getting really sick and costing the health care service in the state they're travelling to money. The vaccines do help slow transmission but it's a drop in the bucket compared to how infectious Delta and this new Omicron variant are.
Hopefully the border officers were friendly. Did they ask you where you were coming from? Did you need to show your passport and Queensland visa?
Try billions! New South Wales has easily spent billions on testing, track and trace, and still can't get it right. Meanwhile UPS can track and trace a parcel several continents over for next to nothing and have been doing it for many decades now. Tells you something about the efficiency of government, eh?!
In fairness though, I suspect there are many South Australians and Queenslanders who are excited to travel to mystical Western Australia. They've got their passports renewed, applied for their Visa and are willing to quarantine for 2 weeks.
