Rogespeed, I think the timing before a school holiday is just coincidental. In fact, it mainly hit Melbourne a few weeks back, before the school holidays. It did affect the Queen's birthday long weekend though.
Of course, at holiday time you generally have more people moving around but all this seems to have hit just before a lot of people were due to leave. You do get some who start a week earlier than holidays (because it is cheaper) but even a week back, there were signs things might not be good.
What it is doing though is costing a lot of businesses millions of dollars and after last year, they don't need more of that.
The thing that has surprised me is how many people in what I would call higher risk occupations have not been vaccinated. Let's look at it-flight crew, people working with or around flight crew and passengers, hospital and aged care workers.
All that should have been sorted a few months ago.
Yes, we need dedicated quarantine facilities, the hotels in use were never built for this purpose.
But we also need to be a bit sensible and consider just how many people should be let into Australia, full stop. Especially unvaccinated people.
I'm not saying anyone 'has to' be vaccinated, it's a choice people can make for themselves but if they aren't prepared to do it then I don't see why we have to feel under pressure to let them in.
If it is to be 'reunited with family', we can let their family fly out to stay with them for the duration. Lots of other countries don't have any restrictions. As long as they realise they won't get back in any time soon.
I realise there are sacrifices to be made and some people won't get what they want this way but I don't see why Australians living here should be the ones who always have to make the sacrifices eg with business, personal lives etc
But we also need to step up our vaccination program here, to get about 70-80% of adults vaccinated.
