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No, it wouldn't. The government has placed a (mostly) hard limit of 3000 people per week entering per day. An arrival tax might raise revenue but it doesn't gua
by octodog 6y ago
No, it wouldn't. The government has placed a (mostly) hard limit of 3000 people per week entering per day. An arrival tax might raise revenue but it doesn't guaranteed the policy goal - 3000 people a week.
Now, why the Federal Government isn't using its powers to set up quarantine centres on Christmas Island and other appropriate locations is a better question to be asking. They were pretty happy to do it at the beginning of the pandemic when they were quarantining people coming from China.
- chinathrow 6y agoI honestly don't understand the OZ approach as of today. We have immediate family there (sister in law) and are unable to visit. Heck we even would go to quarantine for 14 days in order to see them afterwards for a couple of weeks and/or some longer travels. The current situation where ~25'000 Australians are still unable to get back home makes no sense to me. Even leaving Australia for personal travel is not really possible at this time due to the restrictions in place.
- fowl2 6y agoThey've determined that the risk of quarantine scales with the quantity of people going through it. Given the entirety of the current outbreak has been traced back to quarantine failures, this is somewhat understandable.
- donavanm 6y agoIm in Sydney. During the peak in Q1-Q2 ~60% of infections were travelers arriving from overseas. We're currently at 3-10 infections per day, with about 50-75% of those continuing to be overseas travelers. As you noted both quarantine and testing is imperfect. I have no desire to open the doors and have a repeat of Iceland or Victoria writ large. Yes, I'm disappointed at not seeing overseas friends and family for (at least) the next year or two. But that seems like a relatively small price to pay for the relative quiet, healthy, functioning society here.
- piceas 6y agoAs long as my family are able to stay healthy sure. Possibly having wait until critical illness or death before I am able to visit and help with an exemption on compassionate grounds does not reflect a healthy and functioning society in my opinion. It might be quiet though.
- donavanm 6y agoIm over here looking at states where I have family and your same dilemma. I suspect it's relative in these times, but Im thankful I ended up on this side of the pond.
- TomSwirly 6y agoYes, this is the libertarian viewpoint. In the rest of the world, we think that in a healthy society, we as individuals sometimes have to sacrifice for the greater good of everyone. In the United States, self-sacrifice is only good if you die killing others in the "service" of your country. The rest of us see ideas like quarantine not as the sign of a unhealthy and dysfunctional society but proof that we can work together to beat even a fearsome, non-human enemy like a pandemic. And now these two contrasting ideas are being tested by COVID-19. We'll see in the end whose idea works better - your individualistic views, or our cooperative ones.
- chinathrow 6y agoWhat current outbreak are you referring to? E.g. there is no outbreak in that sense e.g. in Western Australia (Perth).
- chrisseaton 6y ago> We have immediate family there (sister in law) and are unable to visit. Visiting people shouldn't be anyone's priority, right now! Of course they're denying such an optional activity.
- cwhiz 6y agoWhat a dystopia. And you seem to actively want it. Disturbing.
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- chrisseaton 6y agoI didn’t say I wanted it. I didn’t express any opinion. I said it was obvious why they’re doing it.
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- TomSwirly 6y ago"You want to take basic medical precautions against a pandemic! That disturbs me." Why?! Why does that disturb you? What disturbs the rest of us is watching America refusing to believe in basic medical facts!@
- chinathrow 6y agoWhy should visiting after 14days of quarantine be an issue?
- chrisseaton 6y agoIs the quarantine when you get there? Doesn’t that put at risk: - everyone working at the airport and on the flight - everyone else on the flight over - people in the hospital if you get sick while quarantining And that’s even if people are obeying the quarantine. Which they often don’t. All that for a social visit? Why?