3 ms·
Up until now you had no choice, when returning to Australia you had to pay to stay in a 2 week quarantine hotel. Creating an alternative solution for home quar
by shkkmo 5y ago
Up until now you had no choice, when returning to Australia you had to pay to stay in a 2 week quarantine hotel.
Creating an alternative solution for home quarantine gives people more options.
You could argue that there was a better way to implement home quarantine. You could argue that the 2 week quarantine is goverment overreach. You could even argue that this option helps the government keep the 2 week quarantine in place longer by tempering its severity.
I don't see those sorts of rational arguments. I see a bunch of people making an irrational or uninformed argument that this extends government overreach by making the 2 week quarantine rule more severe.
- smylie 5y agoI don't think you can argue with this subset of americans on this. I tried when this came up on hacker news last week, and they were adamant this was worse that going into a hotel, and that australians citizens were sleep walking into a totalitarian state for allowing this to happen. (And also that they only had second amendment rights like the USA this would never be allowed to happen). It was a bit of a wake up call actually - the level of conversation was starting to feel more like reddit than what I'd always (until now i guess) expected from hacker news.