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Enforcing quarantine during a pandemic is not xenophobia. That there's limited quarantine facilities available is hardly unique to Australia or NZ - nobody has
by paranoidrobot 5y ago
Enforcing quarantine during a pandemic is not xenophobia.
That there's limited quarantine facilities available is hardly unique to Australia or NZ - nobody has quarantine facilities standing by to facilitate quarantine of unlimited inbound travellers.
> Australia has their army deployed to enforce a lockdown
This is factually incorrect. The ADF isn't enforcing a lockdown.
Lockdowns are being directed and enforced by state authorities.
This is more than being semantically inaccurate, it's just wrong.
The ADF personnel involved are unarmed, and hold no powers. They cannot issue directives or enforce any laws any more than any other person could do so.
They were deployed upon the direct request of police and emergency service authorities to help in logistics and to help with police patrols.
They were also only deployed in limited areas.
This is pretty standard stuff around the world where during times of crisis, civilian authorities request the support of the military.
- sonthonax 5y agoIt’s rationalised xenophobia. And quite a common rationalisation of the outside world being unclean or diseased. Why do you think unconnected tribes kill those who approach them? One reason is that it’s still in their cultural memory that the tribes who associated with the outside world died of influenza. I know the ADF are auxiliaries, but they’re still there because the police is out in force. In a few weeks Australia will have vaccinated most of its populace, but it’s genuinely an open question if they’ll stop their lock downs.