"This is before we get in to the whole topic of quarantine “hotels” and the force with which people were escorted to them and the conditions there" The truly d

"This is before we get in to the whole topic of quarantine “hotels” and the force with which people were escorted to them and the conditions there" The truly disgraceful aspect of all this is that Australia had a proper quarantine system in place and it abandoned it. When I was a kid, everyone knew of Australia's quarantine system and its past history as it was so public. Anyone who'd traveled on Sydney Harbour back then would have seen Sydney's quarantine station (I used to pass it every time I went to the beach): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Head_Quarantine_Station https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Head_Quarantine_Station The fact is Australia was unprepared for COVID because of government funding cutbacks and other political BS. The country has no one else to blame except itself. BTW, this was the ideal site of a quarantine station, it was easily accessible (near all incoming shipping, etc.) and yet it was properly isolated geographically from the rest of Sydney (see aerial photo in wiki link), thus people who were quarantined there would not have been able to infect others as they have done in the idiotic 'hotel system' that now exists.