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Fact checked myself and I was m wrong in my memory of what the campus where for. Looks like it a forced quarantine for those infected or believed to be exposed,

• Jedd 3y ago
  All good, and thank you for the follow-up. I had friends that tried to get back from the UK to here around that time, and the delays were awful (several months) though somewhat complicated by immigration for one, rather than outright citizen return for both. As it happens they spent two weeks in that same center, before being allowed to proceed back to the southern states. From the outside looking in, it felt like a small price to pay. Most of our escapes through 2020 and early 2021 were due to poor process control at airports I think that AU and NZ citizens were pretty happy, for the most part, with the isolation & controls --> good health outcomes, so the two week quarantine was doubtless uncomfortable for many, but these exceptional cases of some tiny number of sociopaths trying to selfishly circumvent due process were so rare that they were necessarily notable, especially amongst the international press. BBC was probably pretty even-handed, but certainly some more reactionary media outlets (you know who I mean) were keen to try to beat-up the situation into something it was not.