i mean its just ALP doing the same racist dog whistling the Libs did when they were in charge so no I don't see it as being actually beneficial
you really can't keep it out
Nothing special about the Chinese but their government and situation is unique, rampant infections combined with a government refusing to share data or outright lying. Don't think flights from any other country have been arriving overseas with 50% or more testing positive.
Utter rubbish, this is people seeing racism because it suits their agenda of being outraged or because they economically benefit from keeping the borders open.
100% accurate, Xi requires a neg test for arrivals but apparently it is racist for other countries to do the same.....
The scale of the outbreak and Xis lies is becoming more apparent. Even the WHO leadership who are normally too scared to comment on Xi are calling out Xi for his recalcitrance in providing honest information.
Great move, hopefully Albo hesitating these few days won't cost too many lives.
Australian government announces COVID-19 testing requirements for travellers from China
Australia is to introduce COVID-19 test requirements for arrivals from China — after skyrocketing COVID-19 case numbers — joining a range of other countries, including the United Kingdom, the United States and France.www.abc.net.au
Very much against this. If the roles were reversed a Victorian as of today would need to get a doctor's referral to get a PCR test to visit China.
Might have been better following the French lead of random testing of arrivals to scan for variants.
This is why I'm against this rule against China. Personally, I'm not in favour of any covid rules now, omicron is too hard to contain and things that sound simple like public mask mandates haven't prevented mass covid outbreaks anywhere where they've been in place. Vaccines are freely available and antiviral medicine is too for those at most risk, that's the best we can do now. There'd be mass revolt if more stringent rules were brought in. And if we're doing this test requirement just for China then it does nothing but appease the xenophobes and the covid neurotics. If there's somehow a more dangerous variant coming out of China then we're just buying a few days to act at best and at worst we've undone the recent work the government did in repairing our relationship with them.
Very good point. At least some measures should be back, it isn't really a burden to wear masks in airports, public tpt etc
No but it will slow it down and allow for the new variants that will arise in such a large population to be detected and assessed.
Our news coverage is crap. India, South Korea, Japan and Taiwan all went early having learnt from last time and understanding the risks due to SARS, COVID etc
Theoretically concerns about China specific variants (given minimal travel to and from there in last 2.5 years) though myself I think these are over exaggerated
If it is being done for racist resosns, why have Japan, South Korea, India and Taiwan done it and why does China require it themselves?
