Posted on 02/01/2021 5:57:43 PM PST by CheshireTheCat
About 2 million Australians begun their first full day of a strict coronavirus lockdown on Monday following the discovery of one case in the community in Perth, capital of Western Australia state, but no new cases have since been found.
Authorities ordered a five-day lockdown of Perth after a security guard at a hotel used to quarantine people returning from overseas was found to have contracted the virus.
The state government said 66 people have been deemed close contacts of the unidentified guard and none of those already tested were infected.
"In total 13 close contacts have now tested negative and of those 11 high-risk contacts have been moved into hotel quarantine as an extra precaution," Western Australia state Premier Mark McGowan told reporters in Perth.
Tests on the rest of the close contacts were expected to be completed on Monday, McGowan said.
Australia has managed to largely contain its novel coronavirus epidemic - limiting cases to nearly 29,000 and deaths to 909 - with the sort of decisive action seen in Perth, and tight border controls....
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Utter tyranny.
Now, are you sure you’ve locked down enough people over this case, Oz?
That’s almost 10% of the entire country.
Sounds like they took a page from NewScum.
They’re a penal colony. They should be used to lockdowns... and head counts.
Oh, no! We can't have that! That would be racist!
Perth has direct flights from London to Perth (& reverse) that have been cranked up again … some of the longest flights in commercial aviation. Only Singapore to NYC (JFK) at 17.5 hours on average is longer. Since the British strain of Covid-19 is the current ‘bad guy’ maybe Perth health officials are not being overly cautious.
I haven’t met one single person in my area who believes there is a pandemic. The majority of the public knows it’s a scam, and has known that from the very beginning. We are also aware that the State Governors are using this nanny tyranny to increase their voter base, believing that the lie they are looking after us resonates with the public.
We shall see at the next election, won’t we?
Well, that is, as long as the left doesn’t learn your dirty tricks from US voter-fraud.
Exactly. Australia was historically, a penal colony. They should be used to being locked down and up lol. They’re not even rioting like their forefathers in the UK. Such docile creatures.
From January 1788, when the First Fleet of convicts arrived at Botany Bay, to the end of convict transportation 80 years later, over 160,000 convicts were transported to Australia.
Convicts | National Library of Australia
www.nla.gov.au/research-guides/convicts
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The number of convicts transported to North America is not verified - John Dunmore Lang has estimated 50,000, and Thomas Keneally has proposed 120,000. Maryland received a larger felon quota than any other province. Many prisoners were taken in battle from Ireland or Scotland and sold into indentured servitude, usually for a number of years.
Penal transportation - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_transportation
One movie about a guy with a knife and they think they’re special. Jeesh
I ran into an Austrian today. He said that there’s no way he wanted to travel home. Two weeks of self quarantine at a hotel isn’t worth it.
BTW. I met him at the local gun shop. He was purchasing a Springfield Armory. 40 cal.
I think he likes it here.
Australian. Darn auto fill.
Same as our Gov. Inslee shutting down a state of seven and a half million people over the deaths of fifteen hundred people; over two thousand businesses closed, not coming back.
Please disregard #17
bwahaha thanks for the laugh
It is hysteria and lunacy.
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