Political blame-shifting looks to be crowding out common sense in our management of Covid-19.
Rather than seeking to build bespoke Commonwealth owned quarantine facilities – with long construction lags and inefficient resource allocation – we should consider the Commonwealth taking over (by lease or purchase) hotels & apartment hotels across the country and managing these using defence personnel. These facilities should have the air management and conditioning systems upgraded to minimise airborne virus spread and structures that allow sound isolation practices.
This should give us first-rate quarantine practices across the nation and cut some of the state/commonwealth blame game.
Good idea! Now included as point 9 on the Positive Pandemic Plan. Note that dates in the plan are now omitted (following your advice) so the focus is on the points rather than the dates.
https://www.ideaspies.com/posts/a-positive-pandemic-plan-ppp
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Jonathan Chrimes