19 July in WA
WA to shut out NSW travellers with hard border closure extension
Playing Russian roulette wrt covid19 safety of the Perth and SW WA community .
West Coast overcame the Fremantle Dockers and 30,000 opposing fans to claim the 51st Western Derby with a 30-point win at Perth Stadium.
<< Stadium was 50% capacity >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-19/kennedy-kills-off-dockers-chances-as-eagles-win-western-derby/12471252
This comes less than a week after the other game ( mentioned in an earlier ) post played at the same stadium with a slightly smaller crowd of supporters in the stands.
IMO the AFL , the TV networks, and the WA state govt are playing Russian roulette with the WA population , IMO there should have been an enforced pause between the 1st mega crowd and this mega crowd of at least 2 weeks to assess if the first mega crowd caused any covid19 clusters in WA.
Only takes one or two asymptomatic or presymptomatic interstate fans ( maybe a long haul road or rail truck or train driver , or an interstate airfreight aircrew ) at the game and there will have community spread covid19 , almost impossible to trace back to the spreaders because of the large number of fans at the game and those they had contact with on the way , at the game , one the way back home ( lots will have used mass public transport to get there ) , and you then risk being in the same boat as NSW or even Victoria
WA to shut out NSW travellers with hard border closure extension
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/wa-to-shut-out-nsw-travellers-with-hard-border-closure-extension/ar-BB16VA3S?ocid=msedgntpWestern Australia is set to shut out travellers from New South Wales in an extension of its hard border closure as part of COVID-19 restrictions.
From midnight, the state will place the same restrictions on NSW residents that currently apply to people from Victoria.
Those measures include anyone who has been in NSW or Victoria within the last 14 days not being allowed into WA unless they meet strict exemption requirements.
Exemptions are being handed out for some government officials, military personnel, parliamentary staff, freight workers, flight crew and transiting aircraft passengers.
Anyone who arrives from NSW will also need to self-isolate in a hotel at their own expense for a fortnight and undergo a virus test on the eleventh day of their time in WA.
Returned Western Australians Nic and Skye Aloi, who have four children aged between four and 11, are one of the families forced to pay almost $7000 to quarantine at Perth's Novotel Hotel.The family of six are staying in two rooms – because, by the time they had arrived at Perth Airport yesterday from Victoria, the quarantine changes had been put in place by the state government.
"It wasn't until we got to the front of the line that we were told we were going into a hotel," Mr Aloi told 9News.
The family had travelled across the country to bury Ms Aloi's mother, who died within weeks of a cancer diagnosis."(We) just wanted to go home, get home, get the kids into some normality. The fact is they've just lost their grandmother… So they've got to deal with that as well," the couple said.
They say they understand why Premier Mark McGowan has had to take a tough stance against Victoria and NSW, given the recent coronavirus outbreaks in each state, but hope their case can be re-examined.
The move will come after WA reported no new cases overnight, which keeps the number of active coronavirus sufferers at 24 (all imported) and the total of cases in the state at 651.
Playing Russian roulette wrt covid19 safety of the Perth and SW WA community .
West Coast overcame the Fremantle Dockers and 30,000 opposing fans to claim the 51st Western Derby with a 30-point win at Perth Stadium.
<< Stadium was 50% capacity >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-19/kennedy-kills-off-dockers-chances-as-eagles-win-western-derby/12471252
This comes less than a week after the other game ( mentioned in an earlier ) post played at the same stadium with a slightly smaller crowd of supporters in the stands.
IMO the AFL , the TV networks, and the WA state govt are playing Russian roulette with the WA population , IMO there should have been an enforced pause between the 1st mega crowd and this mega crowd of at least 2 weeks to assess if the first mega crowd caused any covid19 clusters in WA.
Only takes one or two asymptomatic or presymptomatic interstate fans ( maybe a long haul road or rail truck or train driver , or an interstate airfreight aircrew ) at the game and there will have community spread covid19 , almost impossible to trace back to the spreaders because of the large number of fans at the game and those they had contact with on the way , at the game , one the way back home ( lots will have used mass public transport to get there ) , and you then risk being in the same boat as NSW or even Victoria