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bookielover
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Hands up! Whose got a mask?
I have to say, on the basis of going through hell here in Victoria because of our goose of a Premier, who failed us by employing people who had absolutely no idea what they were doing, to look after our hotel quarantine and we had 800 needless deaths as a result, that it gives me no satisfaction that Perth people are going through a 5 day lock down due to a similar circumstance.
What this shows you is that this can happen in any State at any time.
My boss, i.e. the missus and I were due to come to Perth on Friday February 5. We cancelled when McGowan decided that even though Victoria hadn't had a case, at that stage for 14 days running, it's now 25, that we would have had to spend two weeks of our three and a half week holiday locked up in our hotel in quarantine.
So we cancelled the trip. That meant, no $2,500 for the hotel, no $1,100 for Bayswater car rental, no money for cafes restaurants, entertainment etc. Then he changes the rules and says that from February 5 at 12.01 AM you can come from Victoria, and Queensland, for that matter, and don't need to quarantine.
We had already decided that we would come to Perth, God and health, willing, in November. I'd like to be there for the last two weeks in November for the two big meetings, and we were given a two year credit from qantas on our tickets, so we weren't worried about the change.
Now it turns out that the lock down doesn't finish until 5.00 pm on Friday, so we would have had to change our flights because we were due in at 12.00 p.m. That would have been a nice mess.
This is why your tourism has lost $275 million over the last 10 months because no one has come into the State in that time. As some who flew in from Victoria about a month ago found out, your bloke, like ours, closes the border if someone sneezes. Some arrived, got off the plane and had to get a flight to go straight back.
We then decided we'd drive over to Adelaide and spend a couple of weeks there, so we are going over on Friday. I'm looking forward to Morphetville on Saturday. There are no guarantees that our holiday won't be incident free, but at least we can get in the car and drive back home. I hope!!
All I can do is to wish you all well over there, and hope they get on top of things ASAP. This will probably affect race meetings, etc. but the main thing is to reign it in and hope it hasn't spread.
So, on behalf of my wife who absolutely loves Perth and if not for the fact that she would miss the grand kids too much if we lived there, not the kids mind you, would move there in a heart beat, we hope you stay safe and healthy, and wish you all the best.
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The individual seemingly did all the right things (checked in everywhere, got tested etc etc) and still unfortunately returned a positive result.
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You do understand the difference between State and Local governments right? Division of powers ring a bell?
Ignorance is golden I suppose.
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