This is just over-reactive nonsense, bordering on the dystopian.  But the problem is that it plays to a particular domestic audience.  More's the pity for those of us whose lives aren't centered on the isolated bliss of the Australian suburbs.

I don't follow your logic patrickk. Texas is not comparable because the US has spiralled out of control due to total ineptitude on the part of Trump. Leicester is in a localised lock down due to a spike in cases much in the same way as those Melbourne suburbs. In neither case have the health serv...

That is an unrealistic goal. Australia is currently just putting off the inevitable. The flare up in Victoria is perfectly manageable and had not overrun the health service. This disease needs to be managed and we now know so much more about it than we did 3 months ago that it can be managed with...

@thefreqflyer I wasn't advocating mandatory vaccines, merely stating that until there is a vaccine and it is administered widely, there can't be certainty that Covid is eliminated. And even then, it's likely that you'd need to get the vaccination annually, like with the flu. I also agree with RBC...

Chapter and verse. Unfortunately, lots of Australians revel in isolationism, in the idea of safety and protection from the outside, that bad things only happen in that mysterious and forbidding "overseas". The reaction to Covid plays perfectly into that narrative.