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'No special treatment' - Australia rebuffs tennis stars' quarantine complaints

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@ kryonstavic

My concern with you is that you cherry pick which governments you criticise. Had this been a liberal government in Victoria I doubt we'd here boo from you. As for people wanting to come home the plane I came back on in April was almost empty. Anybody saying they can't get back now should have left earlier when warnings were given.

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At the end of the day you really can’t criticise what the various states in Australia did . They still have extremely low infections and deaths compared to other western countries . Sure there have been issues but those have been dealt with way better then other countries.

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They knew the rules, and can't complain. Really they get paid an awrsom amount of money to play a game if hitting a ball is.....well. 

According to a TV breakfast host's comment this morning players lose in the first round gets paid $90,000 (did not say whether it is USD or AUD but I think it is AUD). I do not know tennis enough to say if it is a big amount or not.

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StarbucksToday  06:12 pm JST

@ kryonstavic 

I wouldn't say NSW has done any better a job what with the Ruby Princess and the current situation with an American air crew not being subject to the same restrictions as everyone else.

The relatives of 800-odd people who died in Victoria might disagree with you.

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@ kryonstavic

I wouldn't say NSW has done any better a job what with the Ruby Princess and the current situation with an American air crew not being subject to the same restrictions as everyone else.

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Big Yen, if that were the case, why was it that Victoria had 800-odd out of the 900-odd deaths, whereas the death toll in the other states has been tiny? Your defence of Andrews doesn't support the facts. The other states did not lock down even close to the extent Victoria did, and again, had far better results. Andrews has continuously lied and obfuscated about the quarantine debacle that's resulted in senior Victorian public servants resigning, plus the health minister herself, claiming that Andrews basically threw her under the bus to save his own skin. You can't lay the blame with the Federal Government when it's only Victoria that's had such poor results.

I wouldn't have a problem with the tennis players and officials coming in if he allowed Victorians to come home.The double standards are disgraceful, but to be expected from Andrews.

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Tokyo-EngrToday  12:47 pm JST

Wow

Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews smashed back that request, saying authorities would not bend strict health rules any further for the players.

"There's no special treatment here. Because the virus doesn't treat you specially, so neither do we," he said.

I absolutely cannot come up with a comment or response better than that. Whether one is for or against lockdowns I have to commend Premier Andrews for showing the leadership and courage to make such an unwavering and unapologetic (and correct) statement.

Nothing is vague about what he said.

Andrews' leadership is highly suspect. As premier of Victoria he spent a sizeable chunk of last year passing off the blame to others for the quarantine debacle, and has now allowed athletes and officials in from case hotspots overseas while preventing Victorians from getting back to their own homes from interstate. He's directly contracted himself in that quote by giving special treatment to the tennis people.

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That is my question too...how is that possible if EVERYONE needs a negative test to get on the plane.

It should be easy to understand, people are infected but not yet have virus in quantities enough to be detected, after a time the virus titers increase and they can notice their infection. That is why even when negative they must be kept in isolation for at least two weeks, because this possibility is taken into account.

Obviously the people that turned out positive were not isolated before boarding the airplane, got infected (but not detected on the pre-flight test) and made every other passenger a close contact.

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Whooo there is a ball....I hit that, I'm so special.

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''That is my question too...how is that possible if EVERYONE needs a negative test to get on the plane.''

Hey Monty, I've seen you ask this kind of question earlier too.

You can have the virus and test negative in the initial incubation period. Follow up tests will then reveal the true result. This has been known since last April, I'm surprised it's news to you.

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harry:

There is only one good reason to allow them out of quarantine and it involves a journey to the airport.

Or to intensive care!

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@Ian

3 of 15 flights had infected passengers

That is my question too...how is that possible if EVERYONE needs a negative test to get on the plane.

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3 of 15flghts had infected passengers, and those must have been on very strict anticovid routines/measures before the flights, its really hard to prevent transmission

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They knew the rules, and can't complain. Really they get paid an awrsom amount of money to play a game if hitting a ball is.....well. Good for them. But at the moment and thankfully medical staff are the stars albeit not getting anything like the compensation they should or could get. Now if they were adept at hitting a ball?

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There is only one good reason to allow them out of quarantine and it involves a journey to the airport.

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Stupid idea to hold an international sporting event in times of Global pandemic.

Dumb sponsor companies should have just used advertising budget to allow the Players and staff to receive a payment (it is their job after all), creating goodwill.

Now they just look selfish, and silly.

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Wow

Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews smashed back that request, saying authorities would not bend strict health rules any further for the players.

"There's no special treatment here. Because the virus doesn't treat you specially, so neither do we," he said.

I absolutely cannot come up with a comment or response better than that. Whether one is for or against lockdowns I have to commend Premier Andrews for showing the leadership and courage to make such an unwavering and unapologetic (and correct) statement.

Nothing is vague about what he said.

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I read that the athletes were promised a 5 hour per day training session and only complained when that was taken away.

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You can understand why Djokovic is the least popular of the big 3 - he really has a self entitlement problem.

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Wow... contrast this with Japan telling everyone it's voluntary, then saying they had no idea it would spread and were caught off guard. Good on them for sticking to their guns.

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