'We can't be a hermit nation': Infectious disease expert backs select travel bubbles

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Australia will become a 'hermit nation' unless it accepts the additional COVID-19 risks with setting up travel bubbles with Singapore, South Korea, Japan and New Zealand, a leading infectious disease expert warns | jamesmassola

Australia will become a "hermit nation" unless it accepts the additional COVID-19 risks with setting up travel bubbles with Singapore, South Korea, Japan and New Zealand, a leading infectious disease experts warns.

"We can’t be a hermit nation for two, three, four or five years but whatever we do, we have to keep risks to a minimum," he said.was unlikely in 2021 in the absence of a vaccine. However, Prime Minister Scott Morrison acknowledged talks to open up travel were taking place with other low-risk nations in the Asia-Pacific, starting with New Zealand.

"At the moment those countries have low levels of community transmission. What that means for quarantining, maybe you do it home?" he said. People wearing face masks pack in a shopping arcade of Asakusa district in Tokyo Sunday, Sept. 20, 2020.New South Wales, the ACT and the Northern Territory will re-open their borders to New Zealanders on Friday, October 16.

In a statement, a spokesman for the Japanese embassy thanked Morrison for flagging Japan for inclusion in future travel bubble arrangements and said the country had begun to allow business travellers to come to Japan, though with a 14-day quarantine period. Japan has detected 89,652 cases of coronavirus and reported 278 new cases on Monday. It's seven-day average case count is about 500 cases.

 

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jamesmassola Absolute rubbish! Asian nations should be the last nations we let in. Where do you think all these viruses come from.

jamesmassola LOL. Nope.

jamesmassola I’d be happy in a hermit nation

jamesmassola Why can’t we ?

jamesmassola Rubbish - people will just die - stupid comment- who paid him?

jamesmassola And Earthlings will become a hermit planet unless we spend hundreds of billions going to Mars

jamesmassola I'm a happy hermit

jamesmassola What about Vietnam, it has a better record than most?

jamesmassola Don't know about that. Wouldn't mind being a hermit nation for a year or 2 until they sort covid out. We don't need tourists destroying our country. We need to make thing that we and the world need.

jamesmassola No thanks

jamesmassola Maybe we need better, more imaginative ways of relating to the world than prostituting ourselves?

jamesmassola Just open the borders, you are ridiculous.

jamesmassola Goodbye Tourism Jobs, goodbye university jobs with no international students $$$ and goodbye high skilled and high tax paying migrants who will pass up Australia for US, Canada or UK

jamesmassola Add Taiwan to the bubble-list, and the Pacific Island states. They managed COVID better than some of the other places you want to roll the dice on 🎲. auspol auspol2020

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jamesmassola Happy to keep the border shut thanks.

Based on previous pandemics, it'd probably be almost back to normal at about mid to late 2022, at worst. This two to five year hermit thing is a bit of hyperbole.

jamesmassola The only way we can end the pandemic and restart economy

jamesmassola Let’s open internal borders before we start with everyone else thanks.

jamesmassola Let's be Hermit!

jamesmassola If you don't achieve elimination first, most countries are not even going to consider dealing with you.

jamesmassola Live Hermit many dead turnips Lets test the Leadership of this expert send him / her into disease infecting area. Then a full check of every organ for say five years or so. General health Hermits can get on with actually. Cleaning up this Country

jamesmassola Don’t listen to anyone who calls themselves an expert.

jamesmassola Nice sounds awesome

jamesmassola Sounds like a capitalist rather than infectious disease expert.

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