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Meanwhile, the experts and epidemiologists advising the NSW government (as the minister noted today) have looked into this and found it to be unworkable. Almost as if the people with time to spend all day talking to journos weren't necessarily the best-informed sources....? https://twitter.com/nadiasdaly/status/1349497090775285760
The thing about remote quarantine is that it makes sense in inverse proportion to how much you're worried about covid. If you're basically doing quarantine for show, then sticking people in a cabin in the bush for a fortnight is fine - slightly nicer than a room at the Ibis.
But if you're worried that a bunch of people are going to get sick, require hospital treatment, possibly ICU and ventilation, then it's the dumbest thing you could possibly do given that rural healthcare capacity was rubbish even before covid.
The NSW government approach as outlined this morning is based on the position that covid is real and people will get sick. I'm not sure what Nadia's sources are basing their position on. https://twitter.com/Glaven1994/status/1349508632111579137
