Rita Panahi: Travel ban extension stokes virus fears
While protesters take to the streets and break every social-distancing rule, law abiding Australians continue to be guilted into submission with livelihood-destroying restrictions, writes Rita Panahi.
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A scared populace is a subservient one. Australians have dutifully obeyed every new law and restriction that strips away our personal freedoms in the name of public safety. Now, we are told we cannot travel overseas until 2021.
Tourism Minister Simon Birmingham said Australia’s borders were likely to remain closed until the end of the year with travel overseas “quite some distance off”.
Of course that doesn’t preclude international students coming to Australia from next month but for the rest of us we are living on a “prison island’’ with no chance of escape.
Why aren’t civil libertarians taking to the streets and demanding our rights be fully restored?
Dud modelling predicting thousands of Australian deaths, even with all the restrictions that have been imposed, has shown to be about as reliable as a chocolate teapot yet we are still being guilted into submission with livelihood-destroying restrictions.
Surely Australians should be able to decide for themselves whether they want to risk a plane trip overseas.
The government can impose a requirement for 14 days of quarantine upon re-entry but it should not be restricting people’s ability to travel.
South Korea has shown you can effectively monitor those who return from overseas through tracking apps and regular follow ups.
Australia has seen mass protests throughout the country that break every crowd and social-distancing rule but law-abiding individuals are subjected to draconian constraints that prevent them from making decisions about their own welfare.
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