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Originally Posted by Polyal
Hindsight, but, all travelers into Australia should have been out on islands and cleared before having access to the mainland unless there was an exception given (medical etc).
Not sustainable for the long term, but during the start it would have made a huge difference and the cost in retrospec really not that bad.
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Still ****es me off how woefully unprepared we were, and how lax and slow to crack down.
Well after the problem was known, we still had dodgy-*** airlines flying in people from China via Hong Kong, morons going to Bali for holidays, and expats remaining overseas thinking it didn't effect them.
When I lived in Indonesia, we had a contingency plan, that when triggered allowed the mines to be closed and secured with 24 hours, families out of Indonesia within 48, and everyone out within 72 hours.
We had alternate routes planned in case Singapore stopped flights from Indonesia, and even a failsafe plan to fly planes directly into the minesites.
Hopefully we have learnt from this and will be better prepared when something really nasty comes along.