The potential perils of overseas holidays

[Lencoboy]

Glad that's resolved

Funny, but someone I'm aware of has come back from Italy with a persistent cough, but has tested negative. Now they're desperately trying to find a testing station and as with anything to do with this government, it's proving impossible.

I gather this must be for further tests.

Wasn't it mentioned the other day that some people might be unnecessarily getting tested just for the sake of it, without any of the key symptoms, which might be one of the factors behind the current bottlenecks?

I'm still convinced that the current bout of higher daily cases is largely caused by those returning from holidays since the last 2 weeks of August.

What's really bugging me is we've been deprived of theatres and live music events since mid-March, but the govt have still been content to give non-essential international travel the go-ahead, as if the travel industry is far more important than the arts, and numerous other sectors.

And the interiors of planes are confined spaces with lots of people, so what's the difference between passenger holds on planes and theatre auditoria?

Just seems like double standards to me.