Disagree with everything you say, but would put my life on the line to protect your right to say it!
Alan B,
Sitting on a low fence with a nice soft mattress on each side is really sticking one's neck out !

> Of course, quarantine should be only for the sick and never for the healthy.
WHAT AN IDIOTIC CLAIM!

Quarantine should also be for those suspected of having a serious contagious infection, until it is clear that they don't.

Aidan,

Totally disagree with you.

We've just got to learn to live with the WuFlu.

So get out from under the doona (got that off Scotty) and if you get sick and die from the WuFlu then that's just your bad luck.

Now get out there and start bringing home all those cashed-up Chinese with residency visas who are stuck in China. If there are any who are a bit cautious about coming just tell them they can stay at your house.

Perhaps the quarantine restrictions & number of places available, set up to minimise the importation of new virus cases is restricting the good professors earning capacity, or fun & games. Well diddums professor, do try to fit in to the country you wish to have as your adopted home. If it doesn't suit you, go feel free to try somewhere else.

Any "caught" over seas had ampule opportunity to return to Oz, & if they failed to make the sensible decision at the right time, have no one to blame but themselves.

As for quarantine costs, please tell me just why it is the responsibility of the Oz tax payer to fund the mistakes of globe trotting fools. All too many Ozzies are suffering a much grater cost than these globe trotters, & have absolutely no obligation to help those who did not help themselves when they could have.

So I suggest, as courteously as I possibly can, pull your bloody head in.

individual,

People like AlanBS wouldn't put their lives on the line for any opinion they don't like. All BS. AlanBS doesn't even tell us whose opinion he is talking about. The author's or one of the posters'.

Aidan,

Here it is, Scotty is going to let the millions of Chinese with residence visas come to Australia as long as they quarantine at your house:

http://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/aussies-could-be-allowed-to-quarantine-at-home-instead-of-hotels/ar-BB19w0ob?ocid=msedgntp

You lucky bastard!