Well, we certainly have established that you’re comfortable with rounding up unfavored folk, and shipping them off to concentration camps. Sure is a mighty ‘flexible’ version of ‘liberty’ that you support.
Remind me not to depend upon your supporting my own liberty.
No, I wouldn't be comfortable with that. As it isn't happening, though, it's irrelevant.
I'm fine with taking people who are likely to die somewhere they can be treated rather than leaving them in utter slums in the middle of the desert to die.
Apparently, you would be fine with that scenario?
Of course, you wouldn't. That's also an exaggeration on the other side based on the same facts. But it's closer to reality than your scenario.
Ideally, I would prefer these people were given support and treatment in situ. But the costs of doing that would be much higher, and it would take much longer. Logistically speaking, it's not a practical solution at this point.
You want to condemn the Northern Territory for not making sure over a year into this pandemic that they don't have a better plan - I'd join that condemnation. But this is the current situation and it has to be dealt with as it is, not as we wish it could be.
This is the interior of a typical home in Rockhole - shared by eight people.
A closer view.
Would you leave sick people, or those at serious risk of becoming sick here?
It's the people who aren't being moved that I'm most worried about.
And understand the temperature here is over 40C - over 104F.
Do these people look like they have reliable airconditioning?