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We wouldn't be happy either. That is why we haven't left the state in almost two years. The rules are absolutely crazy here and I don't disagree that these quarantine rules are stupid. But there are videos and articles where people are OK with the facilities. People just post articles and videos that support their point of view. I posted one with a girl who says that it was like a resort. Others I have seen are young women dancing by their rooms. But for the aboriginals many are staying in facilities that are much nicer than most of their homes. But I am not saying it is right, it is just it not the “concentration camps” and “gulags” that people are making it out to be. Like I have posted before, this is far better treatment than the USA Feds are doing to political prisoners in Washington DC and in other places in the USA with FBI raids, etc. It seems to me that the USA has been taken over by the political police and people cannot even protest without being worried about the FBI. We have some problems like that, but mostly all at the state level and I don't know of any political prisoners locked up for trespassing.

Just a few months ago, protesters broke into Parliament House in Canberra (like Congress in the USA), did some damage, poured blood all over the place (inside the building), set fires outside, and I think most were not even fined. (Now that is going too far in the other direction!) https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/extinction-rebellion-protestors-deface-parliament-house-the-lodge-with-spray-paint-and-flares/news-story/7187bf0c131885436c267bffc5d45ee By the way there are actually two places they put the people in the Northern Territory, the one where most of international arrivals come in is the one that people are talking about on this thread. The other is in Alice Springs and is called the Todd Quarantine Facility or the Alice Springs Quarantine Facility, Alice Springs. It is actually the Alice Springs Mercure Resort and the owners want it back! https://www.ntnews.com.au/news/bookings-open-for-mercure-alice-springs-resort-currently-operating-as-the-todd-quarantine-facility/news-story/05709859a2a7c5fc870ac23a383a4251 If you are actually a resident of Darwin or Alice Springs, you can quarantine in your own home. Overall look video: https://9now.nine.com.au/60-minutes/a-60-minutes-exclusive--inside-the-gold-standard-quarantine-facility-with-no-leaks/c8ef227b-8341-4343-a77c-f95b22a6bbfc What I find far more upsetting to me about this Covid situation in Australia, is that until recently, without a special exemption, we couldn't leave the country. So to me, that is much more of a human rights violation than having to go in quarantine for 14 days when you come back in. That is like living in the old East Berlin, or North Korea.