it’s a script being played out worldwide. anger was building in Australia, with its 103 covid deaths, mostly people coming in from overseas or in nursing homes, in a country of 25 million spread over 7.692 million km².
19 May: ABC Australia: States under pressure to reopen borders closed in a bid to contain coronavirus
By political reporter Jane Norman
National Cabinet’s key health advisory committee has confirmed it never recommended internal border closures, as states and territories come under pressure to lift their restrictions and once again allow travel within Australia.
Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania and the Northern Territory all closed their borders at the height of the coronavirus crisis, either banning non-residents from entering or requiring travellers to self-quarantine for a fortnight...
26 May: Sky News Australia: Queensland border closure threatens $5 billion hit to state’s tourism industry
Queensland’s border closures could stop more than four million Australians visiting the Sunshine State and could cost the state’s tourism industry as much as $5 billion.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk suggested the state’s borders could remain closed until September to keep coronavirus infection rates low.
Tourism operators in the state have argued rates are already low and have remained so for some time...
Senator Pauline Hanson launched a High Court challenge over the legality of enforcing an extended border closure for Queensland with former politician Clive Palmer doing the same in Western Australia...
SO HYSTERIA WAS RAMPED UP WITH THIS!
if true, this would be the 7th covid death in Queensland!
Virus victim had party days before death
Australia’s youngest coronavirus victim, Nathan Turner, held a party in his Queensland home just days before his death, sparking fears multiple...
this tyrant “REJECTS” nothing - see her quotes:
28 May: 7News Australia: Queensland’s (PETTY TYRANT) chief health officer rejects claims of ‘false positive’ test on coronavirus victim
by Warren Barnsley
But chief health officer Jeannette Young has conceded the post-mortem test conducted on Blackwater man Nathan Turner was contaminated and “wasn’t an effective test”.
“It was done post-mortem, so after the gentleman had died,” Young said on Thursday.
“And it was contaminated with quite a bit of blood.
“So therefore, it wasn’t an effective test.”
She said further investigation is needed to establish if the cause of death was COVID-19.
But asked if the test could have been a “false positive”, Young said “I don’t believe so”...
“There was a test done ... which is a very sensitive test and it came back positive,” Young said.
“I believe it was a positive.”
Eighteen close contacts have returned negative tests overnight...
27 May: ABC Australia: Queensland man Nathan Turner dies with coronavirus, youngest victim in Australia
By Allyson Horn, Jemima Burt, and staff
Federal Member for Flynn Ken O’Dowd said the news of Mr Turner’s death came as a surprise.
“He hadn’t worked for some time, he’s been very ill,” he said.
“I think he last worked in November last year...
***Chief health officer Jeannette Young: “Any person who dies, who is infected with COVID-19, we declare it as a COVID-19 related death.”...
The fatality brings the state’s coronavirus death toll to seven, with a total of 1,058 cases...
State Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk: “It’s a timely reminder too for all Queenslanders that this COVID is real, it’s out there...
“The police and ambulance officers who attended the scene are also now in quarantine.”...
29 May: 7News Australia: Coronavirus death Queensland: Call for calm in Blackwater after 30-year-old dies
by Cheryl Goodenough and Tracey Ferrier
He suffered from epilepsy and asthma and family members say he regularly got the flu and had not worked since November...
Contract tracers have been sent to Blackwater to find everyone who had direct contact with him. So far, all 18 close contact tests and public tests have been negative...
Meanwhile, Dr Young says more Queenslanders need to get tested if the state is to open its borders.
School students, workers and freight drivers can cross over, but Queensland is closed to anyone else.
“For us to go forward and to lift those very onerous restrictions that have been in place, we must do more testing,” Dr Young said on Thursday.
There were no new infections recorded in Queensland overnight. The state’s tally stands at 1058 cases, but only six are active...
Facebook: 7News Australia:
The family of a QLD man who died after contracting coronavirus are not convinced the deadly illness killed him.
Nathan Turner suffered epilepsy and asthma but health authorities are not taking any chances, testing hundreds of Blackwater locals for COVID-19.
https://www.facebook.com/7NEWSBrisbane/posts/3354176157928546
30 May: AAP: Nathan Turner death: scientists to test town’s sewage to try and solve coronavirus mystery
NOWHERE IS THE COVID HYSTERIA GREATER THAN IN AUSTRALIA. SHAME. BLAME THE FAKENEWSMSM AND THE POLITICIANS.
just to clarify. the 3 States and one Territory which closed their borders have a mix of leftwing and rightwing governments. the Federal govt is conservative. the Queensland govt is leftwing.
in other words, THEY ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER.