Grattan Institute chief executive John Daley said with the benefit of hindsight, the decision to sail in March “was not a particularly good idea”, but the key focus for policymakers now was ensuring the virus did not spread to the community.
Unlike the decision to let thousands of passengers off the Ruby Princess and into the community without testing, passengers on the Greg Mortimer had been tested and were immediately isolated if they did not go to hospital. Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews said the repatriation mission was a “complex task that has been managed well” and was “not comparable” with the Ruby Princess debacle.
Just greedy, putting profits before people
Listen you losers, a pandemic is not an epidemic, and I think putting hundreds of thousands onto dole queues for no reason was a wee bit more irresponsible, so was not quaranting those on the Ruby Princess. God our media are fucking dreadful
The Captain has the last call.
So we’re bringing more cases into Australia? Even though they were just as irresponsible getting on that cruise ship? Perfect.
All the ships that sailed. It’s a blight on all numbers atm.
And what do we call the passengers?
Japanese government takes precautions against covid-19
They new. The passengers. They knew. Knew the risk. Knew their age. Knew the Pandemic numbers. They knew. And still went. I have nothing but contempt for these people.
Ruby Princess... stop throwing stones