Have Covid - Will Not Travel By James Reed
I have fond memories of the TV show, Have Gun - Will Travel (1957-1963), where the travelling gunman paladin, played by Richard Boone freely travelled to do his mercenary business. The fictitious Paladin was freer than Australians:
“Australians are set to be banned from travelling overseas for at least another year - but restrictions could last even longer if there's another coronavirus outbreak.
Holidaymakers have been barred from leaving the country since March 25 and Prime Minister Scott Morrison has strongly indicated that restriction would continue until a coronavirus vaccine was developed.
The Reserve of Australia has now announced it expected the border to remain closed for at least another year, as it updated its economic forecasts.
'Some restrictions on international departures and arrivals are assumed to be in place until around the end of 2021,' it said on Friday.
'The baseline scenario assumes that no additional large outbreaks and accompanying strict containment measures occur within Australia and that restrictions continue to be gradually lifted nationally (or are only tightened modestly for a limited time).'
The RBA's November quarterly statement on monetary policy feared the draconian ban on travelling overseas could continue into 2022 should there be another coronavirus outbreak in Australia.
'A plausible downside scenario is that Australia experiences further major outbreaks and there is a loss of control of the virus in other economies,' it said.
'In this scenario a substantial share of the population faces renewed distancing restrictions and curbs on business activities, and the opening of international borders is delayed further.'”
My guess is that outbreaks will occur, and that there will never be overseas travel again. Is that such a bad thing? We have Australia, who needs the world? Time to develop a bit of healthy nationalism. Put globalism and cosmopolitanism, in the dust bins of history.
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