Situational Awareness in the Covid New World Order By Brian Simpson
Today, one needs to exercised extreme care when doing things like crossing roads, filling out forms, even picking one’s nose, especially picking one’s nose, unless done through a face mask! We don’t call this the Covid New World Order for nothing. Kid gloves are off, and it is big boy league now in the viral showdown. May the best syringes win! If only this unfortunately couple had had the money to buy a wind-up mobile Covid-trained lawyer, and a library of law books, to take with them every step of their journey.
“An elderly couple who moved from Victoria to regional Queensland before the state border closed found themselves forced into hotel quarantine and fined thousands of dollars for alleged Covid breaches.
Robyn Anderson and Robert Legg arrived in Roma, 470km west of Brisbane, in mid-July from Victoria to begin a new life.
Both claimed to have filled out the correct entry form to enter Queensland, arriving the day before Victoria was declared a Covid-19 hotspot by the Sunshine State.
But the pair were soon visited by police in Roma after they started 14 days of quarantine, who said they had breached entry requirements.
They were each issued with $4,003 fines and ordered to head to Brisbane to go into hotel quarantine at their own expense.
The couple claim they were then escorted from town, despite warning police their car would not make it to Brisbane.
When the car broke down near Toowoomba, police told them to take a taxi to Brisbane where they are in quarantine at serviced apartments in Chermside.
'We believe we did everything right but we got slapped with $4,000 fines for breaching border orders, we’re now stuck in hotel quarantine and our car is in a holding yard somewhere,' Ms Anderson told The Courier-Mail.
'All our savings are gone and we’ve got rent due on both the Roma and Victorian houses.'
Queensland Police Deputy Commissioner Steve Gollschewski was first asked about the couple on Tuesday but only responded at Wednesday's press conference.
He said he was satisfied that police actions in the case were appropriate.
'The investigations of the police disclosed that they had initially denied coming out of a hotspot but had, in fact, come out of the hotspot, which was a breach,' he said.
'They have been issued with a penalty infringement notice for that and the evidence exists that that's what was required.'
Ms Anderson said she would be appealing the fines.
'It has been stressful,' she told 9News. 'I know Rob's blood pressure is starting to play up.'”
This Covid world is enough to make anyone’s bloody blood pressure play up!
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