News from the southern hemisphere.
If anything, this pandemic has been really good (not in a good way!) at exposing ugly underbellies of societies around the world. Singapore's a really good example: its citizens are (were?) pretty much fine but the virus was running rampant through foreign worker dorms.
Here in Australia, we've had a hotel quarantine system in place for all international travellers arriving since April - basically, you are bussed from the airport to hotel to do mandatory quarantine for 14 days. Paid for the by the government but in Victoria, the government has used a security company that appears to have not given much of a shit re: instructing and enforcing employees to do the right thing.
So much so we had a breach ~4 weeks ago and now we're seeing 70-120 cases a day in community spread... which for all intents and purposes is actually a new angle on the pandemic for us. March/April first wave for us was all international travellers and their close contacts.... curve flattened through test and trace. Now we have widespread community transmission that's pretty much been common everywhere else.
Tonight, the Victorian-New South Wales border is shutting for the first since........... the Spanish flu epidemic 100 years ago.
Those security guards where the sanitary breach occurred? Basically lower socio-economic people living either in public housing or overcrowded housing.
12 postcodes / 36 suburbs in the north and north-west of Melbourne (~350,000 out of 5 million people) are back on stay at home and only leave for 4 basic reasons orders (to get food/supplies, medical appointments/test, work if you can't work from home or exercise) and 8 public housing buildings on two different estates are in total lockdown.
Loosening of restrictions has now been put on hold.