Opinion: Police ministers urge us to dob in COVID cheats, but at what cost? | Malcolm Knox
In my eleventh day of hotel quarantine, I have no complaints. The challenges for physical and mental health are obvious, and those are for each individual to cope with. A nurse is at the other end of the phone if I need someone, other than family and friends, to talk with.
Once in your hotel, you are under the supervision of police and treated as an unclean person. Food fairies knock on your door and leave your food outside. You are required to put on a facemask every time you open your door, even when there is nobody there – and in all these days I have never once seen one of the food fairies, they disappear so quickly. Your laundry will not be touched.
. Now, we’ve all been in the situation where a neighbour is having an unlawful gathering or too many sun-worshippers are congealing on the beach or someone from out of town has suspiciously shown up. It irritates you intensely to see people disobeying public health orders when you and so many others are suffering the lockdown pains of doing the right thing. You might be tempted to call the police. It’s easier than confronting the people yourself.
As with the police, the use of the military for its “logistical prowess” has already been normalised. Why it took a camouflaged soldier to escort me in a lift and to my room is anyone’s guess and is as necessary as General John Frewen, wearing his uniform, being the face of the federal vaccine rollout. But a politician has never seen a shade of khaki that they don’t fall in love with, and COVID has only entrenched Australians’ trust in those uniforms.
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