Trader wrote:Will testing before you get on the plane solve the issue though?
Don't get me wrong, no one wants to be on a plane for 16 hours with someone in peak infectious period, but equally as you have pointed out, you can be infectious within 24 hours.
Most 'pre approved testing' requirements are along the lines of a negative test within 72 hours of getting on the plane.
So someone gets a test, is negative, two days later jumps on a plane, highly infectious and gives it to everyone because they all have a false sense of security that we all are negative!!!
Lets not forget there are lots of cases of people who are negative for several days before testing positive on day 8-10 (including the cleaners family member - monday's positive).
Even if they were a 'real negative', they still have two days living to do before they get on the plane, what's to say they don't catch it in that period anyway.
Even if they quarantine like buggery, eventually they have to catch a train to the airport, or expose themselves some other way.
Then there are all the trust issues with people expected to do the right thing.
If someone wants to come home badly enough, I wouldn't put it past them faking test results, saying the isolated after their test, etc.
Testing negative before getting on a plane might help, but I'm not convinced its the silver bullet people are making it out to be.
Its not the silver bullet but FFS its not worthless either
mmmm presenting a false document to border security. Your isolation could be maximum 10 years.
How about that Victorian woman that came off the plane and voluntarily presented herself because SA Health didn't know she was coming? Only tested on arrival BANG! Positive! She should never have been allowed on the plane. This is not difficult stuff
