Crowne Plaza Hotel in Christchurch, New Zealand is now an isolation facility with fencing separating the building from the public.
Meanwhile, in New Zealand
Jordan Schachtel writes:
Military has been deployed to make sure people don’t leave their quarantine camps, which are mandatory for COVID-19 positive individuals and their families.
From what I understand, police are prohibiting the press from taking photos and videos of the current situation in the facility, citing privacy concerns. Still, it would be nice to know what the heck is going on there.
Found a couple testimonials from the mandatory quarantine facilities. Military checks in “constantly on our well being but also our adherence to the rules.”
The first person in the conversation had a sore throat and was sent to the quarantine camp as a precaution.
Of course, the families are left out of the decision making process, but don’t worry, the state knows what’s best for them!
A lot of the rebuttals from the Kiwis point out the fact that they are being quarantined at nice hotels, as if that justified the incarceration of citizens without any due process.
What starts as a nice, contained arrangement ends up a very different situation when the virus inevitably surges through the population. What happens when they start running out of rooms? White collar prison-style incarceration quickly goes south.
What happens when you run out of nice hotels to put COVID infected people in them? The not-so-nice makeshift “hotels” prop up in your local neighborhood which require a different policing structure to ensure compliance.
Unfortunately, this represents the mainstream viewpoint here. They have bought into the pseudoscientific delusion that they can fully eliminate the virus. So of course, forced incarceration is on the table. It will not end well when the bubble bursts….
Time to look at our quarantine hotel contingency plan (newsroom.co.nz)
Pic: Stuff.co.nz
