Australia News on Jan. 29, 2020

The Australian government has announced that they will evacuate Australian citizens, including children, from China. They will be held on chistmas island for quarantine.

In contrast, the Chinese soccer team are being quarantined in a hotel in Brisbane.

There seems to be a bit of a discrepancy between how these two groups are being treated.

I can help but think seriously about the concern raised by one citizen, who says:

“We are not prisoners, how could they treat us in a detention centre rather than a proper medical facility?...The Government wouldn't send its citizens to Christmas Island detention centre if those who are trapped in Wuhan were white Australians”.

Conditions on the island have been subject to a human rights investigation with serious concerns noted.

I suppose it would help justify running an otherwise empty centre.

What are your thoughts?

Edit: Also, the 32 players and their staff arrived directly from Wuhan.