This was another Facebook post, this one posted on 23 August 2020 with 350 shares in a week.
What the NSW government seems to think COVID-19 cases look like in Victoria, vs what they actually do look like. The closest cluster to the border is 300km away in Melbourne. Yet from tomorrow, children as close as 15km from the border are not allowed to go to their NSW school, even though it is operating as normal with all their classmates present, and even if their parents are critical workers. Some principals aren’t allowed to go to school. Nothing has been made better. Everything I said the other week is still true, except that now it’s worse. Nobody understands why the NSW government thinks a child from Bethanga or Tangambalanga going to school in Albury is a threat to Sydney. And this is all while schools in Sydney (with over 200 active cases) operate as normal!
This madness has to end. There is real suffering happening here – not because of COVID-19, but because of totally unnecessary NSW bureaucracy.
If anyone wants to see the report I wrote on the number of border workers affected (spoiler alert, it’s thousands) you can find it here https://www.csu.edu.au/research/ilws/publications/ilws-reports/2020-reports/Whitsed-Border-Report.pdf. Thanks to everyone who shared my previous post and helped it get noticed. I did get my data into the hands of politicians, but sadly it hasn’t made any difference.
This is not ok.