I am not saying local trucks,
I and saying regional & interstate Trucks that pass through the ring of steel check points,
they deal with a lot of people, and there employer should make it part of OH&S should see that they are tested, so they comply with each states standards.
I didn’t imply local truck driver, but as it turns out, the chap that
spread the lurgy within crossroads hotel worked for a freight company in Melbourne and wasn’t actually a truck drive... my error...
But keeping COVID at bay is very very hard... A COVID test means little other than providing some statistical data... You could get a test now and in theory you must self isolate for two weeks, even after getting a negative result a day or so after the test. However, I doubt may actually do self isolate, so they may then go out and be near an infected person so pick up the lurgy. But they’d be sure they are negative due to their test results of a few days ago... Reality may be that they are now an infected sack of puss spreading the love...
So testing can simply generate complacency. I doubt any trucking company OH&S would suggest their staff should be tested daily... Heck they don’t even test doctors and nurses or other health staff daily. They wait for someone to get sick and then contact trace (poorly)...
The only way to minimise infection is social distancing (5 meters or more depending on activity, not 1.5 meters as we are told) or better still social isolation... Instead, the government plays statistical games with peoples lives while spruking opening up the economy way too early.
The next few weeks will tell how far the outbreak spreads through Sydney & NSW but according to the feds, parliment sessions must be suspended for risk of spreading the disease while schools and other businesses can be open as normal.... arsehats the lot of them.
As for lockdown, they must be hard like what was done to those housing commission towers in Melbourne... not wishy washy exemptions and people crowding the big box retailers for a new flat panel TV. Ring of steal? ha, only when we see soldiers with guns...
As is, we are at the thin end of the wedge on our way to US style infection rates...
