Mixed domestic fly-in fly-out worker quarantine with international arrival quarantine.<p>Suitability of the hotels used for Quarantine is highly suspect, their air isolation is not adequate and covid is lingering in suspension in air, no fresh forced cycling.<p>Delta strain is 5x more transmissible. So-called fleeting contact is adequate.<p>Government track and trace app is built to a 15min contact risk model (!)<p>Delta symptoms unlike prior forms. So people have not been testing because of innate belief "it's just a cold"<p>Delay to test means hundreds of potential track and trace contacts.<p>The FIFO worker alone caused huge amounts of dislocation with 700 mineworkers and 900 associated contacts implicated from a week's delay.<p>Badly delayed, badly communicated and mishandled vaccination programme. We're behind. Also confusing signals from state and federal politicians and health officers and advisory boards on risks to Az in young people. We only just got no fault insurance for GPs to even think about prescribed Az off the recommended age limit. Inadequate supplies of Pfizer, no moderna, no JandJ.<p>It's a classic story of bad communications and planning. This is what "Operations Research" is designed to maximise for, and instead we get semi rationalised half cooked policy on the run.<p>Everyone's an epidemiologist now. Bayesian has entered the general language.<p>Did we "squander the island advantage"?<p>(59yo Queenslander half way through my Az schedule coming to the end of a 4 day lockdown, which appears to have worked allowing contact tracing and testing to catch up with things. Meantime in NSW it's exploding up, but from a low base. Remember the UK still has 3,000 cases a day but we have at worst, a hundred new cases nationwide and no deaths since the initial 910)