Australia closes borders to stop coronavirus

A travel ban will be placed on all non-residents and non-Australian citizens coming to Australia, effective from 9pm on Friday.

In making the announcement on Thursday, Prime Minister Scott Morrison explained the delay was to enable people currently preparing to arrive in Australia to make other arrangements, while not trapping travellers currently mid-flight.

“We believe it is essential to take (this) further step,” he said.

“I have been consulting with the New Zealand Prime Minister on (this) ban.”

New Zealand placed the same ban on non-residents entering its country on Thursday.

“These arrangements will enable over the next 24 hours or so for people to make other arrangements, if they were intending to come to Australia,” Morrison said. “For Australians, of course, they will be able to return and they will be subject, as they already are, to 14 days of isolation upon arrival back in Australia.”

Morrison repeated the call for Australians to return home from overseas countries as soon as possible, and was working with Qantas to facilitate this.

“Those in remote parts of the world, that can prove challenging but for those in other places, it is our intention to ensure we can maintain flights to enable them to come home as soon as possible.”

Morrison said most of the Australian COVID-19 cases had stemmed from overseas.

“We have about 80 per cent of the cases ... in Australia that are either the result of someone who has contracted the virus overseas or someone who has had direct contact with someone who has returned from overseas,” he said.

 

[Dyn]

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

Tim Pool was right, this is a long-term moratorium on global immigration and "refugees".

 

[Sped Xing]

Autarky is no malarky.

 

[byuu]

Australia should fill their country with lots of deadly animals and insects to frighten off immigrants.

 

[NoSpiceLife]

Australia should fill their country with lots of deadly animals and insects to frighten off immigrants.

Doesn't seem to stop anyone coming unfortunately...

 

[TowinKarz]

Tim Pool was right, this is a long-term moratorium on global immigration and "refugees".

Globalism has tested positive for Corona, and the prognosis isn't good........ and a large number of people are hoping it DOESN'T pull through.....



In all seriousness, I sincerely hope that the globo-socialist proponents of open borders, free migration, death to cisfolk and decriminalization of everything less than murder who have reacted to this crisis with a "Corona closes world, troons and minorities most affected" mentality will either finally wise up, or die off as crying "Wait, wait, wait, is NOBODY going to get upset that the response to this is so racist?!" is their death rattle.

This has literally touched everyone, and even those who put their fingers in their ears and say "Oh come on, what's the worst that could happen if we let people shit in the streets, buy everything from China and make censorship of online bigotry our greatest goal?" can't ignore it now, without looking absolutely deranged. And with theaters and shops closed, they can't expect to hope people sitting at home right now stewing about it are going to be distracted by Hollywoke long enough to just forget all about it... this is the Millenial generations 9/11, when the world fundamentally showed you that mega-shit can happen to you that you can't scare off with a lawyer and how pointless all those virtue points you accumulated for using the right pronouns really are, woke tokens can't buy toilet paper, skippy.

This is the end result of Social-liberalism run amok, and there is no defense for not knowing any better, the sane and the disaffected have been trying to ring alarm bells for 25 years, only to find the likes of Amazon and Google smugly cutting the bell cords and shipping you off to the eGulag for "inciting panic"....

I'll take my angry hats if you think I deserve them, but I'm livid on the inside right now. I fully expect to live through this mess with no long-term problems, but that's not the point, this didn't have to happen, and can be blamed squarely on the shoulders of out-of-touch global elites who thought infinite growth fueled by shoveling the world's working classes and the sum-total of their culture and national identities into the furnace was a sustainable thing.


TLDR: Globalism was a mistake.

 

[Begemot]

Globalism has tested positive for Corona, and the prognosis isn't good........ and a large number of people are hoping it DOESN'T pull through.....



In all seriousness, I sincerely hope that the globo-socialist proponents of open borders, free migration, death to cisfolk and decriminalization of everything less than murder who have reacted to this crisis with a "Corona closes world, troons and minorities most affected" mentality will either finally wise up, or die off as crying "Wait, wait, wait, is NOBODY going to get upset that the response to this is so racist?!" is their death rattle.

This has literally touched everyone, and even those who put their fingers in their ears and say "Oh come on, what's the worst that could happen if we let people shit in the streets, buy everything from China and make censorship of online bigotry our greatest goal?" can't ignore it now, without looking absolutely deranged. And with theaters and shops closed, they can't expect to hope people sitting at home right now stewing about it are going to be distracted by Hollywoke long enough to just forget all about it... this is the Millenial generations 9/11, when the world fundamentally showed you that mega-shit can happen to you that you can't scare off with a lawyer and how pointless all those virtue points you accumulated for using the right pronouns really are, woke tokens can't buy toilet paper, skippy.

This is the end result of Social-liberalism run amok, and there is no defense for not knowing any better, the sane and the disaffected have been trying to ring alarm bells for 25 years, only to find the likes of Amazon and Google smugly cutting the bell cords and shipping you off to the eGulag for "inciting panic"....

I'll take my angry hats if you think I deserve them, but I'm livid on the inside right now. I fully expect to live through this mess with no long-term problems, but that's not the point, this didn't have to happen, and can be blamed squarely on the shoulders of out-of-touch global elites who thought infinite growth fueled by shoveling the world's working classes and the sum-total of their culture and national identities into the furnace was a sustainable thing.


TLDR: Globalism was a mistake.

This sounds woke as fuck but the truth is Australians can switch off international travel far easier than most other countries. I don't know how this would work in the EU.

@Dyn maybe banning interstate travel is the next best idea. Maybe let the South Australians whimper in their failed state that only exists because of coopers pale and farmer's union. Tasmania has apparently banned all interstate travel, as well.

 

[Sped Xing]

I thought 9/11 was the millennial generation's 9/11

You're thinking of Zoomers, maybe?

 

[TowinKarz]

I thought 9/11 was the millennial generation's 9/11

You're thinking of Zoomers, maybe?

The next gen, whatever it's called, I've lost track because they can't keep thier branding straight.... but just as the world turned on the USSR for trying to cover up Chernobyl until the radioactive cloud wafted into Western Europe, ultimately felling the already corrupt and dying regime, the world has a high chance of turning on China for this, for the same reason... and while it's not going to cause the fall of the CCP, my hope is people start treating them as you SHOULD treat a brutal regime, don't antagonize it, but for God's sake, stop letting them run your economies by proxy.

 

[heathercho]

Globalism has tested positive for Corona, and the prognosis isn't good........ and a large number of people are hoping it DOESN'T pull through.....



In all seriousness, I sincerely hope that the globo-socialist proponents of open borders, free migration, death to cisfolk and decriminalization of everything less than murder who have reacted to this crisis with a "Corona closes world, troons and minorities most affected" mentality will either finally wise up, or die off as crying "Wait, wait, wait, is NOBODY going to get upset that the response to this is so racist?!" is their death rattle.

This has literally touched everyone, and even those who put their fingers in their ears and say "Oh come on, what's the worst that could happen if we let people shit in the streets, buy everything from China and make censorship of online bigotry our greatest goal?" can't ignore it now, without looking absolutely deranged. And with theaters and shops closed, they can't expect to hope people sitting at home right now stewing about it are going to be distracted by Hollywoke long enough to just forget all about it... this is the Millenial generations 9/11, when the world fundamentally showed you that mega-shit can happen to you that you can't scare off with a lawyer and how pointless all those virtue points you accumulated for using the right pronouns really are, woke tokens can't buy toilet paper, skippy.

This is the end result of Social-liberalism run amok, and there is no defense for not knowing any better, the sane and the disaffected have been trying to ring alarm bells for 25 years, only to find the likes of Amazon and Google smugly cutting the bell cords and shipping you off to the eGulag for "inciting panic"....

I'll take my angry hats if you think I deserve them, but I'm livid on the inside right now. I fully expect to live through this mess with no long-term problems, but that's not the point, this didn't have to happen, and can be blamed squarely on the shoulders of out-of-touch global elites who thought infinite growth fueled by shoveling the world's working classes and the sum-total of their culture and national identities into the furnace was a sustainable thing.


TLDR: Globalism was a mistake.

It also proves Trump was right.
Make America great again was literally the right message, it's vital countries don't outsource shit.

Tim Pool was right, this is a long-term moratorium on global immigration and "refugees".

I doubt this will last and it won't effect immigration and bullshit refugees after Corona Chan's world tour is over. It'll be back to business for George's NGOs flooding 1st world countries with "refugees".

Like, Australia would be so much better off if we had less Indians. They smell and they're panic buying everything to sell in their stores for 4x markup.
Less Pajeets would be great.

It'd be great if we could dispose of those demanding migrants we have floating on Christmas Island... and send Melbourne's niggers back to Africa. Imagine the possibilities...

But no, after all is said and done, I'm sure the "we have to be kind and pull together" bullshit will start back up and so will the emptying of the 3rd world.

 

[Dyn]

@Dyn maybe banning interstate travel is the next best idea. Maybe let the South Australians whimper in their failed state that only exists because of coopers pale and farmer's union. Tasmania has apparently banned all interstate travel, as well.

We'll ask WA to annex us and ally with the Territory, and together we'll purge the eastern seaboard from Cairns to Hobart, and build great smouldering pyres out of the parasitic east-coast maggots who suck our fair nation country dry of our pride and culture.

 

[Zero Day Defense]

Full of snakes, basketball-sized spiders, and exploding trees.

And also fire.

 

[HOMO FOR LIFE]

No more fucking rapefugees. and no one can bitch about it.

WIN WIN.

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

Good for Australia.

 

[AltisticRight]

About fucking time.

 

[polonium]

Tasmania has apparently banned all interstate travel, as well.

Tasmania has cut their tourism industry off at the knees and will be begging for bailout dollars soon. It's a weird look to say "Fuck off, you're not welcome here. By the way can you spot me $5"

We'll ask WA to annex us and ally with the Territory, and together we'll purge the eastern seaboard from Cairns to Hobart, and build great smouldering pyres out of the parasitic east-coast maggots who suck our fair nation country dry of our pride and culture.

Fuck off, we don't want you. We're happy sitting on an enormous pile of iron ore and a giant desert between us and melbourne.

 

[ditto]

Tasmania has cut their tourism industry off at the knees and will be begging for bailout dollars soon.

So what's new

 

[Begemot]

We'll ask WA to annex us and ally with the Territory, and together we'll purge the eastern seaboard from Cairns to Hobart, and build great smouldering pyres out of the parasitic east-coast maggots who suck our fair nation country dry of our pride and culture.

Nah, we'll set up a version of the modern 'shibboleth' where South Australians get tested on how they pronounce words like 'dance'.

Tasmania has cut their tourism industry off at the knees and will be begging for bailout dollars soon. It's a weird look to say "Fuck off, you're not welcome here. By the way can you spot me $5"


Fuck off, we don't want you. We're happy sitting on an enormous pile of iron ore and a giant desert between us and melbourne.

The only other Victorians here on kf were @LikeicareKF, @Brandobaris and the various incarnations of that poor bastard Jan Dacion before the schizophrenia took him over. I still don't understand south Australia as a state, though.

I think there are still flights Coming in via Qantas but very contained.

 

[Fluoxetine Man]

Tasmania has apparently banned all interstate travel, as well.

TFW you actually remember Tasmania exists.