‘Disgusting’: Denying Australians the chance to farewell relatives the legacy of COVID

Public health bureaucrats’ “disgusting” treatment of Australians by denying relatives the opportunity to farewell their loved ones will be the legacy of the nation’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, says the Advertiser’s Caleb Bond. Queensland health officials have come under fire after it was revealed a Cairns man, who had been residing in Canada, was denied entry into the state to see his dying mother, who would later pass away while the man was stuck in quarantine. “In Queensland … health bureaucrats have made disgusting, repulsive decisions about family members not being able to visit their dying relatives, their mothers, their fathers,” he told Sky News host Gary Hardgrave. “This kind of thing is a joke, and when you look around, at examples of football matches, public events, all sorts of things where they are at nearly full capacity … and we cannot let relatives visit their dying loved ones, disgusting does not even begin to describe that. “Public health bureaucrats are doing this to our own people and this will be the legacy of these lockdowns, and the legacy of our coronavirus response and we, as a country, should be ashamed.”