This from NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard, "it’s very hard to make a law against stupidity"........what a buffoon.
It should've been made compulsory months ago for limo drivers and the like to wear masks.
Health Minister Brad Hazzard said there appears to be a “small number of people who don’t comply with the expectations”, before announcing a tightening on guidelines that will kick in from 4pm today.
“We’re stepping up the guidelines on mask wearing for those drivers of people coming in from international flights - whether they’re passenger flights or whether they’re cargo flights, they are crews involved with the transportation of passengers in some cases,” he said.
“And we will have the guidelines that have existed will be now pushed into very clear orders with very clear consequences.
“I think that we also have to recognise that it’s very hard to make a law against stupidity.”
Mr Hazzard said it was imperative for people to apply “common sense”, saying drivers of international visitors have been continually encouraged to get daily saliva tests and the vaccine.
“So there’s been a lot of work done to encourage drivers of international visitors, whether it’s aircrew or others, to be able to do things easily - to get your saliva test easily, get your vaccine easily,” he said.
“But it would appear that perhaps in some cases, they haven’t taken that opportunity.”
From 11.59pm tonight millions of Sydney residents will be placed into a seven-day lockdown, but the rules around the announcement have left many confused.
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