“You are so small, they just overpower you. “You feel like you’ve done something wrong, it’s inhumane what they’re doing,” she said. Ms Hodgson told UnHerd it felt “like you’re in prison”. Hayley Hodgson was threatened with a $5000 fine for leaving her cabin without a mask. “Highly infectious when all of us people are negative?” she asks. “There’s a CHO direction on how the behaviour must be done, especially in this area, because it’s much more highly infectious and likely to have infected people here.” “The law? There’s a law that says that?” she replies. Whether it makes no sense or doesn’t seem right to you, that is the line and that’s what the law is and that’s how it goes.” “And one of the lines is you cannot leave your balcony and you cannot go to someone else. “There has to be lines everywhere drawn, yeah?” he says. When she argues with the officer that the rules don’t make sense, he replies that “it doesn’t have to make sense”. “It’s an official warning that you have to stay on your balcony and obey the rules while you’re here.” “I’m gonna give you a warning, yeah?” he says to her as she sits on the balcony. The video includes footage filmed by Ms Hodgson during her stay as she argues with a police officer at the facility, who reprimands her for leaving her cabin without a mask and threatens her with a $5000 fine. She was told to pack her bags and that she would be released when she tested negative.ĭuring her two-week stay she was tested three times, and each time tested negative. Or you can have a choice to get a Covid cab.’” You either come with us now, and we’ll put you in the back of the divvy van.
“I walked out and I said, ‘What’s going on, are you guys testing me for Covid? What’s happening?’ They said, ‘No, you’re getting taken away. “So then the police officers blocked my driveway,” she said in the video interview, which has been viewed more than 1.2 million times on YouTube since last week. Ms Hodgson said when investigators came to her home and asked if she had done a Covid-19 test, in the moment she lied and said she had. The 26-year-old spoke to UK website UnHerd about her experience, saying she was ordered to go to the facility after a friend of hers tested positive for the virus and she was identified as a “close contact” by the number plate on her scooter. Hayley Hodgson, who moved from Melbourne to Darwin to escape lockdowns, recently spent 14 days at the Howard Springs mandatory Covid-19 quarantine facility outside of Darwin, officially called the Centre for National Resilience.
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The Northern Territory government has responded to a woman’s viral interview with a UK website where she described her experience at the Howard Springs “internment camp”.Īsked to respond to the video, a spokeswoman for NT Health defended the mandatory quarantine policy and said the “strong public health response” had kept the Northern Territory largely free of Covid-19.
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