'A race to the bottom': Quarantine hotel failures highlight problems in unregulated cleaning industry

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Problems at the Travelodge quarantine hotels in Sydney are a symptom of a completely unregulated cleaning industry, says an insider.

A quarantining guest's photo of dirt on the floor of their Travelodge bathroom."I fought really, really, really hard — I probably haven't fought that hard for anything in my life," she said.

"They also told me that it's a bit of a running joke that they tell other people, you know, at least you're not at the Travelodge. Epidemiologist Raina MacIntyre said poor cleaning in quarantine had the potential to undermine the whole process."That's because the people coming for quarantine are at high risk for being infected."The last thing we want is people getting infected in quarantine.""That's because the virus is shed in the faeces," she said.

But Chelsea Thomas is one of several guests to have told 7.30 they raised concerns weeks and, in some cases, months ago. Ms Thomas was eventually moved to a so-called health hotel after dust in her room at the Travelodge brought on an asthma attack she said made her cough "so much she vomited"."He said, 'The Travelodge is just the worst for the dust and the dirt and I'm trying to move three other people because of their health as well,'" Ms Thomas said.Cleaning company owner Darryl Soekoe says cleaners are struggling to protect people against something they cannot see.

 

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Really? You want to regulate the cleaning industry? Is that your solution to everything?

So a returning Aussie could do everything right pre-flight and during the flight and get sick from the mandatory quarantine This is disgraceful. Let us quarantine at home like people who test positive for covid in Australia and RemoveTheCap

The entire public health response to just a hyped cold virus is WRONG, UNETHICAL & SOCIALLY DESTRUCTIVE, so is the quarantine hotel failure really that surprising? The elephant in the room that NEEDS URGENT ADDRESSING is the baseless overly exaggerated health response!

And the LNP cut penalty rates, gotta love the race to the bottom.

You pay peanuts and get conscientious, hard working, work proud individuals. Don't think so.

Everyone know most cleaners are recent migrants from 3rd world shitholes. What else would you expect.

Hotels, offices, schools, hospitals etc etc all outsource to the lowest bidder, unregulated cleaning industry I mean you get what you pay for, the UK hospitals had MRSA because the cleaning standards slipped so low.

WTF?! Are we missing the real issue here? Now they are blaming the poor cleaning staff when it’s the way the entire shit show is being managed that’s the problem 🤨

Imagine if you will, a virus.. so deadly and so incurable..

Should have deep clean this way

More casual workers, as it turns out, doing underpaid, under appreciated yet very important work. My this pandemic is showing up so many uncomfortable truths.

I don't see any benefit in your quotes trying to induce emotions. That particular quote should be discarded from the English language entirely.

More red tape and useless tafe courses just to start a cleaning business ?

Privatise, and the work ends up being done by underpaid casual subcontactors, with too few hours to complete the task. Geez. Whoda thunk?

Yeah. But privatised services are better, right?

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