Bigskytraveller
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Utter madness, I am not sure what is to be gained by rubbishing the vaccines, ignoring strong and growing evidence that they limit transmission and advocating isolationism that really hasn’t been seen in a Western democracy ever.
The government is whipping this virus into a monster that terrifies the Australian public in a way that is simply not justified, certainly not when there are vaccines on offer with lower side effect rates than aspirin by a factor of 100s that limit serious illness and death by 100%
I have lived in the UK for the last year, haven’t caught COVID, am now vaccinated and think it’s all a very manageable risk. The government here seems to be on the ball with variant boosters huge amounts of money going into studies of booster strategies, mixing vaccines for greater effectiveness, suitability for children, manufacturing and genomic testing capabilities. It just feels that’s the way to face this head on, not isolationism and vaccine hesitancy.
At a minimum vaccinated people need to be able to leave Australia to a much larger set of locations than NZ in the next six months, if it’s needed to bring that forward perhaps do some sort of 5 day quarantine with test to release on return
The government is whipping this virus into a monster that terrifies the Australian public in a way that is simply not justified, certainly not when there are vaccines on offer with lower side effect rates than aspirin by a factor of 100s that limit serious illness and death by 100%
I have lived in the UK for the last year, haven’t caught COVID, am now vaccinated and think it’s all a very manageable risk. The government here seems to be on the ball with variant boosters huge amounts of money going into studies of booster strategies, mixing vaccines for greater effectiveness, suitability for children, manufacturing and genomic testing capabilities. It just feels that’s the way to face this head on, not isolationism and vaccine hesitancy.
At a minimum vaccinated people need to be able to leave Australia to a much larger set of locations than NZ in the next six months, if it’s needed to bring that forward perhaps do some sort of 5 day quarantine with test to release on return
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