You continue to get it terribly wrong, time and time again.
Let me address all of your errors, one at a time.
The vaccination roll out in Australia should be proceeding at a faster rate than other countries because we have had time to set up the roll-out infrastructure & because we are not doing it under emergency conditions. In the US & UK, for example, they have to manage the vaccination roll-out in conditions where they are simultaneously trying to manage COVID-19 outbreaks. They are trying to walk and chew gum at the same time. We are failing to even walk.
Why should it be faster.Makes much more sense for it to be faster when you have an emergency.Europe.the US and Israel all have the capacity to walk and chew gum at the same time.Though Europe seems to be hampered by inflexible laws.
No vaccination roll-out program is perfect. No one ever claimed that they would be or could be. We cannot even get our program started. A far worse position to be in.
We certainly have started but unlike the US and Europe we are not a major centre for vaccine manufacture.
Israel cut a deal which I am sure would have been harder to do here.
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A deal with Pfizer
The Israeli government struck a
deal with Pfizer for accelerated access to the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, in return for providing the anonymised age, sex and demographic data of vaccinated people. This is made possible by the fact that Israel has
a universal healthcare system and each person has a digitised health record.
The country also has the
health infrastructure and
logistics to deliver the vaccines. The occupied territories, meanwhile, have a
different healthcare system."
It is not suiting our circumstances. Our circumstances require us to roll out the vaccination program as quickly as is safely possible because, without mass vaccinations, we are:
- letting billion dollar industries die (eg tourism, education) leaving tens of thousands of people out of work
- risking rolling lock downs & panics over lock downs every time a COVID-19 case escapes from hotel quarantine
- forcing families to be separated & for persons to miss important life events (births, deaths, marriages, etc).
But you don't make any allowances for the problems of vaccine supply.Pfizer being delivered at about 30% of the rate agreed in the contract.Very little of the AZ 3.8 million doses that were due to have been delivered by March have arrived.
The problems you say are due to the lack of vaccination have in no small part been due to our own actions via the State Premiers.There has been no indication to slam borders shut in the last 6 months as the number of cases hadn't reached the numbers for a hotspot apart from the Northern Beaches.And that should have resulted in just that area being quarantined.
I'll ignore the rest of your remark which shows your inability to understand that Australia's botched roll-out is having massive economic consequences and therefore is in the domain of economics.
To answer your question, the economics profession was
one of the first to call for border & school closures to stop the spread of the virus. They were some of the people you should be thanking for Australia's great performance in containing the virus. Would you like to make an apology?
But there were many economists saying the exact opposite.
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Australian GPs are now having to resort to
writing op-eds to draw attention to how bad the roll-out is proceeding.
That is already a problem in Australia and is one of the problems of our medical system with a strong independent primary medical system.However although this can be a problem our medical system is amongst the best in the world.
As to GPs writing op-eds well not all make that much sense.Surely GP practices also should have realised that they needed to up their preparations for vaccinations in many ways.
Some have done a very good job as evidenced by some of the posts here.Some are totally unprepared.
Not helped by the fact that nearly all the 6 million in 1b want to be vaccinated in the first week.
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I think I'll play nice and leave the rest, except, as its sometimes said - "no vaccination roll-out program is perfect"!
