So one question is love the answer to is what will happen if and when the vaccination rate hits the 80% target?
With 80% of the Australian population vaccinated, that means we have 5,000,000 people unvaccinated (more if the measure is 80% of the eligible population).
Being that the vaccinated can still carry the virus, the result would be heard immunity doesn’t effectively exist. But people will be out and about and behave in carefree ways, as if it’s all ok, cause that’s what they’ve been told…
But if we then apply the US death rate of 600k over 350M people to the 5M unvaccinated Australians, we’d see 600,000*5/350 or 8,571 deaths per year without any intervention… unless we have 100% vaccination…
Does anyone thing 8,571 avoidable deaths are acceptable? Does anyone think action to limit viral spread won’t be required post vaccination phase?
Pity our leaders are just interested in quick sound bytes and re-election and thus don’t want to present things as they are to an adult population. We’re all adults and can decide our destiny and the approach we as a society choose to adopt (but for out leaders).
Sadly, many can’t think clearly which is a byproduct of our education system. But we should still put such choices in the hands of the population via a referendum.
Me, I’d have expected NSW should have gone into really hard lockdown, real lockdown with closed businesses, curfews and rings of steel. This should have occurred early on and accompanied by other states shutting NSW out until they were clean.
The strategy should have been a realistic vaccine rollout timeframe that would allow 100% of the population to be vaccinated with enough stock to provide them a choice of vaccines (as choice of one isn’t a choice). Then I’d have added 50% to the time frame for the expected stragglers and that extended date defines the hugely publicised open up date… And if 10M Aussies don’t take the vaccine cause they are antivaxers, that’s ok cause they are adults and they had ample opportunity. Soon enough there will be less antivaxers to worry about - it’s natural selection at work
But we have mixed messages and Gladys, the idiot in charge, just confuses everyone without providing information to bring the population along with here chosen ideological journey..
Whatever the case, I don’t believe this pandemic is being handled correctly but all I can do is take the vaccine. I’m covered so I shouldn‘t die from any stray infection, though who knows what new variant may come into being and how this new variants may behave
So, are we going to open up without future lockdowns…. recognise bullshite and don't swallow is my suggestion
