ozyclint
WKR
It's total BS alright! Sydney has been locked down for 4-6 weeks, I can't remember how long. On Friday they announced the entire state of NSW will be in lock down. Yes you can be living in outback NSW and you are locked down too. Western Australia has announced that anyone entering must provide 'vaccination papers'.We have friends in Australia and its flat out criminal how those people are being treated.
other parts of the country go in lockdown at the occurrence of a few cases.
Sydney has been having up to 300-400 cases per day. The rhetoric suggests that lock down will last until they have 80% of people vaccinated. The vaccination program has been going on since the start of this year and 25% of the population is vaccinated and there is only 25 million of us!
I'm not sure what they'll do or expect when they get to 80% vaccinated but still have 1000's of cases per day just like the UK is experiencing now.
I said to my wife a year ago when we had virtually no cases and our borders were closed that we are just prolonging the inevitable. What's happened in Europe and USA will happen here except we'll be 18 months later with a ruined economy before we get there. Australia and New Zealand have been turtles hiding in their shells, safe but can never poke their heads out into the world. Eventually you need to come out of your shell.
Our rights will never be the same here. They are all ready talking different rules for vax vs non vax etc. being vaxxed will be optional but doing anything that resembles being a human will require vax.
If you have to coerce the population into getting vaxed is the disease really that bad? If it was ebola or something with high mortality rates then there would be no vaccine hesitancy like we are seeing here in Australia.
When our vaccine program started the uptake rate was pleasing to the Govt. I said to my wife that those are just the people who want it. When they are done watch the rate plummet. Supply has been an issue here as well as the medical advice around it. one day they say AstraZeneca is not for your age group the next day they say yes it is for your age group. They say if you don't want AZ then wait for Pfizer. "Oh, we're having trouble getting Pfizer supplies you should actually get AZ"
The meme of Silence of the lambs' Buffalo Bill looking down the well saying, "It puts the needle in its arm or it gets the lockdown again" sums up what's happening here.