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Slowly, slowly... “Vaccination alone is no guarantee that you can open up, and this is a discussion I had with Professor (Brendan) Murphy in just the last 24 hours, that if the whole country was vaccinated, you couldn’t just open up the borders,” Mr Hunt said.

If it's any consolation, there never was a realistic prospect of that happening. From what I'm hearing this might actually turn out to be a good thing in terms of the Australian government taking a somewhat more flexible approach to (some) cross-border movement...

After allowing a few days for existing bookings to be shifted, surely it would make sense to just start offering the AZ vaccine to anyone 50+ who wants it? You have to vaccinate them sometime, may as well do it now while Pfizer isn't exactly keeping everyone busy...

Were you perhaps thinking of low platelet counts?

Speaking of bands, should be an awesome Bluesfest long weekend. What better way to spread the joy?

Australia had its last COVID-19 death about three months ago, I believe. And about a month before that, and a month before that. So something like four in the last five months. Understandable, perhaps, that some want a vaccine rolled out quickly to protect you all from your own state...

Oh then I wonder could it possibly be the case that the initially measured pace of the vaccine rollout is absolutely no problem whatsoever and a lot of people are just making a fuss about nothing 🤷‍♀️

It’s tough when they have to manoeuvre around all the corpses piled in the streets. :eek: A bit of perspective, perhaps?

Pure fruitcakery with a massive topping of nut.

By October boosters and multivalent vaccines will be either in production or well and truly in the pipeline. What would make anyone believe that the Australian government would take any risks before waiting for those to become available?

Wow, a politician with a strong background in marketing read the room and spun a moderately more aspirational story aimed at encouraging vaccine uptake. Time to go on an all-out international booking RAMPAGE!!!

I'd say you'd be a perfect candidate for home quarantine, but you didn't seem all that keen about affording me the same consideration:

A few months ago our High Commission was told to base Australian staffing decisions on the assumption that caps on incoming travel would remain in place until December 2021. It’s relevant in part because some staffing decisions depend on the number of our citizens in Australia, whether temporary...

Pathetic.

*former* Japan PM stated...

I consider that quite optimistic. To the tune of around 74%pt. I’m heading back to Tokyo this week to work on my country’s delegation to an Olympics I see virtually no prospect of occurring. Tokyo will be effectively in a state of emergency from this Friday with the restrictions to be ramped...

What you mean is "I agree with..." Pretty much everyone I've heard characterize the economy versus public health trade-off in such binary terms is doing so out of ignorance as to the degree to which the economy is already screwed. Often because their own personal circumstances haven't changed...

ABS data on deaths by state of usual residence: Victoria 2018: 38,231 2019: 43,944 Amazing that they managed to hold things together in 2019, really.

And that's the whole problem. COVID-19 and the necessary public health response are all 37 shades of grey. 1609501388 Not necessarily incorrect.