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You do not know that. Which basically invalidates the rest of your 'argument'.

Sounds like the Gold Standard.

Australia has required an expert in herding cats.

Time to stop your relentless irrational trolling. Aren’t we all supposed to be in this together, because you don’t believe it’s fair to ask some to sacrifice more than others?

It certainly won't speed things up at our end. Given how many people die in aged care on any given day, there will immediately be people dying completely coincidentally within days of taking the vaccine, with all the attendant media noise. Which will serve as more fuel for the insular and...

Thank you, I now have a very clear idea as to the rationality of your opinions.

So what do you consider ‘low’ in this context?

Not really. Things can get tentatively back under way without being anything remotely close to 'normal'. You can't just flick a switch. Predicting vaccine rollout timing and the like is ultimately less important than predicting what your government will do. At the moment they are working...

The Australian government will be more of a problem than the Japanese government when it comes to Aussies attending the Olympics: https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Tokyo-2020-Olympics/Japan-readies-for-big-Olympic-crowds-with-high-tech-precautions

It really seems to be all or nothing with you... A vaccine was never going to be a panacea, which is why binary thinking without any attention to actual risk levels will ultimately prove so expensive and disruptive.

Updated government plan (input to JOC) is to allow foreign spectators without vaccination (depending on the country of origin). Tourists will be required to install the COCOA app (*) and have it linked to their visa and ticketing information. The government is hoping the event will serve as a...

I’m not happy about it either, as I have zero family where I happen to be working. But everything I’ve seen suggests that people won’t be entering Australia freely until 2022, or perhaps a chosen few miraculously before Christmas 2021.

I don’t have the same cabin fever as many as I’ve been able to keep flying between Canberra and Japan and have antibodies to show for it. But when it comes to a timeframe? Think about how hard it is to get into Australia now. Think about the backlog that still needs to be cleared. Think about...

At some point there will need to be a serious quantification of “very limited chance”. If you want to limit that chance to zero you’ll be waiting a very long time. There will still be some potential for super-spreading events in a partially vaccinated world because some geographically clustered...

https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2020-11-23-oxford-university-breakthrough-global-covid-19-vaccine The University of Oxford, in collaboration with AstraZeneca plc, today announces interim trial data from its Phase III trials

Allowed to leave in December 2021 for return in or after January 2022.

I believe we have a current ED Dr on here who admits to not necessarily being an expert when it comes to public health issues...

What? https://www.csiro.au/en/News/News-releases/2020/Covid19-expert-commentary-D614G-mutation-of-SARS-CoV-2 In Australia it currently seems to be less frequent than the world average, appearing in only 50 per cent of the surveyed sequences (in 717 high quality isolates out of the total 1300...

Quick! SLAM those borders!

If you want to leave, you can do it now, just say you’re going for more than three months. It’s the getting back that will be a problem if you’re determined not to be vaccinated.