Oh for goodness sake! Do you really think the situation with Covid in Australia anywhere near comparable to that vast majority of countries in the world? Especially the countries in the graph ( except to South Korea). They have deadly health emergencies. How are we going here?
Have you seen the news of countries stopping their vaccination programs? Including countries in the EU in your graph.. Should we be following the quoted countries in that regard, do you think?
Our roll out is suiting our circumstances, not the circumstances In the USA, Norway Iceland Chile or anywhere else. How about that?
Sorry?
Economists calling out the government on its performance on a vaccine roll-out? Sorry, while I suppress a laugh. Perhaps they might stick to wrongly predicting the performance of you know, the economy. Now, when bat sexers have their say, I might pay attention.
The good perfesser says:
If Australia was vaccinating at the US rate we’d be vaccinating about 150,000 people per day. I dunno. What does he say about the comparative the death rates from COVID in Australia and the USA? Is that a 'rollout rate' he'd like to see?
You continue to get it terribly wrong, time and time again.
Let me address all of your errors, one at a time.
Do you really think the situation with Covid in Australia anywhere near comparable to that vast majority of countries in the world?
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.
Have you seen the news of countries stopping their vaccination programs? Including countries in the EU in your graph.. Should we be following the quoted countries in that regard, do you think?
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.
Our roll out is suiting our circumstances, not the circumstances In the USA, Norway Iceland Chile or anywhere else. How about that?
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).
What does he say about the comparative the death rates from COVID in Australia and the USA? Is that a 'rollout rate' he'd like to see?
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?
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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. Utterly embarrassing.
Thought you meant you were done and dusted in late April.
. What do I do?
