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by rstuart4133
781 days ago
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I couldn't get past the paywall so I can comment on the headline. The answer to "is anyone listening" to an Autralian is "of course someone is listening". We had prepared enough doses of the AstraZeneca to vaccinate the entire country. Then some people got blood clotting disorders, and a few died. Being over 60 I was prepared to take the risk, but I wasn't given the choice. Most of it was thrown away. mRNA vaccines had lower risks, but no one would ship them to us. The plan was always to go into lock down until everybody who wanted to be vaccinated could be, so the end result was the country was in lock down for far longer than would have happened if, as the headline implies "no one was listening". As for the inevitable few unfortunates who did get a severe reaction to the mRNA vaccine - they knew the risks. After AstraZeneca you would have to be living under a rock to not be aware every vaccine came with risks. I don't know about the rest of the world, but being vaccinated is a personal choice in Australia. The choice was take the best vaccine humanity could produce at short notice, or take your chances with COVID. |
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The idea that this was the "choice" presented to Australians is just the worst sort of gaslighting. Of course your lockdowns weren't meant to last only until everyone who wanted a vaccine could get one, and didn't end when that was achieved; there were many explicit measures to target the unvaccinated and exclude them from society.
And of course, everyone who took the vaccine still "took their chances with COVID" since it never stopped them from getting it anyway.