[cempaka]

> The choice was take the best vaccine humanity could produce at short notice, or take your chances with COVID.

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.