, shows that fully vaccinating 80 per cent of all Australians, and 95 per cent of over-70s, will give us the best chance of gradually returning to normal life – with open borders and no lockdowns. Aiming for anything less would risk a rapid surge in COVID-19 cases that overwhelms our hospitals, sending us back into long lockdowns.
So far getting Australians vaccinated has been seen as the Morrison government’s job. It has comprehensively failed at the first hurdle: securing enough vaccines. From October, supply should no longer be the issue: Australia will soon have enough doses to vaccinate 80 per cent of all Australians. The challenge will instead be getting those shots into arms as quickly as possible.
The federal government should let them help. Under its current plan, the federal government will allocate between just a fifth and one quarter of vaccine doses from August to December to state-run facilities. The bulk of the rollout is to be left to GPs. This balance is wrong. GPs are an important part of the rollout – about half of Australians who had not been vaccinated in June said they would prefer to receive their vaccine from a GP.
The states should expand state vaccination centres to make it as easy as possible for anyone who wants a jab to get one. Clinics should be established at convenient locations: at major sports events, workplaces, universities, public transport stations, housing commission estates, regional town centres, religious centres, and schools.
Seriously wishful thinking.
Even at 80% Australia will not open to the world under this plan. For a nation of immigrants this is truly pathetic.
Better just to name the date of Australia’s Freedom Day and let people make their decisions accordingly. 31/12/21 would be a good day to draw a line under the pandemic and move on. auspoI COVID19Aus
Stop stigmatising those of a free will
Yeah nah
Sorry your LNP mate said it wasn’t a race.
If the over 60s were also allowed to immediately get Pfizer the rate of vaccinated people would rise. The fact is the info re AZ has been confusing for many and the elderly need a vaccine offering best protection faster that AZ does after the 2 doses.
80% is impossible or 80% of over 18 yo maybe
Opinion: For a virus that kills people of an average age of 84! Younger if you've had the non liable, no oversight, toxic vaccine that doesn't prevent infection nor transmission.
And again. Australia = hysteria. 80% Why can everyone else do it with 50%? Why do we have the lowest speed limits Why can’t we buy wine in supermarkets Why do we have the highest fines for parking offences What’s wrong with us
80%? do y'all think we'll ever get to that number? lmao
Not so sure 80% is enough. With an R0 of 6 it would suggest an adjusted R0 of 1 in a population that is 5/6 vaccinated, ie 83% (just do the math) and that's assuming 100% efficacy. And it also needs to be higher than that to stop the spread. I would guess it's more like 90%.
Dr. Robert Malone is the inventor of mRNA Vaccine technology. great watch its short.
By the time we reach 80% the first people who were vaccinated will need booster shots.
Get vaccinated. It helps boost the Immune system.
You know, the jab that NOBODY IS RESPONSIBLE FOR if you get sick? Yeah, if you could all go out and get it, that would be GRREEAÀT.
Cool story bro needs more dragons Oh wait you're being serious. 80%? No chance 🤣🤣
We can open as long as vaccine is readily available to everyone. The 80% target is silly.
Err 20 percent of population are too young to get vaccine smh What a fail 60 percent is maximum So you're saying we never open
Life thrives by exertion, wanes without, or prolonged by pharmacy.
Will take at least 4 years. I am not getting any younger
So never achievable then. Gives the perfect excuse for the racist hicks MarkMcGowanMP and AnnastaciaMP to demand the borders are closed forever. Hey AnnastaciaMP how do you think the garbage QLD economy will go with no tourism and the world turning against coal? 🤪
But 100% vaccination of athletes & officials has resulted in positive cases & a lockdown to control/prevent outbreak. The vaccine is the ticket to freedom yet athletes are in lockdown.
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Stop pushing government propaganda
Why 80%? Europe is nowhere near 80% and they are managing just fine! How about 80% of the vulnerable and the boomers who don’t want the vaccine too bad. The over 70 have had their chance. OpenBorders fortressaustralia nannystate
How many months is that expected to take?
Good luck
The US Centre for Disease Control just released a recommendation that fully vaccinated people keep wearing masks. Keep social distancing. So even if 80% in Oz had the jab, y'all be still wearing masks and be scared to shake hands & hug friends for a long time to come. paranoia
By the time 80% get vaccinated it’ll be time for the booster…..try getting 80% to inject that stuff every year. So I very much doubt we’ll get back to normal.
WHY NOT REPORT THE CONTENT OF THE EXPERIMENTAL JABS? Why only focused on pushing the jabs relentlessly?
Why not report what's in the experimental jabs? Instead of the relentless pushing the jabs.
Being last with our rollout should at least allow us to learn from other countries and plan in advance.Crystal ball time-we’ll get to 60% by Xmas, then it will slow down,then we’ll be talking about incentives,then mandatory vaccinations. How about bringing all that in now,though?
Will never happen. 65% at best.
It’s not working in the Uk or have you not noticed?
The fact that no country in the world has so far got close to 80 per cent is neither here or there. Let’s just get as many people vaccinated as we can, explain to those who don’t what the risks are and go from there. These arbitrary figures will just cause future confusion.
Anti-vax comments being made on Twitter suggest that this will be very difficult to achieve.
1/ The 80% figure is such old news 2/ Bullshit
Each disease has its herd immunity threshold. A layperson and Thanos-ism believer as I am, I think 50+% suffice. The rest unvaccinated would naturally build their immunity over time. Just don’t take my word for it.
Another economist giving vaccine advice
If the idea of vaccinating kids under 12 if to protect the unvaccinated elderly, rather than providing any net benefit to the children being vaccinated, then vaccines for under 12s should not and will not be approved.
We will never go back to ‘normal’ w/e that is. This is the biggest wake up call the world has ever had. Business ‘as normal’ is no longer the path we should be on, it has led us to this state of disaster, it’s time to change, but we need leaders, good ones are in short supply
If Scott Morrison wasn't PM this would have happened 6 months ago.
It won’t get to 80% but they will have concede and open up regardless as the public will vote accordingly
I say open up at 60%
'will' not 'can'. 99% can
80% hahaha It took australia 19 months to reach 12% and they are talking about being normal after 80% that too fully vaccinated I guess they should clearly say that we are closed for next 50 years God bless LNP and ScottMorrisonMP for being so optymystic resignscottmorrison
It won’t happen. Let’s be realistic
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