leitch
Feelin' a bit rrranty
I think that remains true, it's just that the threshold for opening up is higher than the ~60% vaccination rate that the UK has achieved.Its interesting though right, because the political rhetoric here has always been that "the only way we'll get back to normal, is having everyone vaccinated" or some variant of.
To me it ties in a bit with the logical disconnect in the discussion around travel exemptions etc for people who are vaccinated - evidence is that vaccinated people can still catch and transmit COVID (albeit at reduced rates), so exempting them from border closures or other restrictions doesn't actually make sense while there are still huge swathes of unvaccinated population.
The key benefit of vaccination is in reducing hospitalisation/mortality rates, so it's really not until "everyone" (or near enough to) is vaccinated that we can afford to have higher confidence in living without movement/density/mask-wearing restrictions.
Initially the Aus go-slow approach was commended because we had low-zero COVID and the vaccines were relatively untested, so we could afford to wait a few months and watch what happened elsewhere RE: adverse reactions etc. That part was intentional.I wonder how much of our lag has been driven not by incompetence, but intentions to see what happens elsewhere.
There's no benefit or wisdom to our current lag.