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The one good thing here is that Australia doesn't have any COVID outside of quarantine facilities. Europe is in far more need than Australia so it's probably fo

• 0xfaded 6y ago
  Think of the de-risking achieved by vaccinating the people working in the quarantine hotels. Those 2500 vaccines would provide much higher value in Australia than saving face for some of the most incompetent politicians on the planet.
• pgeorgi 6y ago
  Hard to keep people alive when you have vaccine producers that don't deliver on their contracts yet ship out the very same stuff to other customers. Not that you'd need it, as apparently Australia will be able to produce its own AZ vaccine by end of March, but ask AZ to ship batches made in the UK or US to Australia and see how well that goes: at least the EU is allowing exports as long as it's not singularly expected to bear the impact of production issues.
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• 0xy 6y ago
  Australia's economy, and in particular Victoria's, was shattered by the longest and strictest lockdown globally. It's nice if you got to keep your job, but many businesses and lives were destroyed. Especially blue collar businesses. The government offered the businesses that it literally forced out of business essentially zero compensation. Are we supposed to be perpetually in and out of lockdowns for years until the rest of the world is vaccinated? Economic downturn is directly linked to adverse health outcomes, not just including suicide but things like deferred treatments, depression and otherwise.