Originally Posted by
percysmith
Make no mistake, I too would like it to happen.
Ideally, everyone who can take the vaccine should take it.
There are certain exclusions - my mother has cardiac problems and her cardio told her to wait. She legitimately belongs to the 30%.
So what do we do with the remaining 70%? The sceptics, the anti-vaxxers and frankly, the lazy?
a) throw everyone in jail who doesn't take the vaccine by 30 June 2021, PAP style?
b) open the border, regardless of uptake ratio, and tell the residents of Australia to fend for themselves?
I find both of these options un-Australian and less preferable to keeping the borders sealed until enough residents of Australia take up vaccines of their own free will, or the closed border strategy fails, whichever is earlier.
For those people that have legitimate issues like your mother, and needs to wait is completely understandable.
For those '70%' you mention, they're likely to never take the vaccine. So what do we do then? Because by your logic, we should wait for them - which will never happen. So we never open the borders?