Jon Faine is clear: If you have been eligible, but have simply not bothered to get the jab, you have disqualified yourself from whinging about lockdown | OPINION lockdown pandemic covid covid19 coronavirus
People think nothing of doing that for football final tickets or to see their favourite band, so why the whining when it helps save lives?
Because the economic rebound is uneven, assistance is still needed for the performing arts, some tourism operations, universities, businesses dependent on overseas students – they are all feeling the pain. Those businesses that rorted JobKeeper ought be hounded until they help out those who got nothing.
Yet our hard-line approach is widely supported. Sure, it would be better if more paramedics were vaccinated, if the offer by aged-care operators to vaccinate their own staff had been met with agreement instead of refusal, if the new quarantine facility had been fast-tracked and was now ready instead of delayed.
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