Originally Posted by
imaragingbull
Because the alternatives are:
1) without the vaccination’s mass adoption, the deaths from COVID-19 will be more than the few blood clot issues are being seen. If you are to compare to the US if Australia needs to live with the virus, that would be ~40k - 50k Australian deaths. Yes, there won’t be as severe an outbreak given learnings... but at some point Australia will need to not lockdown every 2 minutes. Hence, the need to progress on this topic.
2) Australia can’t be so insular long-term for the economy. Enough time has passed for there to be a solution to this. Australia’s GDP has reliance on tourism, as well as our universities benefiting from international students (and ourselves).
3) International borders need to open and that is the best path to allow families to reunite, businesses to return to normalcy.
In the individual lens, I see the argument of “why I specifically shouldn’t bother”, but it is the collective effort to have a majority of the nation immune via the vaccination or already having antibodies. For Australia, the vaccine is especially important given there was virtually no outbreak and people don’t have antibodies. So if there is an outbreak, it could be dire.
Interesting that the conspiracy theories and opinions on this are seldom held by highly educated, rational and reasoned scientists, medical professionals, etc.
Anyway, do what you want, doesn’t bother me at all and I won’t question it. Just stating reasons towards how accepting a scientifically and medically proven vaccine will allow life return to normal.