Many people will learn that they can live without those "social mores". We don't have to travel overseas. We don't have to eat out. We would be better off if only the people wanting to do university courses to get into professions vital to society did so; all the social workers, arty types and people currently learning how to be antisocial, activists, trouble makers and idiots could do what they do by correspondence. We don't have to form into mobs to watch a few other people do something useless that they get ridiculous amounts of money to do - sport, concerts etc. If you can work from home, you can amuse yourself at home or on your own out in the fresh air.

The economy will take a hit, of course, but the increasingly woke corporate sector can handle that and find new ways to make money.

People are already staying away from mass entertainment because of wokeness, knee bending and whining about racism. Authoritarian restrictions and surveillance because of the Chinese flu would be just another reason to do so.

If you don't want to live like that, fight authoritarian governments. Get back back to doing what people with balls used to do. Contact the likes of Morrison and remind them that they work for you and that they rely on you for their cushy, privileged jobs.

Perhaps, maybe, who knows, debatable. Simply put, the only solution is to vaccinate and vaccinate the whole world.

Preferably before this killer pathogen mutates until it develops a new variant that's ten times more virulent/vaccine-resistant. Vaccine resistance created by those hold outs who refuse the jab but get reinfected time after time. And those who decide they don't need the second jab or booster shot?

Our rights have never ever been included in an unalienable bill of irrevocable rights! But are extended by elected officials as a privilege they can extend at will. This must change.

We will need a fit for purpose quarantine system for years going forward and the routine sanitation of all inbound goods, least we introduce the aforementioned new strain via that currently ignored pathway?

When that occurs, the only treatment that may save lives is isolating hyperbaric chambers replete with commodes, inbuilt access gloves etc, that enable non-contact treatment from outside. Treatment essentially flooding the patient with oxygen laced with ozone? At not less than three atmospheres.

We build these now and create a stockpile that can be retasked for a myriad of conditions. Otherwise complacent she'll be right/I'm all right jack, pollies will react as always, too late! Dumb luck on an island continent.

We could create and manufacture around 8-9 really effective vaccines if we could just get past the endlessly prevaricating pollies with the purse strings and shite for brains. And just leave it to the experts.

You'd be forgiven for believing some of these boneheads want to keep this mongrel disease circulating indefinitely but limited with quarantine controls and other badly managed measures.

The rich and privileged are just as arrogant as they ever were and the world over will pay a bewildering cost for that fatally flawed mindset!

Just because it's new technology shouldn't mean we don't do it. Particularly when that could lead to a host of effective cancer treatments and maybe a cure for HIV/aids and many other applications?

The sky's the limit and we do punch well about our weight in biomedicine!
Alan B.

Alan B

The makers of the jab are not claiming that it stops you getting the virus, getting sick, dying, or spreading it to others.

Plus, if the jabs work, then there's no need for anyone to know anyone else's vaccination status, and no need everyone to get it, is there?

So how does what you're saying make sense?

Ttbn
You don't get to decide what everyone else's values are.

Cumberland,

No, I don't get to decide what other's values are. You seem to be the man for that. I speak only for myself. I simply give my OPINION. Have you not noticed that word in this site's description? I also don't tend NOT to go on and on about it, unlike some bores I won't name.

Blessed be the author for advocating a simpler lifestyle in the country and for quoting the wisdom of C. S. Lewis.

The trigger for her positive thoughts, however, is a bit strange: all this fuss and rage just for this little COVID jab?

Why, can't one accept a vaccine AND enjoy a wholesome independent lifestyle in the country, away from cities, industry, luxury and governments?

Speaking of bores ttbn is the most predictably boring contributor to this forum.

... predictably boring contributor ....
Daffy Duck,
He's definitely not boring, you are. Just because you're socially inept & don't understand does not make him boring.
Try & get among some everyday people at times & you'll see what I mean !
Stay away from the obsolete Arty-Farty crowd !

Cumberland. All you say is correct and gets no argument from me.

I wasn't saying anything else, just that there are other more promising more efficacious vaccines with fewer side effects and could lead to other medical breakthroughs that could create an economic bonanza for Australia and many Australians.

Besides as you say, what's on the table now locally, may not be effective against some of the new variants and tantamount to taking last seasons flu vaccine to find it totally ineffective against this season's variant.

We do some world-leading research and we do have as many as a dozen new MR candidates that could become the gold standard the rest of the world wants and could be made here and exported from here.

I'm just looking at the possible economic advantages as opposed to business as usual and exporting our best minds and the bulk of our best ideas. Time we invested for the future and for Australia, not anybody with a handful of allegorical silver.

And time we stopped relying on the Chinese nanny teat of tourism and students and once again become a nation that makes things.

When that was the literal mindset and before the pollies sold us down the river, we were the third wealthiest nation on the planet and a debt-free, creditor one at that.

We don't need more people just mass automation and an energy policy that enables that as well as real tax reform and the downsized rationalisation of government. The new slogan for industry ought to be, Automate or perish!
Alan B.

Alan B.

Well I think there's plenty of automate or perish going on LOL.