Our freedoms are being taken away...

[C_T_Russell]

And how is that my friends fault?
Ive met many people who are very academic who have not had the vaccine, quite a few to my surprise, sometimes i question whether we have actually even hit 90% with the amount of people ive bumped into who are not vaxxed.

I agree we have done well keeping covid out in the initial outbreak, but with delta it proved a waste of time, was so funny how they started rolling out the vaccine last min once we had that outbreak, they should have done the rollout earlier.

All those adverts on the TV saying how much freedom we would get with the vaccine, depicting no one wearing masks, rubbing noses together, has everybody forgotten?

The whole irony here is that now Australia is crying out for nurses since they had to kick the unvaxxed nurses out of their job and now they want them back when it suits them.
How hypocritical!

The good news is that these mandates are not going to last much longer, was just watching on the news that Grant Robertson said that we cant afford to buy any more vaccines for a 4th booster, which is good as it would be a waste of money anyway, since this vaccine doesnt protect you against omicron anyway.
We will be probably the best part of 6 months before this updated booster is ready and by then omicron will be well behind us.

"Ive met many people who are very academic who have not had the vaccine, quite a few to my surprise, sometimes i question whether we have actually even hit 90% with the amount of people ive bumped into who are not vaxxed."

If you continue to swim in the same tiny pool, then you're unlikely to meet anyone with a differing opinion.

Look around the world - we're not perfect but in comparison, we're not doing so very badly.

Easy for you to jump to your own conclusion isint it?
These are people I meet through work, not people I choose to have anything to do with!
I meet a fair few anti-5G loonies, flat earthers too and i have to put up with them ranting to me about their beliefs while im trying to fix a leak in their bathroom while on the other hand also meet others that are extremley pro vax and ask me about my vaccine status when I see them, which my reply is "my personal medical records are private and confidential" that shuts them up pretty quickly. They dont want to look like a fool and get charged for a callout if they force me to leave. Yes I have met a fair few what some would call "anti-vax" that are not what I would typically consider to be that kind of person, they tell me they have always had their whole family jabbed for everything in the book except for the covid jab, for various reasons.

Seems COVID/vaccination is the only topic of conversation people want to have these days, and im over it, i choose to change the subject when talking.

The facts are that people are loosing jobs for no sound reason when no ones health is affected when there are cases of people working from home who do not meet face-to-face with the public in their field of work and thats wrong IMHO.