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IMPORTANT // Please look after your loved ones, yourself and be kind to others. If you are feeling that the world is too hard to handle there is always help - I implore you not to hesitate in contacting one of these wonderful organisations Lifeline and Beyond Blue ... and I'm sure reaching out to our PRE community we will find a way to help. T.
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Wow, this is complete *smile*.
If we had invested in two international vaccines, Pfizer and Novax, we would currently have supplies of these vaccines and would be happily vaccinating our population and planning to open our borders.
Yes, it would have been a good decision to invest in 4 vaccines - the 2 that could be made here and the 2 which could be ordered from overseas.
The problem with the statement above is that it is a lie. We did not invest in Pfizer and Novax. If we had done so, we would not be waiting for them now.
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I've survived 15 months without getting or giving it and am banking on being able to do so for another 15 if need be.
They did invest in 4, but it was really poorly done. They bought what 5m doses of Pfizer, 50m odd of Novavax and something similar of AZ.
If they had properly weighted the acquisition of the 4 as opposed to flooding a few of them, and only buying a token few of others then we would be in a much better position.
Whilst they claim this is down to nationalism blah blah blah, this is bulldust. They made the wrong call.
Risk mitigation is not about getting the optimal pricing, its a balancing act being upside and downside, hence companies that hedge commodities / currencies don't do this to maximise profits, its about minimising risks and the government got this all wrong.
Just think, they ordered 55m pfizer / novavax (5m / 50m). We'd be in a much better position had that been 27.5m each which is proper risk mitigation. Using 2 but buying 90% of your total from 1 is really poor risk mitigation which is why we find ourselves in the position that we do now.
Can't argue with that logic. In fact I'm with you now. Vaccines are a low priority, after all anyone who has gone 15 months without catching Covid can surely go another 15.
In fact if we expand that logic world wide Covid should cease to exist in the very near future.
Back in the day I shared an office with a pack-a-day smoker.
When asked if he ever worried about lung cancer, his answer was that he had been smoking for 30 years, felt fine, didn't have cancer, and just didn't anticipate that he would ever get it.
When asked if he ever worried about lung cancer, his answer was that he had been smoking for 30 years, felt fine, didn't have cancer, and just didn't anticipate that he would ever get it.
Wasn't everyone praising him and his employer just a few pages ago? Old Henry said they did everything right, we wearing masks, sanitising etc If they were so compliant with the rules wtf did he allow his employee to be at work whilst awaiting a test result?? Methinks he overstated his compliance with the rules.
People are *smile* the sooner we all learn that and take responsibility for our own actions the better.
Mind your own business and keep your vaccinated asymptomatic untested arse clear.
Sorry, i thought we were engaged in an intellectual conversation. If i didnt know better I would think you resort to aggression and insults when you know your "logic" doesnt stand up to scrutiny.
Nobody's stopping anyone from rushing off to get their vaccine like it was the latest fashion accessory. It obviously wasn't your missus who died from blood clots. You lot incessantly p!ss and moan about the botched rollout but you've all managed to obtain your precious drugs without too much trouble. Enjoy your moral high ground.
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No, my "missus" is 1 of the 99.99993% of the population who hasnt died from the vaccine. Also fortunately no one in my family is one of the 1000 or so Aussies that have died from Covid, or 1 of the (insert figure here) who have lost their jobs due to shut downs.
Getting the vaccine is not about getting a fashion accessory. it is about helping keep everyone safe. and helping everyone return to a bit more normalcy.
And delay the opening up of the country for the rest of us because instead of being 50% vaccinated by then we will be less because of the stragglers
You're deluded if you think they're going to open the doors at 50%.
Mid-2022. What part of it don't you understand?
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