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Far too simple for people to call for employers to do the heavy lifting. Everyone talks "public health" but then leaves it to the wider populace to make the hard decisions.

And don't forget the community sector: Local football club? Chess Club? Men's Shed? Scout group? Who decides what the policy is? Who polices it? What powers do they have? Who is liable? Can they insure against liability?

Mine field, dogs breakfast, lawyers picnic (5 only, double vaxed of course)
Local AFL footy will be mandated by the AFL. Other community groups will be mandated by their constitution. In fact, with majority acceptance it's relarively easy to ban or suspend a member. The majority will dictate what happens at these community groups and by the sounds of it the majority want everyone to be vaccinated. Maybe they'll end up with the vaxxed and unvaxxed chess clubs.
 
There is only one medical expert who counts in Vic and that is Prof Sutton. All the others are may as well just post on PRE. There is no "second opinion" available to citizens when it comes to lockdown or other restrictions.
And that’s the problem.
Far too simple for people to call for employers to do the heavy lifting. Everyone talks "public health" but then leaves it to the wider populace to make the hard decisions.

And don't forget the community sector: Local football club? Chess Club? Men's Shed? Scout group? Who decides what the policy is? Who polices it? What powers do they have? Who is liable? Can they insure against liability?

Mine field, dogs breakfast, lawyers picnic (5 only, double vaxed of course)
100%. I think only the Government can mandate themselves and those that contract for them ie childcare and government construction projects. As I have stated before after health professionals start with politicians their offices, and all public servants who work in CBD. Build trust that we are all in this together.

After that allow personal accountability for each employer to make a decision that’s best for their circumstances. No mandates from Government. They would be taking more considerations onboard as they consider Worksafe industrial manslaughter laws, safety of their customers, will people feel comfortable attending there.

I feel that it’s so wrong asking cafes etc etc to ask for a vaccination passport. As we all know it’s already very very difficult to get people to check in and wear a mask. Just attend a service station to see what I mean.
 
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Local AFL footy will be mandated by the AFL. Other community groups will be mandated by their constitution. In fact, with majority acceptance it's relarively easy to ban or suspend a member. The majority will dictate what happens at these community groups and by the sounds of it the majority want everyone to be vaccinated. Maybe they'll end up with the vaxxed and unvaxxed chess clubs.
You already have the waxed and unwaxed at footy clubs, so now we will have vaxed and waxed, vaxed and unwaxed......
 
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Companies are already mandating it.
IMO
#1 No
#2 Yes
#3 this will definitely happen if unvaccinated are allowed to work therefore companies have no choice but to mandate
#4 these people do NOT want to acquire COVID-19 under any circumstances which makes #2 decision even more important.
#5 if working from home doesn't allow them to do their job satisfactorily then they must vaccinate or lose their job.

I don't think government can mandate it without legal challenge but companies certainly can based on the risk to other staff.

In essence, as I've said previously, if you don't vaccinate, your rights will be affected. That's a given.
yes all those are your opinion and others may agree or disagree. My point is that ultimately there needs to be a legal framework and legislation and some things will probably have to be tested in a court.
 
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There is only one medical expert who counts in Vic and that is Prof Sutton. All the others are may as well just post on PRE. There is no "second opinion" available to citizens when it comes to lockdown or other restrictions.
He is the face of that medical opinion and he is the one with the power under legislation but he is not making these decisions in isolation. There are lots of other medical experts involved
 
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He is the face of that medical opinion and he is the one with the power under legislation but he is not making these decisions in isolation. There are lots of other medical experts involved
No doubt you are right. But why is this such a mystery, of who is involved? Best way to build confidence is to be more transparent.
 
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One thing they have in common is they see themselves as victims - be it of government, western culture etc etc. I'm sure they justify behaviour because of this.

Very hard to see any other point of view or have empathy when one identifies as a victim.
Yes when one frames their whole identity on perceived victimhood. Their default position is to look at every situation through those optics. Nothing just happens. Every event is intertwined within the framework of things that cause their victimhood. As you infer. Usually these disparate groups have varying focuses and explained reasons for their particular victimhood. But the pandemic and the management measures around it have oddly caused their various manifestations of perceived victimhood to converge for a moment.

It's why I have said in other threads. There was wishful thinking that once the western world reaches a point of post-religion (we seem pretty close to being there), we reach a utopian endpoint where our society is run by logic, reason and rational thought. However I believe this type of vacuous victim identity politics has filled the void of religious superstition and dogma. Not only that, social media acts as it's steroid, to pump it up and derange the collective societal mind even further.
 
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yes all those are your opinion and others may agree or disagree. My point is that ultimately there needs to be a legal framework and legislation and some things will probably have to be tested in a court.
Obviously. It's a litigious world.
 

Top ivermectin expert says the drug does not treat COVID-19​


Dr. Timothy Geary, one of the world's foremost experts of Ivermectin, says the drug does not have any effectiveness fighting viruses.
Geary, who is the Research Chair in Parasite Biotechnology at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, says that the 2020 study which spawned much of the Ivermectin-craze is not being correctly read.
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He told DailyMail.com that the study did show that Ivermectin could inhibit the replication of COVID-19 virus cells, which is what many are reading from the study that makes them believe the drug has virus killing properties.
Geary explained, though, that the concentration of the drug used in the study were so high that it could not be used for treatment in a human, and would likely cause an overdose.
'In that study they showed that in cell cultures, Ivermectin could inhibit [Covid] replication, but the concentrations required for that effect were in a range called the micromolar range - very high concentrations relative to what you would find in the plasma of a treated person or an animal, which would be 20 to 50 times lower.'
He does not see too much harm in people using the drug in human-sized doses, though, as Geary assures that it is safe for consumption.
It is safe to use in doses of around 200 micrograms, and even people who are using it to incorrectly treat Covid are unlikely to suffer any major symptoms.
'There's no significant toxicity from those doses,' Geary says.
He also mentioned that the drug has been used billions of times in between humans and animals, and has never shown any ability to combat viruses outside of the laboratory.


 
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Local AFL footy will be mandated by the AFL.
Small point but there is no local AFL. There are local Aussie Rules leagues, but the AFL is the national league. Bizarrely it also makes decisions for other Aussie Rules leagues.
 
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Interesting observing the crowd at the protests. A lot of commentators seem to see what they want to see. All sorts of political axes to grind. Trying to paint a neat picture that it is a certain catch-all boogieman that is responsible for what they see as a reprehensible act.

"I see no non-Anglos or women" (the fault of whiteness and "toxic masculinity). "The CFMEU members aren't really involved, it's white neo-nazis posing as them and perhaps influencing half a dozen of them" (insinuation that left of centre unionists are neatly and uniformly the good guys, it is evil forces of "the right", whiteness and toxic masculinity that are the bad guys).

Then from the other side, I saw people bagging out the Sydney protestors as being overwhelmingly "Lebs" (and insinuation that multiculturalism and immigration is to blame). And sure there were plenty of people of Lebanese-Australian extraction in the crowd. As there are in the pictures I'm seeing from Melbourne yesterday. But it's a pretty diverse crowd.

What I see is a strange, disparate alliance. There are groups of people within society from all walks of life who have anti-establishment "you can't tell me what to do" ignorant chips on their shoulder. Intertwined with thugishness. I see it among bogan Aussies (I went to high school with a fair number of this demographic, of which not an insignificant number have spent their adult life in and out of prison as a result of not wanting to conform to societal norms and expectations). The western Sydney wannabe gangbanger Leb young males have this trait in spades. Clearly it is part of the culture of neo-nazi groups. And the CFMEU has fostered a culture of anti-establishment, intertwined with thugishness. When they have fostered this culture, I suppose it isn't surprising that it will manifest in this way around vaccination and lockdowns by certain elements/factions within the movement. Even in aboriginal areas there is a large hesitancy around vaccination (again, for understandable historical political reasons, there is an anti-establishment tilt in aboriginal communities).

As I say, a disparate alliance and mish-mash of people who are always looking for a way to display and express their "you can't tell me what to do" chip on their shoulder. And they do this in all sorts of ways on a normal daily basis. It's just that the current environment means they've found a common cause and fallen together by fluke of circumstance around vaccination and lockdowns.
Good post, but i disagree with the label pinning unionists as left wing.
Socially many sit to the right, and a fair proportion to the far right, not even including those who are extreme far right nutters.
 
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Good post, but i disagree with the label pinning unionists as left wing.
Socially many sit to the right, and a fair proportion to the far right, not even including those who are extreme far right nutters.
Absolutely agree Brodders. I suppose I was more phrasing in terms of how those that think of themselves as left (so they see their natural allies are the ALP, Unions, Greens etc) sometimes miss the nuances of the movements they identify as friends and allies, in trying to create a wishfully neat picture of who "their" people are and who their foes are.

Personally I sit a bit right of centre socially and a touch left of centre economically and environmentally. And hence, people find me a political oddity and are baffled. Can't put me into a neat box. It means of course, I really struggle placing my vote.

You might suggest based on my disparate positioning, I might have some kinship with the nutters you mention above. You'd be pleased to hear, I can say, unequivocally, no I do not! :)

I think my right of centre streak though is genuine social conservatism and traditionalism. Based around taking on personal duty, discipline and responsibility to firstly your family and then by extension to the community that supports you and your family. Mutual obligation and duty between individuals and institutions that form a society.....that sort of thing. Where as a lot of these protestors who we are talking about as right wing probably have tendencies towards libertarianism. So again there is right of centre and then there is right of centre.
 
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Small point but there is no local AFL. There are local Aussie Rules leagues, but the AFL is the national league. Bizarrely it also makes decisions for other Aussie Rules leagues.
Yes sorry I was distinguishing Australian Rules from other football codes. You do have to wear the AFL logo on your jumpers.
 
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Very hard to see any other point of view or have empathy when one identifies as a victim.
It’s fashionable to be a victim; a few have been AOTY lately.

And of course they have a right to protest given BLM went ahead unimpeded, as knuckleheaded as it is in the circumstances. It’s when they get violent that they lose any neutral support they might have. Putting coppers in hospital with broken bones… I mentioned bullets earlier. If that’s what it comes to, there is only themselves to blame.

Anti-authoritarianism isn’t uniquely Australian but the current runs deep here. I just think you need to pick your battles. This one reeks of dumb.
 
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A lot of people are showing a lot of things. I would be very wary of posting things from groups like RISE, or newscorpse without other evidence.
True, agree, seen a lot of crap too.
This was diffetent hadnt seen it before thats why i questioned It. I'll put it down as a myth
 
NSW had a good solution that is apparently encouraging vaccination for construction workers without the heavy-handed mandatory approach. Those building sites that allowed unvaccinated workers to be on-site were required to operate at 50% capacity. I don't believe those individuals were identified but they knew they were stopping others from working so they soon fell into line and got vaccinated. That approach could be costly for the co. if it goes on too long and won't work on selfish nuts who don't care about anyone else but it has worked so perhaps should be tried here. It's the heavy-handed orders that these workers object to so it's worth a try.
 
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