NSW’s vaccine rollout is well advanced with 86.2% of the state’s 12+ population already double-vaccinated and the 90% threshold expected to be hit this week.
This would make NSW one of the most highly vaccinated jurisdictions in the world.
NSW’s active cases have also plummeted to three month lows with the outbreak seemingly improving everyday despite Sydney reopening weeks ago:
In a similar vein, both COVID hospitalisations and ICU admissions in NSW have plummeted since mid-September:
Despite the unambiguously good news surrounding COVID in NSW, Labor Opposition leader Chris Minns said he supported delaying freedoms for the unvaccinated:
The New South Wales opposition leader, Chris Minns, says a delay in freedoms for unvaccinated people will help protect the state’s hospitals.
From tomorrow, fully vaccinated Sydneysiders will be allowed to travel to regional New South Wales and overseas, as part of the next stage of reopening.
It is believed the state government is considering postponing December the first as the date unvaccinated people will be allowed to do more.
Mr Minns says he will support any move to postpone freedoms for those who are not fully vaccinated.
It seems Victoria’s madness is spreading interstate.
Curiously, NSW will today begin accepting international arrivals of people vaccinated with the questionable Sinovac vaccine. Yet, the Labor Opposition wants unvaccinated citizens to remain under ‘lock and key’ past December despite the state being more than 90% vaccinated and cases and hospitalisations plummeting.
What exactly is the NSW Opposition leader hoping to achieve with such a policy? Maintaining draconian segregation of the unvaccinated beyond December is unnecessary and overly divisive.
Vaccination doesn’t stop the spread of the virus (just look at Israel, which is highly inoculated with Pfizer, where daily cases recently hit an all-time high). Vaccination only protects against serious illness and death.
Those that are double vaccinated should, therefore, not fear or ostracize the unvaccinated, as they are protected.
Health policy should be based on robust evidence and expert advice, not politics.
