National Cabinet is expected to announce that booster vaccine shots will soon become mandatory for Australians, despite around 2.5 million people across the nation already recorded as being infected with Omicron (and many more unrecorded).
Yet curiously, these same mandates will not apply to international arrivals, who will be allowed to enter Australia with only two vaccine shots, according to Prime Minister Scott Morrison:
Although the national cabinet is debating whether to change the domestic definition of fully vaccinated from two doses to three, the definition for vaccinated foreign arrivals will stay at two doses of a recognised vaccine, Mr Morrison said…
“For many other small businesses, a shortage of workers has caused significant issues and forced many to close,” [Westpac chief executive Peter King] said.
“Re-opening international borders will ensure the return of much-needed skilled resources for the country but also supply a stable source of people; whether it be backpackers, students or tourists who provide employment in the services sector, as well as a stable stream of customers.”
Why should Australians be subjected to harsher vaccination requirements than foreigners arriving in Australia, especially given the poor efficacy of “approved” vaccines like China’s Sinopharm and Russia’s Sputnik (the latter of which is not even recognised by the WHO)?
Why is there one rule for Australians and another set of rules for foreign arrivals? If boosters are supposedly necessary to slow the spread of Omicron and take strain off the hospital system, then they should equally apply to international arrivals.
This goes to show how desperate the federal government and business lobbies are to reboot the population ponzi. They are happy to protect the right of foreign nationals to travel. Not happy to protect Aussie’s health.
