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How will the Australian state's vaccination targets be met without maintaining the restrictions which are used to coerce people into getting vaccinated? Things might be somewhat relaxed by December just because it's summer in Australia, but I have a hard time seeing you go the way of "just live with it like the flu" like Denmark or Singapore over the long term.

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Australia has a traditionally high rate of vaccination.

The biggest problems are a huge focus on the risks of AstraZeneca, and the overall lack of availability of Vaccines.

The vaccine rollout is progressing well, despite the rocky start and general fuckups by the federal government.

We're on track for 70% double-dosed by 24th of October, and 80% by 7th of November[1].

Those are the two major figures for rolling-back restrictions that were put in place. Individual states are varying on their own internal restrictions.

So, you can see that coercion isn't required.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/datablog/ng-inter...

Singapore hit 85%, opened up, and immediately experienced an explosion in cases. Australia will either have to accept the same outcome or continue lockdowns and quarantines to suppress outbreaks indefinitely.

Coercion might not be required, but it is certainly being used (at least in victoria). With large numbers of low risk citizens being told they need to choose between getting the vaccine and their job.

> An extremely long list of “authorised workers” are now required to be vaccinated, including marriage celebrants, personal trainers, emergency service workers, public sector employees, religious workers, and many others. All authorised workers who do not comply with the vaccination requirement will not be permitted to attend their place of employment but will have to work from home or lose their jobs.

https://www.abc.net.au/religion/human-rights-and-mandatory-c...

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