So an article not even written by an Australian on a non Australian site accounts for manipulation 
You know that I'm here in Aus too and nobody is forcing you to do shit with respect for the vaccine. There are no benefits in lockdowns. It is entirely up to you. Maybe the people you're around are exerting pressure, but that's just the circle you exist in. Hell, you can only get it if YOU go to a site that fuck all people know about and sign up YOURSELF to eventually get an appointment. There's nobody saying shit to you if you don't do it. Utter bullshit that you're being pressured to get it.
Not so, man. My gf works in aged care. Federal mandate was handed down to the states about a week and a half ago: First shot in by mid September or she's fired.
Yeah, I understand everyone wants mom to be as safe as possible but from the worker's side it's coercing consent to accept something they were offered and declined. If they legislate this in WA, it'll be to protect the elderly, who are already vaccinated, from a virus which isn't here, with a vaccine which doesn't eliminate transmission. Imo, that doesn't meet the threshold of justification for extorting consent from workers and throwing a foundational principal of medical ethics, informed consent, right out the window.
They're going to do real, measurable harm to these workers because it might possibly provide additional protection in the event of a hypothetical situation which could arise if we're willing to indulge in speculation to imagine it.
No. Polls say 86% of Australians surveyed favor mandatory vaccination for aged care workers. I say 86% of Australians favor mandates of which they themselves will not be the object.
We're getting ready to harm a group of people, strip away their rights, so that the rest of us can feel safe. It's fucked. It's savagery. It's the mindset that put Japanese into internment camps and burned women at the stake.
No one will acknowledge the morally precariousness of this. 2 MPs have yet to write back. The Human Rights Commission agrees its a grey area but can't interfere with the legislature. The man at the legislature told me that new laws generally take 3 weeks to pass, but covid legislation goes through in 24 hours. I'm still waiting for ATAGI to point me to the studies upon which the AHPPC has based their recommendation to the national cabinet. Lawyers don't even return my messages.
And I've made a point of saying, every time, that the vaccine is a good thing but coercing consent needs to be examined from a labour law and medical ethics standpoint. You can't get anyone to talk about it, because it's career suicide to breathe a word against the vaccine.
The "you can't be too safe" logic to justify this applies to you and me just as readily. But even if it goes no further than these 200,000 people, it's still indefensible.
