Australia has saved itself from Covid mass deaths and economic ruin, but NIC WHITE explains how our failure on many other fronts could see us left behind as the rest of the world gets back to business as usual - and we ALL share the blame
With only 910 deaths and 22,000 cases, Australia avoided Covid disaster
But this success obscured other serious failures in leadership and planning
Vaccine program is so badly botched it will keep borders closed until mid-2022
Families will be torn apart for 28 months and country bleeds tourist dollars Scott Morrison s hands off approach and poor quarantine also contributed
What we need is a dose of reality for our safety
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April 17, 2021 12.04am
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Opening Australia up to overseas travel is criminally foolish (“Overseas travel back on agenda”, April 16). We do not have herd immunity. We do not have a large percentage of the population vaccinated, and with the current limits on the AstraZeneca, the timeline for enough Pfizer is set in quicksand, rather than concrete. Alan Joyce and Scott Morrison are looking at profits, rather than the realities of human health and safety.