What Should We Make of the Push for Compulsory Vaccines?
What should we make of Morrison’s push for compulsory vaccines? Let me begin with some words of encouragement. The rather reckless talk of mandatory vaccines that Scott Morrison was pushing Wednesday morning received such a huge public backlash that by the afternoon he had to do a major backtrack and basically say. ‘Oh, I did not really mean it would be mandatory’. Never stop speaking out – your voice matters. He had said that he wanted at least 95 per cent of Australians to take the vaccine, and he also said on 3AW radio that he would like the vaccine…
Anti-Science Persecution of Conscientious Objectors Continues
Raff Ciccone, a Federal Labor Senator in Victoria, has argued in The Age that businesses should be allowed to deny entry to people who have refused a rushed and ineffective COVID-19 vaccine. Ciccone argues that employers of workers in so-called vulnerable communities and event ticket sellers could deny objectors if they don’t have the right stamp in their ‘vaccine passport’. This needs to stop now. The worship of speculative projections about the effectiveness of vaccine shots is anti-science. We already know available influenza shots are just 40-60% effective, according to recent gold-standard studies. COVID-19 is a serious upper respiratory infection…