Originally Posted by
Australopithecus
[h2][size=13px]I cannot believe this. The normal full licence process takes years. The emergency use authorisations issued by every other western nation of note uses the same strict oversight guidelines and processes, just with the data available today. If we wait until the data set is large enough to give comfort to some bureaucrats then we really won't have an industry left. Morrison is a smirking lightweight who only recognises leadership so that he can stab it in the back.
Maybe if Airlines offered free freight transport of the vaccine into and around Australia in exchange for the Federal Government expediting the rollout of it? It's pretty ridiculous for Greg Hunt to say implementing the vaccine earlier would be "irresponsible and reckless" considering the states are not willing to allow any outbreaks until herd immunity is reached. It seems to me as if the Feds are going to play politics as a FU to the states just to spite them.
So the question then asked is, if the Federal government are ending jobkeeper in March but aren't going to have enough herd immunity to allow an easing of restrictions until October, what happens in the intervening 7 months? Does it make Australians desperate and angry only to have it resolved and the Federal government's pandemic response declared a success immediately before the next Federal Election, which can be called at any time from August 2021 to September 2022?
Labor calls for Australia's Covid vaccine rollout to be accelerated