Originally Posted by
halfmoon
The reality is the borders will be closed for years to come. Vaccination of a large portion of the population won't change the politicians stance on zero cases. The Australian people are basically prisoners. Quarantine is here to stay.
Sadly I believe you are correct.
While the vaccine is considered effective when looking at the data on a macro time scale given how new it is. Long term it is still an enormous unknown when it comes to what will happen with further viral mutations (India for example is pushing a 1.3 billion population, god only knows what could happen to the virus as it spreads through the population there) then there is if booster shots will be required and if they will continue to be effective. I mean even the longer term side effects the vaccine may have on our own bodies...far too many unknowns with this virus thus far for Scotty or the airline CEOs to be calling that international ops are open for business from date X.