Originally Posted by
dr dre
Does it relate to
this change.org petition? In that case don't worry, it only has 28,000 signatures, or 1% of the state's population. The one calling for borders to remain closed in vaccine free 2020 attracted
10x as much support. And apart from a few extremist epidemiologists there's no one of substance backing this petition, even the
AMA toned down their calls for borders remaining closed recently. The Chambers of Minerals and Energy, and Commerce and Industry support reopening and that's pretty much all that matters.
And if governments did what every petition called for them to do then we'd have
no "religious discrimination" bill about to be enacted and we'd have a
Royal Commission into Murdoch media.
To be fair there are some good arguments in that petition. The other petition is over a year old so it stands to reason it has more signatures and was done at a time when there wasn't widespread vaccination, so hardly apples and apples. I expect the AMA and industry are all still keeping their powder dry to see what happens in the next fortnight.