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Aussie TV icon Ernie Dingo has been hit with death threats after he stepped up to help Western Australia lift its lagging vaccination rates.
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“People don’t sit down and talk a lot with our elders and that’s what the issue is,” Dingo told the ABC earlier this week.

“It’s a slow pace, when you sit down with the elders, you’ve got to sit through. You learn more by never asking a question. But in this case, we need to speed things up.”
https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/ernie-dingo-targeted-by-antivaxxers-hit-with-death-threats-over-covid-vaccination-campaign/news-story/c389f57a262e880a6b94857eef54bb8a

Why are governments threatening people who don't get vaccinated?

Why are governments threatening people who don't get vaccinated?

The far more pertinent question is why are businesses doing just that !!  They set the tone.  They have that right.

Economics.

Economics.

Hardly ... certainly not the airlines.

As a direct result of the ongoing global pandemic, we are living with an economic downturn whose scope and magnitude is staggering.

Governments around the world, including the Australian government, face a difficult balancing act – managing a serious public health crisis without causing economic and social devastation.
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Managing the dynamics of a dangerous pandemic isn’t a familiar or comfortable experience for economists and policy makers. But neither is it a comfortable experience for epidemiologist to entertain the idea of tolerating some level of spread for a deadly disease. This is uncharted territory for all.

Given the stakes, we need to find our path fast, and learn on the go.

This crisis is different from any other in living memory. It requires adaptive thinking that accounts for complex tradeoffs between managing the pandemic and managing economic and social well-being.

This can be achieved by targeting an appropriately chosen constraint, like the capacity of the healthcare system.

Implementing this approach requires that we build new models that combine economic and epidemiological data, and collect accurate data concerning the course of the epidemic through widespread testing.

The challenge is formidable but the concerted, whole-hearted and decisive effort defeated fascism eighty years ago – so there is no reason to believe we have to surrender to this virus, or the inevitable pandemics to come in the future.
https://fbe.unimelb.edu.au/newsroom/the-economics-of-covid-19

The economic imperative is to keep COVID under control.

Of course, the most compelling evidence is the fact that enterprises are happily complying with government mandates or, in many cases, pre-empting them or going beyond the mandated requirements.  For example, Alan Joyce led the way in announcing that all QANTAS passengers must be fully vaccinated.  The economic imperative is to keep COVID under control.