ACT to keep Pfizer stocks as NSW pleads for more doses

Well written and thoughtful. Even idiots would understand.

Sorry, but no. ‘We don’t need the vaccines’??’ Yes, we flipping well do!

We’re already giving 10% of our vaccines to NSW. I’m in my thirties, live in Canberra, and can’t get a first dose for a couple more months.

It’s grossly unfair of people who are already vaccinated to throw the rest of Canberrans under the bus because they’re safe.

NSW voted for the mess they’re in. In the ACT we’re surrounded by them and in a precarious situation.

It’s not selfish of me to want to be protected.

So is your state-ment – political, that is! How can you be certain that we don’t need the vaccines. Very few people have had more than one shot?
Vote Liberal do we? 😉

Sam Oak,
Why don’t we need the vaccines?

Are we somehow mythically protected from Covid entering the ACT?

We can’t enforce a hard border closure to NSW like the other states can, the only thing that matters is the total number of people Vaccinated.

Funny how selfish we can be in a life-threatening situation. ACT has never had an outbreak and the risks of one are vanishingly small. Thirty year old Canberrans getting vaccinated now is like first class passengers getting the spare life jackets while escaping off the only life boats on a sinking Titanic. You forget we are all Australians and sure the leaders have made mistakes but now we call ourselves Canberrans and it is an us versus them mentality.

Sam Oak,
That is a ludicrous position. What on earth makes you think the chances of an outbreak in Canberra are vanishingly small when we are only 2.5 hours down the road from Sydney and there have already been cases in close proximity to the ACT and seeding events from Sydney in multiple other states.

And no 30 year olds are being Vaccinated in Canberra, they are simply now able to register their interest for when supply of Pfizer increases.

Not only that, there is already a massive oversupply of Astra Zeneca that is very effective and almost everyone can go to a GP and get.

Chewy14,
What’s the difference between allocating more vaccines to NSW and vaccinating frontline health workers first? Thought the idea was to protect the rest of the population by targeting those groups most at risk. Would think at this point that the chances of an outbreak are significantly higher for the larger states where population density is an issue. Smaller states like Tassie, ACT, NT have lower population density and therefore are of lower need of the vaccine. Sure we are 3 hours out from Sydney but we don’t have the same number of high rise apartment blocks and most of our population can work from home being mostly public servants.

Sam Oak,
Except Sydney is in lockdown so there should be minimal risk of exposure to those doing the right thing there. There also should be minimal exposure to other areas from these people because they can’t leave.

If your argument was to vaccinate essential workers that must leave the area or are forced into contact with the public, then I agree they could be prioritised within NSWs existing vaccine supply or any future unallocated supply that is planned.

Front-line healthcare workers are different in that they don’t have a choice about the risk of their exposure, its inherent to the job.

And I’ll repeat, there is an oversupply of Astra Zeneca available that people stuck in the Sydney lockdown can avail themselves of. The risks are tiny.

You only have to look at Victoria to see how easy things can change with an outbreak, the ACT should be looking to get our Vaccination rates as high as possible with the supplies we’ve got due to our proximity to Sydney. Lest we end up like them.

“We don’t need the vaccines” – very silly comment from a Liberal sounding voter.