Vaccination: mandated and/or incentivised

[Scot Dutchy]

You have to have your Covid passport to get into football matches here.

[JimC]

What will be interesting is the extent of push-back from the libertarian right...

[Scot Dutchy]

We dont have a libertarian right. Vaccination is the norm as is the case in all Northern European Social Democratises.

[JimC]

We have a small number, nothing like the US, but they have some influence on the conservative wing of the Liberal/National coalition currently in charge at the Federal level...

[NineBerry]

Look who's become top of the pops

[JimC]

I hear they've been self-injecting maple syrup...

[JimC]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-24/ ... /100401500

Australia's largest regional university, Charles Sturt University (CSU), has announced from next year it will be mandatory for all health students to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.

CSU said students who had not received both doses of a COVID vaccine would not be allocated a placement in 2022.

The university's executive dean of health and science, Professor Megan Smith, said there were about 4,000 students studying health, and at any one time about two-thirds were doing placements in hospitals and other health services.

"We already have that requirement for vaccines like hepatitis B and the flu vax.

"Ultimately for some students if they don't really want to be vaccinated, we'll have a conversation about whether or not there will be availability of placements and positions for them. If they're not vaccinated it may become difficult," she said.

Professor Smith said health students are part of phase 1A of the federal government's COVID vaccination rollout.

"They are going into environments where they're working with people that are in hospitals where people are unwell and vulnerable, so it's really important they are vaccinated," she said.

[Scot Dutchy]

Third level education is starting and all students must have a passport to attend lectures and mensae.

[JimC]

https://www.theage.com.au/business/work ... 58m0v.html

Vaccine mandates are beginning a march across America, constricting the places that people who have shunned the jabs can work, shop and play.

With the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine now fully approved by the US Food and Drug Administration, institutions central to their regions have announced tougher -- perhaps bellwether -- rules. In New York, a city driven by finance, Goldman Sachs requires bankers to prove they’ve been vaccinated. In football-crazed Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University will demand vaccines or negative COVID tests to see a game at Tiger Stadium, capacity 102,000.

CVS Health this week mandated shots for corporate employees and those working with patients, while Chevron added requirements for employees on oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. Walt Disney announced a deal with its roughly 40,000 unionised theme-park workers in Florida. Delta Air Lines said on Wednesday it would levy a monthly $US200 ($275) charge on workers who refuse to protect themselves.

Delta’s announcement came a week after Deutsche Bank told employees that they would only be allowed onto its US trading floors if they were fully vaccinated.

Such stringent requirements had been relatively rare in the US as companies and politicians tried to avoid angering a significant segment of the population hostile to vaccines and other health measures. But President Joe Biden this week encouraged public and private sector employers to crack down. The FDA approval emboldened them to demand that workers and consumers get shots or get out.

In government, 19 states, plus the nation’s capital and Puerto Rico, are already requiring at least some workers to be vaccinated or undergo regular testing. Ohio State University said on Tuesday that faculty, staff members and all of its almost 60,000 students must be vaccinated by October 15.

Critical juncture
Sandra Crouse Quinn, a professor in the University of Maryland’s School of Public Health, said she expected an “avalanche” of similar moves among public and private institutions. “Companies and universities believe that they have a stronger leg to stand on to mandate vaccines,” she said.

The US is reaching a critical juncture, with the emergence of the highly infectious Delta variant and more than 100 million eligible residents still not fully vaccinated. Alarming surges of hospitalisations in Florida and the Deep South have dispelled any lingering perception that current levels of immunity were enough to emerge from the pandemic.

[macdoc]

Learning the hard way at great cost to his healh and the healthcare system,

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british- ... -1.6153281

[Brian Peacock]

Who? What, where, when? How and why?

[JimC]

Those are all good questions, grasshopper...

[laklak]

My nephew the surgeon has COVID for the second time, after already having it once, being fully vaccinated, AND having a booster two weeks ago.

We're fucked, we can't control this thing.

[NineBerry]

It's like with the mosquitoes. Some people just attract them.

[Brian Peacock]

Hope it's just a mild dose lak.