Yeh that's what I said. Don't vaccinate. FWIW I was vaccinated as soon as eligible so my actions don't support what you've said. If they offered me a choice to wait and allow more needy countries first I would have said yes.
I don't really understand your first three sentences there.
If we don't vaccinate, we stay locked down, more businesses go broke, more people lose jobs and if Delta breaks out we are in the pooh too, along with our health system. Clearly we must vaccinate our population as fast as possible, just like every other country in the world is doing. At the same time we should also assist our neighbours - and we are - although we could and should do more. We are helping the south pacific nations and Indonesia with vaccines, and we should continue making Astra Zeneca for them, as we are doing. They'll take it. They aren't worried about 3 deaths per 100K from clotting, people there are dying every day from Covid.
Do you think Aust should be fully vaccinated before Indonesia? Given a limited supply of vaccines should they have been more directed to countries most at need? Or should those that can pay get them first? Do you think we had any influence over that?
As far as the rest go we should be doing way more as a nation as far as poverty/inequality education/health etc. Its why I donate money towards some of these causes.
I don't think any nation should necessarily be fully vaccinated before another, but clearly with a population of 30 million on one island (mostly) vs 300 million spread over thousands of islands I'd be surprised if we didn't get it done first, because of our relative wealth per capita, better health systems, easier logistics. and so on.
We are able to manufacture and we should keep doing that - we should scale that up both for ourselves and others, and but for the bungling of messaging we'd all be happily taking AZ and shipping it to other countries.
I'm still working with a number of teams in Indo - many extended families of those team members have experienced deaths already. I'm talking to them every day - these are people with good jobs and money, but they have relatives and friends in tougher circumstances of course. One of my close colleagues just took 3 days off to care for a disabled aunt in Java who has covid now. My colleague now has symptoms - she's been vaccinated through her company but still, worrying times.
On your last point, glad to hear it.
