Morrison government found wanting on COVID-19 vaccination rollout

It wasn't that long ago the Prime Minister and his government was trumpeting the fact that over three million Australians had been vaccinated against COVID-19 but in a moment that grandstanding came back to bite them on the proverbial.

Now a significant COVID outbreak in Victoria has done what the Morrison Government seemed incapable of and put the Australian COVID vaccination program into hyperdrive.

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All of a sudden there is a real sense of urgency about getting the community into vaccination hubs and centres.

What we all need to understand, as much as we crave a sense of normality, that can not truly happen until the vast majority of our population get the vaccine.

Certainly borders can not be reopened again and won't until we achieve out vaccination goals.

As the breakout in Victoria has shown, this will continue to be an issue in our community until we start treating the vaccination program as the number one priority for our community.

Sure our complacency may have been driven by our relative low rates of the virus, but it was up to the body responsible to override that complacency. And that body is the Morrison Government.

In the global vaccination data and using the recognised metric of people per 100 vaccinated, Australia sits WAY down the scale with 15 per each hundred vaccinated, just behind Equatorial Guinea and just ahead of India.

That equates to 13 per cent of the population vaccinated, but in actual fact just 1.9 per cent fully vaccinated.

Weigh this up against the likes of the United States (40 per cent fully vaccinated) and the UK (35 per cent fully vaccinated).

We are way behind the eightball.

For the record this author now qualifies to register for the vaccine in the 40-49 but has to wait at least two weeks after having the flu vaccine, following a particularly bad and near fatal case of man flu.

Don't delay, if you qualify or can get in for your shot please go and get it done. The sooner the better for us all.

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