8 October

This is the Covid story we’re all about to live. All existing vaccines lose effectiveness within 5 months. This isn’t unusual, your annual flu shot is the same, we’re saved by flu disappearing over Spring and Summer, giving us time to be boosted before the next winter. Covid doesn’t disappear over the warmer months. It’s not a seasonal disease like flu, just one more way the two have nothing in common. Last summer was a Covid disaster here, for example. Most Australians are therefore already past the period where their vaccines are strongly effective, having had their final shot 6 or more months ago. What’s the plan? There isn’t one. The last major protections we had, isolating infected people for 5 days (already a hopelessly weak protection), was removed by National Cabinet a short time ago. Why? Because the NSW and Victorian Premiers have elections soon, and thought it would be popular, so convinced National Cabinet to drop more measures. Just as Scott Morrison went to his election dropping measures, thinking it would be popular. The UK already arrived at this point, and we copied them. They’re seeing dramatic increases in infections and hospitalisations, right now. You cannot vaccinate your way out of a pandemic, if you believe you can, you’ve been listening to politicians, not scientists.