#auspol #covid19aus Australia's choice of vaccination strategy has been mostly based on risk of Covid illness…

#auspol #covid19aus Australia's choice of vaccination strategy has been mostly based on risk of Covid illness i.e. oldest and most vulnerable first. Less said I think is that this is another shift towards a 'live with the virus strategy'. /1

Live with the virus politicians focus on hospital capacity, because the idea of preventing infection isn't important to them, you're supposed to live with the virus i.e. getting infected is expected. They'll therefore also focus a vaccination strategy on.../2

...harm minimisation, rather than infection prevention. Get the vulnerable vaccinated, up the ICU capacity, open up. Pretty much their strategy from the beginning. There are more strategic vaccination options, to prevent actual infection.../3

...which experts such as @MarylouiseMcla1 and @Globalbiosec have mentioned regularly, such as vaccinating the most mobile (younger) members of society as a priority, ring-vaccinating etc. Some of that has now been grafted onto the vaccine rollout, very late in the day. /end