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There’s scant contemplation of what happens if either the state/national Covid vaccination goals of 80%x2 are not met or become apparent to be taking infinitely longer to reach. I note NSW’s first dose vaccination rate is gently slowing as it approaches 80% and the second dose proportion is increasing in the daily doses administered.

I hope governments have an honest backup plan if the 80 percent figure starts to look unattainable; it’s not good enough to blame people and turn them against one another. We have an interesting history of big talk, small results - 1990 child poverty statement, the NBN fiasco, the billion trees…