The NSW Premier has dropped a bombshell on talkback radio telling listeners there’s “no evidence” Covid vaccines cease transmission.
Dominic Perrottet, a month out from what polls are indicating may very well be a lineball state election, was fielding talkback calls on 2GB with Ben Fordham when he made the declare.
John a paramedic, informed the Premier that each he and his spouse, an emergency nurse, misplaced their jobs as a result of vaccine mandates.
Both are nonetheless unemployed.
“We are down in Sydney at the industrial relations committee trying to get her job back,” John mentioned.
“Police are still mandated out of jobs, SES volunteers. Doesn’t it seem disingenuous you are offering $10,000 sign-on bonuses to nurses to get them back into the industry, and me and my wife can’t work, my job still hasn’t been replaced as a paramedic. It’s an absolute disgrace.”
The Premier informed John he has repeatedly informed the private and non-private sector to finish vaccine mandates.
“I have made it very clear, and I couldn’t be clearer to the public service here in NSW to end vaccine mandates and the majority of the public service have done so,” a pissed off Premier mentioned “I have also made it clear to the private sector.
“I have made it clear for the simple reason that there is no evidence that the vaccines stop transmission.”
Host 2GB mentioned that employers – in each the personal and public sector – weren’t listening, lamenting it was “crazy” the mandates have been persisting regardless of the scarcity of paramedics and nurses.
Mr Perrottet then reiterated there was “no evidence” the vaccine stops transmission.
“It is based on the evidence, there is no evidence that in this current environment that vaccines stop transmission,” he mentioned.
Mr Perrottet mentioned well being services imposed some vaccine necessities on staff earlier than the pandemic, often for influenza, and that was the purpose he wished to get again to.
“In the areas of the public service that I can make that direction, I have it and it has been enacted,” he mentioned.
The NSW Premier was often called probably the most liberal out of the state and territory leaders on masks and vaccine mandates throughout the pandemic.
In December 2021, throughout the Omicron wave, he backflipped on his “personal responsibility” strategy to mask-wearing by reintroducing a mandate requiring them to be worn indoors whereas additionally reinstating social distancing measures in hospitality venues.
The Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) has really useful that everybody over the age of 18 who has not been contaminated with Covid or obtained a vaccine inside the final six months ought to get a fifth shot.
The fifth jab was beforehand solely out there for people who find themselves severely immunocompromised.
Source: www.news.com.au
