The Australian Universities and the Covid Vax Mania By Paul Walker (Sydney)
Academics championing the Covid vax regime have a fearless self-confidence of not being wrong, a self-confidence that academics usually have about everything. Is that science? I think that local academics should challenge the vax promoters on campuses to public debates, on both the science and public policy issues. Every main point they typically make remains open to challenge, as I see it, and even if they were right, ideas need to be tested. If the leaders would like to make vaccinations compulsory, or have, how about they accept liability for those on universities who get vaccinated and injured? Bring on the public debate! Do the universities have the intellectual guts? I bet they don’t!
“People who don’t get vaccinated are “deeply selfish”, Flinders University vice-chancellor Colin Stirling says.
Every positive case of Covid-19 was a breeding ground for new variants that might evade existing vaccinations, said Professor Stirling, who has a PhD in genetics.
He “would love” to make vaccination compulsory, but as an employer he could not take that step at the moment.
Speaking on a panel of education leaders as part of the Fearless Conversations series of discussions on seminal issues facing South Australia, Prof Stirling said the state was in a different position than Victoria and NSW where community transmission was rampant.
“To protect our staff and students, encouraging vaccination is crucially important,” he said.
Mandating vaccinations could potentially happen for staff and students “down the line”.
Every infected individual produced billions of virus particles.
“Every single one of those has the potential to be a new variant,” he said.
“As a public good, we should be insisting on folks getting vaccinated.”
He expected people in the university sector who examined facts for a living – “generally, incredibly well” – would voluntarily be vaccinated.
He did not want to live in a society where people would be forced to have an injection of any kind.
“Make the choice, but understand the consequences,” he said.
It was “fundamentally selfish” for people to be unvaccinated, get infected and clog up hospital beds needed by other people for common medical reasons.
In Victoria, the government has made vaccinations compulsory in education settings, and in NSW people who are not fully vaccinated cannot attend their work sites unless they have special permission.
Flinders does not require staff or students to report their vaccination status unless required by a third party, such as a health work site.
However, as staff can claim two days’ extra leave if fully vaccinated, the administration expects to gather the data.
Prof Stirling said it was important that not just state or national populations were vaccinated.
“We will not protect ourselves from Covid-19 by merely vaccinating every Australian,” he said.
“We will protect the Planet from Covid-19 by vaccinating people around the globe.”
The chief executive of StudyAdelaide, Karyn Kent, told the Fearless Conversations event that being double vaccinated would provide a further safety check on international students returning to SA.
Glenunga International High School principal Wendy Johnson said the fall in new international students would diminish the education of young South Australians.
Fearless Conversations is a collaboration between The Advertiser and Flinders University.
The project includes 13 panel discussions presented online.
Education was the eighth in the series, with Innovation and Entrepreneurship to be showcased next week.”
At least if Mike Adams and the Covid vax catastrophe school are correct, there could be an upside of the great down of this Darwinian event!
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