13/09/2021
HOW MEDICAL APARTHEID HURTS SMALL BUSINESS
The NSW Liberal-National Party Government is introducing Vaccine Passport ID Cards to monitor and control your movements on the basis of medical status. It’s a massive invasion of privacy, real Orwellian stuff and I urge every citizen to resist it.
Plus it’s hard to see how this system is necessary. The ACT Government has said they don’t need it. The Doherty Institute Report (adopted by National Cabinet and the NSW Government) aims at 70% and 80% Covid vaccination targets with no mention of Vaccine Passports.
Gladys Berejiklian previously said at 80% double-dose vaccination NSW will open to everyone, the vaccinated and the unvaccinated. Yet now the Vaccine Passport ID card is coming in at 70% vaccination rate. It would only take a fortnight or so to get from 70 to 80%, so one can only assume the NSW Government has backflipped and wants Vaccine Passport ID Cards for the long-term control of its citizens. This is something closer to China or North Korea, not the Liberal Party founded by Robert Menzies.
Look at the way in which the Government plan treats small business, which has already been decimated by the botched Sydney and NSW Lockdowns. To reopen in October, businesses need to comply with the following steps:
1. Sack or stand down their unvaccinated staff, exposing themselves to unfair dismissal cases. Businesses may lose some of their best people who are simply waiting for the vaccine they feel safest with (especially given that AstraZeneca has killed 9 Australians) or are conscientious objectors.
2. Register the health data of their staff with the Government and place an approved Government sign in their window (shades of Mussolini’s Rome).
3. Act as compliance officers for the NSW Government by employing extra staff to check the vaccination papers of any customer trying to enter the business, including children.
4. Turn away any paying customer (some of them who have been very loyal to the company) who doesn’t have a Vaccine Passport ID Card or isn’t willing to show their private health details to strangers.
5. Put up with police marching through their premises to check everyone’s papers (shades of East Germany).
6. If businesses do not comply, the Government has said it will fine the pants off them (see below).
7. And at the end of the process, the business still has no guarantee that those entering its premises don’t have COVID (given that vaccinated people can catch and carry it). What a debacle!!
Watching the decision-making of the NSW Government today is like watching Keystone Kops in colour. Except these are dangerous clowns destroying lives and ending freedoms. We need to kick them out (and their Labor/Green soulmates) at the next election.
