12-12-2021, 03:16 AM
Bob Carr has the same idea. This is from an interview with Peter FitzSimons, ‘You ignored warnings’: Bob Carr on why the unvaccinated should pay for their COVID healthcare, SMH:
Quote:Fitz: I was fascinated by a tweet you did in November. You said “We must follow Singapore and legislate no medical or hospital expenses to be reimbursed to people who are not vaccinated without medical justification and then contract COVID. You ignored warnings and got the disease. You pay for your wilful stupidity, not us.” Do you stand behind that?
BC: Yes. And I speak for two categories. The overstressed frontline workers in our health system. They shouldn’t have to look after simpletons who believe rubbish on the web, and ignore medical advice. Second, Australians with manageable conditions like diabetes or asthma who may face a life-or-death crisis from contracting COVID. They have rights too.
PF: You will be accused by the nutters of being “a fascist” pushing “medical apartheid”, and threatened with facing a modern version of the Nuremberg trials. This is consistent with something that seems to be seeping into Australia from American: extreme-right nuttery. How dangerous is it and what can be done about it?
BC: Very dangerous. America started climate change denialism. It was picked up from American think tanks funded by the carbon lobby and let loose here by right-wing Coalition politicians. We’ve seen extremists adopting postures devised by gun-toting QAnon warriors with their animal head-dress, threatening the breezy freedoms of Aussie life.
PF: What can be done about it, Bob?
BC: It needs principled people on the conservative side of Australian politics to speak out, to stand up against it, as Malcolm Fraser did on racism, or as John Howard did on guns and say we want nothing to do with your noxious agenda. Stop this. This is Australia, full of funny friendly people who can boast a higher civic IQ.
PF: Do you view Scott Morrison as one of those principled people?
BC: The challenge is in his court.