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**Motortrend** · March 6th, 2024 12:40 PM

Originally Posted by Motortrend

Dr Nick Coatsworth admits the big vaccine mistake he made as one of the country's top doctors during the Covid pandemic | Daily Mail Online

"As a result, both vaccine mandates were found by the court to be 'unlawful' and to have no effect.

Weighing in on the groundbreaking decision, Dr Coatsworth, Australia's former deputy chief health officer during the pandemic, said he had to acknowledge his own role in the system promoting vaccine mandates.

'We didn't get it wrong promoting the vaccines, but the mandates, yes, I think we did get that wrong,' he told The Today Show on Wednesday.

'And I think you can say hindsight is 20/20. But hindsight gives us foresight. And if we have another pandemic, we should think long and hard whether mandates for vaccines are justified.'

The infectious disease physician was the face of the vaccine rollout and was a common appearance on Australian televisions during the Covid outbreak.

Queensland 's Supreme Court this week found that police and ambulance workers in the state were given unlawful directions to get vaccines or face potential disciplinary action

He was appointed as one of three new deputy chief medical officers under Brendan Murphy at the start of the pandemic in March 2020.

Dr Coatsworth said Commissioner Carroll 'didn't give any regard to the human rights implications' of the vaccine mandates.

He said the Supreme Court's decision could mean some of the workers sacked for not following the mandates could potentially get their jobs back.

'It could open the way for civil proceedings and damages against the governments with human rights acts, which are Queensland, the ACT and Victoria,' he said.

'But importantly, I think it opens all the decisions that we as senior health officials, as senior police and ambulance officials made.

'Did we have regard to Australians' human rights when we made those decisions and to what extent did we balance those decisions against human rights?'

The expert said in the event a pandemic was to occur again, authorities should rely on convincing people to get vaccinated rather than enforcing mandates.

'I think what we saw in New South Wales and Victoria was that you could get to high levels of vaccine coverage without the mandates, and that was because people were genuinely worried and they were prepared to be informed about these vaccines.

'That's the way to do it for the future.'"

**dr. d** · March 6th, 2024 04:23 PM

i wonder,
had there been no near-global mass vaccination,
how many of these critics would be alive today...?

back then,
the human race knew next to nothing about covid.
all they knew, was that people were dying by the wholesale...
that a vaccine had to be developed fast...
and when the vaccine became available, initially in trickles,
people were fighting tooth and nail, to be among the first to be vaxxed.

**Ry_Tower** · March 6th, 2024 06:14 PM

Originally Posted by Motortrend

According to the Cambridge Dictionary-

rhetorical question
noun [ C ]
US /rɪˌtɔːr.ɪ.kəl ˈkwes.tʃən/ UK /rɪˌtɒr.ɪ.kəl ˈkwes.tʃən/
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a question, asked in order to make a statement, that does not expect an answer:

At ano definition ng "mandatory" sa cambridge dictionary?

**Ry_Tower** · March 6th, 2024 06:16 PM

Originally Posted by dr. d

i wonder,
had there been no near-global mass vaccination,
how many of these critics would be alive today...?

back then,
the human race knew next to nothing about covid.
all they knew, was that people were dying by the wholesale...
that a vaccine had to be developed fast...
and when the vaccine became available, initially in trickles,
people were fighting tooth and nail, to be among the first to be vaxxed.

Wala eh, walang masabi tungkol dyan. Iba na lang pag-usapan. Yung mga ganyang critics kaya magpaliwanag sa mga namatay nung kasagsagan ng covid sa China, Spain, Italy etc. I bet like kags their balls and tails are tucked behind their arses if you challenege them to go there unvaccinated and help the dying. Poser if you ask me!

Yung pwede madebate.