COVID-19: Western Australia dances to a different drum – Vaccinate or piss off

WA Premier Mark McGowan has always had the best trigger finger for reactions to COVID-19. He has now brought the idea of Vaccine Passports to eligibility to cross state borders.

From Tuesday 17 August, visitors to WA from NSW will need to show proof of having at least their first COVID-19 vaccination, and a negative test taken in the last 72 hours. This procedure will be extended to any state classified by WA as ‘high-risk’.

WA Premier Mark McGowan is a bit of a hard-arse on these matters, which are immensely attractive to his electorate. He doesn’t think he will be on his own either:

‘I think this is actually a template for other states to look at, should they want to put in place measures to protect themselves from the raging outbreak in New South Wales.’

Mark McGowan

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I love digital, except when my phone dies, which happened to me on the last night of my recent visit to New Zealand

OMG – we are going to have passports at state borders!

I exaggerate, but the idea of having to prove vaccine status at airports or other border crossings just to travel between states seems silly at first, but on reflection, maybe this is the new paradigm of living with COVID-19: the Delta strain (which sounds like a new series of the Star Trek franchise) – at least for now.

We are in unchartered territory. Who knows what new issues will confront us next.