Over-50s Have the Power to Make or Break Rollout
We over-50s have, as rarely before, come of age. Not often in the significant issues of the day are our opinions so counted and our support so eagerly sought.
Instead of feeling marginalised and irrelevant, our decisions around COVID vaccinations can make a real difference: you could argue the whole enterprise hinges on us. So how does it feel to be important again?
Policy is rarely as age-specific as with the fast-changing vaccine ‘rollout'. Your age has come to dictate which jab you get or used to get, until last week's decision to switch the fifty-somethings from AstraZeneca to Pfizer.
According to my calculations, almost 3 million Australians are directly affected by this change.
Even before this, we saw significant public campaigns trying to reduce vaccine hesitancy amongst older Australians. We have been quizzed and surveyed about what we think, what we will do, and what should be done.
I don't know about you, but it's interesting to seem relevant. Then, of course, the other big issue in which we are deeply involved in the housing affordability and availability debate - see this week's other blog.
While there is no shortage of problems to engage us (the retirement incomes and savings debate is yet another), there's something about the vaccine which seems to energise and polarise us like few others.
What do you think? Have older Australians had a real influence in the vaccine 'rollout', or do you feel we have been (as usual) ignored?
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