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No Jab, No Job: Australian Businesses Call for Right to Sack Workers Who Refuse COVID-19 Vaccine

🇦🇺💉 Small business groups are calling for the right to sack workers who refuse to get a COVID-19 vaccination when one becomes available in Australia.

The federal government announced on Wednesday it had signed a letter of intent with British drug company AstraZeneca, which is working with Oxford University on a promising coronavirus vaccine trial that could be rolled out early next year.

“If one of my staff members says, ‘no, I’m against it’, then I’m going to have to say, I’m sorry you are a threat to my business,” Council CEO Peter Strong told 7NEWS.

“If you don’t sack them, you don’t have a business, especially if you’re in a high contact area where you’ve got a lot of customers.”

“It’s not discrimination, that’s a business decision.” @COVID19Up SOURCE

#Book Today bots, trolls and cyborgs could create the simulation of a climate of opinion, of support or hate, which was more insidious, more all-enveloping than the old broadcast media. And this simulation would then become reinforced as people modified their behaviour to fall in line with what they thought was reality.

#Book In the age of mass communication, media becomes the indicator by which people decide what the dominant public opinion is. Noelle-Neumann rather prettily describes the dynamic as a ‘spiral of silence’. On one side are interpersonal connections, which push alternative opinions up the spiral; on the other are mass media, which push them down. At the bottom of the spiral lies the silence.
Noelle-Neumann defined two types of people who fight against the silence. The first are what she termed the ‘hardcore’, who feel so rejected by society they don’t care what anyone thinks of them and revel in a lost, invented past. The other type is the ‘avant-garde’: reformers and activists who do want people to listen to them despite all the setbacks. ‘Those who belong to the avant-garde are committed to the future and thus by necessity, are also isolated; but their conviction that they are ahead of their time enables them to endure… The chance to change or mold public opinion is reserved to those who are not afraid of being isolated.’

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