On 'The Australian' website yesterday, viewers/readers almost...

On 'The Australian' website yesterday, viewers/readers almost universally condemned this ill-advised idea from Mr Lew.

One has to ask 'how well does he understand what a vaccine does'?

He's speaking beyond his remit. Stick to growing your businesses Mr Lew, and if you want more shares in MYR, purchase them. If you want to remove the Board, use the appropriate channels such as calling an extraordinary general meeting (albeit at cost to MYR) to put your case before institutional and retail shareholders.

As I understand it, and like most I'm not medically trained, vaccines reduce the severity of a coronavirus like SARS-COVID-2 if I have its description correct, but they don't guarantee that you or I won't pass the virus on to another.

If I'm not mistaken, the greatest danger unvaccinated persons pose is to themselves.

There is no reason for any of us who are fully vaccinated (I am one) to avoid mixing with those who choose not to have the two shots.

This may be yet another ploy by Mr Lew to reduce rents/lease costs for his PMV stable of retail outlets such as Peter Alexander. He's worked out that SCG and VCX among others may not want leftist media such as the ABC and NEC ('The Age'/'SMH'/Channel 9/various radio stations) screaming at malls for not making a temperature check and vaccination passport or whatever compulsory. Yet if the shopping centres mandated these ineffective, over the top tools for entry, a section of the population would be disadvantaged as they wouldn't even be able to visit their local WOW if it happened to be in a shopping centre.

And then there may be some who for various medical reasons may not be able to receive the vaccine. This might be a tiny section of the population but mandating entry requirements would create huge and most unfair difficulties for any in this situation.

Separating society into two divisions impinges hugely on our freedoms in what used to be a democratic nation. (With Parliament suspended in Victoria, we have 'one man rule' down here now so it's an authoritarian state).