COVID-19 in Australia 2021

Does anyone know how information in Sydney is being communicated to people/communities from non-English speaking backgrounds?

Eg, I can search websites for info, or i can listen to free to air TV/radio.
But I speak English.

There is info on NSW Health website in different languages, but can non-English speakers actually navigate to those sites in the first place?

 

At the top of the NSW COVID website is a My Language button which translates the site into the language selected.

 

And are they all literate?

 

Community leaders have also been involved in spreading the messages through their cultural networks.

And I’m sure those groups have mobile phones and social networks in their own language.

Do you have other suggestions as to what else would be effective and well targeted?

 

Ha I don’t know, I’m not health messaging specialist. Just asked a question.

 

I'd be livid if they did this !
If you are that lazy that you can't make the effort to get the jab then you shouldn't be entitled to any future government assistance (no dole-pension-medicare)

 

There's Google translate even if it's ½ right you'll get the message.

 

We don’t even know if it’s true! No point in getting angry about it.

 

if they did this !
You missed this bit .....
Never said I was angry, but will be peeved IF they start paying the stupid people when so many have gone and done the right thing already
*also to clarify the grammer, "I'd" is the abbreviation of "I would", We use would as the past of will, to describe past beliefs about the future

 

I haven’t checked but I understand that SBS has a lot of COVID information, in 63 languages.

I know it is government media and …

Maybe not everyone has a computer, a smart phone and/or a TV?

 

Unsurprisingly, communication problems on Covid have been studied.

No wonder people are confused. Most official COVID vaccine advice is way too complex

 

In this pandemic crisis there will need to be lots of ideas brainstormed to get us out of this hole. Some will be implemented and some won’t.

Some countries have been giving a pack of eggs to encourage people to get vaccinated!

One approach won’t scoop up everyone.

And it may be annoying to miss out on a pack of eggs etc if you were an early adopter (as I was when I got my first shot 3 months ago) but we just have to get everyone vaccinated.

 

They all know what is happening, it is they just do not care.

How many do you really think have no child, niece, nephew, grandchild etc that does not communicate with them.

This is also the problem now, everyone should integrate into our society, not us have 50 or whatever working groups to go explain everything to a handful who refuse to take on the country they move into. IMO.

 

True.
I'd be happy to see a carton of eggs offered
Or maybe just the idea of "doing tbe right thing"
At least you know egg's might be put to good use (eaten or tossed in the direction of a politician ).

In this day and age is paying/rewarding people a good idea ?
Isn't the vaccine reward enough ?
Should they start to fine people for not getting the jab (because Aus has ordered and paid for many times more doses than we currently need) could you imagine the outcry, we have rights, you can't make us, oh we have that already

I don't feel that using tax payers dollars to promote and or encourage gambling to be a good use of funds
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I have heard the word conscription used (as in go to war or face jail), I have always been against the idea of conscription (as used in war time), but am reconsidering the idea for the vaccine, we already have public health orders dictating what we can and can't do, would a fine or having to pay your own hospital bill should you need treatment for covid after refusing the jab be a better idea than paying people ?
*not advocating these suggestions, but while idea's are being thrown around

 

It is likely that some workplaces will mandate vaccinations - as is on the way with aged care.

However, people will still have the right to refuse (as they should be able to - it’s not nazi Germany ) but they just won’t be able to work in that job without a vaccination.

There was an article on ABC online recently that a high percentage of ambulance staff aren’t vaccinated!