I totally agree with you on the bold bit. I applied for vaccination but the earliest available time slot at one of the few vaccination clinics near me was a month from now? I don't know how much lack of vaccine supply is to blame but getting vaccinated really shouldn't be so difficult.
On the travel industry , I also agree. On the flip side is the overall Australian economy is steaming ahead despite closed international borders and other restrictions (Yaco please note). But there is still too much paranoia in Australia and maybe the media is part of that problem. The paranoia started with Covid-19 and state border closures and now the paranoia is about getting vaccinated and suffering blood clots. Do these same people worry about being struck by lightning?
I read a very interesting article about the psyche of this type of avoidance. The two psych docs had already done several studies, but decided to do one with ant-vax people who were scared of the SARS-CoV-2 vax, but looked at other factors in their lives that were risks. If I remember correctly their data group was 10,000 so it was it a little stronger than the standard 1,000 people used by many extrapolating data studies IMO. I won't fake to remember the percent of the 10,000 that had the other risk factors, but four that stuck out because the percentage was so large were: smoking, drug use (pharma), drug use (not pharma), heavy alcohol use (more than 12 drinks per week). Most had at least two, if not all four of those risk factors, but saw the C19 vax as dangerous. They had completed the first data compilation, and now are working on the analysis of their post discussions with the group. I'm hoping that however I found the initial article will pop up when the second part is released. I feel like it was one of the docs who I follow on twitter so hopefully they repost the follow up!
The docs discussed some of their previous research about how you can reason with people that only one in 10,000,000 get clots, but they are convinced that they will be the 1 not the 9,999,999.