Some of the people state that they do not want anything in their bodies, however, how many of them drink beverages with alcohol, smoke cigarettes or marijuana, drink coffee with caffeine and women who take contraceptive pills long-term?

It is their right to do these things, but they are only affecting themselves long-term.

With COVID-19, this disease is passed from person to person if nothing is done to curtail this.

Hence, we have quarantine and vaccination to protect us and stop the spread.

Our freedoms and rights are not universal. We have all sorts of laws to protect us - seatbelts, speeding laws, the requirement to have a licence to drive, practice law and other professions. You are not free to go and assault your neighbour because he plays loud music at midnight. These restrictions are for the protection of society.

There was talk of offering incentives for people to "get the jab" but there were arguments against.

Well, maybe we should give the anti-vaxxers some incentive - if you are not vaccinated and you get COVID-19, you will not be able to be treated at hospital as a public patient and will have to meet the full cost of your treatment, which could be very expensive if they had a really bad event.

Every citizen of Australia has a responsibility not to inflict harm onto fellow citizens and those who refuse to get vaccinated during a pandemic (unless they have a recognised medical problem that vaccination could be harmful) are not being responsible citizens and deserve censure.

If this disease was as deadly as Ebola there would be no talk of freedom and their rights to refuse vaccination.

Once we have reached the percentage of vaccinations that is considered to "open up", unvaccinated people are going be denied entry to various places until they are vaccinated. Some church leaders have indicated that they would not be prepared to deny entry to a worship service to anyone, regardless of their vaccination status.

The easiest way around this is to run two services; one for the vaccinated and one for the anti-vaxxers.

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ANGER AT FAMILY'S TREATMENT

I have just watched Australian Story and I can't begin to tell you how angry I am at the treatment by my government of the Tamil family who lived in Biloela.

It seems apparent that they will be subject to arrest, potentially tortured and the family split up if they return to Sri Lanka.

One commentator summed up the government's problem: "they have backed themselves into a corner on this occasion and cannot suffer the loss of face if they allow the family to stay."

One thing I have learned in my 74 years is that rigidity of rules, rather than flexibility tempered by a dollop of love, gets us into a lot of difficulty. Please, I beg Immigration Minister Alex Hawke in the name of humanity, let alone our alleged "Christian" moral code, grant this family permanent residency and allow them to return to Biloela.

If the government you represent can't act from a moral imperative, then the pragmatic motive of the ballot box may be motivation.