Imralu wrote: ↑Sun Jun 27, 2021 6:42 am
bradrn wrote: ↑Sun Jun 27, 2021 12:54 amQaŋeth mengu tlii fas Esthaalya waq baksiin maag, baasiwitsi AstraZeneca, ŋiisuŋa wamay ŋew.
person many INDEF.PL stand Australia do.IMPF vaccine NEG, 1p=have.PFV-DIM AstraZeneca, 3p=feel ear bad
In Australia, many people won’t get vaccinated, because we only have AstraZeneca, and people have heard bad things about it.
Do mohon oož, wel uqqOselyaq, leg ehezzäläk, tob iqqAsatarazenekaq, hem ahažžugal, leg aa, tob ifFaizar.
- do
- PST
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- believe
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- wel
- be.location
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- Australia
- leg
- receive
- ehe=
- NSPC(d)=
- zäläk
- be.old
- tob
- change.hands
- i=
- DEF(e)
- qAsatarazenekaq
- Astrazeneca
- hem
- be.topic
- aha=
- NSPC(b)
- žugal
- be.young.adult
- leg
- receive
- aa
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- tob
- change.hands
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- Faizar
- Pfizer
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I thought old people were getting Astrazeneca in Australia, but young people were getting Pfizer.
Wē yētham.
/weː ˈjeːɹam/
|wē əʷ-rəʷ-pe-tham|
that.MED 3s.O-3s.A-NP-is
That is correct.
Longer explanation for non-Aussies (because my conlangs don’t have the words): We have two vaccines here, Pfizer and AstraZeneca. By a complicated series of events I don’t pretend to understand at all, we have lots more AstraZeneca than we do Pfizer. Thus, Pfizer as the more effective vaccine was prioritised for essential workers etc., while us ordinary people (well, not me, pretty sure I’m too young) could only get AstraZeneca. And this was all well and good, except (a) we don’t actually have COVID-19 here so no-one felt they needed to get vaccinated, and (b) people started to realise that AstraZeneca has some side-effects, and some people have died from it. (Number so far: 2 in Australia, I think.) So, of course, people — especially older people — refused to get vaccinated with AstraZeneca, which at the time was the only vaccine available. Eventually, the government changed the rules: people aged below 50 could get Pfizer if they want, people aged 50 and over could only get AstraZeneca. And this was of course a
great move, since it changed everyone aged just over 50 years into anti-AstraZeneca-ers. (‘If the government said AstraZeneca is unsafe if you’re 49, why should it be any different for us at 50?’) And so older people started to refuse to be vaccinated. And just recently, they realised how stupid that decision was — at which point they ‘helpfully’ raised the age threshold to 60. Which of course just meant that people aged 60 and over are now refusing to get vaccinated. So now, people aged below 60 are all getting vaccinated with Pfizer (at this point, somewhat reluctantly, and I don’t blame them), people aged just over 60 are all refusing to get vaccinated, and millions of unused AstraZeneca shots are sitting rotting in a warehouse somewhere.
TL;DR Aussie politicians are idiots, aren‘t they?
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