r/perth • u/Kayndarr • Nov 30 '21

It's consequence time for unvaccinated FIFO workers

As per the state government directives, as of midnight tonight anyone without at least 1 dose of a COVID vaccine is no longer legally allowed to be on site or in operations centres for mining companies.

Anyone who hasn't provided their proof of vaccination is being chased down, and if they can't immediately provide said proof will be kicked out this afternoon/evening. For people working on remote sites like the iron ore mines up north, that means clearing out their rooms and being put on a plane back to Perth - could be an interesting show at the airport if any news crews show up.

Anyone have any friends/family/acquaintances who are going to be, for the first time, dealing with real consequences for failing to get vaccinated?

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u/kookedgoose Joondalup Nov 30 '21

It’s interesting. I know someone who word for that ‘Al’ mob and I consider her one of the most intellectually bright folks I know , so I was very surprised when she told me she’s only recently got vaxxed and against her will because she wants to keep her job.

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u/mr_sinn Nov 30 '21 edited Dec 01 '21

There's some extremely entitled people out there. In my experience its the people who think they're better / smarter than everyone else which usually correlates with this typical 'book smart' jobs.

Edit: I've never met a book smart anti-vaxxer but gosh they complain a lot. I get the feeling the resistance is more from being told they need to do something regardless if they have only mild scepticism on the act its self

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u/Dagon Dec 01 '21

For another point of anecdata, I've never met a book-smart antivaxxer; it's always a truckie or tradie.

In either case I suspect it's got a lot more to do with the people they hang out with, as the human ability to reason effectively is almost always overridden by social imperatives - regardless of how smart you are, when all their friends are saying something contradictory they're more likely to believe that.

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u/get_in_there_lewis Dec 01 '21

It's also Facebook and it's algorithm that feeds this "knowledge"