(T)esting, tracing, isolating and hotel quarantine will remain a feature of Australian life for years to come according to new research by the Doherty Institute

Tom Crowley, Grattan Institute economist: The Doherty modelling shows that optimal isolating and quarantining will be critical to control Covid even when 70 per cent or 80 per cent of the 16+ population is vaccinated, and if they fail we’ll need lockdowns.

This is what worries me. The one thing that would convince me to get a vaccine is if it meant an end to lockdowns and restrictions on freedom of movement - but that's not what's being planned for us.

Either vaccines work or they don't - but they can't keep locking us up forever.