A Young Sydney Man Managed To Get Fully Vaccinated With Both Pfizer And AstraZeneca
"Collecting vaccines like they’re infinity stones"
Despite the fact that the Federal Government still hasn’t opened the vaccine rollout to under 40s (even though it seems to be telling them to hurry up and get vaccinated), one 34-year-old Sydney man has managed to get four vaccine shots – two AstraZeneca shots, and also two Pfizer shots.
Has he made a super vaccine? Actually, no — it’s called vaccine “mixing”, and has been found by UK researchers at the University of Oxford that it can provide “robust immune response“.
But back the highly vaccinated man. 34-year-old Tom Lee from Sydney told news.com.au that he managed to get the Pfizer jab by simply lining up to the Olympic Park mass vaccination hub, saying NSW Health was more than happy to vaccinate him. And got the AstraZeneca from a GP which is of course now open to under 40s if they sign an indemnity form.
Please enjoy the man’s “art”.
If the Delta variant wants to test its strength it should come down to Greater Sydney pic.twitter.com/yKXB8Sq0oF
— Tom Lee (@tomleeaus) July 9, 2021
“A triumph of the free man over bureaucracy,” he Tweets.
no one man should have all this power…
— cameronwilson is typing… (@cameronwilson) July 12, 2021
Tom, my guy, you have to appreciate that unequivocally the funniest thing you could do next is catch covid.
— James Colley (@JamColley) July 12, 2021
Collecting vaccines like they’re infinity stones
— Kyler the Creator (@TrentHowe23) July 12, 2021
I think you have enough antibodies now that you would give Covid, Covid.
— MclarenSabotagingDaniel (@MclarenSabotag1) July 12, 2021
But some people aren’t stoked, particularly considering there are still aged-care workers who have still not been vaccinated.
So, people are queuing up for potentially life saving vaccines in short supply, and you took 2 doses. Then call it Art? Idiot more like it. Don’t be proud of this mate. You may have cost a life .
When did being a self centred moron become fashionable?
— Lee (@Lee46587076) July 12, 2021
Lee refutes this.
“As for queue jumping, I don’t see it like that,” Lee tells news.com.au
“I haven’t stolen any vaccines. I literally lined up in the queue to get it. Getting vaccinated takes a bit of leg work and anyone can do it,” he said.
“NSW Health are not going to turn away the vaccine keen … The impression I get is NSW Health is not interested in being vaccine police for the federal government.”
While vaccine mixing has been researched and has been approved in Canada, Spain, and South Korea, Australia has not recommended it.
“Please, we are not mixing and matching at this point,” Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly said in late June.
For other young people hoping to also get vaccinated he says, “Pay attention to where the vaccines are available, be it GP or the vaccination centre at Olympic Park, and just go there and ask to be vaccinated. It worked for me.”
“I’ve found it is worth comparing what you read in the news and what you can see for yourself when you physically go to where the vaccines are.”