Difference between 'incentivising and coercion' only dividing line that matters on vaccines

Sky News host Rowan Dean says he is "absolutely in favour" of any business seeking to incentivise Australians to be vaccinated, but "coercion is utterly unacceptable".

"I'm 100 per cent in favour of any businesses wanting to incentivise people; give them whatever, a trip to Hawaii, a lottery ticket, doesn't matter," he said.

"The reality is COVID and the vaccination are numbers games so if people want to incentivise individuals for whatever reason... by all means.

"But coercion is utterly unacceptable. That is the dividing line. That is the only dividing line that matters here."

Mr Dean said it was also unacceptable to allow vaccinated people to be free from restrictions while the unvaccinated are not because it "creates two classes of people" and contradicts the Geneva convention.

[Ultronmclovin]

If your promoting an unlicensed experimental product, that can only be viewed as coercion

[luluyannu]

Well its not a pandemic really is it ? When you have to dangle carrots, disgusting

[redpill]

the crime of coercion is already committed. very serious penalties due.

[birgittabirgersdatter]

If the employer uses the “incentive” of keeping your job, how it it not coercion? These two words almost mean exactly the same thing.

[Jake.]

Everybody needs to listen to our unfit, overweight prime minister, he knows how to keep us all healthy.

[meganmckenzie]

This is semantics. They amount to the same thing. Vaccination is voluntary and health records are private.

[daleanderin]

When incentives have to be introduced then it's a sales pitch, coercion is for those already suffering from Stockholm syndrome that que up to get man made chemicals forced in to them.

[nic]

If incentives involve penalties towards those who don’t follow said “incentives” then it’s discrimination 🙄 whats so difficult to comprehend here?
Good grief its like talking to a brick wall

[WorshipVideo]

It's kind of like it's wrong to murder someone (coercion), but it's ok to encourage them to do it and tell them they will be better off (incentivise)

[PaulSmith-oyfc]

" I'm honestly opposed to the jab full stop"

[porksnag]

I’d hate to have played even a minor role in this treason!

[sallycapili]

Keep your incentives. No jab for me . Period

[alexcampbell]

Casual workers don’t get sick leave, they go without pay.

[dfsw]

There is absolutely no incentive you can ever offer me to get me to be vaccinated.

[elenaberwick]

All my friends who live overseas are free to move around, including going to different countries, and are not locked in prison like AU.

[lancevanderheyden]

People are losing there jobs for not taking the jab!!

[autisticsimon]

In Germany the offered Bread and Jam to the starving to get on the trains....

[otenc-p]

Thank u rowan for not cowtowing tbh glad to see someone has a resemblance of a backbone

[luluyannu]

Its coercion and discriminatory. You can fly if you get it, you cant fly if you dont, you can keep yr job if you do and lose yr job if u dont.

[Voxguitarsrock]

I'm not a lab rat.
I will stay in the unvaxxed control group thank you very much.