Neil Perry calls for mandated health orders to protect restaurants
Neil Perry has called for a temporary health order, saying it would give restaurants, retailers and hairdressers legal backing if they refuse entry to unvaccinated people.
“Unless they put a temporary health order around that ensure restaurants and hairdressers are protected, or retail, then you’ll have unvaccinated and vaccinated people mingling indoors and where does that lead to? 10,000 cases a day?” he told Seven’s Sunrise.
“You can’t actually have it so the restaurateur or hairdresser or the retailer can decide to take unvaccinated people or not, it needs a temporary health order around it.”
Perry said he wants to open to vaccinated and unvaccinated customers, however in the initial stages it should be a “privilege” only available to vaccinated people.
“Whether it is 85 per cent, 90 per cent (vaccination), we all have to be Australians again,” he said.
“Travelling around the world and around Australia, we need to open our country and our economy up but we can’t do it too soon.
“At 70 per cent, it feels to me like it has to be a privilege for vaccinated people, otherwise we could run off the rails right when we got the disease under control and able to live with it in our community.”
Irit Jackson, 15th September 2021
