“Do you support human rights?” Glen Day asked the Today host on air.Jeffreys was quick in her reply.“I support the protection and safety of our frontline healthcare workers, do you?” she said.Mr Day replied: “Yes of course I do but human rights is what I’m about and we should have the choice to make our own decision about what goes into our bodies.”The Gold Coast businessman recently told media he lost $3 million to $4m across his restaurants since the pandemic started.He told Ms Jeffreys they were looking forward to Christmas to recover and “it’s not right” that some customers were not allowed in.While he claimed he wasn’t against vaccinations, Mr Day admitted he was not vaccinated himself.The interview ended when he went on to say he believed the Covid vaccine had not been “tested properly” and Ms Jeffreys questioned what his views were based on.“Based on what I hear from people,” he said, claiming every media company had different experts.Ms Jeffreys then quickly wound up the interview.“The experts we rely on are fully qualified infectious disease experts,” she said. “We’ll leave it there. Thank you for your time.”Mr Day runs Pancakes in Paradise at Surfers Paradise and Coolangatta, Montezuma’s Surfers Paradise, and The Aztec Broadbeach and Coolangatta.“The government is making it very difficult for small business, it seems to be the only one hit with this mandate, especially hospitality,” he told the Gold Coast Bulletin.He said his businesses were too busy to pay extra staff to stand at the door checking people’s vaccination status.“It’s not our job to screen people, it never has been and never will be, I don’t intend to screen people. That will be (the government’s) prerogative,” he said, “If the government wants that done they can have a policeman on the door.”From Friday December 17, unvaccinated people will be unable to enter Queensland hospitality venues such as hotels, pubs, restaurants or cafes.They will also be banned from sporting stadiums, theme parks, festivals, cinemas and nightclubs.They will be unable to visit hospitals, residential aged care, disability accommodation services and prisons.
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