I know what you mean about devils advocate, but this isnt that. Waleed has been consistently pushing his borderline anti-vax positions for months, i commented about it here. He pretty much sided with Craig Kelly over Tanya Plibersek, I’m glad some mainstream media are catching on.
No one has suggested vaccines should be mandatory, but there are less people currently willing to get the vaccine than are needed to achieve heard immunity. At some point there is going to need to be incentives, coercion or restrictions that result in getting unconvinced people over the line to get the jab.