24 May

Listening to an ex-head of the Commonwealth Department of Health on the way home, absolutely scathing about the outgoing government’s ’Covid denialism’. Almost nothing is being done, and infections and deaths are at ridiculous levels. He said staff in the federal department will be jubilant the government is gone, freeing them up to actually fight the pandemic. The veneer of spin and bullshit is finally dropping away. I’m still disgusted that government killed hundreds per week, and hardly anybody said anything about it.