15 July

The 2 ways we’re told to stop people getting sick right now is for the government to spend billions more, or for us to take ‘personal responsibility’ for Covid. Anybody notice the enormous elephant in the room here, the sleight of hand? Where do the overwhelming majority of people catch Covid? At work. In businesses. Covid is overwhelmingly a WHS issue, that business is refusing to deal with. By law they’re required to, but they’re not doing it. We don’t need new mandates really, we just need WHS law to be enforced. But as always happens, business privatises the profits, and socialises the losses. It’s spent the past 10 years gorging itself on record profits, while wages and working conditions are in free fall. Now that the entire country is being repeatedly infected with a lethal virus inside businesses, it’s handing responsibility for it all back to government, and to me and you.