31 January

The most democratic, free way out of the pandemic is rules. Mandates. Public health orders. All the stuff the nongs who marched on Canberra yesterday hate, for example, and our politicians campaign against. Rules apply to all people, in the same way. ‘Personal responsibility’ is entirely reliant upon your personal circumstances. Which means if you use that as your pandemic strategy, all that happens is that Covid impact is stratified according to existing social hierarchies.