1 January

This is the sort of expertise that governments have refused to use in the pandemic, preferring to medicalise it. Meaning preferring to allow people to become infected, and then shoving them in hospital. The health system should be the *last* line of defence in a pandemic, not used unless absolutely necessary. We’ve made it the front line. Medicos do not have this (and other) expertise. Politicians are using them as human shields to keep businesses open, on behalf of political party donors.