2 May

I was listening to Peter Doherty on the way home today. The Australian Nobel Prize winner in immunology. He was a bit lost for words at what Australia is doing with Covid, more than 5000 dead since Christmas, nearly 6 million infected. The thing that scares him the most is the long-term effect of infection on people. He said Australia ‘hasn’t thought this through’. I get so frustrated with Covid, as is obvious to people who read my posts. To hear political slogans trotted out over and over as if they’re science, like ‘live with the virus’, and ‘just like the flu’. Doherty was scathing on the flu comparison. We’re in the middle of something so disastrous, and I struggle to find even a handful of people every day who give enough of a shit to say anything about it.