1 July

For those comfortable with the political line that vaccination was all we needed to do for Covid, here’s the reality. The vaccines were based on a strain of the virus that is 2 years’ old (and now extinct, the original Wuhan strain). It’s literally like using flu vaccines from 2 years ago, 2 years past their use-by date. At the same time, follow the data. The free flu shots, accompanied by urgent messaging about how bad this flu season is? Less than half of Australia bothered. And Covid vaccinations with the 2-year old vaccines stalled months ago. So the bare minimum of public health Australia was doing, getting vaccinated - well, we’re not even doing that. We’re destroying our public health system. I think people mostly don’t even know what that is, they think it means doctors, nurses and hospitals. That’s medicine, not public health. You can luxuriate in the comfort of the spin and slogans, ‘living with the virus’, ‘just like the flu’, ‘we’re all going to get this eventually’ etc., which are designed to make you do just that. It won’t stop the tidal wave of illness, death and ‘economic’ destruction.