#covid19 #auspol it's nice to see this data getting the attention it deserves. Showing comprehensive…

#covid19 #auspol it's nice to see this data getting the attention it deserves. Showing comprehensive 'lock-down' action is cheaper, faster, harms the fewest people and restricts 'freedoms' the least. 1/ https://t.co/N2FTr3mIcy

One thing the opposing 'proportionate' approach does that is less commented on is apply restrictions disproportionately to different social groups. The virus knows no geographical boundaries, but 'proportionate' restrictions do. 2/

A pandemic becomes then not a collective public challenge, but a stigma and burden carried more by those unlucky enough to get outbreaks. More broadly, it paints a pandemic as something that happens in tiny pockets, inside a wider 'normal' life. 3/

In reality, normal life is gone in a pandemic, and it's dangerously delusional to try to live normally a suburb at a time. Data shows, again, that it's cheaper, faster, and ultimately LESS restrictive if all of us down tools when there's an outbreak. 4/end