#auspol #covid19 watching the UK news is a jaw-dropping experience of seeing the regulatory capture of…

#auspol #covid19 watching the UK news is a jaw-dropping experience of seeing the regulatory capture of democracy by venal corporate interests, in real time. /1 https://t.co/1JSpOEODdE https://t.co/eRUZ2jXitZ

A story about the apparent disgrace of sending 250,000 students into isolation after COVID outbreaks in schools, because ‘only 9000 were actually infected’. Only! /2

In the same bulletin, CEOs given quarantine exemptions to sign major business deals to help the UK economy. And employers urged to allow workers to finish work early so they can watch a fucking soccer game. /3

So you can give people time off work to watch a soccer game, but you can’t give children time off school to avoid infection by a lethal pathogen. CEOs can go and infect other people, and conservative MPs argue to remove even basic social distancing, to ‘save business’. /4

Choose your side here, history is watching. Be on the side of the regulatory capture pirates, who for 18 months have tried every rhetorical and political trick to prevent effective public health action against a pandemic, and are now happily infecting children as well. /5

Or call this venal, lethal scum out for the human shit they are. They’re running rings around our democracies with their highly-paid spin masters, and are the same smegma incinerating the planet at the same time, to avoid climate change action. /6

Nothing is allowed to stand in the way of their regular flow of profits. They’re INFECTING CHILDREN WITH A PANDEMIC VIRUS, did I mention that? Draw a line in the sand here people, civilisation is at stake. /end #