#auspol #covid19aus conservatives have no time for schools (or unis), they constantly cut their funding and…
#auspol #covid19aus conservatives have no time for schools (or unis), they constantly cut their funding and shovel it into rich privates. So we should take with a pinch of salt this concern about having schools open. /1 https://t.co/UKslXr4qmO
The one and only reason they want schools open is because that way working parents can go to work. To keep their beloved Economy going, something that doesn't even exist, a brilliant recasting of society as a handful of financial transactions, favouring existing wealth. /2
Even journalists and ordinary people talk about 'the Economy' now, as if it were an actual thing. They use the word more than they use the word society, the substitution (a conservative political strategy) almost complete. /3
It's brilliant politics, re-framing social issues as 'objective' economic indicators, so that you can pretend you're not even doing politics, while you're screwing everybody who isn't part of financialised society every single day. /4
The obvious examples? Climate change, and the pandemic. Where the number 1 reason given for not acting on both is possible damage to 'the Economy'. Never mind the possible extinction of society itself, the Economy has replaced the idea of society completely. /5
Anyway, Murray last night was blathering on about getting the kids back into school, how they should just 'kiss and drop' to remove all the Covid risk of parents mingling. This is another weaponising of public health ideas, like contact tracing has been weaponised. /6
Public health experts rightly point out that schools create enormous social mixing, of all age groups. The conservatives grabbed this, and are now saying 'schools are safe, it's just parents dropping kids off that isn't'. They started the pandemic saying kids in school.../7
...are magically immune to the virus, and they're sticking to it. Despite the obvious evidence from overseas that it's bullshit. We've even seen recent infections in Oz schools. Like overseas, schools will be the next battleground. There's an urgent need to press government.../8
...on what its strategy is for Covid and children. To do a UK, and just infect them at will, without vaccinating them? That's clearly the trajectory we're on, and nobody is asking about it. Not one single question in a press conference to date. /end