#covid19 #auspol watching the the UK acrobatically deny it’s even in a pandemic for the past 18 months gives…
#covid19 #auspol watching the the UK acrobatically deny it’s even in a pandemic for the past 18 months gives us many lessons. More weaponised spin - ‘sever’ the tie between cases and hospitalisations. /1
https://t.co/rt6ybUxO0N
Both the PM and Gladys have started using this spin as well. The clear plan is to allow virus to spread at will amongst vaccinated and unvaccinated people. No more of that pesky public health restriction stuff. /2
Every time you hear a new piece of spin, designed to deny we’re even in a pandemic in some new way, substitute another infectious disease and see how ridiculous it sounds. I used whooping cough yesterday, I’ll use it again. /3
Imagine an epidemic of whooping cough, where millions of people are going about their daily lives with it, at work too, coughing repeatedly, infecting others. Would we tolerate that? We never have before. It wouldn’t matter that only a few might be going to hospital. /4
For every other infectious disease, basic public health practice kicks in. People are sent home, to isolate. Or removed from school. Look at the ‘pingdemic’ in the UK right now. Their Covid app, designed to alert people if they’ve been in contact with an infected person. /5
The person is then supposed to isolate. Infection is so grossly out of control there that these apps are ‘pinging’ to the tune of over 600,000 a day, and climbing. Essential and non-essential work and activity is unable to function, so many are being told to isolate. /6
If you think the response of the UK libertarian government might be ‘we better restrict this transmission’, which rock have you been hiding under? Their response is to now introduce widespread exemptions to the need to isolate. The whole thing is a farce. /7
The main reason this pandemic is still going and getting worse, is that the richest, most capable countries in the world, with very few exceptions like Oz and NZ, are still denying it’s even happening. From Day 1 their narrative has been ‘when can we have normal life back?’ /8
Rich, spoiled children, constantly asking ‘are we there yet?’ The key to beating a pandemic is to acknowledge you’re in one. And to change your lifestyles in ways that prevent spread. Not to try to continue ‘normal’ life with infection raging around you. /end