#auspol #covid19aus libertarian theatre. Collective emergencies become individual tabloid pile-ons. Toilet…

#auspol #covid19aus libertarian theatre. Collective emergencies become individual tabloid pile-ons. Toilet paper, ‘rule’-breakers. (The delicious irony of libertarians getting their jollies persecuting rule-breakers). Sydneysiders 'willing to dob’. /1 https://t.co/g8PfesgYhe

‘Lockdown’ is a libertarian strategic term, designed to encourage people to find public health restrictions an oppression. The narrative every day is ‘when will we be “free” of lockdowns?’ The UK’s ‘Freedom Day’. The sheer perversity of weaponising spin like that…/2

…while at the same time engaging in daily flagellation of rule-breakers, who have been encouraged all along to resist the restrictions. This is the insanity you live when you elect libertarians, identified easily by their belief that society is an ‘Economy’. /end