#auspol #covid19aus “The key message though, and the Doherty Model shows it, let’s get vaccinated, and that’s…

#auspol #covid19aus “The key message though, and the Doherty Model shows it, let’s get vaccinated, and that’s the path to freedom”. Stuart Robert on SKY, running the new strategic narrative for LNP governments. The old ‘live with the virus’ narrative, with jabs added. /1

Our health experts are sadly woefully naive in their dealing with politicians. The Doherty Model doesn’t say this, but that’s not what the public will hear. Many everyday folk I talk too are scathing about ATAGI for the same reason. /2

Notice also this continuous use of the word ‘freedom’, the corollary to calling public health measures, designed to keep us alive, as ‘lockdown’. It’s all in the framing. The early genius of the LNP strategists was to get the lockdown term into circulation. /3

It has meant for the entire pandemic many in the population were weaponised to oppose basic public health action, at every junction. That was the intent. The LNP behavioural ‘nudge’ units would likely have advised this. The new 4-step national strategy explicitly…/4

…describes its role as to get people out of ‘lockdown’. Not to end the pandemic or make people safe from the virus. The public health measures have from Day 1 been framed as the problem, not the virus. This is all copied in almost every detail from the UK. /5

The cause of this pandemic was libertarian politics. Without it, the virus would never have spread widely or killed so many millions. The fight we’re in isn’t against the virus - a virus is a puny thing, easily killed. It’s against libertarian ideas. /end