#covid19aus #auspol the Doherty Report modelled vaccination of those aged 12+ only as a ‘thought experiment’.…

#covid19aus #auspol the Doherty Report modelled vaccination of those aged 12+ only as a ‘thought experiment’. Not because the Doherty people are bastards, but because National Cabinet specifically excluded anybody below 16 in Doherty’s scope of work. /1

Note that the same National Cabinet has now requested updated modelling based on massive case numbers, which the original report said would invalidate most of their findings. No updating though to incorporate health effects on children. /2

The report is appallingly written, an alphabet soup of jargon and passive-voiced prose. You couldn’t have designed a document better to prevent scrutiny. I doubt National Cabinet members understood half of it. /3

Most disturbingly, it asks a group of epidemiologists - disease experts - to act as the lynchpin of the nation’s pathway out of the pandemic. None of the ethical, political, economic, or any other socio-political considerations get a single word. /end