#auspol #covid19aus the thing to remember about a pandemic is, it only gives you an illusion of choice of…

#auspol #covid19aus the thing to remember about a pandemic is, it only gives you an illusion of choice of action. You can go 'softer' or 'harder', but the former becomes the latter, in time, with added deaths, morbidity and economic damage. /1

The current debate in Australia about vaccination thresholds is really a non-debate. Those like the PM and NSW who feel it's open up time at 70 or 80% of adults vaccinated, if they're wrong, will rapidly have to back-pedal when reality bites. /2

A pandemic reboots society, not as an an analogy, but literally, because all belief systems that don't match the reality of the infection eventually crumble in the face of it. The tragedy is wrong beliefs kill and maim many in their wake. /end