“National Cabinet agreed that the Commonwealth and state and territory governments will continue to pursue a…

“National Cabinet agreed that the Commonwealth and state and territory governments will continue to pursue a suppression strategy, noting the objective is to limit the rate of Omicron incursions into Australia, rather than eliminate it at the border.” Ha! /1 #auspol #covid19aus

What a triumph of Orwellian doublespeak. ‘We have to learn to live with this virus’ is NOT a suppression strategy. By definition. Talking out both sides of the mouth, as always. We’re not ‘eliminating at the border’ (whatever that means), we’re stopping ‘incursions’. /2

We’re not stopping incursions of Delta into schools or even the wider community. We’re ‘living with it’, apparently, or ‘alongside’ it, depending on your spin of choice. No doubt if Omicron is found to be less concerning, it will be similarly invited to make incursions. /3

I bet barely one political journalist will comment on the doublespeak here, the self-contradictory nonsense and spin. Yesterday (Professor) Mark Kenny was quoting social media ‘Covid is mild’ memes in describing Omicron. Stumbling into the same stupid as Europe and the UK. /end