Elected representatives should not be determining pandemic strategy. The definition of an emergency is…

Elected representatives should not be determining pandemic strategy. The definition of an emergency is something that needs to be dealt with, using known effective procedures, not consulted about. We don't have politicians.../1 #auspol #covid19aus https://t.co/hl4SOpskFv

...'balancing' whether to put out a bushfire against the needs of Harvey Norman or Qantas. The horse trading with peoples' lives, weighed up against every vested interest group politicians are associated with, is what has both created and prolonged this pandemic. /2

This is a genuine failure of democracy itself. Our ideas about it are destroying it. If you've worked in government, you'll know it's not the job of elected representatives to run anything much at all. They don't understand most of the things they decide on. /3

They don't need to, in representative governance they have whole armies of experts who will do that for them, and present them with a few simple options. Public health teams, if left alone, could have ended this pandemic before it began. /end