Every day you hope you’re at peak stupid. And every day there are new surprises to delay that call a bit…

Every day you hope you’re at peak stupid. And every day there are new surprises to delay that call a bit longer. Like the PM’s new statement on close contacts: “What’s important with this definition is to try and understand…/1 #COVID19Aus #auspol https://t.co/boUXNJddFU

…that you’re dealing with a high volume of cases, and we just can’t have everybody just being taken out of circulation just because they happen to be at a particular place at a particular time”. Or in non-spin speak: ‘we can’t have people taken out of circulation for…/2

…being a close contact, just because they’re a close contact.’ As predicted, the Orwellian reframing of catastrophic shitfuckery as ‘nothing to see here’ gathers pace. You could control the astronomical case numbers, how’s that for any idea? /end