Where are the mental health advocates for the millions dealing with Covid? Why are they so vocal about people…

Where are the mental health advocates for the millions dealing with Covid? Why are they so vocal about people missing school and work, but silent on Covid? Forgive me for suspecting they’re just apologists for the economic status quo. Who remembers workers and school children…/1

…pre-pandemic being devastated every time a holiday arrived? Anybody? How did these pandemic narratives ever survive the pub test of ‘you have to be kidding’? We’re seriously supposed to believe that our psyches have gone into a foetal position, because our work and…/2

…schooling was interrupted? What planet are these people from? Well paid jobs working from home planet, maybe? Retired and opining on tax-free super about how all those monstrous poor people and children aren’t engaged in productive work? Newsflash for these numpties. /3

The most mental health distress by a country mile I’ve seen in this pandemic, is people trying to cope right now with rampant infection. The fear and stress of becoming infected, of their children becoming infected, of trying to continue putting food on the table when their…/4

…sick pay runs out. Of not being able to socialise with older and more vulnerable members of their families, for fear of killing them. Of worry about getting repeatedly infected, and wondering how many years that may be taking off their life. What sort of staggeringly stupid…/5

…society have we become, that all other social priorities have to be surrendered to the great engine room of commerce, manufacturing crap we mostly don’t need, paying us chicken feed to do it, while every part of our lives becomes continuously more unaffordable? /6

There will be a reckoning about the disgrace of the past 2 years. About the venal, idiot politicians who were too lazy and stupid to do basic public health work. Too beholden to their donors. But even more, for the ‘experts’ who offered themselves as their human shields. /end