Reading this brought home again the joke the developed world now is. Where infectious disease becomes a…

Reading this brought home again the joke the developed world now is. Where infectious disease becomes a matter of ‘personal responsibility’. Imagine even 20 years ago saying something like ‘we’ll let malaria spread, it’s up to each person now’. /1 https://t.co/LNWcGHwuCW

It’s all politics. Rich, privileged nations adopted political beliefs of infinite personal freedom, enabled by their vast wealth. They won’t let those beliefs go, even in the face of a pandemic. So reality will do it for them, crippling and killing as it goes. Imagine being…/2

…an expert that publicly supports this complete abandonment of public health work, of the idea of the ‘public’ itself. It doesn’t matter how much you gaslight people every day with your claims of ‘hysteria’, what you’re supporting is stupidity without precedent…/3

…in all of history. You’re being played by libertarian politicians, and you don’t see it. Is this really so hard? You ‘live with’ a pandemic pathogen AFTER you’ve controlled it, to make it non-pandemic. Not while it’s a pandemic pathogen. It literally is like moving people…/4

…back into bushfire or flood areas, while the fires and floods are still happening. ‘People of Lismore, live with your flood, get back in your homes, and back to work, take personal responsibility for this disaster’. It’s ridiculous, but it’s what’s happening with Covid./ end