The real issue I see here, about the way National Cabinet has trashed our public health system. 1) Cost…

The real issue I see here, about the way National Cabinet has trashed our public health system. 1) Cost wasn't the reason most people didn't get flu shots before. They never saw flu as serious enough to bother. /1 https://t.co/Djwgxq5aKq

2) This is why National Cabinet consistently used flu as a way to minimise peoples' perception of risk of Covid. 'Just like the flu'. 3) After spending months stripping away public health measures against Covid under the banner of 'just like the flu', now the messaging is.../2

...'flu is a real worry, all go and get vaccinated. It's free'. Covid vaccinations are free, they stalled months ago. For the same reason, people were led to believe the risk was over. Now flu is terrible again (it always was), but why would people listen? /3

If flu is now a terrible danger (it is), and Covid is 'just like the flu', can we go back to saying Covid is a terrible danger? And doing something about it? I'm betting...no. We've 'moved on' from Covid, apparently. Bloody hopeless, a vacuum, where leadership used to be. /end