What makes it possible for governments to ignore public health processes in a pandemic is the suppression of…

What makes it possible for governments to ignore public health processes in a pandemic is the suppression of information about what’s really going on. A short thread about strategy, about taking our society back. /1 #auspol #covid19aus

All Covid data is depersonalised, then calculated and re-calculated in ways to minimise the scale of what’s going on. The testing that generates the data is undermined or removed entirely, or made user-pays, to suppress the magnitude of the numbers. /2

All of the maths, all of the descriptive language, is spun by strategists to minimise the sense anything serious is happening at all. At no time is it permitted to link the data back to the human reality producing it. Just as ‘economic’ data deliberately hides the political… /3

…reality of producing and distributing wealth unequally. It’s the same strategists. In a way then, what we need to do is staring us in the face. We need the stories of what the pandemic is actually doing to people to be told, widely. The suffering and social dysfunction. /4

The stories of what ‘living with Covid’ is REALLY like. What it’s doing to societies, how it’s destroying them. Every public platform should be saturated with those stories. Mainstream platforms will pick them up, it’s journalistic dynamite. /5

Generalities don’t win in politics, specifics win. Boris Johnson was invulnerable until his partying was revealed, now he’s toast. Powerful, specific stories about what happens to people can change a country in a day. /6

Send them to your MP, post them here, Tweet them to journalists. Expose the truth of a community under assault from pathogens. Assaults that are being allowed to go unchecked, every day. Health stories, economic and social stories. All of them. /end