For over 70 years there's been a research program to eliminate the common cold. The Covid minimisers like to…

For over 70 years there's been a research program to eliminate the common cold. The Covid minimisers like to say we need to live with Covid, because that's what we do for other infectious diseases. Horseshit, we fight them. /1 #covid19aus https://t.co/ABUGvszxKw

They also love to say that you need to 'balance the social and economic costs' of public health action. They never suggest that widespread infectious disease represents already broken social and economic arrangements, that need fixing. People on pathetic pay with no savings... /2

...or sick leave, for example. Which is kinda the point, with the minimisers. They're promoting their own conservative political views, under cover of their area of expertise. And to be fair, science is not apolitical, public health all centres on.../3

...what 'public' means. To modern conservatives, it doesn't mean anything at all, it ceased to exist in the 1970s under Margaret Thatcher, who openly and proudly declared the public a non-existent thing. If you want to know why minimisers attack public health action, there's.../4

...your answer. You can't promote public health, if you don't believe in the public. All you have left is free market disease control (i.e. none at all). As I often say, they're privatising the pandemic. It's politics. /end