Tales from the Covid front lines. 1. RN Breakfast, Jane Halton asked how her review into vaccine procurement…

Tales from the Covid front lines. 1. RN Breakfast, Jane Halton asked how her review into vaccine procurement is going. Couldn't reveal details, except to give a general sense that we have the '4th lowest death rate' i.e. it seems the whitewashing is on. /1 #auspol #covid19aus

Given our very low death rate was mostly caused by our strong public health action pre-vaccines, it's not clear to me what relevance it has to vaccine procurement, except that it's exactly the same spin the previous government used too to avoid questions. /2

2. Covid cases and deaths are reported today, on the graveyard news day of Friday to suppress interest leading into a weekend. Almost certainly deliberate timing. We could add the cases and deaths to our profiles, so they retain visibility for the full week. /3

3. The RN discussion with Jane Halton and Tony Blakely again spoke of variants and waves as things that happen to us, like we're floating on surfboards waiting for the next set to roll in. No sense (as always) that what we do right now determines whether there will be more.../4

...waves and variants. But now there's no shared public space of sanity, we can have multiple worlds of parallel bullshit running 24 hours per day, which suits the political libertarians just fine. Divide and conquer /end