Covid is by far the greatest death toll from a natural disaster in Australia. Most of that is 2022. Nearly…

Covid is by far the greatest death toll from a natural disaster in Australia. Most of that is 2022. Nearly double the deaths of the second greatest disaster (Spanish Flu), and still climbing. Between 3-20 times more than any other disaster in the top 10. But there’s more. /1

8 of the top 10 death tolls are for infectious disease outbreaks. You’d think that history would trigger immediate risk management at the emergence of any epidemic or pandemic. Instead we got free market politics. To this day some seriously stand up every day and call damage…/2

…to the economy the great tragedy of the past 3+ years. Sociopathic is the only accurate word to describe that. I Tweeted this morning what the crazy belief that the economy is somehow separate to people produces. Lose-lose. How’s that ‘economy’ looking right now, anybody? 3/3 https://t.co/UqxfybvOkR