Two years ago, 18 minutes and 10 seconds into this presentation by the Doherty modellers, the previous PM…

Two years ago, 18 minutes and 10 seconds into this presentation by the Doherty modellers, the previous PM interrupted to reinforce that what they were presenting meant 80% vaccination made Covid ‘just like the flu’. No it didn’t. /1 #auspol https://t.co/Q036L8DY9W

Others in that room knew it didn’t. Journalists who don’t just report political gossip should have held him to account in that exact moment. Experts didn’t, journalists didn’t. Nearly 30,000 Australians are now dead, as a result. You can see how important it was for the PM. /2

To interrupt at that point. ‘Just like the flu’ and ‘living with the virus’ were the slogans the political apparatchiks had already workshopped to dismantle the public health response. It was crucial to insert that nonsense there. /end