I often see accusations of ‘activism’ levelled at those advocating for continued action against Covid. If…

I often see accusations of ‘activism’ levelled at those advocating for continued action against Covid. If those advocating are working in their area of expertise, they’re doing their job. It’s not activism to do your job, it’s professionalism. /1

If on the other hand those accusing others of activism are continuously involved in areas they don‘t work in, such as schooling and public health, then I think we can say they’re an activist. Some examples from this pandemic. /2

We’ve had quite a few vocal physicians continuously lecturing societies about what should happen in schools. Physicians don’t work in schools, and to be blunt their understanding of them comes exclusively from having attended one. /3

I’ve flown in planes many times. I’ve never once thought this qualifies me to lecture others on how to fly planes. They would rightly tell me to go away. I have worked in schools, and throughout this pandemic have noticed the glaringly missing voices in Covid-school debates. /4

Voices from INSIDE the bloody schools. Anybody who works in schools knows the infectious farce they are right now. Lives are being ruined. And yet to this day all we hear publicly is *still* the same activists who never set foot in a school. Arguing to do nothing. /5

Similarly with aged care. It’s a Covid slaughterhouse. And yet those tasked with running aged care seem to spend more time commenting on why we should do nothing elsewhere, such as in schools, than on doing anything to end the slaughter in aged care. That’s activism. /end