The story of the pandemic is one of trying to understand a future we cannot plan for while clinging to hope
While governments, even those ideologically disinclined, have more or less followed scientific and medical advice through the pandemic thus far, their decision making now seems infused with the public’s general exhaustion with rules and restrictions, even though many experts are urging caution, at least until they understand this new variant better.wants to make plans, pandemic notwithstanding, because the federal election must be held by May.
I’d argue that Covid has exposed the weaknesses in our society like a fluorescent marker dye, highlighting the underfunded hospitals and public schools, the inadequate Indigenous and rural medical services, the transformative impact of a liveable rate of unemployment payment, before it was snatched away again. I think building back better means fixing those inequities to benefit us all, and it cannot be conflated with a generalised weariness with government interventions.
The desire to see the pandemic fading into history also seems to be accelerating a return to politics as it was played before the jolt of an existential crisis. We all saw the speed with which dangerous falsehoods can spread but the government seems to have its eyes on the polls rather than public health,
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