Opinion: There was a late entry to the word of the year this week, rivalling the year’s earlier frontrunners “vaccine hesitancy”, “booster shot” and “love circle”, writes markhumphries
regarding mask mandates, and for nine glorious days, we got to experience its awesome potential.
After nearly two years of the Prime Minister informing us that various issues were “a matter for the states”, is it any wonder that our Premier would embrace this spirit of buck-passing in determining that the issue of mask-wearing should be a matter for the individual? What a thrill to be able to tell our grandchildren that we were there to witness the birth of the next big thing in political theory: trickle-down responsibility. It went about as well as trickle-down economics.
You see these sorts of displays of personal responsibility on other forms of transport too. I know some trains have “quiet carriages”, but I seem to keep getting on the ones with the “feet on seats” carriages. I’m only 36, yet I feel my inner curmudgeon creeping ever closer to becoming my outer curmudgeon.The Today Show
So despite the Prime Minister’s protestations, here we are again with a mask mandate and a now-defunct skincare analogy that didn’t even make sense in the few hours it was relevant. It’s fair to say not a great deal of thought, if any, was put into it, and it was rather hastily slipped, slopped and slapped together. It seemed to hang on the premise that skin cancer, like COVID-19, is contagious. If that’s the case, be careful out there, people could be breathing skin cancer onto you.
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