The last 48 hours have seen a schism emerge in the media treatment of the COVID19 pandemic.
The Murdoch press is working hard to say it is all going well while the Fairfax Press and The Guardian are seeing a building and worrying crisis with chaos emerging.
This is really a sad rupture in our polity just when we may need it to be working a peak rationalism and effectiveness!
The moves to underplay test numbers and hospital figures and insisting that Rapid Antigen Tests are not free are examples of trends that are emerging.
I have a feeling this may be all about blame-shifting in the light of a looming election.
Leave a comment on whether you are seeing this rift and what might be needed to help!
David.
Seems to be all going as expected.
ReplyDeleteAll going as expected - if the expectation this would be yet another stuff up then it is going exceptionally well.
ReplyDeleteI do like the spin around government getting out of people lives- pure and utter BS, that or Scomo is going to dismantle things like the MyHR
Scomo has no idea about the MyHR. Therefore he can't dismantle it. Why is this so?
DeleteSimple. If he and his family had a MyHR, on of his family members (probably his intelligent wife) would very quickly explain to him how useless it is, and what a huge waste of money it is. His advisers would soon realise it could blow up at election time adding to the long list of failed technology projects about which he has done ZILCH.
Scomo and his family will have private health cover and will have had the same GP(s) for decades. They will also have minders who could get all the relevant and available health data they wanted any time, any where.
ReplyDeleteThey have no need for MyHR and therefore no experience of it. Like most things, MyHR is for ordinary people who have to stand in line like the rest of us. Scomo doesn't even pay for his own RATs.
He lives in a bubble inside the Canberra bubble, well out of touch with most Australians.