Thread on how many people I can get to unfollow me via my views on 12 months of the Covid prism. The following isn't about normal people and debate, it's about those people who think they're important and special. This is a very important caveat.
Not sure what was worse over the last 12 months. Everyone thinking they're epidemiologists, or epidemiologists thinking they're public policy specialists on everything from health system administration to apparently solving the vertical fiscal imbalance. Settle down.
The one thing we do know is worse, is one very particular sub-cohort of the IT profession who are very much like engineers in their predictably limited modular understanding of the universe, but where engineers learn and evolve and are much, much better at maths.
Covid journalism has done itself no favours. 80% of it was, and continues to be, an embarrassing blight on the intellectual landscape of this country, that has real world consequences. The 20% of fine protagonists must be dying inside at their industry and their *peers*.
Why do some folks take border closures personally? Do you really believe you're so important that entire State apparatus expend hundreds of millions just to annoy you specifically? Covid brain is real a thing - an inability to deal with complex, stressful environments.
Which brings us to mental health - we need to have a long convo about that in Australia post-Covid. Because what has become crystal clear is that we are very bad at managing it, our systems are abject failures, and the results get painted over our entire national decision making.
Power and mental health are conjoined events. The former attracts those struggling with the latter - everyone around power knows this to be true - for lots of reasons, many good, some not so. We need to deal with that to enhance the good, remove the bad, and heal people.
The inability of some people to hold two thoughts in their head at the same time, the incuriosity of people to even begin to attempt to understand the complex decision making that has been occurring, preferring their own basic bullshit instead, has been disgusting.
Imagine putting your ego ahead of the livelihoods of 25 million people. But you've seen them. You see them every day. Treat them accordingly.
Our Covid outcomes were excellent, and we still acted like this. We are unprepared for climate change - politically, socially, culturally, economically. Our media is substandard, our politics is juvenile, our culture of dealing with issues is entitled, vacuous, tribal horse shit.
For everyone else, we have a duty to wake up to ourselves and be informed, even if it's not what we want to hear. Covid was the entrée to climate change. And we have demonstrated that we aren't up to effectively dealing with the main meal. We need to fix our shit.
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