Thread by @iMusing

Morrison is back. He starts by lying that he is at Kirribilli because was in Sydney when the NSW (he calls it “delta”) outbreak began. He was in the Lodge.

he is restoring the temporary Medicare telehealth system for Covud19 hotspots, which are determined by the Commonwealth. This “takes place pretty much immediately”.

childcare. Waiving the gap fee in lockdown areas. Again, the Commonwealth controls hotspot declarations and whatever fine print is applied to differential wait periods etc.

the wealthy LGAs subject to NSW Health stay at home orders from Friday 25 June are eligible for the higher disaster payment from today. The rest of Sydney - “locked down” from Sunday 27 June - will be eligible from Sunday.

reciting first dose vax numbers; which are meaningless to almost everyone but health officials.

nashnal bcabnet is meeting tomorrow. He pretends weekly means something, you know, like war footing was supposed to mean something but did not seen off the current situation.

the liquid ashet test will be waived from start of covid zaster payments in other states instead of making them exactly mirror the delayed Sydney response.

he defaults back to blaming the delta strain like it is a sentient agent. He has known about its infectiousness for well over two months. His government boasted about closing borders to India on the basis of exactly this thing.

disaster payment is for Aust citizens or work visa holders. Must be over 17 years. No other income support payments. Lost income because of the lockdown and do not have any other covid-related leave entitlements left. People who enjoy paid holidays can keep them.

and off we go to the covery conomy data. A load of absolute shit. Nothing but fabricated figures produced for his election campaign messaging,like the $4 billion #Robodebt “savings” they added to their fabricated 2019 budget bottom line. The one that COST us billions.

he pretends to care about unemployed young people. Which is why he came up with $4 an hour “internships” for them and never released the WFTD report into the death of Josh Park Fing right.

asked if there are carry over lockdown credits, Morrison says that depends on what is decided by the Victorian cabinet. In reality, the federal funds are released by Commonwealth hot spot declarations.

he is running his dead old people make me look human to promote his solution to their bad procurement decisions lines again. I hate this particular motif like poison.

and defaults to foreign death rates, another favourite piece of spin.

a virus does not obey the rules. Drink.

stump speech time. Pretends again to care about young people, and mental health. Yet nothing in this presser about suspending mutual obligations in Victoria, his policy setting that causes mental health conditions.

distracting himself with vaccine supply “discussions” which he can not disclose for commercial reasons. Imagine if anyone actually did trust Morrison with commercial in confidence arrangements. You just wouldn’t.

“sovereign vaccines”. Drink.

van Onselen gets a third go. Drink.

plan. The one HE “outlined to national cabinet”. Hospital admissions. Treating Covid like any other virus is the bench mark now. Mortality is a thing. Incredible stuff here.

explains why he agreed to give a wages subsidy to businesses. Works himself into an emotion about how he decided to deal with the centrelink queue optics.

pastor Morrison is back and on a roll. He is modulating his voice to “give you hope”. His made up number of saved lives gets another run. Heads down go forward get the job done straya, says lazy backwards reactionary.

stump speech. The employment RATE, which he misrepresents as whole numbers, is the wrap. ABC cuts to Matthew Doran, who repeats the Morrison lie about him being in lockdown “just like every other Sydneysider” so that’s a convenient bookend for this thread.
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