Thread by @vanbadham

This presser with Hazzard is a textbook example of why diversity is necessary - integral! - to good decision making. So the NSW government had not prepared appropriate translation systems to meet a public health crisis. There is a crisis of trust in vulnerable communities, and

… the NSW government doesn’t have the relationships with those communities to overcome that. Hazzard says “some of these people are refugees who’ve had bad experiences with their own government” is a *clanger* - dude, YOU and your federal mates *are that government*, do you…

… have ANY idea about the impact of experiences on Manus or Nauru or in Villawood or any other internment facility has done to these people? As for the dangerous classism involved in relying on middle class people who have cleaners to just ask those people if they’re from the…

… same local government area: DUDE, what kind of class bubble do you live in? Do you REALLY THINK that someone who is so desperate for work that they’re willing to travel across town to clean up after yuppie scumbags is going to say “you’re jolly well right, sir! I am not and…

… shall abscond from the premises immediately, don’t worry about paying me a cent.” My god, make the links. YOU HAVE TO PAY PEOPLE TO STAY HOME. If that means physical community outreach, you have to do it. The virus is out of control and to get it under control you have to STOP

… making decisions entirely within the paradigm of your own experience. If you can’t imagine what it’s like to be poor, or working class, or a traumatised refugee, or living in a migrant family maybe it’s time to asked yourself WHY and extend your experience or realise you…

… genuinely don’t have the skills to do this job. Your inability to *imaginatively comprehend* what communities need from you to make themselves - and everyone else - safe is an ACTIVE RISK to public health management of corona. GAHHHHHHHH. #auspo #nswpol