Thread by @AlanBixter

@Peter_Fitz The Vic second wave was almost completely created by outbreaks in federally regulated aged care. The state didn't know, because the cases and deaths were reported to Colbeck, who didn't pass the data on to the state. The coroner alerted the govt to the issue./2

@Peter_Fitz Even once the data were formally requested, it took 3 months to reconcile Colbeck's data against the coroners records. The situation got so bad that the state set up SWAT medical teams to raid aged care facilities, quarantine the staff and transfer the residents to hospitals. /3

@Peter_Fitz Many of the residents were in a terrible state unfed or watered for nearly 24 hours, maggots in bed sores, lying in their own excrement. Many of the swat team members are still being treated for PTSD. And then Morrison called it the "Victorian outbreak". /4

@Peter_Fitz Morrison, "Doc" Hunt and Frydenberg DAILY coordinated a disinformation campaign with #NewsCorpse and the Vic Liberal Party attacking Victorians, our government, and our health response for the outbreak that they fed, hid and regulated as a political PR hit. It ran for 3 months./5

@Peter_Fitz And killed 665 people. You might remember that number as 768. That's because even by the time the outbreak was over, Colbeck STILL hadn't released the full details of the people who died in his care. If you like I can tell you about his failure to vaccinate them this year.