Thread by @TimLonghurst

NSW Covid-19 Update this morning at 10am.
Perrottet's careless #letitrip approach in NSW has just recorded its deadliest day.
I think mismanagement like this needs witnesses, so I'll live tweet some of it. Join me if you like.
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Before we begin, some context:

https://twitter.com/TimLonghurst/status/1484287438680129539?s=20

Here's the link to the ABC YouTube live stream of today's update.
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"46 people... Died *with* Covid".
Perrottet opens today with spin that seeks to play down the cause of death.
We don't say people died "with bullets". It's seeking to minimise the role Covid is playing in the deaths of so many.
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Okay he's come in spinning hard. "Better than our best case scenario" The scenarios that are published are a political tool. The modelling was created for exactly this: for him to come back & tell us that we're doing better than the terrible scenarios.
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"Pleasing and reassuring."
-Dom Perrottet

Ignore this spin. Here are today's numbers:

https://twitter.com/TimLonghurst/status/1484287438680129539?s=20

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He's sticking to the top lines and ignoring the bottom lines.
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https://twitter.com/TimLonghurst/status/1483573845848375298?s=20

"We will get through this" - Dom Perrottet
Since he said that on 5th January, 346 of us have not got through this.
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Dr Chant provides a roll-call of the illnesses of some of the people we've lost were living with prior to their Covid infections.
The subtext seems to be "We didn't break them - they were already broken."
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"NSW led the other states"–Dom Perrottet.
Dom. Most of us have decent access to the Internet. We can see that Western Australia is leading the other states.
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"It's happening right across the world"

This is Dominic Perrottet's Big Lie.

Check out some of our neighbours below.

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The questions have turned to schools reopening.
Of our children 5-11 years old, 78.3% of them are yet to be vaccinated.
What does Dominic Perrottet want to inflict on our children and families from "Day 1, Term 1"?
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Dominic Perrottet had a range of cautious, safe and wise options available to him from public health experts in December. None of them involved locking down.

Perrottet #letitrip. It's been a disaster. Now he's talking like it was this or a lockdown.

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Dominic Perrottet is a US-style Republican leader. We knew how #letitrip would go. The below thread is long, but it shows that we knew Dom's politics and how this would play out on 15th December:

https://twitter.com/TimLonghurst/status/1470973847788666882?s=20

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“These decisions weigh heavily on me”—Dom Perrottet
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"Look at the other states!"

I'm not talking to the other states, Dom. I'm talking to you.

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"Covid has been milder in children!"

There's that word again, Dr Chant.

So that infant that died–the one whose family has asked for privacy because they're devastated–did you reassure them that this is "milder"?

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We knew Omicron was a big deal before Dom #letitrip. In this thread we see what experts were saying and what other countries were doing in the days before Dom opened the floodgates:

https://twitter.com/TimLonghurst/status/1470652060282408962?s=20

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I want to thank you for joining me in watching the media update live. Perrottet had some new ways of spinning this disaster today–I'm going to take a moment to summarise some reflections in a thread. Thanks for your comments & company. It makes it way easier to watch with you.

After listening to today's media update, here is a thread that summarises how Perrrottet is spinning this and why we must not buy it. We deserve political leaders that prioritise our health and safety.

https://twitter.com/TimLonghurst/status/1484333271056252931?s=20

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