This is a perfect example of a visionless, unambitious, “sucks to be you” approach to dealing with a pandemic.
Here’s why we cannot ignore this kind of rhetoric. 🧵
Big problems require big thinkers. People who want to make things better.
44 deaths a day, overflowing hospitals and workplaces and schools hamstrung by absence and uncertainty isn’t business as usual, or ‘getting on with life’.
Dore isn’t alone in his propensity to deal with a big problem by putting his head in the sand.
His mates Coatsworth, Collingnon, Russell and Bennett all sing from the same hymn sheet.
Last night I tweeted a bunch of increasingly-ridiculous David Brent quotes instead of live-tweeting the PM’s 60 Minutes interview and barely anybody could tell them apart.
So, NSW has suddenly stopped reporting how many Covid patients are being treated via Hospital in the Home.
The last reported figure (to Sep 14) was nearly 3912 people - nearly four times the number of people being treated for Covid as hospital inpatients.
Now, that info has vanished from the report. The new report has some important fine print.
Particularly given that one major Sydney hospital “outsourced” about 100 of its inpatients last week. The majority went to private hospitals, and the rest went to rehab facilities.
This, obviously, resulted in a big drop in the total number of Covid patients in its care.