Thread by @NjbBari3

No one said life was gonna be easy.

No one said living through a pandemic was going to be easy.

It’s all about what you think is important and worth fighting for.

I chose health, lives, and sticking together. I chose to try to solve problems, not hide them.

You can rewrite history.

You can say the mass overseas graves didn’t matter. You can say that we didn’t need to lockdown (when we had no PPE, no vaccines and no therapeutics).

I know different.

I was there.

Go back through my tweets of 2020.

She’d enough tears, attended enough zoom funerals…

I know it wasn’t easy.

I saw the tears when I said that a family on the bread line needed to isolate. I saw the heartbreak as I led a person away from their family, across the red line into the “red zone”.

Even as I walked away from my family everyday into the red zone, I felt your effort with me. When I said goodbye to my kid every day, and isolated away from my family to protect them from any accidental breaches… I know you all sacrificed too…

…and I was so grateful, and so proud…

I wasn’t the one saving lives, you all were.

You saved my life… I’m sure of it. We didn’t have enough PPE…

Don’t ever forget that, and don’t let those bombastic characters writing rubbish articles ever take that away from you.

#auspol

I kinda wish I could rewrite that last tweet.

It’s not just that I wasn’t the one saving lives…

I couldn’t have saved those lives even if I had wanted to.

We didn’t have the medications or knowledge. We didn’t even know about dex.

Only you all could do it, and you did.