Amid our Covid-19 crisis we need honesty, truth, inclusion and respect – the things that help ease the fear and growing despair gripping this country
In the midst of the plague it’s very hard for a layperson to know if the government should be doing more, more quickly, or if its actions are proportionate and correct. If more needs to be done, so many are asking, why is it not being done now?
To the government’s immense credit, unlike with climate change, it appears to be acting on scientific advice. And given that one of Scott Morrison’s favoured political allies, Donald Trump, is advocating getting the US back to work by Easter and using the coronavirus to stoke xenophobia, that is no small thing for which we should be very grateful.
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