Politicians are hiding behind numbers as Covid deaths rise. Human stories must not be diminished | Lenore Taylor | The Guardian

Politicians are hiding behind numbers as Covid deaths rise. Human stories must not be diminished | Lenore Taylor

The ALP’s Pink Bats were an accident politicized by the LNP with relish. They danced on the dead’s graves while the ALP mourned. 6000 Covid -19 Deaths have been excused by  Scott Morrison as nothing really to do with him, “all the world is suffering”. We weren’t and we held the line until we realized Morrison wasn’t going to do anything other than call it “a natural disaster” which we can’t control, and must simply push through. It’s not his fault even when he’s forced to say “sorry”.

But death will lead the stories. That’s what we have been afraid of, either personally, or for vulnerable friends and family. That’s our collective trauma. More than 5.7 million deaths around the world so far. More than 5,900 in Australia.

Source: Politicians are hiding behind numbers as Covid deaths rise. Human stories must not be diminished | Lenore Taylor | The Guardian