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July 2020

Covid19 has exposed the lie that free markets can deliver healthcare for all, the fiction that unpaid care work isn't work, the delusion that we live in a post-racist world. We are all floating on the same sea, but some are in superyachts & others clinging to drifting debris.

António Guterres

All these doctors, nurses, virologists, immunologists and epidemiologists keep saying Covid-19 is dangerous, but all these people who barely passed science in high school keep saying it’s not. It’s so hard to know who to believe any more.

Anonymous

Victoria’s loudest champions of the culture wars have this week come out swinging against the Andrews government, for what they believe to be a lack of directions in the face of the Coronavirus pandemic. This comes just a couple weeks after the same whingeing ***** accused the Victorian premier of wildly exaggerating the risk of Covid-19 and deliberately hampering the economic recovery with a “disturbing streak of authoritarianism”.

Clancy Overell (Betoota Advocate)

The Australia of [Climate Change] denial, of special pleading, of whining for indulgence by sectoral interests; that Australia is a land of cowards and liars.

John Birmingham