I posted this in the Covid thread but it probably deserves to be posted here as well. A vote for the Nats, led by Joyce, or the Libs led by Morrison is a vote for parties that have incredibly poor leaders, backed by incredibly poor MPs and Senators.:
Nationals Senator, climate change denier and (former) Italian citizen, Matt Canavan (a vote for the Nats is a vote for deaths (and Barnaby Joyce as Deputy PM- not sure which is worse):
‘Doesn’t add up’: Coalition senator criticises Sydney lockdown, urges higher risk tolerance
Federal LNP senator for Queensland Matt Canavan has criticised NSW for ordering Greater Sydney into lockdown.
Mr Canavan made the case that extended lockdowns have a crushing cost on people and governments need to adopt a higher risk tolerance.
“I don’t think we are correctly balancing here the costs and benefits of lockdowns. They’re not the preferred tool of virologists,” Mr Canavan told the ABC on Monday afternoon.
“I think we have got to put the responsibility back on people. And those who are vulnerable will feel like they don’t want to be exposed. They can obviously make the choice to stay home. But to impose a police state on everybody over a year after the virus [when] we know a lot more about it [and] we have a lot more treatments, it doesn’t add up.”
Pressed by host Patricia Karvelas about the number of people - including some young people - in hospital, Mr Canavan said the community must come to accept some deaths from coronavirus as being normal.
“There is no world in which we will have zero deaths,” he said.
“A couple of years ago we would lose two people from the flu every day. We didn’t lock down the country.
“It’s a difficult ethical dilemma but no-one seems to be raising the fact that lockdowns themselves are extremely costly on people’s mental wellbeing.
“What are we locking down for now? What’s the rationale, except to try some futile attempt to take every risk out of our lives which you can’t do.”
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