https://www.croakey.org/rethinking-covid-hegemony/
"Recently on ABC’s
7.30 report, Professor Brendan Crabb, Director and CEO of
the Burnet Institute, spoke of the growing disconnect between the devastating
toll of COVID in Australia and the benign public perception and Government
narrative about the pandemic.
Other health leaders have also raised concerns about the lack of political and
media focus on the numbers of Australians dying or experiencing ongoing adverse
health impacts due to COVID.
This disconnect is being echoed worldwide with the World Health Organization
releasing a statement reiterating that the pandemic remains a public health
emergency of international concern while individual countries (including most
recently the USA) wind back public health measures, sometimes with devastating
results.
At this Friday’s National Cabinet meeting, the Prime Minister, state premiers
and chief ministers have the opportunity to shift Australia’s dominant COVID
narrative towards one focused on reducing the ongoing harms caused by this
disease.
In the article below, Dr Blair Williams from Monash University provides some
useful advice on how to achieve this aim, and outlines a theory of “COVID
Hegemony” to describe the process of normalising the impact of COVID on our
population."
Via Violet Blue’s
Pandemic Roundup: February 2, 2023
https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-78114114
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
