8 MAY, 2020.
It all so desperately made so little sense.
The closed off chairs and tables in national parks, perhaps the healthiest place to be in the country.
The self aggrandising of the government.
"If you want to know this government's sincerity on Covid-19, you need look no further than the appointment of Scomo's mate, former head of Fortescue Mines Nev Power, to head the government response."
But he was an outlier.
The Prime Minister's ratings had soared.
Go figure.
There was one, one whole case in Moss Vale and three in the adjoining town of Bowral, but almost the entire economy of the Southern Highlands of NSW had been shut down.
How did that make any sense?
There were no cases in South Australia and none in the Northern Territory, according to one radio report, yet they refused to open their borders.
This was for a disease which caused, according to some of the world's leading epidemiologists, a 0.01 to 0.03 per cent death rate, on a par with the flu.
How did that make sense?
Half of all workers in the country were now reliant on a government payment.
How did that make sense?
Decide in haste, repent at leisure. But it was worse than that. The recriminations were yet to start; but start they would.
There was an evil afoot in it all, and a lunacy, an extreme right wing lunacy which saw the people as nothing but cattle.
His contempt for ordinary working people oozed from the Prime Minister's every poor, or so it seemed to an entirely jaundiced old reporter.
It was all so desperately sad. So desperately nonsensical.
And every day; more administrative chaos. More grandstanding. More tales of backstabbing and intrigue.
And every day; the country lurched to a standstill, a tower falling.
The pigeons scattered at this feet, in yet another empty city square.
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