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Too late now, but ?let it rip? might prove tricky for Scott Morrison come election time | Hugh Riminton

Too late now, but ‘let it rip’ might prove tricky for Scott Morrison come election time | Hugh Riminton


Too late now, but ?let it rip? might prove tricky for Scott Morrison come election time | Hugh Riminton
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Crisis? What crisis?

It was good to see the prime minister kicking back at the cricket on Friday. Sends the right message.

Life goes on. The Poms are being hammered. How good?!

In Queensland, some 2,000 healthcare staff are unable to work.

"This is like a crisis we've never seen before," said Beth Mohle of the Queensland Nurses and Midwives Union. A view echoed by the Australian Medical Association's Dr Maria Boulton: "We are in a crisis at the moment; the entire health care system is mobilising."

And that's just Queensland. And that's just now.

New South Wales is running at more than 40,000 new cases a day. Those are official numbers, unlikely to capture the true extent of the spread - and even then they far surpass what seemed like alarmist warnings less than a month ago from the health minister, Brad Hazzard. Then, he spoke of 25,000 daily cases by the end of the January.

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