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The likes of “Professor Deborah Lupton MPH PhD” who I’ve just come across on Twitter.
She and her ilk want to keep the control they had during the pandemic. These public health professionals, drunk on the power they had during lockdowns, telling people what they could and could not do, while they whiled away their time on their laptops, these oh so caring Public Health officials and “clean air activists”. Spare me. Enough Debbie! Do Dallas instead.
“This latest subvariant is no joke": She says. But: the latest figures on 7-day average Covid deaths in Australia are: 0. For the last quarter, around 4/day. Or around 0.8% of daily deaths.
“We Should be anxious": No thanks
“We Should wear masks": No thanks.
I like the smile of children -- we like the smile, we the normal folks, like the smile -- given that we know the risk to young children from Covid negligible, and that they are harmed by masking. But Debbie has call this "child abuse/neglect”. This is Covid panic -- or some weird version of “Long Covid phobia" of the highest order, but it seems this is all bigly followed in Australia.
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| This, according to Deborah Lupton, is “Child abuse” To the rest of us, it’s our beautiful children |
Deborah Lupton has written books on Covid. They look unreadable. I’ve read bits of them and they are..... Unreadable. Post-modernist turgid claptrap. I’ve read enough post-modernist stuff, since way back and it’s not got any better, no matter what it’s applied to -- it’s word salad on steroids. I’ve likened it to fairy floss, all big and showy but nothing to it when you bite down. In her case following the horrid Foucault. Sadly there’s many like her in Australia and many follow her.
And she loves, just loves, this sort of societal ordering:
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| Stay in your line. Even outside. Novels on Covid? No thanks |
Debbie is the type that loves that you’re told where to sit, even in a park. Did putting people in painted circles make any difference to the spread of Covid? No, we have found no discernible difference, by all studies. (And we should have known that at the time). But to Lupton and her totalitarian Covid ilk, it’s all lovely and “communitarian”, “we’re all in it together”. Which she can’t give up. But I’ve had enough of it. And I’m not the only one. Enough already....
