11-17-2021, 03:37 AM
(11-16-2021, 11:43 PM)Baggers link Wrote:To add another angle, which is my bias... the mental health aspect.
Politics to one side for a moment and the necessity to implement strong measures to minimize the impact of Covid, particularly Delta, the mental health/illness/wellbeing impact has been far greater than many might imagine. And this won't be reflected in the figures, the full impact, for some time to come. Mental health resources are already appallingly under funded, under resourced and under supported... nationally and state wide.
Brett Sutton and Stephen Duckett have written an editorial in the Medical Journal of Australia criticising National Cabinet's COVID-19 roadmap for 'missing a "recovery phase" that addresses the long term economic and mental health impacts of the pandemic'.
I think that is very fair appraisal but State and Federal Governments aren't having a bar of it >
“Why don’t you knock it off with them negative waves? Why don’t you dig how beautiful it is out here? Why don’t you say something righteous and hopeful for a change?” Oddball