Prime Minister Scott Morrison cracks hardy with Fox Cricket’s Adam Gilchrist and Isa Guha. Picture: FOX CRICKET
“This is Australia living with the virus, look at out there and Australians taking wickets in the virus.”
What words, what observational genius. Inspirational. Awe-inspiring. We’re taking wickets in the virus. Even Bradman’s “Invincibles” couldn’t do that.
They are, of course, the thoughts of Prime Minister Scott Morrison. He was at the fourth Test at the SCG, having a chinwag, as you do, with cricket commentators Isa Guha and Adam Gilchrist, who you happen to meet, as you do, when you’re the PM.
This being the Pink Test in support of the Jane McGrath Foundation, which fights breast cancer, Morrison announced a $40 million donation to the foundation. ‘‘This is about an Australian effort here; the government will do its bit,’’ he said. ‘‘But the reason the McGrath foundation is so successful is Australians do their bit.”
We do our bit. Quite so. Which is just as well, say, for when the fire season rolls around, and you’re splashing about in the Hawaiian surf. Can’t hold a hose there, eh? People need to be sensible, how could you possibly hold a heavy fire hose in the surf? Doesn’t make sense. Wrong water anyway.
Still, if nothing else, it goes to the philosophy that is a branch of the tree of knowledge within the Prime Minister’s head. This is the branch that also has such leaves as: “If you have a go, you get a go.” Perhaps we could call this branch of philosophy gnomicism.
PLEASE HELP US CONTINUE TO THRIVE BY BECOMING AN OFFICIAL FOOTYOLOGY PATRON. JUST CLICK THIS LINK.
Which leads back to the quote ‘‘This is Australia living with the virus, look at out there and Australians taking wickets in the virus.’’
One could try to see what he meant, such as: ‘‘In the midst of a pandemic that’s taken five million lives globally, is infecting tens of thousands a people a day, in the midst of nurses, doctors and paramedics being stretched to breaking point, in the midst of this, by jingo, we can still pretend everything is normal. We’re riding the Omicron wave, not in Hawaii, but here in Australia. And we’re playing cricket, we’re beating the Poms. Blessed country.’’
Or we could toss it off as meaningless jabber. You can see where the Prime Minister is coming from, because the rest of the country has already been there and has moved on. It surely must be wearying to be playing catch-up all the time.
As to what next in the prime ministerial lexicon, maybe soon enough we’ll see him at Rod Laver Arena quipping to commentators that Australians are serving aces in the virus. And then the campaign road will be well and truly open and wide. There’ll be Australians taking cups of tea, having a beer, taking a joke in the virus. And the Prime Minister will be there, hi-vis attired, hard hat on, with us.
What did Warwick McFadyen win awards for, stupidity?
Taken five million lives globally – do you know for a fact that every one of those people would have survived influenza, a sepsis infection or pneumonia would have survived, and therefore Covid is the one thing responsible for their death? Over 75% of deaths are in people with an average of four underlying health conditions – can you state definitively that they weren’t the cause of death, since a Covid death is classified as such if someone dies within 28 dies of a positive PCR test, which merely detects viral fragments, and has nothing to do with detecting clinical symptoms?
If Doctors, Nurses and paramedics are being stretched to the limit, why, wouldn’t that be the fault of the rancid left governments in charge for much of the last 20 years? Blair as PM for 10 years and spent billions on the NHS. Accomplished nothing. Dipshit Andrews has been in power for 7, hired 50,000 extra public servants and yet apparently none of them are emergency call centre operators, paramedics or hospital staff.
The US? They are just too fat and unhealthy.
The sooner we get rid of ‘Scotty from Marketing’ the better.