We can’t pretend this is a thought experiment: the people who are sacrificed here aren’t abstractions
At a press conference last week, the chief medical officer, Brendan Murphy, introduced the latest in a slew of national metaphors. After “Team Australia” and “Fortress Australia”, we now have “Lifeboat Australia”.
“We have put ourselves on a life raft,” Murphy said of the effectiveness of current coronavirus containment measures. Now “we have to chart the course of where we take that life raft”.
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