Health Minister refuses to apologise to coronavirus GP
Pressure is mounting on Jenny Mikakos to apologise to doctor diagnosed with coronavirus, as the medical community vents its fury at what it says is inconsistent messaging over the growing COVID-19 crisis
I'm an ALP supporter and have been all my life, and Jenny Mikakos isn't. She's undoubtedly not a Bernie Sanders but in this circumstance seems more like Donald Trump or Craig Kelly. She shows she simply doesn't belong. This Minister is acting as you'd expect an LNP Minister or Hansonite to behave not an ALP politician. An egoist shouldn't hold the position of Minister for Public Health a strategist is needed. She isn't appointed to dictatorially finger and point out individual accidents. We are all capable of them and self-blame. What she is doing shows no insight into just how bad she looks and that she's not doing the job. It's is to be a systems analyst and provide a better systemic outcome for Public Health delivery in this seeming crisis without panic not to police and harass individuals for publicity? Clearly, she or her advisors are incompetent.
Are the Victorian homeless, indigenous, the unemployed, casual workers the old aged single mothers and other people on the margins of Victorian society getting the best possible health care services in terms of risk testing treatment? The demand for voluntary self-isolation amplifies a very loud no, and Mikakos is ignoring that in favour of attacking a doctor for being human.
Given 1 out of 3 people contract unintended illnesses when attending hospitals is Mikakos actually doing her job and improving things? Advising people to go to hospitals given it's were in a pandemic you would be more likely to become a victim defies logic. So the answer, in short, It would seem not. She didn't discover Dr Higgins, he found himself. Yet it was Mikakos who for cheap publicity discovered her voice and jumped foolishly to centre stage to appear to be a leader only to find herself an autocratic idiot. Blaming individuals instead of doing battle against a systemic trend she leaves no confidence that she's in control. The Minister for Public Health has shown her incompetence and magnified it by her stubbornness. So in this battle, she really isn't needed.
You might say our petty domestic scandals should be put aside now we are facing a major health and economic crisis that no one can know the end of. But if we can’t trust our politicians to respect the conventions of fairness and transparency in ordinary times, imagine what they will be able to get away with under the cover of an all-engulfing crisis.
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