Make no mistake: the coronavirus blame game is the new sports rorts.
The usual suspects, vocal left-wing irritants and high profile journalists in the Canberra press pack will not let this go.
You would think that Scott Morrison listening to medical advice was a good thing.
You may also think that Morrison imposing a travel ban on Italy was a good decision.
And yet, the great intellectual Peter Van Onselen is spinning the yarn that it was a negative for the Prime Minister to impose bans on travel from Italy.
Many left-wing journalists are obsessed with playing gotcha with ScoMo. They will never forgive him for winning the unwinnable election last year.
This relentless witch-hunt is grossly irresponsible at a time when it’s more crucial than ever that people have confidence in their leaders.
We do not need sideline commentators undermining faith that medical professionals know what they’re talking about and our leaders have our best interests at heart.
Setting off these paranoid snowballs from a-top the hill, when you have several platforms at your fingertips to spread fear is hideously irresponsible.
If politicians are told to self-isolate or have a test on medical advice, so be it.
No wonder fear is running rife.
The way has been paved for left-wing activists to pounce on this opportunity to push the line that we are governed by “self-interested”, “corrupt” and “uncredible” dimwits.
These activists will use every opportunity they can to blame the spread on the virus on Morrison, Rupert Murdoch and — of course — Alan Jones.
“All the #statusbro, who’ve gone their merry way destroying this country without any thought at all for anything but money, and power,” the Mad F***ing Witches posted. “Because what they’ve done is planned and executed the repeated elections of the most incompetent, despicable, thoughtless, talentless mob of stupid mindless hacks anyone has ever known.”
Only the utterly insane would use a virus to promote socialism.
Unfortunately, this virus is highly contagious.
Even Father Bob re-tweeted a deranged comment after we heard of Peter Dutton’s positive diagnosis for coronavirus. It read: “For the love of all things decent please tell me that Dutton met with Rupert Murdoch in the last few days in the US.”
How Christian… What wisdom from a man who, as a young priest ministering to Melbourne’s then working-class inner-city suburbs, saw good, devoted members of his flock fight to reconcile their faith and politics amid the bitterness of the Labor split of the nineteen-fifties.
How about high profile left-wing journalists, with several huge chips on their shoulder, take the high road for once and stop feeding this machine?
Can we, just for now, put this immature point-scoring aside and take a calm, unified approach?
