the allegedly de-politicised un-ideological statesmanish prime minister has chosen facebook to tell five straight minutes of lies about why he wants to force school-aged kids to absorb the health risks of his economic priorities. http://www.sbs.com.au/news/scott-morrison-issues-direct-plea-to-australia-s-teachers-urging-them-to-keep-their-classrooms-open

I’m a casualised single mum. A lot of us have been forced to choose between working when sick, keeping kids home when they are sick, and putting food on the table and keeping a roof over our heads FOR YEARS.

idk wtf problem media have with naming it, but this prime ministerial message - cavalierly confusing parents and telling Premiers to throw school kids and teachers under the infection bus for his economic figures AND lying about it - is on facebook. Not “social media”. FACEBOOK.

Morrison keeps chanting lives and livelihoods. He always says this is a health AND economic crisis. So when he tells us he is prioritising economic activity and his political livelihood over the health and lives of school aged kids and their teachers, we should believe him.

NSW public schools closed last Thursday. Victorian schools shut early, wealthy elite schools shut down. Morrison kept HIS kids home. Political journalists provided cover for him. He sent Tehan out to issue the funding threat. And less than a week into NSW holidays, he does this.

Morrison is weaponising public school children and their teachers for political gain via economic outcomes which is you know a political thing to do. And political journalists - whose kids would not, in the main, be attending public schools - keep lying about it.