One thing that should be clear over the last six months: The COVID damage doesn't come from people not distancing in supermarkets, or going to sports, or attending school, or Karening at Bunnings, or going to the beach. The harms have come from failures of institutions. /1

Border Force vs cruise ships. DHHS hotel quarantine. Privatized aged care. Billionaires imposing insecure and underpaid work, unprotected by safety nets. Not the failures of crowds you're scolding in Westfields, but the failures of the people you vote for and buy from. /2

There will need to be a reckoning after this is all over. It'll be hard, because vested interests will punch down and make it all about individuals failing to isolate, instead of systems which placed them into positions where they couldn't isolate and pay rent. /3

COVID exploits inequality. The US's poorest States have the worst outbreaks; Melbourne's poorest suburbs have the highest case loads. Questions of race, disadvantage, deprivation. There are reasons for this, and they deserve to be investigated and rectified. /end