Bin Fire Lisa Loves Her Lockdowns
Australians are getting on with their lives. We’re largely done with Covid and want to be free.
Except for imaginative memoirist Lisa Wilkinson, who wishes we were subject to the same punitive conditions as common New Zealanders. James Morrow reports:
Not content to act like a normal Sydneysider and enjoy the weekend’s respite from La Nina or head off to a Hottest 100 barbecue, Channel 10’s Minister for Health instead spent the weekend penning her latest doomer manifesto.
Australia’s Covid situation, Wilkinson said Sunday night to an audience of 38 viewers and 147 cats, was a “bin fire”.
Why?
Well, quite simply because Australians are getting on with life in the face of an omicron outbreak that is wildly contagious but for the vast majority of people rapidly heading towards “just the flu” territory.
How much better would it be, said Wilkinson, if we were like New Zealand where under new rules announced to cope with a virus so deadly people often don’t experience any symptoms at all, household close contacts may have to spend 24 days under house arrest.
Bin fire, by the way, is a favourite Lisa-ism.
Back in March, she called Prime Minister Scott Morrison a “bin fire”.
In August, she called then-Premier Gladys Berejiklian’s leadership a “bin fire”.
You would think that sharing a house with serially published author of bonza you-beaut Aussie legends Peter FitzSimons, she might have tripped over a thesaurus from time to time.
Speaking of Peter, scientists have lately discovered a period of time even shorter than the 247 zeptoseconds it takes a light particle to cross a hydrogen molecule.
It is the time that elapses between a supportive message being posted on Twitter and FitzSimons yelling “RAH!” like an idiot:
— Peter FitzSimons (@Peter_Fitz) January 23, 2022
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