Aged “care” and the Covid crisis
For a sickening, towering illustration of the lack of effective and humane leadership that prevails in Australia today, look no further than the COVID-19 crisis ripping through aged “care” facilities in Victoria. In my opinion, some of these organisations should be sued for negligence. There was a highly foreseeable and very grave risk and it seems to me that some of those responsible failed utterly to prepare for it. Everybody knew, based on experience overseas and even as close to home as NSW, what would happen if the virus got into the old people’s homes. But…