‘The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary’, observed H.L. Mencken.
The latest hobgoblin to be wheeled out in Australia’s endless Covid horror movie is a wheezy young waif in a hospital bed.
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