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Rhetoric may backfire on Andrews if outbreak not turned around – The Age
When COVID-19 arrived on our shores, leaders embraced military rhetoric to explain the situation’s gravity. Now it could backfire on Daniel Andrews.
It does, of course, have a downside. Framing the pandemic as a war encourages a culture of blame, not oversight. We blame the virus for keeping us apart from our loved ones, for disrupting weddings and funerals, for closing businesses.
For so long, Daniel Andrews succeeded in framing this crisis as something that was inflicted on his government, not inflamed or aggravated by it.
Should this lockdown end on Wednesday night as planned, the strategy may continue to work.
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