{"id":12583,"date":"2021-08-19T09:38:42","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T09:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=12583"},"modified":"2021-08-19T09:38:42","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T09:38:42","slug":"blaming-individuals-is-not-a-covid-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/08\/19\/blaming-individuals-is-not-a-covid-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Blaming individuals is not a Covid strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Statement from Greens Senator for NSW, Dr Mehreen Faruqi, following today\u2019s announcement of 633 new locally-acquired Covid-19 cases in NSW:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cToday\u2019s COVID-19 numbers are just devastating.<br \/>\n\u201cBut simply telling people to \u2018stay home\u2019 is not going to cut it when people aren\u2019t getting the financial support they need to do so. The vast majority of people are doing the right thing, and have been for weeks. Blame-shifting onto individuals is very unhelpful.<br \/>\n\u201cWe know people are having to go to work in areas with high transmission because the alternative is that their families go hungry. Workplaces are some of the most common areas of viral transmission. That has been the reality throughout this pandemic. People pick the virus up at work and bring it home to their families.<br \/>\n\u201cTelling people off and high-profile police operations might be a cheaper strategy than proper, widely-available wage subsidies and income support payments, but it won\u2019t get this virus under control.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s crushing to watch NSW authorities lean on public shaming and so-called \u2018compliance theatre\u2019 here. It\u2019s completely nonsensical and dangerous.<br \/>\n\u201cShifting the blame for government failures onto individuals and multicultural communities needs to stop.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statement from Greens Senator for NSW, Dr Mehreen Faruqi, following today\u2019s announcement of 633 new locally-acquired Covid-19 cases in NSW: \u201cToday\u2019s COVID-19 numbers are just devastating. \u201cBut simply telling people to \u2018stay home\u2019 is not going to cut it when people aren\u2019t getting the financial support they need to do so. The vast majority of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/08\/19\/blaming-individuals-is-not-a-covid-strategy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Blaming individuals is not a Covid strategy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}