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From ‘it’s not a race’ to ‘go for gold’: how Scott Morrison pivoted on Australia’s Covid vaccine rollout
As the Sydney outbreak worsens and jabs in arms lag behind much of the world, the PM’s choice of sporting analogies has shifted
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It is the phrase the prime minister used repeatedly at the start of the Covid-19 vaccine rollout: “It’s not a race.” As Australia lags behind much of the world in getting jabs into arms, his choice of words has come back to haunt him.
Scott Morrison’s critics accuse him of attempting to rewrite history by claiming he wasn’t talking about getting people vaccinated when he uttered the now infamous phrase, but the regulatory approval process that preceded it.
Read the original article at The Guardian