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No Going Back to the 'Normal' Of the Rich and Powerful None of the above is "normal". It is, on the contrary, an abnormal situation and I implore the people of Scotland, England, and Wales to declare to themselves and their families that never again will we return to that abnormal state. This COVID-19 crisis has exposed the realities of life that the rich and powerful spend acres of space and billions of pounds covering up in "normal" times. It is not the rich and powerful who matter in society. It is not the wealthy bankers, slick stockbrokers, or billionaire hedge-fund managers and media corporation owners who add value to our lives. They are irrelevant to our lives. They live like parasites sucking wealth and riches which they have never earned and do not deserve. REUTERS / CARL RECINE Workers wearing protective equipment transport a body in the grounds of the Central Jamia Mosque Ghamkol Sharif, a temporary morgue set up at a Mosque as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, Birmingham, Britain, April 21, 2020.
When asked at his late-night press conference on Tuesday to define an "essential worker, " the Prime Minister's response was extraordinarily broad: "Anyone with a job". His political motivation was clear: For a man whose task it is to hold people together in a crisis, this was not the time to start telling people they're dispensable. In the absence of a definition from on high, businesses are having to triage themselves. Amie Redman is a self-employed physiotherapist running a mobile service in Nambucca Heads on the mid-north coast of NSW. Amie Redman is a self-employed physiotherapist in Nambucca Heads. ( Supplied) She watched the Prime Minister's press conference on Tuesday night and was immediately struck by the fact that her practice was deemed essential while massage services were ordered to close. "In my private practice setting, there's a pretty high degree of close contact, " she says. "I don't think the virus can tell the difference. " Redman made her own decision to move immediately to a telehealth model, out of caution for her clients.
"I am a bit surprised that there hasn't been a clear directive from the Government and it's up to the individual, " she says. "It makes me a bit nervous … wherever there's money involved, there's potential for the right thing not to be done. " Trusting your instincts For the Non-Essential Essentials, the absence of Government directives has left a lot of latitude around decisions with a significant public health impact. David Gaunt owns Gleebooks, a popular Sydney bookstore with several business premises and about 25 staff. Like many Non-Essential Essentials, Gaunt is balancing public health outcomes against his concern for staff and their livelihoods. "Our understanding is that the COVID-19 compensation for employees commences on April 27, " he says. "This is a major factor for me in wanting to stay open to ensure that as many as possible of our staff can have their salary through to that point. "The smaller the business, the more likely it is that they're not in a position to say 'You can all draw on your entitlements'.
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In the past week, six families have pulled their children out — the equivalent of 16 places at the centre. Where Wednesday and Thursday last week brought 19 and 25 children respectively to the centre, Wednesday and Thursday this week brought only 8 and 9. O'Sullivan says it's a waiting game for smaller operators. "They're trying to hold on as long as they can for the Government to close us. I feel like we'll be in that situation as well. " Nesha O'Neill, vice president of the Australian Childcare Alliance, said 87 per cent of childcare providers had either one or two centres. "This is going to send a lot of businesses to the wall, " she says. "And then when the economy comes out of hibernation, they're not going to be there. " O'Neill says the biggest difference the Government could make would be to repurpose childcare subsidies to keep workers employed for the duration of the crisis. "Either we have 200, 000 workers turning up at Centrelink tomorrow, or we can redirect that funding to flow through centres to staff who stay motivated and stay connected to the families, " she said.