strollout

 Not a vaccine rollout but a vaccine strollout.  This is the scathing name that has been given to the government’s sluggish efforts to vaccinate the populace.  Again it is an example of a kind of grim humour that helps us to get through.

 Scott Morrison set the context for it when he commented that we were not in a race to get vaccines.  Others disagreed and indeed, Morrison himself dropped that line and started to use racing references.  We would be at the front of the pack in getting the vaccines – or so he said.  Recently Gladys Berejiklian has told us that we must do a sprint to get to the vaccination line that would make us a little bit safer in September.  The Olympics is, of course, partly to blame for all these racing metaphors. And Morrison has chimed in again claiming that we have achieved world best rates for vaccination and that vaccination is the gold medal we aspire to.