Thursday, 18 August 2022

COVID-19

Dr CUMMING (Western Metropolitan) (09:58): I rise today to congratulate in some ways the Labor government for finally giving the community the right advice: that the N95 mask is the mask that should be used in COVID-19. I raised this issue in 2020, and now, two years later, this government is giving them out for free. Unfortunately in the time I have been in Parliament in the two weeks since the announcement there have been hardly any ALP members wearing the N95 masks, the free masks.

Mr Gepp: You’re not wearing one at all.

Dr CUMMING: And you know why, government? Because I am not part of this COVID theatre.

Mr Gepp: You’ve never worn one.

Dr CUMMING: And you know why? Because I understand science and I understand the medical advice, and I read the medical advice in 2020. This is not the Spanish flu of 100 years ago where you put your little mask on or what you are wearing on your nose. Why do doctors wear the N95 masks? Why do you don a mask the way that you do and sterilise your hands? Why did this government make children wear masks in summer, in primary school? You should be ashamed of yourselves for the mental health effects this will have on these children for years to come.