ON CAMPUS
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LANTITE
vs COVID
Similar plagues
upon society?
By Don Deieso
When the novel coronavirus first
emerged in Wuhan, China, local
authorities were slow to react,
and suggestions of a cover-up and lack of
transparency by the Chinese government
were widespread.
Here, too, in South Australia the
education minister, Teachers Registration
Board and UniSA power brokers (deans,
vice-chancellors, etc) largely ignored pleas
to do something for this group of affected
LANTITE-19 students and effectively,
like Pontius Pilate, thoroughly washed
their hands of the matter and practised
social distancing (as recommended by
government health authorities’ COVID-19
protocol) and essentially condemned this
cohort’s degrees and teaching aspirations
to death.
Nationally, the federal education minister
and the Australian Council of Deans of
Education also displayed an appalling
disassociation and lack of empathy with
no apparent interest or concern for the
LANTITE-19 contagion.
They had advance notice of this
dire situation developing but did little
about it. UniSA did, however, instigate
non-pharmaceutical interventions by
undertaking some token precautionary
measures by administering small but largely
ineffective doses of test-tutoring therapy
administered by other largely unqualified
tutor students.
Earlier ancestor strains of this current
LANTITE virus emerged in Britain during
2012 and 2018, with these generally being
blamed for leading to an acute shortage
of teachers.
According to interstate press reports,
Professor Gregory Craven of the Australian
Catholic University, in condemning the
LANTITE, has stated that it has resulted in a
“collapse of the teaching profession”.
Australia basically imported this virus
into educational institutions much like
it has traditionally done with many past
educational reforms during its relatively
short history. In a similar fashion, COVID-19
was also allowed to be imported into other
countries, including Australia.
Students here in South Australia who
began their degrees prior to 2017 initially
believed that they had been immunised
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