“…Third, the briefings and other state talk during this early period of the pandemic, in particular, was deployed to support the “dominant government mantra” that “We're All in it Together” (Farris et al, 2021, p. 294)—a mantra given greater force when, within days of the first lockdown being announced, both the Prime Minister and the Health Minister tested positive for the virus (Sky News, 2020). However, the emptiness of such rhetoric was very quickly exposed, and indeed the discriminatory aspects of the virus was soon revealed as one of its clearest and most devastating effects—as virus effects have ravaged paths through existing structures of vulnerability, these piled physical, economic and social disadvantage upon disadvantage (Bambra et al, 2021).…”