Lisa Wilkinson SLAMMED after calling Australia’s Covid response a ‘bin fire’

Australian TV host Lisa WIlkinson has been slammed after comparing Australia’s Covid-19 response to a ‘bin fire’. 

On Sunday, Wilkinson speculated Australia’s ‘bin fire’ handling of the Omicron crisis is what prompted Jacinda Ardern to plunge all of New Zealand into Covid ‘red alert’ and postpone her own wedding. 

Among the new rules is that household contacts of Covid cases now must isolate for 24 days – one of the toughest Covid restrictions in the world. 

Australia has a much more laid-back approach, which many have compared to ‘letting it rip.’ 

Wilkinson said: ‘If that doesn’t give you an indication that Jacinda Ardern has looked across the ‘ditch’ at our bin fire and gone, ‘Not doing that!’ Wow.’ 

However, a leading doctor and writer were quick to call out Wilkinson over her comments.

‘She’s not living in the real world and I think she’s been very critical,’ The Australian’s Media Writer Sophie Elswort wrote.

‘Some of her comments just show she’s totally out of touch with reality and has no grip on what a lot of Australians have faced in this pandemic.’

Meanwhile, ex-deputy chief health officer Nick Coatsworth shared four Twitter messages slamming Wilkinson’s stance.

One of them from Dec Cunningham said: ‘Lisa Wilkinson praising NZ for putting close contacts in 24 days of isolation just shows her inner city, multimillionaire, guaranteed wage privilege I wonder what she’d say if Ardern was PM of Australia and Morrison was PM of New Zealand.’

‘Lisa Wilkinson is more than welcome to isolate herself – I would suggest no outside contact so no media appearances – for 24 days. Indeed 24 days is not safe enough – make it 24 months,’ another Tweet from David Southwell said. 

‘Imagine being the new migrant forced to pack the micro-herbs in a Delta-struck warehouse to be shipped out to Wilkinson’s local gourmet shop – an essential service – and then return at the end of your shift to a crowded apartment with no backyard?’, James Morrorw, politics editor at the Daily Telegraph said.  

Another not retweeted by Dr Coatsworth seemed to capture the feelings of multiple users: ‘Of course Lisa Wilkinson is cheering on 24 day quarantine,’ the tweet read. 

‘I wish she would take a moment to imagine what is must be like for people who need to earn their wages every day.’

Ex-deputy chief health officer Nick Coatsworth shared a series of messages slamming Wilkinson

Lisa Wilkinson has been slammed for calling Australia’s Covid response a ‘binfire’ 

Wilkinson’s comments come after the New Zealand Prime Minister revealed on Sunday she would postpone her upcoming nuptials to television host Clarke Gayford because she ‘was no different to other New Zealanders’. 

Ms Ardern was planning to wed her television host fiancé this summer in Gisborne on the North Island before a spate of Covid-19 threw plans into chaos, almost three years after he popped the question.

She originally planned to walk down the aisle earlier but has been set back by a series of tragedies including the Christchurch terror attack, the White Island volcano eruption in 2019 and the coronavirus pandemic for the last 21 months.

Such is life,’ Ms Ardern said when asked about the delay on Sunday.

‘I am no different to – dare I say it – thousands of other New Zealanders who have had much more devastating impacts felt by the pandemic.

‘The most gutting of which is the inability to be with a loved one sometimes when they’re gravely ill. That will far, far outstrip any sadness I experience.

‘My wedding will not be going ahead, but I just join many other New Zealanders who have had an experience like that as a result of the pandemic.’

‘And to anyone caught up in that scenario, I’m so sorry.’

Her comments come after Jacinda Ardern introduced even tougher Covid restrictions