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Lockdown needs a smackdown

Current Covid-19 policy settings provide no exit

31 July 2021

9:00 AM

31 July 2021

9:00 AM

For the first time I deeply fear for the future of my country. This fear arises not from existential threats and challenges but because Australia is being trashed by incompetent control freak leadership which has also succeeded in severely scaring much of our citizenship. Panic rules the day.

Thanks to being a large remote island and shutting international borders early in the pandemic, Australia has enjoyed a relatively low caseload, despite the best efforts of the Victorian government to run hotel quarantine in a style reminiscent of Fawlty Towers.

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Dr David Adler is former Deputy Medical Secretary of the Australian Medical Association

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