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Australia’s disastrous ‘Zero Covid’ experiment

23 September 2022

7:00 AM

23 September 2022

7:00 AM

What if I told you that lockdowns and zero-Covid mania did far more harm than good to human life?

Unlike sharp lockdowns in Europe and the Americas, Australia’s early lockdown in March 2020 did reduce Covid cases to zero for a time. Flush with this success, Australia imposed sharp travel restrictions on Covid-ravaged countries around the world.

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