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Where is the Royal Commission into Covid?!

22 March 2023

7:00 AM

22 March 2023

7:00 AM

Australians were shocked when the news of the potential enormity of the coronavirus pandemic struck in early 2020. Many were also terrified, justifiably concerned about the impact of the virus and its particularly high mortality rate amongst the elderly. Mercifully, the impact of the virus on children was relatively benign but there wasn’t a family that didn’t have elderly relatives that didn’t look at the one in six mortality rates for older people and pray they would not be infected.

The response of the media to the pandemic was hysterical and frankly irresponsible.

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