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The COVID story is ideal political cover, regardless of the truth, which never mattered

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Cameron Murray
Jan 02, 2021
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NOTE: This post was written in November 2020. Some updates now included.

What will I say to Mum?

When news of the first dozen COVID cases was broadcast my Mum panicked. Facts could not persuade her about the true scale of the disease. It didn’t matter what the proportion of deaths COVID was responsible for, nor the chance of even more deaths from our poli…

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