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Corona notes

18 April 2020

9:00 AM

18 April 2020

9:00 AM

Heads Trump wins, tails CNN loses

Remember back when that Imperial College in London modelling came out saying that this coronavirus could kill as many as two million Americans and 500,000 Brits? It was that modelling that scared politicians around the world into the sort of incredibly heavy-handed responses we are now witnessing – no, not witnessing so much as having rammed down our throats by politicians who seem to be enjoying themselves far, far too much, to say nothing of their not bearing many (if any) of the costs of their heavy-handedness.

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