Take a guess readers. What percentage of Americans live in aged-care facilities? The answer is 0.6 per cent. Now guess what percentage of US corona deaths were suffered by those in aged-care facilities. If you answered ‘half’ then you win the prize. But most Australians, inundated by innumerate fear-porn journalism, wouldn’t come close to the right answer on that one even though it’s well over half in Victoria too.
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