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Lies, damn lies and coronavirus

Our authorities are undermining public confidence

27 February 2021

9:00 AM

27 February 2021

9:00 AM

Australians are an adaptable mob, but we have an intolerance of being treated like the proverbial mushroom, kept in the dark and fed BS.

Regrettably, the management of the pandemic has been accompanied by another plague, namely false and misleading information. Falsehoods have come not just from whacky fringe-dwellers who can be ignored, but from our senior official authorities, both international and local.

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Dr David Adler is a former deputy medical secretary of the Australian Medical Association

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