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Is this the most outrageous Covid scaremongering yet?

21 July 2021

12:28 PM

21 July 2021

12:28 PM

Have you noticed the latest scare tactic pushed in the Victorian press conferences? 

After 16 months of waiting for the dreaded ‘new case’ number to drop each morning, we now have a new one to wait for – primary close contacts. 

Not people that have Covid – people that were near people that have Covid.  

Daniel Andrews on July 20 announced that the fifth state-wide lockdown had to be extended because “we can’t run the risk that there are cases out there.” 

The entirety of regional Victoria having their lockdown extended – even with many towns never having a single case of the virus since the pandemic began – was justified as...

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