‘Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.’ – Mark Twain
The year 2022 will go down in infamy as an annus horribilis. The Australian Senate Inquiry into the enormous number of excess deaths that occurred that year has concluded that the main cause was the Covid virus.
Officially, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), almost 20,000 extra Australians lost their lives, mainly due to the Covid virus which affected men, women, and children of all ages.
It’s important to consider that the circulating variant was Omicron, supposedly far less virulent than the original Wuhan strain, and that there is an almost universal...
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