CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT
As COVID-19 lock down restrictions continue to ease around the country, the nation’s armchair epidemiology experts are now patting themselves on the back for not buying into the hype.
Ignoring the fact that there are still no flights coming into the country from overseas, and that the entire economy has been put into hibernation for 9 weeks to cut down the community transmission of coronavirus – pubs right across Australia are now full of blokes who reckon they knew this whole thing was a storm in a tea cup.
It appears that the anti-expert rhetoric that is currently echoing through the talkback radio channels and late night conservative TV panel shows, has unsurprisingly made it’s way into the brains of the same people who were panic-buying as much hygiene products and canned food as they could get their hands on not even two months ago.
Local Quiet Australian, Josh Cormann (50) says he always knew that ABC medical reporter Norman Swan was just another leftie trying to sensationalise things.
“What did I tell ya” he says to his mates in the TAB of the Betoota Middle Pub today.
“This was blown way out of proportion”
Throughout his lengthy ‘I-Told-You-So’ tirade of Paul Murray-charged fallacies, what Josh is forgetting to mention is his upcoming court date for assaulting a Woolworths manager after he was called out for attempting to hoard 250 rolls of toilet paper in early March.
He also negates mentioning the fact that he now knows 18 different meat-free recipes to make use of the industrial supply of canned tomatoes and dry pasta he has stashed in his sun room.
“Haha. I mean Christ Almighty. We are already back in the pub and it’s not even July”
“The flu kills more people than coronavirus.”
“You know, Sweden went about this the right way”
Josh continues rattling of several more Andrew Bolt talking points before inevitably undermining his entire argument by saying that China has a lot to answer for because they creating this virus that apparently doesn’t kill anyone.
