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Social media ban critics overlook mental suffering
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John Roskam’s column was a wonderful demonstration of the social media age limit critic’s capacity to entirely miss the point (“The social media ban is wrong and riddled with inconsistencies”). Roskam claims the ban is “out of proportion”.
Is he not familiar with the explosion of mental suffering that has been reported in The Australian Financial Review? He glosses over any contradictory testimony from frontline workers on the basis that they don’t share his views on COVID-19 school closures and therefore lack credibility.
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