Nobody in the political class and very few people in the sensationalist media are prepared to whisper some indisputable facts about the pandemic, relying instead on fear.
An elderly relative emailed me last week, curious to know about the reliability of COVID-19 death statistics.
Sadly, her 90-year-old friend in Geneva had been dying in hospital with oesophageal cancer and had also suffered a stroke. He was, according to my relative, non compos mentis and was very soon expected to die.
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John Kehoe is economics editor at Parliament House, Canberra. He writes on economics, politics and business. John was Washington correspondent covering Donald Trump’s first election. He joined the Financial Review in 2008 from Treasury. Connect with John on Twitter. Email John at jkehoe@afr.com
