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Police inspect drivers' ID at a random checkpoint set up on Alexandrea Ave, South Yarra. Picture: Andrew Henshaw

Political games have made crisis worse for everyone

If our leaders had got the basics of this pandemic under control — keeping the infectious in quarantine and the old safe — the rest of us could have got on with life, but political games have destroyed trust and sent us into a new wave, writes Andrew Bolt.

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - JULY 20: Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews enters the press conference wearing a face mask on July 20, 2020 in Melbourne, Australia. Victoria has recorded 275 new cases of coronavirus, and another death overnight. The death of the woman in her 80s brings the total number of deaths linked to COVID-19 in the state to 39. Metropolitan Melbourne and the Mitchell shire remain in lockdown due to the rise in COVID-19 cases through community transmissions, with residents in lockdown areas under stay at home orders until 19 August. People are only able to leave home have for exercise or work, to buy essential items including food or to access childcare and healthcare. Face masks or coverings will be mandatory from Thursday 23 July, with $200 fines to apply for not wearing face coverings.  (Photo by Quinn Rooney/Getty Images)

Bolt: Andrews’ mask mandate ignores the science

Nothing is more important than protecting the old during this pandemic, given a third of our dead were in nursing homes. Yet the media have rushed to embrace desperate Dan’s mandatory mask rules while ignoring what would really stop people from dying, writes Andrew Bolt.

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