Psycho Creighton massacres virus truth

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More bloody chainsaws from Psycho Creighton today:

The cost of trying to eliminate the coronavirus from Australia is more than annual government spending on defence, education, health and social security combined, according to new economic modelling released by a free-market think tank.

From June this year to the middle of 2022, the “elimination strategy” being pursued by state and federal governments will cost $319bn, equivalent to 23 per cent of GDP, the report, Medical ­Capacity: An Alternative to Lockdowns, has estimated.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.