Sky News host Alan Jones says Victorian Premier DanielAndrewsMP is making people “live like battery hens” with no epidemiological evidence to support his actions.
Sky News host Alan Jones says Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews is making people “live like battery hens” with no epidemiological evidence to support his actions.
“Here’s this bloke parading around … making people live like battery hens, and turning the state into a state of martial law,” Mr Jones said. He pointed to a 2019 World Health Organisation directive on pandemics and epidemics which said quarantining and border closures were ineffective measures for pandemics. “He has no epidemiological evidence to support what he’s doing,” he said. “He has to be punished for it.
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