There are a number of issues “at the centre of this coronavirus response” which simply can’t be ignored according to Sky News host Alan Jones.
“The two most prominent are, in the first instance, the expectation from governments that we will or should surrender to each and every one of their totalitarian dictates,” he said. The second is the “total denial of freedom inherent in all of this”. Mr Jones said for months Australians have been ordered what to do “with not one syllable of evidence that validates the orders”.
“This betrays every known precept of what is just, which dates back centuries”. Mr Jones also said he is not prepared to accept the total “denial of freedom inherent in all of this”. “I for one, Alan Jones, am not prepared to accept that because Daniel Andrews says so or Gladys Berejiklian or Annastacia Palaszczuk, or even Scott Morrison – just because they order us, does that mean they are right?” “Where is the evidence?” “Why has not one politician told the nation that 99% of cases are mild”.
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