Michael is joined by Gigi Foster, Professor with the School of Economics at the University of New South Wales & co-author of ‘The Great Covid Panic: What Happened, Why, and What To Do Next’, about Australia’s economy following the measures put in place throughout the pandemic.

Professor Foster says, ‘In the Great Panic of early 2020, nearly every government in the world restricted the movement of its population, disrupted the education of its children, suspended normal individual liberties, hijacked its healthcare system, and in other ways increased its direct control of people’s lives.’

‘Attempts to control the new coronavirus in most countries made the number of deaths from both the virus and other health problems rise. Some countries and regions snapped out of the madness in early 2021 or even before. Yet other governments, still in 2021, were ever more fanatically obsessed with control.’

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