Governments engage in ’irresponsible scaremongering’ over COVID cases

The Australian’s Steve Waterson says the governments are “ramping up the fear“ when a decent, responsible government would be trying to calm people down. “I was looking today at the latest official figures on how many tests we’ve had in Australia and they’re just about hit 23 million,“ he told Sky News hoist Chris Kenny. “So you’re looking at $2.3 billion of tests so far to produce tiny number of cases.