This is what a pandemic really looks like...
Transcribed from David Cullen's video conference with John Waters. "We all know someone who has died of Covid. We've all lost at least a couple of loved ones... Oh wait, we haven't. Nobody thinks about this. How many people do you know have died of it? Do you know anybody who knows anybody who's died of it? Here's what a pandemic would really look like. Ambulances would pass by every thirty seconds with their sirens wailing. There would be hearses meeting them on the roads. There would be people carrying coffins down the steps of the building across the road. You'd hear the death rattle of the lady in the room upstairs in the next apartment. People would be collapsing on the street and taken away on stretchers. That's a pandemic." In the first nine months of 2019, 440 people died of the flu in Australia. For the same period in 2020, 400 people have apparently died of Covid. 40 people are said to have died from the flu. It doesn't take a gen...