One of the world’s leading voices against lockdowns during the COVID-19 crisis has declared Melbourne ground zero for understanding the social harms caused by protracted absences from school, economic disruptions and forced isolation of older people.
“I think that the people of Melbourne have lived through an absolutely extraordinary time. It is unique on the face of the Earth.”, Bhattacharya said he supported a royal commission into Australia’s pandemic response but urged the Victorian government to act before any inquiry to address harms caused by our 262 days spent in lockdown.
He said Australia, particularly Victoria, was a victim of this success, as it made it politically untenable for governments to adopt a different approach – even once the social and economic costs of lockdowns started to mount. The state government lifted this week one of its few remaining COVID public health orders: the requirement to wearBhattacharya’s sharpest criticism of Australia’s approach was directed towards our slow vaccination rollout. He said while the absence of significant outbreaks in late 2020 and early 2021 contributed to a sense of COVID-19 complacency, our use of vaccines was ill-conceived.
'They opposed and suppressed the Great Barrington Declaration to create an illusion of consensus in favor of lockdowns that did not actually exist.' Well said, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya.
The one thing I see with friends is they cannot entertain the idea that their suffering was unnecessary and ultimately meaningless.
Aussies love taking their sick day entitlements, that's what happens, we all work with someone who takes advantage of that, if it isn't ourselves. Lockdown and working from home is the greatest sick day entitlement ever!!!
I don’t understand why the very people claiming “follow the science” are now against studying the effects of the lockdowns. When I was on FB, I had a few Aussie friends who were talking about how horrible they were being treated. If the LDs are unethical, it should be stopped.
Appealing to your cooker audience? Ps…cookers don’t pay for subscriptions.
MuskRatMick Probably, and yet also that has to be balanced against the *thousands of lives* saved and the mental health impact avoided in the form of the trauma of illness and the grief of losing loved ones. Lockdowns are nothing compared to losing a family member early and unexpected.
The propaganda peddled by Age during the last 24 months was as pathetic as the public health response. ABS latest non-covid 17% excess deaths stats speak for themselves.
If you're looking for harms check out the cemetery where the people go who died from it.
Strange article, oddly headlined. The anti-lockdown activist says he *would* look here and *expect* to find 'harms'. How is this reporting anything? Many parts of USA had more remote learning than Victoria, but this misinformation is not pointed out by Chip. Poor journalism.
Chip Le Grande and Peter Costello cheer leaders of the FRWNJ brigade. Along with the repugnant Murdochs and Kerry Stokes responsible for the annihilation of journalism as an ethical profession.
Chip is a rabid Lib supporter. Read everything he writes through that lens. Costello has trashed the integrity and credibility of The Age and The SMH.
Clickbait HorseShit
This is the other side of the debate that you were never allowed to hear. Being the first time many of you are hearing it, it's natural to resist. Especially after 2.5yrs of careful narrative control. Here's the big question: Why is this the first time you are hearing it?
Melbourne was the only place IN THE WORLD that went from 700+ cases a day to ZERO, with no vaccines. We came together as a community and saved lives. Show some respect 😤
Bhattacharya, opponent of lockdowns. With Kulldorff & Gupta, co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration? The Let It R.I.P. Policy that has damaged & lost lives FFS!
Bhattacharya, opponent of lockdowns. With Kulldorff & Gupta, co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration? The Let It R.I.P. Policy that has damaged & lost lives FFS!
The harm from the virus spreading unchecked would have been much worse.
Your credibility is in the toilet, just like this guy.
VicGovDHs1 Quite clearly the harm created from lockdowns is evident in a lot of the responses. The fear created by government will take years to climb down from and MSM who were all spreading the fear campaign should take a lot of the blame.
… and studies done on the mental health issues of those people who had numerous family members who now have Long COVID, or who died? Also those studies on those who went to school/work, contracted COVID and passed it on to family and friends who then became critically ill?
Here we go - right on cue. Methinks there's an election looming.
Melbourne testing ground for lockdown effectiveness. There I fixed it for you.
IndustrialDanSlaughter
Sydney still upset Melbourne pipped it for longest lockdown by a couple of days.
Didn't really experience a lockdown as such. Mind you my job was deemed critical essential. You just have to have certain knowledge and particular skills. I'm not in the direct medical field either, but am trained to save and protect the living.
Based on what was happening in America at the time, we did good. Yes, there has been some harm done but we still (mostly) alive to rebuild our worlds. Tough? Yes, but still together.
Melbournians in these comments cheerleading for authoritarian measures like lockdowns are simply proving DrJBhattacharya's point. Talk about Stockholm Syndrome.
Alot of assumptions about targeted vaccinations to elderly first and so forth, but at the time, I recall Federal governments wanting to take charge of the roll out but not having the logistical impetus that the states have. 1/2
I'm not necessarily opposed to the lockdowns. What I'm opposed to is that DanielAndrewsMP imposed 10 months of them on us without providing any health advice or analysis of any kind to support them and gaslit anyone who questioned them All I ask for is transparency springst
Expert, my god. Anyone with common sense that actually has a thinking brain and questions things could tell you this.
Most psychological damage came from The Liberal Party & their media undermining & haranguing Dan Andrews & the health department creating much anger & uncertainty! The Liberal Age, The Liberal Herald Sun, The Liberal 9, The Liberal 7, The Liberal 10, The Liberal Sky.
Are you asking questions or giving us answers?
Spot on 🎯
People in the comments with no medical degree arguing how he is wrong, if you are a Professor of Medicine at Stanford University like Dr Jay (including 4 degrees, one being medicine and a PhD in economics), then I might listen to you. Not likely though 😂
Yup we have been harmed by our leaders. I will hold them to account every opportunity I get. I will never forget what was done to us all in the name of Health.
Look at all the kids who still have their parents and grandparents because of the lockdowns. Look at all the parents who can now keep working because the health of their parents is not crippled and can provide child care because of lockdowns
Leading expert One whose “Let it rip” opinion has not changed with any contrary evidence. Oh, Chipper, do read more widely before spouting such tripe!
Since when do u care? The papers msm played a big part in this bio weapon And forced people to get the jab or dont have a job. Now there is millions and millions of people who died from the shot and yet you never tell the truth in the papers.
Yes, if only the Morrison & NSW LNP government had competently managed the pandemic in that state. Then Victoria and other states wouldn’t have been forced to go into lockdowns when the virus spread from NSW into other states. But by all means let’s revise history 🤦♂️
Now why would Costello-led media be demonising lockdowns and platforming the GBD as if it’s a legitimate science org and not a front to lobby for the interests of the fossil fuel and commercial real estate industries. Oh wait… 👀 1/
Oh yeah I saw the Grand final in Melbourne. Geelong fans looked more content that the Sydney fans. Too soon 😪
I would have thought going to cities in China would be a better hunting ground. Given that they have a zero covid policy and were actively welding doors shut, let that sink in! The authorities were going around welding doors shut to prevent people leaving their homes
Very proud. Our actions, by obeying lock down rules, stopped an even greater catastrophe for Australia.
I’m pretty sure the motive behind this article is the consistent decline in revenue for this market (-3%) 20-21 FY … I think we’ve hit Lord of the flies territory in the misinformation landscape … but yeah worked on me .. you got a click from my annoyance - well done
So basically, a bloke whose theories have been proven wrong is desperately trying to stay relevant, and an increasingly irrelevant newspaper has platformed him. Sinking further into the gutter.
Do better, this is just tripe!
You can find anything if you look hard enough. My suggestion - barrack for the Cats. The world is looking pretty fantastic this morning.
A place run by criminals.
A RW screecher doing what RW screechers do best. Screech RW poison which benefits no one but themselves and their cronies.
The same Melbourne just voted the most livable city, you mean that Melbourne?🤷♂️
Imagine being named 'Chip Le Grand' and expecting to be taken seriously
This the expert you talking about?
The Chip and Costello cartoon strip showing its true colours. Yesterday they asked us what we wanted from them, then they publish this absolute tripe. ThisIsNotJournalism
Good take by dr Bhattacharya. But the comments here are sobering. As usual with lockdown lovers, preppers and stooges, experts must be respected and listened to only when they agree with Dan Andrews. The hypocrites.
Cherob14 Engineered trauma of lockdowns/fascist 'rules' feeds billionaires' impact markets. + increases uptake of ed-tech which feeds Ai/ digital twinning (transhumanism). All MPs/media are complicit with global fascism. 'Smart cities, transhumanist game': YouTube
Chip Le Grand lol.
fakenews 😷
In the province of Quebec in Canada we had curfews twice. One at the beginning of 2021 that lasted almost 5 months, then one that lasted about two weeks that was imposed on Dec 31 2021 (New Year’s Eve!), and which was announced only one day prior. A time when insanity ruled.
DrAseemMalhotra Horrific policing. Bring back the men.
Le grand needs a I'M A LIBERAL voter disclaimer
Ok so he hasn’t actually done any research on this and isn’t interested in doing it… but thinks there’s probably harm. So no evidence of anything. But he talked to the IPA so that’s newsworthy?
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Dr Jay is spot on, solitary confinement has lethal consequences.
Dr Jay - expert in ? Apart from consistently criticizing lockdowns and being shot down, he is no expert. Only expert in the eyes of RWNJ and Conservatives
Melbchief Standout for me - the part about 15,000 lives being saved…
FRO
Is the age getting a cut of Chips book Gay_Alcorn ?
I wonder what could possibly be the topic of Eugene Homer Legrands new Book?
How does it make sense that someone institutionalised (assimilated *cough*) in American capitalist hyper-individualistic medicine/public health endorsing measures that lead to more COVID deaths & long covid disability judging psychological toll in a vastly different context?
What year does Chip think it is 😂 there was 100,024 people at the MCG today and he’s still whinging about lockdowns?
Chip Le Grand. Lol
Oh give it a rest Chip & Jay
BarefootRaRa It’s disgraceful that you publish material you must know is disreputable and debunked propaganda. What on earth has happened to The Age?
Oh come on
One for the pro disease folk will love this.
Perhaps media and 'experts' could try predicting the obvious before the damage is done instead of cheerleading for government.
So Dr B is saying he has a bit of a feeling that Victoria would be a good place to look to find lockdown harms. But he’s not actually interested in seeing any studies done? Which is it, Dr B?
What we were trying to avoid
I cant think of any other place in the world that has such an obsession over its cbd, its getting tiring to listen to.
You have no shame.
FRO
Since we have let it rip, people like myself are confined to home unable to live a normal life. Perhaps you could do a story on how having high levels of covid19 in the community affects the vulnerable.
Exactly
The Melbourne CBD is becoming like the streets of Philadelphia. Violence drug abuse alcoholism ineffective Police force. If you doubt me spend some time at the Elizabeth and Flinders at intersection.
Lockdown worked very well and saved many many lives IStandWithDan 2022 IStandWithDan 2022 IStandWithDan 2022 IStandWithDan 2022
The Age.. irrelevant
Melbchief Good piece.
Melbchief Interestingly though you will not be able to quantify lives saved through the wait for vaccines - like those of my dad whose lessened exposure protected him - a car crash survivor and heart patient who first contracted it in 2022, not 2020, triple vaccinated before catching it.
goes full cooker
It's interesting who Nine Newspapers chooses to platform and who they do not.
Many people suffered. Regardless of politics let's be kind to others and not demean other peoples suffering. Let's move forward.
This once respected newspaper has fallen so far, glad I cancelled my subscription a few years back. Wouldn’t use it in my budgie cage now.
Quite upset you choose to an international GBD eugenist to interview.. Australia has many health experts of our own who are equally indifferent to the lives of the vulnerable.
northerness Don’t think he was all that interested in psychology before. Lockdowns were essential to contain the spread.
DrJBhattacharya Department of Health modelling is even less reliable as using a crystal ball.
DrJBhattacharya As a Melburnian, I do not want input from outsiders who wanted the virus to spread & kill people when we weren't vaccinated; like it did overseas. You are a disgrace to your profession. Thankfully, in VIC, we have sensible medical professionals who looked after the community.
Anything written by Chip is trash. Sensationalist, exploitative - his Danny Frawley piece was the pits.
Who is he writing this to and for?
Who the hell is he?
The greatest damage will come when the MassFormationPsychosis crumbles. Stockholme Syndrome has nothing on the VIC Covidians & their supreme leader
DrAseemMalhotra No way! You mean the decisions of DanielAndrewsMP, world lockdown champion, might have led to harm? Getouttahere.
sacklidiathorpe SackDanAndrews AndrewsMustGo
More whingers per square km than anywhere in the world
SackDanAndrews AndrewsMustGo
Jay started Great Barrington Declaration, a group of dangerous selfish right wingers who abhor scientific facts & believe vulnerable people should die from covid so billionaire mates don't lose profits Lying extremists like Jay & his followers cause harm with their lies auspol
AND... ‘5572 (died) in Victoria...had the state followed the less restrictive approach of the United States, more than 20,000 people would have died in Victoria from the virus.’ Do go on, you twats.
Maybe look at abuses by danny & the police too!
I wish I could unsubscribe again.
Thanks Dan [ NOT ] 😡 Never forget, Victorians. Dump the secretive sloth on Nov 26th
What a shocking piece of journalism. Dr Jay Bhattacharya was an advisor to Trump. '...where they expressed opposition to masks, testing and tracing, physical distancing, and mass vaccination.' Get in the bin.
Australian lives are obviously more important and we don't like our citizens dying.
This article is why i dont access and will certainly never pay for Costello News.
Keep doin’ what you do, Chip.
People need to stop wasting their money on this pathetic newspaper.
Platforming someone like Bhattacharya is just disgusting but not surprising from someone as appalling as Chip Le Grand who has done nothing but downplay and misinform since the start of this pandemic. Just shows how bad The Age newspaper has become.
Hey Melbchief how about you look into LiberalVictoria & the Pentecostal infiltration that ‘Independent Always’ has failed to report on regardless of a scathing speech in parliament recently from one of their own. Sigh!
Why is the age posting this? Doesn't go against Dans funding policy
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Now do an article about psychological harms from no lockdowns where people are dealing with so many deaths from covid of friends and loved ones
Hi. I didn’t die. I’m grateful to a state government that kept me safe.
Fucking Age running desperate Murdoch style propaganda.
Health policies have consequences:
We blew up the country, locked down gyms, banned people from going outside and made many rely on unhealthy food, isolating them - all the very things that had we been able to do them, would give brilliant protection from getting covid in the first place.
This is just infuriating!
What a sad excuse for journalism you have become. My childhood was spent reading your paper daily. Never again.
Hahaha yep, we’re all suffering sooooo much (can’t you see what a dreadful weekend it’s been in Melbourne?) 🙄
Let the bodies pile high. Hey age.
I live in Melbourne. It was fine, and safe. This shitty story serves your political agenda. It's not news.
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Pre-emptive suppression of economic limiting health measures as we come into next BA.2.75 wave with no extra mitigations and increased intl travel, particularly with India.
Enough drivel from you, thanks
Expert? Expert in what
Yeah…here’s the deal…there was no harm. Not to myself, anyone I know or anyone I’ve heard about. It’s an anti vaxxer cooker beat up 🤣🤣🤣
Bhattacharya doesn't even live in Melbourne, Costello sh!t rag has run out of Melburnians whose arms they can twist to speak against the city.
Lol… why would sane person with basic common sense bother the . It’s pure political smut pretending to be news. Woman’s Day has more cred then this rubbish trash rag any day. whatajoke
Chip writes the greatest load of bollocks. He’s a massive jerkoff..
I'm skeptical of the veracity of such claims by health experts with zero qualifications relating to psychology/mental health and a penchant for peculiar hot takes.
Totally disagree - the lockdowns saved lives before the (slow) vaccine rollout: you can’t get on with living if you’re dead - and the implied expendability of the elderly and immunocompromised by the criticism of the Vic approach is disgusting
Nobody had a more comprehensive public health response than Dan Andrews and it’s embarrassing that you faq knuckles can’t see the difference.
Dr Jay Bhattacharya in Sydney last night on the coordinated propaganda campaign to smear and reframe the co-authors of the Great Barrington Declaration as fringe epidemiologists to suppress dissent and manufacture scientific consent for lockdown DrJBhattacharya gbdeclaration
Melbchief Right-wing libertarian anti-lockdown advocate, mate of John Ruddick. Co-author of the discredited Great Barrington Declaration. Bottom of the barrel, even for your rag.
What a load of BS. DrJBhattacharya
AndrewsMustGo
mahsaamini helpiran The Iranian people have been cut off from the internet while world leaders are meeting at the United Nations.Please be their voice
Oh well done
The people who follow dr jay also 👇
Large fries overdone in the cooker
CostelloGutterMedia MurdochGutterMedia
great article
Why are you publishing this garbage. Those of us who lived through lockdowns, got vaxxed and survived as a result are grateful to still be here.
nothing could harm a incity greens then they already are
The Barrington Declaration has been debunked. Why are you giving this falsehood air as if it’s fact You need to correct the story or remove it.
Bullshit!
Likely? More kids have presented to hospital after attempting suicide than died of Covid, during Labors lockdowns. The State Gov hid the data! Psyc issues will go on for years!
just shows how pathetic the cookers are in victoria. literally asked to stay home for 2 weeks, wear a mask, and it was the end of the world for them. still had to go out which in turn cause further spread. but no lets not hold them accountable
philYoung17
Another sh*t take from TheAge. Scraping the bottomnow
Bhattacharya is one of the cranks, who used junk science & deliberately misinterpreted studies to co-author the discredited Great Barrington Declaration. He’s a disinformation merchant & public health villain, whose advice on covid mismanagement = ⬆️ preventable illness & death.
Who?
Wouldn't use the age paper as toilet paper ld get gastro.. Toxic Substances...
'eXPeRt'. Lolz.
Jay isn’t interested in studies? Like the McKinsey report from April this which found this? Yes, NSW, but if there was dramatic ‘learning loss’ in VIC, McKinsey would be screaming it from the roof tops. Honestly just stop with this nonsense. It’s embarrassing.
Is this the latest edition of the LNP Newsletter?
Chip Le Grandiose strikes again 🥱
The biggest threat to mental health is grifters and misinformation.
This constant focus on lockdowns in Melbourne is a form of bullying - people went through so much, but they held together and achieved the impossible without vaccines. This criticism is a blunt instrument brought down on our heads time and time again. ReallyOverIt
Chips Le Sook 😭
Shall we look at the harms of having no lockdown when we had no vaccines to protect us otherwise?
What a joke the GBD
Well I guess they’re entitled to their opinion, even if it isn’t backed by fact.
The age is ground zero
Who set up a Royal Commission into mental health? And has implemented all the recommendations? The Andrews government.
Not as much as dying of Covid! The country endured lockdowns as it was the only safe solution after Morrison failed to respond to Pfizer’s offer for mRNA vaccines in June 2020. Instead he ordered the problematic AstraZeneca months later as his MP’s had shares in the maker CSL!
How come Victoria achieved the best nap plan results in the country during these lockdowns? And, why does the data show that suicides down? You lot are so biased, and so pro liberal. And so not balanced at all. Costello controlling the narrative.
Still waiting for your report on this.
Hmmm. The Age desperately looking for an election issue to beat Andrews with. Yawn.
Then, of course, there's the physical harm.
Fewer children lost a parent or grandparent due to lockdown in a PREVACCINE era. For a balanced article you'd need to explore lives saved and the mental health impact on children of losing one or both parents with rampant transmission. This won't win Guy the election.
Do you remember when Gay tweeted this? Can her stand-in please comment on how this story meets that commitment?
Sure. Now do the harms of letting a new, airborne virus rip through an unvaccinated population.
Yeah he can FRO.
Does it surprise anyone that Legrand is responsible for platforming this utter crap…..again.
This is the 'expert' who proposed herd immunity in the Great Barrington declaration.
Dam right we should be debating climate change the science isn’t settled unless you think like Chris Bowen and want us to destroy our economy and enable battlers to freeze to death, for no good reason.
It’s a bit rich for to be saying this now. This newspaper promoted lockdowns.
I saw the journalist named to this article and SKIP!
OMFG You lot are without ethical conscience Finally, the ghost of The Great Barrington Declaration leaks out of crypt Had my suspicions that Le Grand, & others, were embracing the ideology of the worst of the crackpots & here we are Despicable
Won’t someone think of the childrennnnnn….🥱
And anyone defending the lockdowns should be the doctor’s first stop.
On the plus side, many of us are still alive 🙂
Interesting to note he says 'IF' he were looking for proof, he's not doing any research to prove his claims just endlessly spouting the same completely baseless opinion that letting a viral pandemic run uncontrolled before vaccines were available would have been better
I live in Melbourne. If you don’t feel lockdowns impacted talk to a parent. Many will tell you about slipping academic performance, lost motivation, self harm, eatings disorders, a fear of returning to school, new anxiety. If you haven’t heard this you’re just not listening.
Was there any other city that also had its citizens self-immolate in protest and despair?
What would have been the psychological harm of having that many people die if we didn't have lockdowns? Time to move on and enjoy the time we have now. IStandWithDan
The Age, major advocate for the peak insanity last couple of years. You can be proud of you.
Oh The Age 😂 Grow up
If you’re dead, you don’t have a mental health problem. That’s what lockdowns were trying to prevent. RWNJs like Chip Le Grand…..get over it!
He's an expert like Avi Yemini is a reporter.
I would look to study the psychological harm caused by biased media attacking & undermining all pandemic management strategies that the epic Vic govt used to keep people safe, especially when we had NO VACCINE thanks to incompetent trainwreck Scott Morrison.
Are you guys deciding to do some real journalism now?
This Dr Bhattacharya?
Hi I'm Dan remember when MY policies resulted in 834 deaths, lockdowns, curfews, loss of life, mandates, loss of employment, police brutality, corruption, business closures and complete health system failure...🤔
Absolute biased garbage from The Age again. Why would any credible newspaper platform non-mainstream opinionated anti-lockdown 'experts' from USA to talk about Melb? This story is just advertising repackaged as 'news' to try to sell Chip's hatchetjob book that nobody will buy.
The Great Barrington Declaration has been debunked by scientists and medical researchers world wide. Yet The Age still seems to think it’s worth platforming. Still clinging to climate change deniers too?
Another lot of Costello BS. Put up or shut up instead of this opinion drivel. Best economy, lowest unemployment. No reliable stat's on mental health show increases.
Or you could look at the people that didn’t die. More anti Dan farts from Melbchief & Costello typists.
I went through all the Melbourne short term lockdowns and suffered a fraction of the harm being inflicted on me and so many others now with the removal of measures to reduce transmission, effectively locking down the vulnerable long term. Look for that, Dr Jay.
'Lock me down harder, Daddy. I only love you when you punish me'.
Anyone looked at psychological damage of perpetual battering by the media?
How fucking predictable, two abysmal polls for the Victorian Liberals, & just like that Alcorn lets loose the pompous arsehat - LePew… Seriously this shit is so predictable you could set a nuclear clock off it! Absolutely pathetic last minute desperation by Murdoch Minions!
Dan still getting in, keep going though there's almost enough right wing mongs to get Guy 30% of the vote.
More Chip Le Grand BS!!!
Telling Melbourne people they can't handle lockdowns compared to others is not the win you think it is.
I remember when you were a newspaper.
A nice 2020 thread from HeerJeet about Stanford's Covid contrarianism. (Dr Bhattacharya is from Stanford)
is he also looking into the impact on mental health caused by the medias constant negativity and undermining of Health advice
jayrosen_nyu this is what we are trying to tell you. This Dr is a pariah here an outlyer, he is speaking at a far right wing think tank (IPA) sponsored event. Like we said a once great paper now just another 'Pravda' for the Australian Liberal Party.
Melbourne was voted best city in Australia to live and number 10 in the world....so yeah, nah...
Your bias is showing. “ground zero “? Really?
He of the 'let it rip' philosophy? Even his employer (Stanford University) disavowed this guy and yet Chip Le Grand and platforms this king of the cookers? Just fvck off! IStandWithDan Thank dog for a gov't that put our health first...for a while
Le Grand ol' waste of air
AndrewsMustGo that’s all
Dr Jay Bhattacharya expert in what? Bullshit?
lol, chippie is back and useless as ever. Who would have thought some doofus from the Australian would be such a dud? Oh. Wait.
A grown man called 'Chip'. Let's think about that for a moment.
So?
Heres an example of both psychological and physical harm caused by lockdowns.
. Victorians wer so easy to control AndrewsMustGo
Chip would be desperately trying to push his trash fiction pamphlet, out soon folks. One to avoid.
Ironic that the cookers were telling people to move on and live with covid. The population has largely moved on, apart from the cookers!
Chip Le Grand 😂
Fucking spare me. Sure, lockdowns were shit and we all hated them. But we've all well and truly moved on now. I suggest you do too.
Chip, did you ask one of the world's leading proponents of the disproven 'Let it rip' herd immunity scenario how many people he would have been happy to see die by allowing unfettered spread of the virus before vaccines were available? I'm yet to see Dr Jay answer this question.
IPA ideology being pushed.
2 years of lost teenagers thanks to Dan Andrews lockdowns
Still brings me to tears..... the brutality and the lies.....I can't believe someone would be so evil
The Age just trying to undermine the Andrews government again. Like everyday
Murdoch & now Costello hack Melbchief was caught out during the pandemic publishing unsubstantiated claims, fake news, in other words, in his political vendetta against the Andrews govt, & was supported by gay_alcorn, Costello’s editor at the LNP pamphlet. They pair are liars.
Children never a COVID risk and locked out of school during COVID will be disadvantaged unless learning catch-up occurs ?
Dr Jay’s default setting is to rail against any and all public health measures. He’s an obvious crank, who has been regularly caught out spouting bad takes and misinformation. The fact that the The Age is giving him a platform speaks volumes about the paper’s declining standards.
I see Chip appears to be developing… Well, a chip on his shoulder?
Sure
Search long enough and you will find an “expert” who says the earth is flat! 😏
So, how much psychological harm is caused by a loved one dying unnecessarily from Covid?
meanwhileinau If you don’t see psychological harms from lockdowns in Melbourne, are you even human?
Psychological harms from media more like it. Move on ffs.
The age putting out constant anti labor articles… must be a election coming up! Good thing no one listens to this kind of hysterics anymore
More politically biased drivel being peddled by TheAge and its minions. Once a great newspaper. 😏
according to a noted american anthropologist, aussies are fine with 'drinking in their yards and barbecuing'. I'm not sure they're aware anything happened.
Who is responsible? Another swept under the carpet disaster based on an ignorant electorate!
This is pathetic. You are basically running an ad for Chip Le Grand's politically motivated book.
Hey Melbchief, can you ask your mate Dr Jay how exactly the lockdowns caused the Ukraine invasion?
I've been harmed much more since we let it rip and have had covid three time this year. Feel anxious for my longtime health in my workplace since mask mandates were removed and been treated like cannon fodder for the sake of the economy. How about researching that...
That time little Chips Ahoy made an impotent threat against an entire state because they didn’t do what he wanted. TOO BAD Chippie! Lol RWNJ
Luckily I can't read the rubbish this Fiction Author writes.
What impacts/ed my mental health is the inability for the media to perform their role in democracy. The age and Chip politicised the pandemic seeding doubt into the community and they seem to be in no hurry to correct that. People still think this is the flu and masks don't work
Jeez…this is designed to help push the narrative of your book.Does your psychiatrist hypothesise about the possible impact of the thousands of deaths that would of occurred if the ‘let it rip’ policy of Morrison, Costello,Murdoch , Coatsworth,and the Spring St.clods had occured!
AndrewsMustGo
But you live in the USA Doc! Spend some time working out how you can fix the myriad social problems there as a result of Trump's presidency. As for Chop le Weena, he's just a RWNJ!
Get a new axe, dude. This one’s ground to a nub.
Oh ffs
My god you people are tiresome. Time to own up to your part in not only psychological harm but the unnecessary lives lost due to your publication continuously undermining health professionals. You have blood on your hands
The Age is now platforming the eugenics guy. Charming.
So the Age still denigrates Victorians?
This expert should go to China to check out actual lockdòwns. Did the AGE sponsor him?
Yeah, he seems unbiased. Just ignore the frame on his profile picture that says 'no more lockdowns'
AndrewsMustGo still hiding what matters AndrewsMustGo
“If I’m looking for a place where I’m likely to see the cause of psychological harms during lockdowns, I would look here👇🏼,” “expert”Dr Jay Bhattacharya said
LOL, Chonk STILL running anti-lockdown stories months after any actual lockdowns. Now resorting to blow-ins to support the narrative. Move on bro.
What a load of shite Chip you have finally hit the bottom of the barrel Absolutely pathetic
Good to q this but note that the estimate of deaths in V is not possible given the test used to class a death as c was not fit for diagnostic purposes either. Nor were the vaccines given to us trad. vaxxes. I expect to see The Age cover these elements in 2026 or so.
DrJBhattacharya I would think that a bigger issue than the “psychological harms” (which are still important) is the underlying presupposition of lockdowns that governments should have the powers to remove basic rights (movement, association etc) that underpin western civilisation.
Ffs.. suicides went down. Kids did better in naplan. No.1 with gdp growth. This insanity has to stop.
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If we were looking for agenda driven meaningless crap, we'd go to The Age.
DrJBhattacharya Watch to see what happens to Australia when Nigel Farage gets there? Kaboom!
It’s 2061 and The Age is still doing stories on lockdown. 👏 👏
Public health pariah at IPA-sponsored speaking tour slams Labor govt health response ahead of election. Quelle surprise 🙄
DrJBhattacharya Good to see Jay is back to being regarded as a health expert by the MSM. What happened to that over the past 2 years?
Melbchief The American Institute for Economic Research, the ultra right wing group that drafted the Great Barrington Declaration also promotes climate change denial.
Great article from Chip
All you need to know about this: The Great Barrington Declaration was sponsored by the American Institute for Economic Research, a libertarian free-market think tank associated with climate change denial.
Chip who? CostelloGutterMedia How many hundreds of thousands / millions of lives would you have liked to see lost during a deadly pandemic with zero vaccine? Do better. Lift our beautiful city and people. Enough.
Give it a rest . It's pathetic now, the only psychological damage being done is by your relentless right wing propaganda.
If I want to read an interview with a Great Barrington author, with bonus commentary by Tony Abbott adressing the IPA, that’s what the Australian is for
Just horrifying how the CostelloGutterMedia and the pretend journalists at the age, spend all their time attacking Melbourne ThisisNotJournalism TheAgeAnLNPshitrag
More sensationalist drivel from Biff le Flaccid. Great...
Photo certainly isn’t recent
Enough
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