Lockdown laughingstocks: COVIDiots on the streets, Sky on the airwaves

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Isn’t it ironic, don’t you think, that the loudest voices selling a pro-freedom narrative are also the ones whose words and actions would deny us freedom from lockdown and disease?

Protesters march through Sydney (Image: AAP//Mick Tsikas)

It’s somewhat of a grim gift when you’re writing a column on bullshit and you’re given a ghastly cluster of the stuff.

Sky News delivered in spades.

As anti-lockdown protesters were planning to take to Australian streets with ludicrous claims and to post fiendishly selfish selfies with placards about “freedoms”, the pundits at Sky slathered on their own version of the anti-science messaging.

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About the Author

Tory Shepherd

Tory Shepherd is an Adelaide-based freelance journalist. After studying anthropology she joined The Advertiser, where she still writes a regular column. You can also catch her on ABC Adelaide and in Cosmos Magazine. Tory is a Walkley Awards judge, a Churchill Fellow, and the author of On Freedom.

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