Government hides ‘presumably very bad’ documents into cost of COVID-19 restrictions

Government hides ‘presumably very bad’ documents into cost of COVID-19 restrictions

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UNSW finance professor Dr Peter Swan says the government knows the “highly secret reports” into the cost of COVID-19 lockdowns are “very bad and very revealing”.

The Morrison government has classified a series of 38 documents into the economic cost of various COVID-19 restrictions as cabinet documents, preventing them from being made publicly available.



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Dr Swan told Sky News the government knew “how damaging” these reports were which was why it decided to hide them.

“How many hundreds-of-billions of dollars have been lost unnecessarily, tens-of-thousands of jobs, and businesses closed as a result of unnecessary lockdowns,” he said.

“I’m sure the government knows but it wants to keep it a secret. They must presumably be very very bad and very revealing.”

Source: Thanks msn.com