Reference :- Alan Jones complained that the full statistics for the coronavirus pandemic are never reported to us , leaving us with a distorted impression of its severity .
Say Jonesie , maybe you ( or your researchers ) need to drop your cherry pickers for a moment and tune the tele to the ABC . You say nobody tells us how many people have been tested for coronavirus , how many people are actually hospitalized in ICU , or the ages of the afflicted and the dead .
But , the ABC does relay that information to the general public regularly , along with a lot of other excellent content , for twenty cents per person per day . (And with the funding cuts , soon it will be even less than twenty cents . )
Pretty good value I reckon . Of course , one still has to dial up a commercial station from time to time just for the ads . How else is a chap going to hear about the latest accessory that allows him to gamble while riding his jet ski ?
Anyway , I would avoid the sensational commercial news channels if I was a serious commentator like you Jonesie . The last time I experienced distortions as bad as the ones they inflict upon us was in the mirror maze at a traveling circus .
Your comrade , Ken
P.S. By the way , have you noticed that half the coronavirus deaths in the USA are now in the 45 to 75 yrs age group? Your researchers should be able to morph that into something you can rant about .
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