Australians love reality shows maybe it’s time to witness “hospital reality” and what Covid wards look like filled with the non-jabbed, while patients without Covid, but with serious conditions, are being turned away. Maybe it should be shown on the big screens of Melbourne when anti-vaxxers and freedom marchers are protesting about their inconvenience.

Most CEOs were not OK with it. Their decisions to ban reporters, taken one by one and with an impact that was collective, helped turn the sudden battle against Covid-19 into a long war with hundreds of thousands of victims whose terrifying plight could not be witnessed. This spared Americans from the medieval inconvenience of seeing the suffering and death of a plague in their midst. In its first months, the pandemic was defined by empty streets and grounded planes, by 6 feet of distance between nervous people, and by the strained faces of hospital workers who were swamped and frightened.

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