The former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott has said politicians need to balance allowing more elderly Covid patients to die with the economic cost of an extreme lockdown. Speaking at the Policy Exchange thinktank in London, Abbott, tipped to become a UK trade envoy, said not enough politicians were ‘behaving like health economists, trained to pose uncomfortable questions about the level of deaths we might have to live with’
Continue reading…The former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott has said politicians need to balance allowing more elderly Covid patients to die with the economic cost of an extreme lockdown. Speaking at the Policy Exchange thinktank in London, Abbott, tipped to become a UK trade envoy, said not enough politicians were ‘behaving like health economists, trained to pose uncomfortable questions about the level of deaths we might have to live with’Tony Abbott: some elderly Covid patients could be left to die naturallyContinue reading…