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Alan Kohler

Alan Kohler: Omicron is a natural disaster. We should treat it as one

Omicron Alan Kohler
Businesses need urgent financial support as staff isolate and customers steer clear, writes Alan Kohler. Photo: TND/AAP

Economically, the COVID-19 pandemic has changed from being a government-mandated recession to a natural disaster, and should be treated as that.

Government-imposed lockdowns in 2020 and 2021 produced three quarterly GDP contractions out of six over 18 months, including the minus 7 per cent all-time record in the June quarter of 2020.

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