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Hating on the Woodville Pizza guy won't fix a problem that was entirely foreseeable

  • Written by Gemma Beale, PhD Candidate, Flinders University
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Over the course of a single week South Australia was plunged into one of the world’s strictest, and briefest, lockdowns.

The drama, estimated to have cost the state’s economy A$100 million, came down to pizza – specifically, fears the state’s outbreak of COVID-19 was an especially virulent strain transmissable by...

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