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Good morning and welcome to the Independent Republic of Mike Graham right here on Talk Radio and welcome to day one of the rest of your life.

And I'm not joking when I say this for the first time in what I think is about five months.

This morning's newspapers aren't leading with stories about the coronavirus.

This, whether you know it or not, is a massive step forward, right?

What it means is that the great messengers of our time are getting fed up with the spin.

They're getting fed up with the statistics. They're getting fed up with the warnings.

They're getting fed up with the predictions about the worst pandemics who ever hit our shores.

And they're getting fed up with the narrative that all we have to talk about is the coronavirus. And I'm very excited about that.

I'm actually rather encouraged by it because I know, as you do,

that this is something that we have to get past.

This is something that we have to get through.

This is something that we have to put to one side.

And this is something that we have to move on from.

Because otherwise, we are dead in the water.

It's that simple.

That must be the reason why Fleet Street has finally woken up. So what I've been saying

for a very long time, this is not the end of the world by any means. What could possibly

be any other explanation? They are literally bored with it as much as we are, right? Mark my word.

This is the first step into breaking the deadlock. This is the first step into breaking the deadlock.

This is the first step into unlocking the gates, loosening the shackles of despair.

Trust me, people, this is a great day. And the government will have to pivot accordingly.

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