Gide, humans.

How you doing?

How you're holding up?

You're hanging in there?

I'm pretty, pretty good.

You may have heard my recent rants about lockdowns and vaccinations.

One is the beginning of the James Matheson.

The other is a bonus episode entitled something like lockdown rant.

Listen to those before you're in this episode.

Or if you don't want to hear them on your podcast feed, you can also find them on Instagram

where they exist as little audiogram tiles on my Instagram page.

Because this is the fact check of my own

random Winsie. Instead of just spewing barely thought through opinions at you out of my bumhole,

I thought it might be worth getting someone who actually knows what they're talking about to

fact check me and make sure that I'm not getting anything wildly wrong.

So we tracked down just the man to do it.

Stephen Duckett is an extremely knowledgeable health economist.

He's held top policy leadership positions in healthcare in Australia and also in Canada.

He was the secretary of the health department in Australia, which is a public service position.

It's not an elected political position.

Secretaries in Australia, unlike in America, are basically the most senior public servants of

the department who they're responsible for the day-to senior public servants of the department who they're

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