Christopher McIlrath, Mullumbimby
Where is the independent view?
It is amazing that Byron Shire’s ‘independent’ media is swallowing whole the massive hoax of counting all who die ‘with’ COVID-19 as dying ‘from’ the disease. The average age of the COVID-caused deaths is 80 years. Almost all of those had other, fatal diseases or co-morbidities.
Destroying employment and businesses is a counter-productive response to a seasonal flu. Numerous doctors and nurses that I have spoken to in our almost empty hospitals recognise the official response to this flu as ‘ridiculous’.


For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling.