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History tells us a ‘keep calm and carry on’ policy could be disastrous during COVID-19 – ABC News
Everyone from the Prime Minister to columnists have urged Australians to “keep calm and carry on” during the pandemic. But that famous slogan has a rather problematic history.
When the coronavirus first came to Australian shores, Prime Minister Scott Morrison sought to reassure a nervous nation.
“Keep calm and carry on,” he said on March 13.
It’s the famous slogan often attributed to Britain’s WWII efforts against the Nazis and the striking red and white poster that sought to stir a sense of stoicism.
But its history is more chequered than that, harking back not to the war but the Spanish flu decades earlier.
In fact, six months after Mr Morrison first uttered tho…
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