Ben Fordham slams ‘ABC bogeyman’ Norman Swan over latest Covid fearmongering ‘worst year’ claim

Popular radio host Ben Fordham has blasted ‘bogeyman’ Norman Swan for being a voice of doom as Aussies are learning to live with Covid. 

Swan, who became a naysaying fixture on ABC platforms during the pandemic, said that 2022 is Australia’s ‘worst year’ of Covid on Tuesday.

Yet Fordham took issue with Swan’s remarks on Wednesday, saying he ‘wants to take us back to the bad old days’.

Fordham said, ‘We are trying to get on with our lives after losing two years and Dr Swan has come in off the long run-up and he’s bowled another frightening fear campaign’

‘I think he must be bored,’ Fordham told his 2GB audience on Wednesday. ‘Because we have learned to live with the coronavirus,…