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Elyse Knowles slammed for “tone deaf” and “insensitive” Instagram post amid Coronavirus panic

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Elyse Knowles felt the wrath of her Instagram followers earlier this week when she was accused of being insensitive towards the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

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The 27-year-old Instagram star was slammed for sharing photos of her picture-perfect holiday on Queensland’s Moreton Island.

‘Magical week watching sunrise to sunset,’ she wrote next to a picture of herself relaxing at the beach in a bikini with her boyfriend, Josh Barker.

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‘Camping with loved ones and embracing nature. No earlier ferries so we embraced being near no one. Time to hit the road before the borders close,’ she added.

While the Myer ambassador clearly meant no harm, many of her followers hit out at the ‘tone deaf’ nature of her post.

‘Really? Posting this when people are losing their jobs, we are all self-quarantining and trying to stop a virus from spreading?’ one person commented.

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‘Thanks for the reminder to unfollow you. This is incredibly tone deaf,’ another fan added, while a third wrote: ‘Magical week. You’re kidding, right?’

At the time of writing, eight people have died in relation to COVID-19 and 2,317 have been infected.

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