Lockdowns and travel bans to combat the spread of the coronavirus should be ended, Tony Abbott has said, as he called on governments to give individuals more choice over their personal decisions | latikambourke
Lockdowns and travel bans to combat the spread of the coronavirus should be ended, Tony Abbott has said, as he called on governments to give individuals more choice over their personal decisions.
He said the most alarmist opinions had guided calls for lockdowns, even though jurisdictions such as NSW, which had effective track-and-trace and quarantining systems, had shown those measures were the superior response.
"Governments have justified it as following the expert advice as if this is always been clear or as if we should be ruled rather than merely guided by unaccountable experts," he said. He blamed governments for panicking and then becoming trapped in "crisis mode" for longer than necessary, "especially if the crisis adds to their authority or boosts their standing"."Much of the media has indulged virus-hysteria with the occasional virus-linked death of a younger person highlighted to show that deadly threat isn’t confined to the very old or the already-very-sick or those exposed to massive viral loads," he said.
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