COVID’s Cost, Consequences and Culpability

As COVID-19 continues to cut its path through the population, afflicting most who contract the virus with an unremarkable head cold, the cost a pigheaded lockdown brigade is imposing on Australia can only deepen and its consequences become increasingly protracted. The impact of the recently implemented Melbourne lockdown will impose a cost estimated at between $6 billion and $10 billion, figures that do not take into account the full collateral damage — the closed shops, wilting restaurants and jobless legions, to mention but a few. Instituted by privileged bureaucrats and enforced by the edicts of politicians who find it expedient to ignore what they must surely recognise as the immense long-term damage of such policies, they are crippling the prospects of millions of their fellow citizens.

What makes it even more galling is that, at the end of the day, none of it will be seen to have had even a minimal impact on the long-term trajectory of the virus, except to prolong the…