What if the experts were wrong – really wrong?

But What About Italy?

It's at this point government overreach apologists point to Italy and ask, "But what about Italy? Their mortality rate would have been ours if the government hadn't acted." It's not known where they get their certainty the only variable between all the nations of the world is government regulation, but there are in fact other variables. Things like multi-generational housing, crowded town planning and climate can also exacerbate transmission rates.

Italy's population is the oldest in Europe – nearly one in four is over 65.

Italy's health system has been overwhelmed before. In 2017 it again collapsed under the weight of a bad flu season, and also has unusually high flu mortality rates, according to Professor Yitzhak Ben Israel.

Consistent with this theory, Germany normally has low flu transmission and mortality rates and is having similar results with coronavirus as well. He describes Israel's unprecedented quarantine and closure as "mass hysteria" and coronavirus as a "lower-risk epidemic."

The Cost of "At Any Cost" Expert Advice

Tens of thousands of Australians have lost their jobs and businesses because our governments acted on the doomsday predictions of a severely flawed model by an expert with form. What's startling to me is the people who, while believing we should care for the environment to the best of our ability, reject "at any cost" policy demands from climate alarmists based on nothing more than typically flawed and historically false models and doomsday predictions. Many of these normally more circumspect folks have suddenly believed government experts to be infallible and even repeated the propaganda that sceptics are heartlessly risking lives.

Dangerous precedents have been set for future governments of unknown character and integrity that severely jeopardise our Constitution. Parliaments designed to hold power to account with questions and government by consent of the people's representatives have been suspended while the most dramatic changes to our freedoms and economy are hastily implemented with insufficient scrutiny by MIA Opposition MPs and an incurious and mainstream media, ineffectual as the Fourth Estate.

Democracy, Not Technocracy

We don't need the experts any more. Politicians, Premiers and the Prime Minister now have more than enough hard data to be assured the crisis has been avoided locally (if there ever was one) and globally. It's been mathematically demonstrated sacrificing the economy and closing society was a mistake. It's fair to say they thought they were saving lives, but continuing this charade of necessary caution is a mere exercise in saving face. It's time to reopen beaches, churches, cafes and all other businesses.

Let's learn from our mistakes, forever remembering to take a breath before heeding experts who advocate "action at any cost".