Peter Francis Fenwick/Libertarian Philosophy| Austrian Economics

Do Lockdowns Work?

Is there any correlation between the lockdown measures and the death rate?

The Victorian Government put finding jobs for a few unskilled workers as a higher priority than creating hygienic, well-controlled quarantine facilities to protect the community from infectious overseas arrivals. It was an egregious error. The result has been catastrophic. Nearly 200 people have died as a consequence. When I wrote about the quarantine fiasco on 29th June, I had no idea how bad it would get. The liberties and the livelihoods of five million people have been compromised as the government now acts to contain the problem they created. It is indeed a state of disaster. They put the interests of the few above the common good. We trusted the earnest and urbane Dan Andrews to do the