Australia did 'absolutely not' have to lockdown

Former chairman of The Department of Anaesthetics Dr Michael Levitt says Australia did not need to implement stringent lockdown measures to combat COVID-19, however they are unlikely to acknowledge this since “governments hate admitting mistakes”.

“I can understand in early March that some people didn’t know what would be occurring and that governments would panic,” Dr Levitt told Sky News.

“But curiously we never had a lockdown for influenza, SARS, MERS and Ebola and you wonder why the reaction this time was so different,” he said.

“We don’t know why they’ve continued the lockdown though.

“The governments hate admitting mistakes, it would be pretty hard for a government to admit they overreacted and we didn’t really need to lockdown the entire economy and destroy it,” he said.

“And so they persisted with this fiction that we need to persist with a slow release of lockdown.”
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