As more and more well-informed opinions appear, it is becoming clear that much of the coronavirus lockdown was unnecessary.  We should have been isolating only our most vulnerable people, and letting the young and healthy get on with their jobs.

Adopting sensible distancing and cleanliness does not mean a complete lockdown or becoming another Police State like Victoria.

The officious nature of the bureaucracy — none of whom would have ever been exposed to the threat of job losses or the need to continue their enterprise to cover the next payday — is fracturing our normally cohesive society and belting businesses in even...