War preparations, a government-imposed recession or depression, shock reporting about an allegedly resurgent Wuhan virus, borders  closed, talk that overseas travel will not be allowed until next year, the Andrews government’s links to the Beijing dictator, more lockdowns in Melbourne with  public housing tenants put under house arrest, the political parties and the mainstream media speaking more in unison than even during a world war— where is Australia going?

Notwithstanding the claims by the politicians and a too easily duchessed media, it has to be repeated over and over that the  lower Australian death rate from  the Wuhan virus, compared with...