Three Specific Government Regulatory Failures Caused More Than 75% Of Covid-19 Infections and Most Covid-19 Related Deaths In Australia.

Most of the economy and job damaging Covid-19 restrictions were unnecessary, did nothing to change the Covid-19 outcomes, and were a deliberate distraction from the cause of most cases and deaths.

The two greatest factors in achieving low Covid-19 numbers were closing our international borders to all but Australian residents and a list of limited exemptions, and quarantining international arrivals and the infected.

Other measures such as locking down interstate borders, social distancing, shut-downs, hand and mask hygiene have had minimal impact in reducing infections and deaths. In fact those measures, would have been totally unnecessary had we had a decent contact tracing system in place.

Our island status and remoteness meant we were able to stop infected people coming to Australia pretty easily and had it not been for two critical state government bungles, and a failure in a Federal government department, (all detailed below), most of Australia's 28,000 Covid-19 cases and 900 deaths would not have occurred.

1. New South Wales health officials allowed 2,650 passengers debark from the Ruby Princess on March 91 without Covid-19 test results. That decision was ultimately linked to over 900 cases of Covid-19 in Australia and at least 28 deaths. https:// www.bbc.com/ news/ world-australia- 53802816

2. The failures in Victoria’s "hastily assembled” hotel quarantine are "responsible” for the state’s 768 deaths and 18,418 cases since the end of May 2020. Even after an inquiry nobody within the government has named when and by whom the decision to use civilian security to run the hotel quarantine was made. https:// www.theguardian. com/ australia-news/ 2020/sep/28/ victoria-hotel-q uarantine-failu res-responsible -for-covid-seco nd-wave-and-768 -deaths-inquiry -told

Almost 70% of Covid-19 cases and 90% of Covid-19 deaths in Australia could have been avoided easily, by the NSW and Victorian government's. Not by any of the economically damaging and freedom destroying restrictions our state governments have imposed on our citizens.

Had the state governments simply applied pre-covid health regulations to cruise ships, and to government chain of command and decision making, Australia could have dramatically reduced our Covid-19 cases and deaths. Yet all our State Premiers have had boosts in their popularity ratings, supported by a pro-restriction s media.

3. The third damaging government failure was the Federal government's lack of regulatory enforcement of health care standards at aged care facilities. These federal government regulated and funded facilities were clearly unprepared to handle epidemics, and had poor levels of infection controls.

There have been just over 2000 cases of COVID-19 in residential aged care in Australia. Of the 904 deaths from COVID-19 in the country at the time of writing, 682 have been in aged care homes, mostly in the state of Victoria, (largely infections originally eminating from their hotel quarantine debacle).

That 75% of the country's deaths have occurred in such facilities gives Australia one of the highest rates worldwide of deaths in residential aged care as a percentage of total deaths.

"Homer Simpson could have seen the catastrophe in aged care coming with COVID-19 because it was there in your face”, said Professor Joseph Ibrahim, head of the Health Law and Ageing Research Unit at Monash University (Melbourne, VIC, Australia) and an expert witness at Australia's Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety. " https:// www.thelancet.co m/journals/ lancet/article/ PIIS0140-6736(20 )32206-6/ fulltext#:~:text =There%20have%2 0been%20just%20 over,in%20the%2 0state%20of%20V ictoria.

More than 75% of Australia's Covid-19 cases and the majority of the Covid-19 related deaths can be directly traced to these three pin-pointed Federal and State government failures.

The governments used harsh regulations to distract the public and divert blame for the great majority of Covid-19 cases and deaths.

When the rates of cases and deaths slowed and stopped, the government's patted the public on the back for a job well done. In doing so of course the government was claiming credit for stopping the infections and deaths through implementing the damaging restrictions. When it was their incompetence which created most covid-19 cases and deaths in Australia. Thankfully that incompetence was gradually reduced and cases and deaths fell away.

The governments implicitly blamed the public for spreading covid-19 in the first place. We were spreading covy by gathering in public, running restaurants, pubs and gyms, for going to work and to church, and going outside unnecessarily, for not wearing face masks, travelling interstate, and in Victoria, staying out after 10pm! All the activities they curtailed to 'save' us from Covid-19.

The minority of Covid-19 cases and deaths came from infected returning Australian travellers.

A very small percentage of cases and deaths were related to other community infections unrelated to direct government incompetence. Australians unnecessarily suffered through harsh lockdowns and restrictions to cover for Government incompetence.

Now the state premiers have discovered how easy it is to take away our personal freedoms and destroy small business, and they've discovered how popular they are for doing so, and how positive the media, unions, big business, public servants, academics and therefore the majority of the public are about Covid-19 restrictions, they are on a hair trigger.

We saw that with the South Australian Pizza guy case. South Australia shut down the entire state for 6 days, because they thought they had a new, more virulent strain of Covid-19 - with no science to support that. https:// www.smh.com.au/ national/ experts-rubbish- sa-coronavirus- super-strain-cl aims-20201119-p 56g51.html

Now we are being told we all have to be vaccinated for a virus which affects most people less than the Rhinovirus I am currently suffering through.

Will this Covid-19 madness ever end?