Is former Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton making veiled allegations?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In an interview on Neil Mitchell Asks Why, he admits he was conflicted throughout the whole Covid\/lockdown ordeal\u2014an ordeal that still scars Victoria three years later. The world\u2019s longest lockdowns were sold as a two-week \u201ccircuit breaker.\u201d Instead, Victorians got two years of hell\u2014especially for anyone who refused the jab, and for those who suspected all along what Sutton now concedes: that some Covid directives were \u201cprobably never necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Too bad (for us) he didn\u2019t speak up when it mattered. Sutton called the lockdown years a \u201chorror show\u201d and admitted the North Melbourne tower lockdown breached human rights\u2014even laughing when Mitchell pointed out the obvious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I doubt the families in those towers\u2014who had no prior warning they were to be indefinitely locked in and quarantined\u2014found it funny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He pointed to inconsistencies inside government and bureaucracy. Like we don\u2019t already know about that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
When asked about the 800 Victorians who died in the fatal Hotel Quarantine disaster, Sutton refused to be drawn in, saying he wouldn\u2019t discuss public health orders and that he wasn\u2019t working at the time. He agreed with Mitchell that Victorians would not agree to be locked down again. He said a future pandemic would be better managed if distancing, masks, and vaccines were not mandated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In other words\u2014voluntary. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He admitted the era traumatised him and his family. So too were Victorian children and the elderly, but he wouldn\u2019t concede they were owed an apology. Sutton said that for several months he didn\u2019t want to be in the job. Yet he shrugged off public anger, saying people \u201cexpress opinions\u201d when they see him in the street\u2014opinions born out of the pain his decisions caused. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sutton says he did his best to protect us. But in the same breath, he admitted he didn\u2019t push back against Andrews\u2019 harsh measures\u2014being \u201cin the belly of the beast\u201d\u2014Sutton still went along with him. Interesting\u2014Sutton describing Dan Andrews as a \u201cbeast.\u201d So what exactly is he admitting? Is he pointing to human-rights abuses such as vaccination by coercion, no jab no work, and harsh public-order measures by Victoria Police?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And what about when Andrews suspended Parliament\u2014handing himself a dictatorship by default through its closure? No one talks about it. They should.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Asked if \u201cdoughnut days\u201d were a good idea, Sutton said we should celebrate the good days\u2014as if there were any. He refused to discuss the never-seen medical advice he and Andrews claimed to follow\u2014the advice used to justify curfews, playground closures, shuttered businesses, destroyed lives, and in some cases, deaths. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sutton told Mitchell he would accept ultimate responsibility. That implies his actions require accountability. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Well, we\u2019re waiting. But shouldn\u2019t responsibility ultimately fall on the head of Daniel Andrews? He could have spoken out earlier, exposed any wrongdoing by Andrews, and spared Victorians years of trauma and post-lockdown scars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So the question remains: on what official and legal basis did Daniel Andrews and Brett Sutton shut down Victoria for almost two years\u2014and do their actions warrant criminal investigation and charges? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sutton appears troubled, burdened, guilt-ridden. Maybe he should just tell us the truth\u2014the whole truth and nothing but the truth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The truth shall set you free, Brett Sutton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n