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# Victorian Lockdown Blamed for Infant Deaths
- URL: https://goodoil.news/victorian-lockdown-blamed-for-infant-deaths/
- Published: 2020-10-25T01:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2020-10-24T00:30:14.000Z
- Author: Cam Slater
- Tags: AUS Politics, COVID-19, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 02:38

It was [way back in May](https://goodoil.news/covid-19-the-moloch-option/) when I described state responses to the Wuhan pandemic as “the Moloch Option”. The cult of lockdown and restriction that has gripped Western governments is effectively sacrificing the young to save a small minority of the very old and very, very unhealthy.

I was speaking metaphorically, of course. But, as it turns out, the literal is also true. In August, a northern NSW woman’s unborn child died when she was refused permission to make a short trip across the Queensland border for emergency surgery.

**Now, four more tiny humans have been sacrificed on the altar of COVID panic.**

> Victoria’s stage-four lockdown prevented four sick newborn babies­ who subsequently died from being flown from Adelaide to Melbourne to receive lifesaving cardiac surgery.  
>  
> The babies, the fourth of whom died only last Friday, would normally have been taken by a team from Adelaide’s Women’s and Children’s Hospital and flown to Melbourne’s Royal Children’s Hospital for specialist heart surgery.  
>  
> But with Melbourne under lockdown the distraught families of the infants were told that their children were not permitted to enter Victoria for the operations.  
>  
> And SA Health was also of the view that the babies should remain in Adelaide for fear of exposing­ them to the virus in Victorian hospitals as they were immunocompromised.

So, they **might** have been exposed to the virus, but they definitely **did** die because they were denied specialist surgery. Truly, they had to kill the babies in order to save them.

> The deaths of the babies emerged at a distressing hearing of the SA parliament’s public health committee on Tuesday, during which obstetrician **John Svigos** confirmed the lockdown meant the children could not receive­ the usual care.  
>  
> Professor Svigos said the starting point for the problem was the failure of the SA government to fund a specialist paediatric service, but that the Mel­bourne lockdown had also left the four babies with no hope.

The problem also emerged because South Australia has refused to set up a specialist paediatric cardiac service in its state. Instead, SA has relied on transporting cases to Melbourne. But **Dan Andrews** put paid to that option.

> Professor Svigos\[…\]said that while SA Health spent $5m a year transferring sick babies and children interstate, a specialist unit at the WCH would cost $6m to establish and $1m a year to operate.  
>  
> \[**Bernadette**\] **Mulholland** told The Australian doctors had advised her “that in these four cases, the issue was Victoria not being able to retriev­e the babies’’.

But, of course, lockdowns are all about “saving lives”. Or so they tell us.

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