I am becoming increasingly concerned about how the polices adopted by our government in response to COVID-19 will negatively impact the economy and erode, to the point of extinction, our civil liberties. I do not dispute that, as a disease, COVID-19 exists, and that people have indeed died from the infection. However, I believe that the policy response we have seen is disproportionate to the risk and that the impact of this response will prove to be much worse than the disease itself. It is on this point that the interests and the rights of the wider population need to be championed and protected and, to do that, we need to see through the mirage that has been presented. The fallacy of the COVID-19 crisis It is important to understand and accept that COVID-19 is not a life-threatening condition to the majority of the population. Approximately 98% of cases worldwide are classed as having “mild symptoms” [1]. Of the remaining 2%, potentially requiring hospital admission, 33% of these sub...