Tony Abbott, who has been signed up as Boris Johnson’s new Brexit trade adviser, is talking to Policy Exchange this morning, where he is railing against the “health dictatorship” of coronavirus lockdowns.

Abbott says the media have spread “virus hysteria,” and praises Sweden for allowing citizens more freedom.

Tony Abbott says "fear of falling sick [is] stopping us from being fully alive."

Tony Abbott says scientific opinion on the coronavirus in the UK is split between “alarmist” scientists and those who believe it is “not all that much worse than a severe flu."

@AdamBienkov He loves a false dichotomy then. Countries with the worst covid19 deaths had the worst economic results.

@AdamBienkov We already live with health inequalities... that are conveniently factored into feeding the UK economic model..... And what of Parliamentary Act duty of care Are we too like government...and lost sight of what government is legally bound to comply with?

@AdamBienkov Economics is about supply and demand. Who demands death, what do governments deem to be an acceptable number and why does it always start with the poorest? Is he uncomfortable yet?

@AdamBienkov @zaichishka Weird view of health economists?! @JulieRatcliff19

@AdamBienkov "The economy" isn't a *thing*, it's a measure of human activity. Letting people die to protect human activity is perverse to say the least.

@AdamBienkov @contempl_activ We've always been living with levels of non-natural deaths, most recently from pollution, traffic accidents, smoking and obesity, to name but a few.

@AdamBienkov ‘The level of deaths we might have to live with’. Is this a wise approach???

@AdamBienkov governments should ask uncomfortable questions about the number of Tony Abbotts we have to live with

@AdamBienkov Cool cool wild to see eugenics up close and personal eh