7. Analysis

Introduction

Following is the analysis, commentary, and recommendations as put forward by the Commissioners. To facilitate the analysis and review, the information has been divided into various broad areas as follows:

CIVIL

• Legal, policing, policy, regulatory, human rights, emergency preparedness, government, private–public partnerships, anti-trust, monopolies, private corporations;

SOCIAL

• Media, family, faith, education, community, service delivery, societal coercion;

ECONOMIC

• Impacts related to financial matters at all levels—personal, family, corporate—and governmental expenditures and debt, government actions; and

HEALTH

• Medicine, research, pharmaceuticals, regulating and safety monitoring, patient relations, doctor–patient relationship, industry health, messaging, incentives, regulatory collusion.

Each of the categories listed above cannot be fully appreciated independently of each other. Each category is only a part of the much larger whole of the information presented, and specific subject areas cross categories. This reflects the intersectionality of all areas that were considered.