Yep, the latest news is that bikies are even worse for the country and for each of us individually than the various governments had thought. Recent figures estimate that rather than killing one bloke at Sydney Airport, they kill 4550 each and every year. Worse yet, they knock two years off your – yes, your! – lifespan. Time to do something!

Oh, sorry. That’s hospitals that kill 4550 people each year, and the current standard of health care that reduces all of our lives by two years. Not bikies at all. Whew. That’s great. Now we don’t need to do anything about it.

If you’ve ever needed to have the government’s bikie panic put into context, that should do it.

But why was the official reaction to the bikie “threat” so severe, while nothing at all seems to be being done about the vast number of unnecessary deaths in hospitals?

Why are doctors pushing “road safety” scare campaigns that, let’s face it, affect very few people when they can’t even keep people alive in their hospitals?

What is it about motorcycles and motorcyclists that brings out the red-eyed control freak in officials of all persuasions?

I’d like to see everyone who has any input into motorcycle laws and their enforcement pass a simple test. I’d like them to prove that their mum or dad never forbade them to have a bike when they were young.

Yes, I think there must be some jealousy there somewhere.

How else do you explain it?