SloMo response unleashes virus

In my view ScoMo is a sandwich short of a picnic. But I’ve also heard from senior sources that he’s just thick as a brick.

When it comes to COVID-19, if it were not for the luck of Summer, Australia would already be Italy. The response to the virus by the Morrison Government has been slow, misshapen and badly compromised by interests from the beginning. Just one month ago it declared Australia virus free and was ready to throw open the borders. Indeed, it did, to 1k Chinese kiddies as the pandemic raged there.

Now, despite the benefits of Summer’s light, heat and humidity, the SloMo response has released the thing into the community, via News:

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.