Virus kills The Block. Hopefully for good

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Chalk up a win for Wuhan flu:

Filming on The Block has shut down, with contestants being dispatched to their homes around the country on Wednesday morning as the coronavirus crisis worsened.

Building work on the site in Brighton continues, however, with around 40 builders and tradies to continue working to create extensions at the rear of the five properties.

Bravo and thank you China.

I will never consider my job at MB is done until this program is dead, forgotten, and the surrounding rich loam planted with superb Monstera Deliciosa is salted into oblivion.

As real estate transactions fall to zero for six months and Domain comes under enormous pressure, with any luck The Block shutdown will be permanent.

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You’ll always have the taxpayer to screw, Scotty.

About the author
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.