Social distancing laws to last 90 days (lol)

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Via Domain:

The state’s new social distancing laws, which ban gatherings of more than two people and prevent people from leaving the house without a “reasonable excuse”, will be over by the end of June, NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller told reporters this morning.

Mr Fuller said the laws would be in place for 90 days and he would not be seeking an extension to the sweeping new powers after that time.

So, they will be lifted at the beginning of July.

Except that that is deep Winter and we’ll then be in the virus’s playground:

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It may be that the limits will be lifted but if so the virus will explode and trigger total lockdown until October.

That’s the problem with partial shutdowns. They only lead to to full lockdowns.

Hooray!

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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.