Virus second wave arrives and it ain’t pretty

Monday, 22 June 2020

It’s here and it’s ugly. In the US, American Idiots are queuing up to contract it, via Bloomie:

Thousands of supporters of President Donald Trump poured into Tulsa on Saturday, filled with energy for his first campaign rally in three months but short on masks in a city reeling from a spike in Covid-19 cases.

Underscoring the public-health threat, Trump’s campaign announced that six staffers in Tulsa had tested positive for the virus during routine screenings.

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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.