Scummo demands virus spread nationwide

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Via the AFR:

Scott Morrison has called on West Australian Premier Mark McGowan to relax his border restrictions, saying there is no reason why the state should be closed to jurisdictions that pose no health threat.

Amid fears that unnecessary economic damage is being inflicted by some closures, the Prime Minister also cast doubt on the decision by Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk to shut the state’s borders to everybody from greater Sydney when there is no medical advice to do so.

“Whatever decisions premiers are taking, they have to explain them and they have to outline to the public about what the medical evidence is to support those decisions,” Mr Morrison said.

“I think that’s the standard that all political leaders should be held to, I am happy to be.”

Let’s hope that he is. The premiers are immensely popular for closing the borders.

Scummo wants the virus to spread nationwide with open state borders so he can reopen the international borders to bring in infected students and low wage workers to ensure wages are crushed and house prices lift.

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It’s that simple and that disgusting.

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.