QLD shuts border to NSW leper colony

Herein lies the problem with virus suppression:

BREAKING: Queensland borders will close to New South Wales & the Australian Capital Territory from 1am Saturday, August 8.

All visitors will be denied entry except for rare exemptions & returning Queenslanders will have to pay for 14 days mandatory hotel quarantine.#COVID19au pic.twitter.com/Yc7BxKJ3GW

— Annastacia Palaszczuk (@AnnastaciaMP) August 4, 2020

Why would QLD ever open the border again as Gladys spreads the virus? And it comes with the added bonus of locking out Canberrans despite no virus there.

What’s not to love!

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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.