72 hours in the life of a disordered idiot

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Thursday morning, idiot gets up and blames the NSW Government for its own complete failure:

“When talking about large numbers of people, hundreds of thousands of people coming through the system, the virus is insidious and will find those points of weakness, but I know the government will continue to double down on their processes,” Mr Morrison said.

“It’s been a common issue we’ve raised around the national cabinet table. It was our first priority to get those working around quarantine vaccinated, but clearly on this occasion that was not met.”

Vaccine rollout is idiot’s only job. It over-committed to Astra Zeneca, a firm with NO history of producing vaccines, but one where its mates work. There is nothing to replace it with until October, at best.

Friday morning, idiot gets up and does the first thing that comes into his head:

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Scott Morrison has thrown his support behind the NSW government’s reluctance to lock down Sydney despite experts calling for tougher measures.

Idiot backs no lockdown.

Still on Friday morning, idiot announces a dedicated federal quarantine facility for Melbourne while hosing the same for QLD, having waited 18 months, through countless quarantine failures, border closures and tens of billions of wasted dollars.

Saturday morning, idiot does first thing that comes into his head:

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Mr Morrison praised the Berejiklian government for treating a lockdown as a last resort rather than rushing into a closure.

Idiot backs lockdown.

Sunday morning, idiot convenes meeting to hose more wasted billions upon his own utter failure.

Monday morning, idiot’s popularity rises in new Newspoll (though his party falls behind on TPP 49/50:

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Just who is the idiot here?

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.