Victorian lockdown likely extended

The latest virus shite from VIC:

Reported yesterday: 9 new local cases and 2 new cases acquired overseas (currently in HQ).
– 20,484 vaccine doses were administered
– 42,699 test results were received

More later: https://t.co/lIUrl0ZEco #COVID19Vic #COVID19VicData pic.twitter.com/NwsnE1Hgth

— VicGovDH (@VicGovDH) May 31, 2021

Reports now are for a likely extension to two weeks.

This is my sixth lockdown and I am over it. How can the Australian people keep rewarding unprecedented political failure with extraordinary popularity?

Stick that paradox where the sun don’t shine.

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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.