26 March

These are the words by which ScoMo will ultimately be judged at the end of the pandemic. If he's getting this judgement wrong, his government is toast. “We are not going to do things to a business or someone’s job and livelihood where at this stage that may, and is, not necessary.” My own two cents - drastically reducing the number of infections makes economic as well as health sense. Note that China is now re-opening for business. If numbers skyrocket we could end up locked down for many months. And the UK got around this economic problem by paying peoples' wages - protecting their 'livelihoods' - during lockdown. Here they want people to raid their super.