Victoria lockdowns to cost national economy at least $3 billion

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Victoria's clampdown to stop the spread of the coronavirus will cost the national economy $3.3 billion and hold back Australia's recovery from the pandemic recession | swrighteconomy

Victoria's clampdown to stop the spread of the coronavirus will cost the national economy $3.3 billion and hold back Australia's recovery from the pandemic recession.

Figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics on Wednesday give an early indication of the economic problems caused by the spread of coronavirus across Melbourne.While national retail sales were up by 2.4 per cent in June, part of the increase was due to stockpiling of goods by shoppers in Victoria.

The bureau noted there was a lift in stockpiling through the end of June with people again panic buying toilet paper, flour, rice and pasta. According to the bureau, this stockpiling was most evident in Victoria.

 

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swrighteconomy That’s because Victoria has been the powerhouse of the nation’s economy for years. All those jobs Morrison claims he created, were actually created by Dan Andrews.

swrighteconomy It's not all about $. Infact humans existed before $ were created. I wonder what hunter gatherers did during a pandemic. 🤔 Were they concerned about economic recovery. 🤔

swrighteconomy The Morrison Govt failed to lock us down as soon as the virus got going in China, no good blaming Vic. RubyPrincess another bungle.

swrighteconomy Peak neoliberalism headline. Who cares about people dying, think of the economy!

swrighteconomy But Victoria saved a few bucks on quarantine security...

swrighteconomy And its all hysteria, the tests don't diagnose anything and a few thousand pple will not make 4 million pple sick

swrighteconomy I hope we've cancelled our membership to the 'We didn't have a second wave' club. And cancelled the speaking tour. Ah well.

swrighteconomy How much did it cost the economy bc Ruby Princess was mucked up?

swrighteconomy This is the problem isn’t it? You associate every lockdown with a “cost to economy”. Maybe it’s about health too.

swrighteconomy Might save lives though! And give NSW people time to improve their behaviour. I wish NSW would shut down too. The response from the premier is always at least a week too late. More like 4 weeks too late at the moment.

swrighteconomy It’s quite simple! End this lockdown and let’s get back to normality!

swrighteconomy ComradeDan 👏👏

swrighteconomy So Vic is going to be blamed for the economic recession too? It's only a matter of time before someone labels it the Victoria Virus.

swrighteconomy They just threw $600 million at filthy live exporters for votes. They are looting the treasury while people are out of work. This isn’t a govt. it’s a criminal syndicate.

swrighteconomy Thanks for the doom-scroll. I like not to die of the plague. And I don’t want my neighbour to either.

swrighteconomy But recover it will.

swrighteconomy Oh ffs

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