Journalist Rebecca Weisser says it is untenable to propose Australian states should remain shut until a vaccine for the novel coronavirus is found.
Recent polling suggests the residents of locked down states actually do support the decisions of their premiers, with the West Australian reporting 91 per cent of the state’s residents support Premier Mark McGowan’s hard border rules.
“It is simply untenable to propose that you keep a state shutdown forever, or at least until a vaccine possibly arrives,” Ms Weisser told Sky News host Chris Kenny. “Particularly when it’s a Federal Government that’s paying for a lot of the costs involved.”
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