Editorial: 'Why on Earth didn't couple just stay home?'

Editorial: 'Why on Earth didn’t couple just stay home?'
A sleepy Sunshine Coast town has been plunged into fear after yet another Covid-19 emergency that could have been avoided, writes the Courier Mail editor.
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Victorians doing the "Gundy Run" to sneak over the Queensland border has become a standing joke over the past 15 months in the southern Queensland town of Goondiwindi.
But as the latest Covid-19 scare now gripping the tourism industry and the Sunshine Coast shows, selfishly ignoring the rules and bringing Covid-19 into Queensland is no laughing matter.
On the coldest day of the year, the pensioners and vulnerable are being forced out of their homes and into long freezing queues to get Covid-tested because a couple from Victoria appear to have ignored the rules and crossed into Queensland without an exemption, before heading out to cafes and shopping centres across Caloundra.

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