The Informer: Alright, who had 'fly goes viral' in 2020 bingo?

NSW recorded more daily cases than Victoria today and that prompted another round of "Premier-bashing" on social media for Mr Andrews.

It wasn't helped by his insistence that Victoria would not follow the NSW quarantine model of telling anyone linked to a coronavirus outbreak to self-isolate for 14 days - even if their initial COVID-19 test result is negative.

"I don't want people sitting at home for 14 days when there's no good scientific reason for them to do that," he said.

Cue outrage. One regional Victorian went as far as to suggest Mr Andrews had "crossed into insanity".

The Premier did offer a crumb of hope regarding the regional restrictions, due to be reviewed on October 18.

"If Melbourne is more stubborn than we had thought, we will give very detailed consideration to regional Victoria perhaps taking some further smaller steps so we can continue to have activity and jobs and that sense of recovery in regional Victoria," he said.

NSW recorded eight new locally acquired virus cases, including three cases flagged on Wednesday that ended a 12-day streak without any community transmission. The eight new cases were from two separate clusters that were being investigated.

Those new local cases have placed the "reunification" with Queensland in jeopardy. Well, principally, the border reopening on November 1.

And unlike Victoria where the constituents attacked the politician, it was left to NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian to go on the attack for herself. She accused her Queensland counterpart Annastacia Palaszczuk of "making up rules".

Only a day ago Queensland gave NSW 48 hours to find the source of three new cases before the countdown clock re-starts. That is, NSW must register 28 days without a single community case for the border to be reopened.

"The Queensland government seems to be making up rules as they go along," Ms Berejiklian said.

She was more expansive on the Channel 9 breakfast show: "I'm just extremely concerned with the attitude of the Queensland government. Not only have they set a benchmark which I think is unrealistic, because in a pandemic, in a place like NSW with 8 million people ... of course you're going to have cases from time to time."

Of course.

They had more than 42,000 new cases in the US on Monday but let's not worry too much because a fly captured the nation's attention today.

Vice-President Mike Pence and his Democratic rival, Senator Kamala Harris, squared up against each other but it was the fly not the debate that went viral.

Harris's running mate, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, posted a picture of himself with a fly swatter on Twitter, asking supporters to "Pitch in $5 to help this campaign fly".

His campaign set up a website to register voters. Within the hour, it was selling a "Truth over Flies" fly swatter for $US10 ($A14).

Yup, just another day in the year 2020.

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