7 July

Lots of heat for Dan Andrews about Victoria. But Victoria is the strategy National Cabinet chose. To quote Mary-Louise McLaws, one of Australia's leading pandemic experts: "This is to be expected when we go for suppression and not eradication". Asked if it means Victoria eased restrictions too soon? "Yes, definitely". Remembering Andrews copped a truckload of abuse from Canberra for being slower than the rest of the country to open up, too. Just as we blamed people for shops running short of goods, we'll seemingly sail through this pandemic not bothering to understand it, finding somebody to blame every time normal life is interrupted. How this pandemic ends depends on all of us and what we understand. And that's scary as hell, on the evidence of that understanding so far.