2 July

Fascinating that we smashed flu last year - you can see its death spiral at the start of the big national lockdown in Feb-March 2020 - but that it continues to be flatlined into 2021. It's just non-existent. Despite NSW being pretty much open for most of the past year. Wise heads I think would see that turning society on and off - what a pandemic lockdown does - can have powerful, positive, long-term effects. Both health and 'economic', if you like to make that distinction. It reboots society, just as you sometimes need to reboot your computer or other device.