7 January

Kerry Chant explained the ban on dancing yesterday. When you dance, you mix with people from multiple social networks at once, rather than only with the friends and family you see every day. So it allows the virus to spread much more widely. What the NSW Premier won’t let her say though, is that there are two places that are far, far worse than dance floors for doing this mixing. 1) Schools. 2) Workplaces. Those do the overwhelming spread of a virus in a community. They refuse to close them or fix their ventilation, make people work from home, wear masks etc. Until they do, this pandemic will just keep going.