13 July

Ruby Princess docked on 19 March. It’s just about Australia’s entire pandemic. It kickstarted transmission in all modes, and from early May all NSW has really had is overseas (plane) arrivals driving numbers. The only line going up since then is the black one (that’s returning overseas travellers in hotel quarantine). It’s not suppression that has succeeded in NSW, it’s fixing the Ruby Princess mess, of our own making. We haven’t beaten Covid-19, it’s only just arriving. Victoria’s pandemic started at the same time - around 19 March. Some infected Ruby Princess passengers lived in Victoria. That one event likely is Australia’s entire pandemic to date, until more external virus leaked in through Victorian quarantine, into an opened up economy.