The memories of that dire period last year, the restrictions on any form of normal life, the isolation within homes, the search for any of the four reasons to be outside, our world shrinking to a five- kilometre radius, income evaporating ...
It would, said the Premier, be short and sharp. Five tough days. But the truth is, there could be no guarantees.
This time, it is the British variant that has escaped Victoria’s hotel quarantine system, we are told; so infectious and so rapid in its spread that by the time a case is confirmed, the virus has vaulted ahead, infecting unknown numbers of others.