We are in one of the best positions in the world right now, but it’s still a long road and we can’t let down our guard
It sometimes feels like 2020 has been the Year Of Bad News. There have been almost no weeks since March in which we haven’t been told at least one awful truth, from new coronavirus outbreaks being announced to the ever-depressing view of the economy. It has been increasingly hard to keep a positive outlook when there appears to be an endless barrage of terrible things happening.
But despite the scary stuff happening across the world, there’s a pretty amazing beacon of hope here in Australia. The accelerating outbreak in Victoria has been crushed, with no new cases for nearly two weeks. For some context, in July both Victoria and Belgium were recording roughly the same per-capita number of new Covid-19 infections per day. While Belgium is now experiencing a truly horrific outbreak, Victoria has almost no active cases at all.
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