Not many of us would have predicted that 2020 would start off as a once in a century plague that essentially crippled the world. Unlike Halley’s Comet -which was another of those once-in-a-hundred-years events – Covid bought no silver lining. Perhaps it taught the world to act quickly, thoroughly and decisively.

Covid 19 had the distinction of disrupting supply chains, businesses (esp mom and pop stores), the wider global economy, travel, weddings, funerals and everything in between. It’s left the government in huge deficit that tax payers will foot for many years to come and left the younger generation substantially worse off as businesses wind up and downsize.

In Australia, as of May, we have been given a roadmap to being unwinding restrictions and begin to restart life prior to the pandemic. No one will expect that we will simply press ‘play’ from the point at when the lockdown came in to effect. I’m sure that once we’re out of the thick of it, people will be reticent to shake hands, the perspex shields will still be up at supermarkets, and directional arrows will stay in place.

Covid-19 forced has forced governments to think on their feet. Whilst America floundered, calling the virus a “hoax” and wishfully thinking that the virus would “go away like a miracle”, others took different approaches, ramping up as local and global number increasingly rose.