The goal is to keep the virus rare enough for normal public health measures to contain, and continue indefinitely with some 2m apart and working from home type

The goal is to keep the virus rare enough for normal public health measures to contain, and continue indefinitely with some 2m apart and working from home type restrictions. One effect of the virus has been a rise in geographic realism among Australians. Over the last 50 years or so, we have been very gradually coming to think of Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan and Japan as medium size, more-or-less democratic countries like Australia. This year, we've been forced to give up on America and Europe, and we're thinking more seriously about how to live in our part of the world, where many countries have the virus under control. Though not yet seriously enough to learn the languages they speak, or anything like that.