COVID-19 diaries — Pandemic run riot

Two years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, NSW has reached new lows as we hit a record 39,000 newly reported cases of COVID-19 in a 24-hour period, while shortages of RATs and price gouging run rampant, businesses are closed and supermarket supply chains are disrupted due to workers getting sick, and the streets of Australia’s most populous city are nearly deserted.

It wasn’t supposed to be this way. We were told that re-opening and relaxing COVID-19 restrictions fully just before Christmas was a safe thing to do. It seemed obvious even then that the result…