Paradoxically, but perhaps inevitably, as things are getting better in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis tempers — including, it would seem, that of our Prime Minister Scott Morrison — are becoming more frayed.

The Black Lives Matter demonstrations of last weekend marked a new stage in this strange and unpredictable journey coronavirus has taken us on.

The fallout from the murder of an unarmed black man, George Floyd, in the US dramatically changed the COVID-19 conversation in this country.

The protests exposed limits to the ability of leaders and health experts to persuade people to modify their behaviour.