It’ll be a while, I guess, before anyone again says, “it’s just a virus”.

Like a lot of throw-away lines we use, it never really meant much anyway, and it might have been better just to say, “I don’t really know what it is, but I’m sure it’ll get better by itself”.

But we can’t say that with the current crisis.

Australia isn’t in the relatively very good or even excellent position it is because we hoped COVID-19 would just go away.