It’s an effort to disentangle this year’s stresses and lockdowns and abandoned plans from last year’s. It is difficult to track time when many of life’s markers are gone and the future is chronically uncertain.
- Lenore Taylor
- The Guardian
Eventually the year’s story comes back into focus, defined, of course, by the pandemic’s path.
This time last year Sydney’s northern beaches were locked down.
Then there was the brief and patchy reprieve until Delta breached our hermit nation’s defences in June, and we endured the grinding lockdowns in New South Wales and…