Oh 2021, what hopes we had for you. 

When the clock chimed midnight on New Year’s Eve, a national sigh of relief could be heard gently breezing across our wide, exhausted land. 

Hope was on the horizon and liberation was at the back door.   

But weeks on from the fireworks Australians remain tentative. 

Not even the extraordinary scientific and medical efforts to develop vaccines in rapid time have eased the unease. 

The bug itself does not have us worried, or the ability for hospitals to cope should all go south.