Why is it that Victorians, perhaps more specifically Melburnians, are having such a bad time with Covid in comparison to the other states? Why is this fourth lockdown occurring? 

Already Victorians have suffered some 160 days in lockdown over about the last 450 days. That’s 45 per cent of days spent in lockdown since March last year. Eight hundred and one of the 910 tragic Covid deaths across Australia — 88 per cent — have been in Victoria.  

Are Victorians jinxed? Is there a curse over the state? Or is there something more practical and understandable that gives insight into Victoria’s plight?  

In August last year, before the Victorian Coate Inquiry into the failed quarantine program, I offered an explanation for...