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Flat White

Hindsight is 2020

2 June 2023

5:00 AM

2 June 2023

5:00 AM

Shortly after the World Health Organisation declared a ‘public health emergency of international concern’ in January 2020, many Australians hid from Covid indoors. Unwilling to do the same, I caught a train to visit a friend who was also struggling with the isolation.

To be honest, this small act of dissidence was thrilling and set the tone of my life for the next three years.

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