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12 April 202018 April 2020

Weekly Wrap 515: More isolation into and across Easter

Auburn Gallipoli Mosque in Auburn, Sydney, photographed in the late afternoon from a moving train.

Monday 6 to Sunday 12 April 2020 was another week of isolation, but it seems that I’m starting to settle into a new pattern. Is this good? Or bad?

05 April 202009 April 2020

Weekly Wrap 514: The coronavirus lockdown takes hold personally

My week of Monday 30 March to Sunday 5 April 2020 was a psychological transition, really, from the Beforetimes to the Quarantimes. The only productive thing I accomplished was a podcast, but I think it’s a good podcast. Oh, and the Serbia thing.

22 March 202023 March 2020

Weekly Wrap 512: More ranting as the collapse continues

The week of Monday 16 to Sunday 22 March 2020 was a week where we all had to start adjusting to a new reality. Yes, there’d been signs that serious changes would be needed. But this week I started to process it more viscerally. Depression resulted, as I’m sure it did for many Australians.

15 March 202019 March 2020

Weekly Wrap 511: Ranting as the world begins to fall apart

The week of Monday 9 to Sunday 15 March 2020 saw a shift in Australia’s reaction to the COVID-19 coronavirus, with the first warnings to start “social distancing”. My burst of productivity will be hard to keep going. I’ll write more about this virus thing another time.

08 March 202009 March 2020

Weekly Wrap 510: The beginning of the end of the world

The week of Monday 2 to Sunday 8 March 2020 started to see the rise of panic buying in Sydney thanks to overblown fears about the novel coronavirus COVID-19. And in Canberra, the government continued to suffer embarrassments.