Andrew Dickens Afternoons

This morning I was driving to work listening to Steve Price talking to Mike Hosking at 8.40am. It wasn’t a pleasant listen.  What’s happening across the Tasman is a recurring nightmare.A nightmare that somehow we have avoided so far. Lockdowns popping up like mushrooms.  Case numbers growing and worrying hospitalisations. Two thirds of the new cases are under 40s.   Of the 53 people in intensive care, six are in their 20s, four are in their 30s, one is in their 40s, 18 are in their 50s, 14 are in their 60s, nine are in their 70s and only one is in their 80s.  So, so much for Covid being the disease of the old, frail and feeble. There are 203 people in hospital with Covid-19 in NSW.Twenty-seven are ventilated.Imagine that here where our ICUs are already at limit. Meanwhile lockdowns into October are being mentioned and the Australian treasure is warning this may create a second recession for the so called lucky country.  Not a pretty picture. The question is how did Covid get into Australia?  The common wisdom