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Going for broke in NSW and Victoria
NSW and Victoria are trying to juggle the pain of lockdown with minor concessions and the promise of better to come when vaccination targets are eventually hit.
Jennifer HewettColumnistVery few people know someone who has suffered from a serious case of COVID-19, one senior federal minister says wearily. Yet everyone seems to know someone whose family has suffered serious mental health issues, including self-harm, from the impact of lockdown.
The enormous societal cost of lockdowns – well beyond the daily call-out of positive cases – is belatedly gaining greater political traction, even among some of the previously intractable.
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