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Offline TomSea

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It's certain COVID-19 will change everything but this needs to change most of all
Chris Uhlmann

Social distancing is the defining phrase of 2020 but next year will bring a new one: self-reliance.

The fact that we live on an island is about to etched into the psyche of every Australian as we spend the rest of the year locked inside our borders. And if liberation depends on a vaccine, mooted to be 10 to 18 months off, then the travel bans might stretch well into next year.

Locked in our homes we will have time to contemplate just how dangerous the world can be and to ponder what things are essential to life. We will have time to consider the way we structured our economy, the essential role of government and the idiocy of outsourcing vital manufacturing connected by just-in-time supply lines.

Read more at: https://www.smh.com.au/national/it-s-certain-covid-19-will-change-everything-but-this-needs-to-change-most-of-all-20200331-p54fk3.html

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