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Australia’s rules and regulations in response to the coronavirus pandemic were some of the strictest in the world. It shut its borders to both inbound and outbound travel in early 2020. States closed theirs, too, restricting movement within the country. In Melbourne, where I lived, five million residents spent a cumulative 262 days in lockdown, only able to leave their homes to exercise, buy…
