Victoria, according to all the medical experts now running the show, exhibits the gold standard in hotel quarantine and contact tracing and that’s all there is to know. How comforting to reflect on the purported glimmer of our standards at this midway point in our third COVID-19 lockdown.

There is definitely something sick with the way that this information comes to us however – if we considered the Victorian people to be in some kind of relationship with the Premier of this state then all decent clinical advice would probably revolve around finding a good support network and leaving at the...