The announcement of a nationwide return to Level 1 alert seems like a good chance to observe how effective our ready response was, and how well the contract-tracing ability we've built out of nothing this year has worked. 1/
You only need to look at the dysfunctional tracing network in the UK, or to see the US White House apparently unable to even look after its own tribe to get a sense of how bad these things can be. There were some curveballs, but our system worked. 2/
When the likes of David Seymour uttered their multiple screaming tweets declaring the system had "failed" it was just reckless political speech and it was insulting to the people doing the work. I guess Seymour et al won't be saying that today. 3/
This isn't to say there won't be another outbreak, or that we can entirely relax, which we did a bit too readily last time. But I feel much better about the prospects for any "next time" than I did a couple of months ago. /ends
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