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Changing of the COVID guards
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Changing of the COVID guards
Tuesday 29 March 2022, 04:26 PM

There’s still plenty of work for the army of contact tracers from earlier in the pandemic [Image: Museums Victoria on Unsplash]
Virginia McMillan rather liked the protective feel of ‘scanning in’, but it has largely faded away with the latest COVID response changes. And whatever happened to those other COVID rituals - locations of interest and contact tracing?
Keeping others safe is much easier when the COVID-positive person has a record of where they have been
I wasn’t ready for the jolt that ca