I fled the coronavirus in New York for Sydney. I was shocked by what I saw in Australia
ABCI have a grim message for you from the future. Coronavirus can only be controlled if 8 out of 10 Australians stay home The success or failure of Australia's coronavirus fight relies to a remarkable degree on just one thing, new modelling has found. It's too late for New York, but not for Sydney Like the background noise of an airplane safety demonstration, we were given vague instructions by quarantine officers to self-isolate for two weeks, handed a Department of Health fact sheet, then released into the wild. Prologue to a farce or a tragedy—or both If New York could have the last three weeks back, it would. Ed Coper is executive director of the New York-based Center for Impact Communications, and is currently a few days into two weeks of isolation in Sydney.