This paragraph in the Guardian’s “Melbourne” article that you posted really got my attention. It was in reference to America and it was like I’d been punched in the gut:
“The country is at a critical crossroads. Science and reason are in a battle to be heard and to try to drive public policy in the middle of a pandemic. At the same time, the US is in the midst of a historic reckoning with centuries of racial injustice – even as the White House stokes division along racial lines. Meanwhile the pandemic has exposed the painful inequities underlying American life. The coming months will determine whether they might finally be addressed.”
Such painful truth.