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Australia, despite few COVID deaths, returns to lockdown paranoia

By Robert Schmad
Published July 26, 2021 12:54pm ET
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“Staying apart keeps us together.”

One could easily mistake this for a slogan originating in some fictional dystopia. Unfortunately, that intuition would not be far off — it’s from Australia.

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