Urgency and Australia in the Time of COVID19

Sonia Diab
11 min readMar 28, 2020

I have some friends who live overseas. Thanks to self-isolation, I’ve been able to connect with them more lately — checking in on each other as this weird new science-fiction-movie world continues to unfold.

Among them, a French best friend currently under an estimated 45-day Parisian lockdown; another in India, one of the 1.3 billion people confined to their home; Barcelona where my friend went downstairs to the street for a cigarette and saw only a police officer; and New York where my friend goes for a run and sees the famous concrete jungle… free of…

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Sonia Diab

Sessional lecturer, corporate trainer, coke zero fiend. Writing on human behaviour, psychology, productivity, philosophy & other stuff. subscribe soniadiab.com