They year 2020 and The Pandemic

Not a year that we will easily forget!
The year started off very benignly, but into January it became apparent that there was something a little odd in Whan in China. A doctor alerted his colleagues that there was a deadly pneumonia like fluey illness circulating, and killing many people. He himself succumbed, after being denounced by his government initially. Now apparently he is look upon as a hero. 
Jo took off to Belgium for a meeting/conference ..and came back safely!
Then Andrew and Liam went off to NYC at the end of February to attend a Montessori MMUN debate. Jo and the rest of the family left a week later. It became very apparent that the COVID19 was spreading, and countries started closing their borders. First China of course, and the USA closed to traffic to China. But other countries seemed to shut down soon after to most all international traffic, including Australia and NZ. 
And so what was to be a nice family holiday became a little bit of a nightmare, trying to change their tickets to get a flight home, instead of visiting NZ. New York went into lock-down, even before the President would admit a pandemic. Glad Australia was willing to listen to their medical advisors!
Jo and family arrived home on 19th March, and immediately had to go into quarantine (at home). Miss M had to be taken to the SCUH to be tested for Covid19 as she had coughed while going through customs. (Later was declared OK, negative).
Luckily they had left their car at the airport for the week, and could drive themselves home. A week later Jo succumbed to the virus, waited a few days before going off for a test. yes, positive.
So started a period of extended quarantine for them all until she had two negatives finally some weeks later. 
I was unable to go near them (the 1.6 rule) but was luckily able to deliver food and meals etc, until they got onto Woolworths delivery (and me too).
Since then , after being under severe restrictions, Queensland has flattened the covid case load curve and has been able to ease restrictions, but so far has kept the borders closed.
At the time of writing, it is mainly returning Aussie travelers who are turning up positive but they are in compulsory quarantine in hotels. Luckily.
So far Australia has done extremely well, only NSW and Victoria have lingered on. NSW not so much now after their initial debacle of allowing passengers to transit through Sydney off a cruise ship (most cruise ships seemed to be affected).
Victoria still has outbreaks, initially from a meat works, but now family clusters, and others, and is closing up a little. People being restricted in their travel!(21st June).
Photos to come soon, as using a new laptop. Will try and see how I go?

I still get over to the beach occasionally.
But not all my photos downloaded from my photo card, so current photos will have to wait!