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Over the past week or so, a lot has been happening on the COVID-19 front with the Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, opening up the key question: what next? Much of that welcome discussion focuses on the question of how we exit the ‘gilded cage’ that has kept us safe as COVID-19 raged across the planet. Basically, along with the general willingness of the community to comply with specific policy settings, we’ve been protected by the fact that we are an island nation and that government at every level has engaged positively with solicited specialists (especially epidemiological modellers) and standing committees that advise Federal and State Chief Medical Officers. As I write this, the situation with the delta variant in NSW looks dangerous, but we can, I think, have confidence that the combination of effective policy, great contact-tracing capacity and responsible action through society will hammer the virus back down.