What It’s Like to Go Into Lockdown for the Second Time

We’re back under curfew and heavy restrictions in Australia

Police issue a fine to a man breaking lockdown laws in Melbourne on August 9, 2020, as the city struggles to cope with a Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak. Photo: William West/AFP/Getty Images

I wrote a few months ago that the pandemic was coming to an end. I was wrong.

As I type these words from Melbourne, Australia, my family and I face some of the harshest lockdown restrictions anywhere in the world. We have a nightly curfew in place…