If we make it to the end of 2020 - an alternative to the word 'unprecedented' is going to be needed.
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Fortunately there's plenty of words to describe extraordinary or unusual times.
But as the news about a spike in COVID-19 cases in Victoria shows, there might not be a time where we're not dealing with unparalleled circumstances.
The new normal might endure for a lot longer than we expect, or at least until there's a vaccine.
It's an unpleasant thought, to be fair.
The pandemic has interrupted everyone's lives - none more so than the 102 people who have died from it in Australia.
No one really enjoys making sure that not more than 20 people arrive for that birthday party and that you are actually at least 1.5 metres away from that person in the supermarket aisle.
It's easy to criticise people shouting in the street as the cause of all that's gone wrong, but looking at it in that fashion ignores the roles that we all have to play.
Plenty of folks scoffed when the PM talked about the pandemic measures being in place for at least six months - but here we are, just a week from a July.
We might be more than two months clear of a confirmed infection but it's no reason to sit back and relax.
Declan Rurenga, editor
drurenga@areanews.com.au