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Graham Barron is an architect at Lyons Architecture living with his family in Melbourne, Australia.
In 2019, we moved our family of four from Vancouver to the city of Melbourne – and just a year later, the COVID-19 pandemic hit. To tackle the first wave, the Australian government closed its borders to all but returning citizens and permanent residents, and put them through a 14-day hotel quarantine. State premiers, guided by public health officials, imposed lockdowns. And by the time the second wave struck, we in Victoria were confined to our house in a country we barely knew, during one of the world’s longest and strictest coronavirus restrictions.