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Twelve months ago it was unthinkable that an invisible threat – described as a wicked enemy by the state’s Premier – would turn Melbourne into a ghost town.
The city buzzed with international students, office workers thronged to the CBD, colleagues shook hands and trams and trains heaved with commuters and tourists.
Few Melburnians had heard of Brett Sutton and Zoom was the noise of Formula One cars streaking around Albert Park Lake every March.
But the world is a different place as we emerge, blinking, into the new normal , one of the now ubiquitous phrases that would have confounded us a year ago, along with covidiot, blursday, quaranteam and zoombombing.