I leave it to others to figure out what the physical health effects are. But I can tell you that here in Melbourne, the mental health effects are still acute. Individually, nobody I know has ever recovered, even if they think they have, and collectively, the whole city has a completely different feeling, a pall hangs over it, and there's a feeling like it has some pent up anxiety just below the surface.

I think millenials and zoomers will need to be gone before its effects aren't felt at some noticeable level.

This is all made much worse by the fact that nobody feels like they can talk about what happened. There was no catharthis or discussion, everybody was just expected to return to living like they ised to. And nobody dares open their mouth, because whatever side of the fence they were on when it came to the lockdown, they don't want to deal with the response that anything short of unquestioning praise for the measures will garner them.

It's sad. The city is a shadow of its former self, as are most of the people.

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