Remember the good old days when the thing that scared us most was our groceries? We were terrified that the bottle of low-fat, lactose-free milk from Woolies might be smeared with the coronavirus.

We were afraid that we’d then bring the dreaded silent killer into our homes on the plastic wrap on over-packaged chicken or a toothpaste lid, or the tomato paste in an Italian tube...

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