It was the best of times, the worst of times...a tale of two cities

 In Melbourne we had riots yesterday. The causes were a complicated inflammable mix of the angry and disenfranchised.

In Sydney we have this:

Sometimes correlation is causation.

This is from a very interesting Twitter Thread.

For those not familiar with the labels Reff, more usefully called transmission potential, is a measure of how many people one infected person transmits SARS-CoV2 infection to. The lag mentioned in the second figure is the period it takes for immunity to develop. The horizontal axis is a measure of vaccine coverage. (The Pundit updated the #justamathsguy post with a more informative update on 24 09 2021)