CALE: It might seem hard to believe that this was a year ago.
Please don't move around unless you absolutely have to.
Stay at home or people will die.
2020 will be the toughest year of our lives.
So how has your life changed since then?
Well, a year ago I didn't know what this was.
What is normal for me now is wearing masks.
Wear a mask. It's not too much to ask.
While it took a bit of getting used to...
Thank you very much.
..these days, walking around smelling our own breath
has become pretty normal and even a fashion statement.
Oh, that one's my fave.
Hand sanitiser. Hand sanitiser.
Hand sanitiser. I didn't even know it existed.
When I go to the shop, I think, "Where's the hand sanitiser?"
Yeah, we've all become pretty obsessed with hygiene
and staying away from each other.
No, we're not starting
until you're properly social-distanced, everybody.
When you're waiting in line at Woolies,
like, to really keep your distance.
One of the biggest things I've noticed right now
is basically everywhere you need to go
you need to check in on your phone.
You have to preorder tickets now and then check in
and have people scan your ticket.
Oh, that reminds me -
can you guys make sure you check into this BTN story, please?
Come on, scan the code.
Thank you.
Back to the story.
Although we didn't travel far, we've been Zooming everywhere.
Yeah, remote learning, like, Zoom,
Webex, Teams, Google Meet,
all that stuff that I didn't even know existed.
It also meant getting to enjoy people's Zoom backgrounds
and Zoom fails.
You're upside down, Tom.
I don't know how to fix that.
I'm here live, I'm not a cat.
We got really used to seeing our state leaders.
BEN: And waiting for Dan Andrews to do a press conference.
Whenever he's wearing his North Face jacket
means it's good news.
That now it's the time to open up.
And a suit and tie up the top here means... (WHISPERS) ..bad news.
I'm declaring the state of disaster.
On the news I hear a lot about JobSeeker
and Job...whatever.
JobKeeper... JobKeeper 2.0.
JobSeeker by December.
I don't really know what they mean, but I usually hear them a lot.
Yeah, we've learnt a lot of new words.
Pandemic, quarantine, medihotels, AstraZeneca.
Quarantine, which is like don't go outside,
lockdown, which is also don't go outside.
As for the words isolation,
lockdown, restrictions...
Well, we all know that can happen at the drop of a hat.
I think Australia has changed the most with travel
because, obviously, there's hundreds and thousands of people
who can't see their family
and they're still trying to see their family till this day.
The borders were shutting down one day, opening the next day,
so that was probably very hard for some people.
Around the world, the pandemic is certainly not over.
More than 120 million have now been infected
and at least 2.5 million have died.
But with vaccines rolling out, things are looking way more hopeful
than a year ago.
They're fighting to stop the coronavirus,
so we have to stick to it and fight back.
Everyone is more kind to each other
because they know, like, they could, like, lose them
or, like, not be able to talk to them for a while.
Although maybe, like, physically apart,
virtually we're all connected and we're all together.
We're all in this together.
You should show everyone that we're in this together.