Opinion

Airports have always been a little weird. COVID-19 has made them weirder

By Dan Dixon
Updated July 2 2021 - 1:22am, first published July 31 2020 - 5:41pm
A near-empty airport, and the sense that your future might depend on the quality of your handwashing, makes the loneliness of travel particularly acute. Picture: Shutterstock
A near-empty airport, and the sense that your future might depend on the quality of your handwashing, makes the loneliness of travel particularly acute. Picture: Shutterstock

Earlier this month, during the brief window when travel from Sydney to Brisbane was permissible, I flew interstate to visit my parents. The trip had been planned for August, but numbers were appearing persistently enough so that, I thought, waiting until August would have jeopardised the possibility of travelling at all. I'd last visited in January, and, in the intervening period, my father had undergone a series of non-COVID related medical traumas, making time pass like honey through an hourglass. I was anxious to see my family and anxious about what seeing them might risk.

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