Victoria is in a rather unique position in the world - we had quite the outbreak of Covid-19, locked down tight, stayed locked down for 112 days until we eliminated it. Then we got to leave our houses, our suburbs and even our state. We knew we were locked down until we had achieved effective elimination - 28 days of zero community transmission. On the first zero day, someone decided zero days are donuts days, and now we were refer to any zero day as a donut day.
Needless to say, this has given donuts an almost mythical quality in my mind. In fact, my camera roll is full of photos of donuts, as is my Instagram.
During winter, our premier Daniel Andrews gave daily press conferences. He became a deeply divisive figure, depending on how one felt about the situation. I rather joined the cult of Dan. On the first anniversary of the declaration of the pandemic, he slipped on some stairs, and ended up with broken ribs and a whole lot of other injuries.
Meanwhile, browsing Ravelry I stumbled on this pattern for these tiny donuts (or doughnuts).
I had to knit some. I'm sending one to Dan, and one to Brett Sutton, out Chief Health Officer, who also stood up every day and guided us through this complicated mess. I'm keeping the third one, and I'm going to hold on to it when I get my vaccine, which I'm going to book in for when I get to work tomorrow.
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